The Windrush Secret, set in 2018, is about a young white far right racist party leader, a black Caribbean diplomat and a white Oxford educated Home Office government official who are giving speeches on the same day, at different times, in separate locations about a million people who migrated from the Caribbean to Britain between 1948 and 1973 (The Windrush Generation), and the British political scandal which began in 2018.

One of them has a dark secret that he struggles to come to terms with during his fiery speech–it will change his life forever!

We're kicking off the first ever Leeds Cinema Crawl with a screening of Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom!

Two 12-year-olds, who live on an island, fall in love with each other and elope into the wilderness. While people set out on a search mission, a violent storm approaching them catches their attention.

2012 · 12A · 1hr 34min

Build your very own Morse code machine and earn a code breaking certificate.

Find out about the HMS Aubrietia, the part she played WW2 and how she saved an Enigma machine from a German U Boat.

Later in the the Kings Arms next door to the Museum enjoy a 1940’s evening with entertainment and music.

As part of Back at the Cottage, we're getting together to go Trainspotting!

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.

1996 · 18 · 1hr 33min

As part of Back at the Cottage, we're preparing for Halloween with a screening of The Shining!

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence while his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.

1980 · 15 · 2hr 26min

Come and visit this amazing museum and make something to take home.

Paint a pebble, or maybe make a little school,  there's lots to do.

Parents must stay and can join the fun.

Prepare for Halloween with a Classics at the Cottage 35mm presentation of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho!

A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.

1960 · 15 · 1hr 49min

Classics at the Cottage will be getting in another nice mess at our second annual Laurel and Hardy Film Night!

The main feature will be Sons Of The Desert, plus three shorts - Two Tars, The Chimp and County Hospital.

When Stan and Ollie trick their wives into thinking that they are taking a medicinal cruise while they're actually going to a convention, the wives find out the truth the hard way.

Quantum Sauce marks Red Planet Day! It’s 60 years since the Mariner IV spacecraft began its journey to Mars. Join Quantum Sauce and three space scientists on a mission for merriment and musings!

It’s one for the literature lovers! Quantum Sauce kicks off the 3rd Annual Farsley Literature Festival, with three talks to get you thinking!

We’re hosting:

Caroline Cauchi - Fact vs. Fiction: The Novelist’s Ethical Dilemma

Lucyl Harrison and Catherine Wynne - Pandemic Pages: Reading Covid Fictions, Memoirs and Poetry

Rhiannon Lawrence-Francis - Who buys books? Libraries, literature and legacies

Science + Arts + Beer = Mind Expansion!