Community Centre & Art Gallery
Community members at Shap were welcomed to the Old Courthouse on 5th May to commemorate the 80th Anniversary of VE Day. The library room was decked with bunting, flags and balloons and the long tables were set with vintage china.…
Gillian Allnutt Poet – Her visit to the Old Courthouse Shap This year the Writer’s group at The Old Courthouse received an Arts Council grant to help fund visits from published poets to lead workshops and provide readings. On 12th…
August 2024 Claude Glasses at the Wordsworth Trust August 2024 Shap writers had a lovely engaging day in Grasmere learning about Claude Glasses. When we arrived we only had a vague idea about what they are but with practical demonstrations…
Nearly 10 years ago, we heard that it was possible that the village was going to lose an important building at the heart of our community. Due to cutbacks, this council owned building, that housed our library and playgroup, was…
Volunteers from The Old Courthouse, Shap together with representatives from Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority and Friends of The Lake District at the newly installed Interpretation Panel charting major influences on the development of Shap from prehistoric times to the…
Calendar Renga A Calendar Renga poem created at our January meeting using all the captions submitted to accompany the selected images for the 2024 calendar by members of the Wordsworth Writing Group at The Old Courthouse. Pale sky full of…
Volunteers and those who attend weekly groups at The Old Courthouse met for a social get together. Entertainment was provided by members of the music group who meet every week at the venue playing a variety of instruments; guitars, ukeleles,…
‘Wonderful Woodlands’ was the theme of our previous exhibition in the Exhibit ‘A’ Gallery at The Old Courthouse in Shap which ended on the 12th November. The exhibition was devised by Sonia Allen-Wall from Shap and is inspired by her…
27th May – 18th June This exhibition was the result of collaboration by the Westmorland Dales (Yorkshire Dales National Park) with the local community and was inspired by oral histories collected from some of the commoners and members of the…
The first Shap Outdoor Festival has now drawn to an end! The Old Courthouse would like to say a huge thank you to all those who came along and showed us so much support over the month. We were so…