The Flat Cap Photographer

I had the honour and privilege of supporting The Methodist Church in documenting the 250-year celebration since John Wesley first preached at Mount Zion; with the Vice-President of the Methodist Conference and Methodist Tapestries Collection.

Find out more below 👇

Celebrating Wesley at Mount Zion - Methodist Church God loves you unconditionally, no strings attached. That's the good news.

As many of my followers know, I have had the honour and privilege of volunteering with Mount Zion Methodist Heritage Chapel for over 8 years. This Sunday marks 250 years since John Wesley, the founder of Methodism first preached at Mount Zion and we are commemorating this occasion with an open day, featuring a pop-up exhibition of the Methodist Tapestries Collection, from The Weardale Museum and with a special service, joined by The Vice-President of the Methodist Conference & District Chair of the Yorkshire West Methodist District at 2:30pm.

Visitors of all denominations and faiths, or of none, are welcome. Please come along and support Mount Zion's event!

Sam


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A very privileged position to be able to drone photograph the amazing work of Slow The Flow!

Mount Zion Methodist Heritage Chapel on Good Friday

Did you know that the Octagonal Chapel in Heptonstall is world famous?

That fame is largely due to its strong connection with the founding Methodist, John Wesley, who laid the foundation stones for the Chapel back in 1764.

You can find out more here: https://www.calderdalemethodistcircuit.org.uk/churches/heptonstall.html

On the edge of Ogden Moor stands this historic chapel, Mount Zion. While the facade presents a relatively ordinary appearance, the interior is magnificent, and in amazing condition for over 200 years old.

It is a privilege and an honour to support the chapel and raise the profile of this wonderful Methodist Heritage site.

You can find out more here https://www.calderdalemethodistcircuit.org.uk/churches/mount-zion.html

Sorry for sharing a post slightly unrelated; I have been very fortunate to volunteer for Slow The Flow for many years, supporting them with photography and supporting with strategies through my NFM research. Slow The Flow are recruiting for Trustees with proposed new roles of Fundraising, and Project & People Management.

You can download a recruitment pack from their website 👇
https://slowtheflow.net/calling-potential-trustees

📢 JOIN OUR TRUSTEE TEAM 📢

We are a strong team of volunteer trustees with skills ranging from ground engineering and landscape architecture through to commercial management and digital media. We currently operate on a shoestring budget, entirely voluntary, and we wish to see this expand. This will allow us to increase our outreach activities.

Two proposed new Trustee roles of Fundraising, and Project & People Management, are central to our plans for the future.

Could this be you? Download a recruitment pack from our website

https://slowtheflow.net/calling-potential-trustees



Community Foundation for Calderdale Calderdale Council Calder Rivers Trust Forus Tree Visit Hebden Bridge The Town Hall, Hebden Bridge

A great write up by Ben Fenton, Calderdale Council on the new "Art as Natural Flood Management" project, inspired by the work at Hardcastle Crags, by Slow The Flow and the National Trust and other partners' projects in the latest Landscape Institute Journal.

I am always delighted to see my photographs used in different media to help raise awareness and celebrate the incredible work in my local area.

Read the full article below 👇
https://issuu.com/landscape-institute/docs/13257_li_journal_3_2023_v11_issuu

I am incredibly proud of my hometown Halifax, rich with Heritage and Culture.

🎉IT IS NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK 🎉
This week, 1st- 7th June we are celebrating our wonderful volunteers.

Sam has been supporting his father, Matthew Townsend, Property Steward, with maintaining the grounds for over 6 years.

Sam has recently taken on the role of Social Media/Comms and archivist for both Mount Zion Methodist Heritage Chapel and Heptonstall Methodist Heritage Chapel.

Sam says: "Mount Zion is set in an idyllic landscape. It is a privilege to help share the word of this beautiful building and the importance of being the first Chapel in the Methodist New Connexion."

Please contact him with any queries via [email protected] or social media.

I really enjoy using both my and for photography. Practising my skills on incredible buildings such as Heptonstall Methodist Heritage Chapel is a privilege in an attempt to uplift their PR whilst going through a challenging transition.

Whilst I am always endevouring in my limited spare time to take photographs with my camera and drone around Yorkshire. I am also currently persuing a Masters by Reseach at The University of Huddersfield, investigating the impacts of Natural Flood Managment Wood Strucutures (leaky woody dams) and the impact they have on biogeochemical process (water quality.)

You can read more of what I am doing below 👇

The Penny Eastwood MRes Bursary – Sam’s Blog - Slow The Flow Hi, my name is Sam Townsend, and I have been a long-term volunteer for Slow The Flow for over four ... Read more

Ogden Water Winter Sunrise

I am incredibly proud to volunteer for Slow The Flow and help support them with the fantastic work they do at NT Hardcastle Crags with Natural Flood Management and within the local community promoting Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems .

From October I will be joining the University of Huddersfield Applied Science Research Team, working with Slow The Flow to investigate: the influence of natural flood management ( ) wood structures on biogeochemical processes in headwater streams.

I hope to continue to use my platform to promote the wonders of my local area, Calderdale, support local charity organisation and wherever my research takes me.

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I was very proud and humbled to have supported The Kallipateira Moorhouse Foundation and Ben Moorhouse, who completed his 180 mile non-stop extreme challenge walk from London to Manchester on Monday [18/07/22].

The Director of Tommy's Stillbirth Research Centre Rainbow Clinic, Professor Alexander Heazell, joined Ben walking the home stretch.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/manchester2022

It has been a privilege to capture the installation of the Flower Waterfall at Illingworth Moor Methodist Church.

It was heart-warming to see the community together after everything which has happened in 2020.

Illingworth has now has a beautiful yet thought-provoking reminder of those who we have sadly lost due to COVID-19 and the key workers who are helping us through this pandemic.

A special thanks to Abbotsford for donating surplus felt swatches helping to make this possible.

It was heart-warming to help photograph this momentous event, a Flower Parade between Mount Zion Heritage Chapel, Ogden, Halifax to Illingworth Moor Methodist Church.

The flowers represent those who we have sadly lost due to COVID-19 and the key-workers who are helping us through this pandemic.

The waterfall will be installed and dedicated this coming Sunday (October 24th) with an outdoor blessing service at 3pm at Illingworth Moor Methodist Church which everyone is invited to.

Also a special thanks to Abbotsford for donating surplus felt swatches helping to make this possible.

Over 2,000 flowers to form waterfall tribute from Halifax church These colourful flowers will form a rainbow waterfall at a Halifax church this weekend.