by John Procter
Aston Martins are coming back again to Farsley on Saturday, 6 September 2025.
The cars will start to assemble at Farsley Celtic’s car park on Newlands.
At 10.30am they will start to drive away up Newlands then turn left and right on to Frances Street.
The cars will drive down Town Street until they get to Sunny Bank Mills and assemble in the car park.
They remain here until approximately 12pm.
The annual event is organised in conjunction with with the Aston Martin Owners Club but any Aston Martin Car Owner is very welcome on the day.
History
Farsley’s connections with Aston Martin date back many years.
Although the main manufacturing plant of James Bond 007’s car of choice was in Huddersfield, they also had a factory at Newlands Works in Farsley. By 1950 Newlands was the main producer for tractor engines and the power unit for the new Aston DB2.
Although some of the business had started to move by the mid 50s, rolling chassis were still produced at Newlands and test driven in Farsley.
Provided the cars could reach 90 mph in third up the hill towards Rodley they were signed off. The company left the site in 1957 after deciding not to renew their lease.
A 5.5 tonne memorial was unveiled at Newlands in 2015 to mark the Aston Martin link with the village. The memorial plaque was unveiled by five former apprentices from The David Brown Aston Martin site in Newlands who helped build the DB2/4. The cars featured in the James Bond film Goldfinger.
Further reading
Read more on the history behind the Aston Martin plinth in WLD‘s Mark’s History column here.
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