News and events for spring 2019 Yorkshire | North East

People’s Landscapes

Two hundred years on from the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester, we’re looking at the places where people have come together to seek dramatic social change, to reveal the radical histories that lie beneath our feet. Throughout the year, we’ll be exploring not only how we shape places but how we’re shaped by them. ©National Trust Images/John Millar Images/John Trust ©National Unearthing passion and protest On the Durham Coast At Hardcastle Crags We look after five miles of the This year, film and photography With its unspoilt woodland, deep 2019 is the 50th anniversary of Durham coastline that emerged collective Amber will be working ravines, tumbling streams and the last successful petition, when from its industrial past to become a with the local community to explore cascading waterfalls, Hardcastle Hardcastle Crags was finally saved. haven for wildlife, including amazing the area’s mining heritage, the impact Crags in Yorkshire has been enjoyed We’ll be marking this historic moment wildflowers and rare butterflies. of the miners’ strike 35 years ago, and by people for over 150 years. However, with a programme of creative activities residents’ evolving relationships with over the last century there were three and events, as well as asking what the The landscape has been shaped by the coast’s former ‘black beaches’. separate attempts to flood the valley woodland means to the community major social as well as environmental Turner prize-winning artist Jeremy to create a water reservoir. Each time, and visitors today and exploring how change. Easington was once home to Deller is also providing artistic advice hundreds of individuals and societies we can all continue to protect it for one of the largest coal mines in Europe, to the project. came together to fight for their right the future. employing over 2,000 local people at to access this special place. Cornish Images/Joe ©National Trust its peak. About 1,400 miners lost Special events during 2019 will their jobs when the pit closed. mark key moments in the history Look out for: of the area and look at life during At Hadrian’s Wall, once the frontier and after the strike, from picket lines of the Roman Empire, we’ll be and people’s cafés to the inventiveness exploring the effect of barriers, and community spirit that resulted boundaries and borders on from those experiences. landscapes and people.

At Souter Lighthouse, new exhibition ‘Marsden Memories’ will reveal the “lost village” of Marsden, a colliery village that was north of the lighthouse before it was

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nationaltrust.org.uk/yorkshire nationaltrust.org.uk/north-east There’s nothing like embracing the chilly weather, getting outdoors and trying something new to New discoveries Blow away the blow away those winter blues. on your doorstep Get really warmed up with a two- wheeled adventure on the woodland There are lots of new things to discover winter blues cycle trails at Nostell and Wallington. inside your favourite places across Yorkshire You’ll be surrounded by snowdrops, and the North East this year. Here are some daffodils and bluebells as spring unfolds. You don’t even need your of our highlights: own bike at Wallington – head to the new cycle hire hut and borrow a bike ome face to face with some A shop with a difference will be London Gallery, © National Portrait Yeo Jonathan by Parkinson Michael from just £4. of Yorkshire’s movers and popping up at Ormesby Hall – the Cshakers in new displays in Boosbeck Furniture Shop. Back in Embrace the wet stuff atGibside’s Hall’s Saloon Galleries, the 1930s, Jim and Ruth Pennyman festival of mud in February. Gather from actors Jodie Whittaker and helped unemployed miners learn your little welly wearers and tackle Patrick Stewart to broadcaster wood working skills so they could the wellyteering trail or limber up Michael Parkinson and a notorious make furniture to sell. We’ll be Cragside for a game of welly wanging. conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot. recreating part of the furniture shop ©National Trust Images/John Millar Images/John Trust ©National set up by the Pennymans, giving a Discover a different side to At Lindisfarne Castle, look out for glimpse into the social history of Beningbrough Hall, Gallery and rap up warm, lace up your a series of exhibitions inspired by the area. boots and enjoy a healthy Gardens with ‘Sounds of Winter: the castle’s history. Created with Wdose of fresh air on a winter Whispering Spaces’. The past echoes the local community, the exhibitions When Washington Old Hall walk. Look out for robins and roe deer around the American Garden through will share stories about Holy Island, opens its doors, look out for new on one of Cragside’s 14 walking trails the words of the wartime aircrew its people and its past. interpretation inspired by a special or explore miles of bracing coast stationed in the Hall. Seasonal sounds cookbook from 1664, written by Discover the faces that paths along the golden sands of such as cracking ice, howling winds Nostell are continuing to shine Robert May, the Heston Blumenthal have helped create the and snow crunching underfoot will a light on the life and work of ‘the the Coast. In the of his day. We’ll be exploring how reputation of Yorkshire, bring you back to the present in Shakespeare of furniture’, Thomas Yorkshire countryside you might spot Washington’s household were including Michael Parkinson, ice adding to the reflections on the the Bothy. Chippendale, this year. Look out for inspired by his recipes and how the at Beningbrough Hall, moon ponds in the water garden at members of the conservation team garden would have been used to Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal carrying out intricate work on the grow herbs as a remedy for ailments.* Gallery and Gardens rare Chinese-style mirror from or frost glistening on the rocks at For more ideas go to * Part of Meeting Point, an Arts Council Brimham Rocks. nationaltrust.org.uk/north-east the state apartment, one of the funded programme led by finest items Chippendale supplied and nationaltrust.org.uk/yorkshire Find out more at contemporary arts agency to Nostell. Arts&Heritage, which partners nationaltrust.org.uk/north-east museums and artists to create artwork and nationaltrust.org.uk/yorkshire inspired by places and their collections. Lend a hand to help care for the places you love

Come and help us plant another 100,000 snowdrops at Wallington during February half term, to join the 400,000 that visitors have planted over the last four years. You can also have a go at sowing beetroots in the vegetable patches at Beningbrough or join the house team for a Victorian spring clean at Cragside.

If you’re looking for a new challenge and want to help a great cause, you’ll find many more ways to get involved atnationaltrust.org.uk/volunteering Embleton Bay ©National Trust Images/John Millar Images/John Trust ©National Home to roost ©National Trust Images/Paul Harris Images/Paul Trust ©National

©National Trust Images/Chris Damant Images/Chris Trust ©National Jump into eaton Delaval Hall may be known as the theatrical house nature this Easter Sof the infamous Delaval family, but some new residents have recently come under the spotlight – the UK’s From loveable lambs If you want to explore the life that’s largest winter roost of common hidden under your feet, head to ©National Trust Images/Chris Lacey Images/Chris Trust ©National to wiggly worms, pipistrelle bats. Nunnington Hall over the Easter learn all about new holidays and join Captain Compost They were discovered following and Lieutenant Leafmould on their A new chapter for life this springtime. the announcement of a £3.7million Lacey Images/Chris Trust ©National crusade to save the soil with their army of earthworm helpers. Budding award from the National Lottery to Easter is an exciting time at Ormesby botanists can take a trip to Gibside Wentworth Castle Gardens conserve and bring new life to the Hall as the lambing season begins, to learn all about Mary Eleanor Hall. Since then we’ve been working and there’ll be plenty of newborns Can you help Bowes, whose passion for plants We’re working with Barnsley Council and with bat ecologist Tina Wiffen to find Looking after a to spot on special farm tours. You made her famous around the world. out more about their unusual us bring back the can find out about life on the farm at Northern College to reopen Wentworth Castle hibernation habits. Gardens in South Yorkshire this summer. Dying Gladiator? Wallington too – take a tractor trailer For a closer look at nature, you can World Heritage Site ride to Broom House Farm for a look discover what lives in a pond at ‘Although bats have made Seaton Delaval Hall At some point in the late 19th inside the lambing shed, or spend an Cragside and Beningbrough Hall or his Grade I-listed landscape, It was a calming place where I their home for centuries, the size of the roost s you’d imagine, World We’ve also been working on access, century, the Dying Gladiator afternoon as a Lambing Apprentice, join in with rock pooling at Souter with acres of parkland, could lose myself, find inspiration was a mystery. Sixty one bats were discovered Heritage Sites are selected making sure everyone can enjoy a statue disappeared from the caring for the ewes and their lambs. Lighthouse and Robin Hood’s Bay. Tgardens, a conservatory and or just sit and admire the in light, dry stone crevices in the Central Hall, water garden without a trace. castle to explore, holds a special surroundings. I’m a firm believer which has turned our long-held belief that Abecause they’re internationally visit here. People can now hire two We’re raising funds to recast The popular Cadbury Easter Egg place in lots of hearts. in the therapeutic benefits of such pipistrelles prefer to hibernate in very dark, important places. We care for 29 new off-road mobility vehicles and the statue and return it to its Hunts also return this year, with beautiful surroundings and I can’t damp conditions on its head.’ of them across the UK, including we have a new audio-described One of those belongs to Scott begin to emphasise how the gardens Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal guided tour. rightful place by the moon nature-themed trails all across Ireland. Having found himself jobless, have helped in reaching my Tina Wiffen Water Garden. ponds later this year. Can you the North. homeless and struggling with mental potential.’ Conservation though, is at the heart help us by making a donation health, Scott’s recovery began when As Seaton Delaval Hall prepares to Looking after this place is a big job, of all we do. And we couldn’t do that today? he started a course at Northern Scott’s now a tutor at Northern reopen in February half term, we’re as World Heritage Site Co-ordinator, without people visiting this incredible Check What’s on for details and more College, a residential adult education College, and still regularly visits the continuing to work with Tina to Sarah France, explains: place. Everyone who visits, buys a Visit nationaltrust.org.uk/ springtime family adventures. college surrounded by the gardens: gardens with family, friends and son understand more about the bats’ cup of tea or takes home something dying-gladiator-appeal ‘It’s a huge responsibility to look after Jake, who loves the place as much as behaviour. This will help us make from our shop helps us look after the the site and to preserve it for the ‘It’s an understatement to say the his dad. sure they’re given the space they World Heritage Site, so thank you.’ generations to come. Some of the gardens played a pivotal role in need as work continues to change recent work we’ve done has helped my journey. I found great solace the scenes at the Hall. and peace when I walked there. Look out for details of the opening to recreate lost views and you may later this year at nationaltrust.org. have seen the statues in the water uk/wentworth-castle-gardens garden repainted over the last Find out more at nationaltrust.org. couple of years too. Harris Images/Paul Trust ©National ©National Trust Archive Archive ©National Trust

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February March As spring starts to stir, wander The nodding heads of daffodils can brighten up the through carpets of snowdrops in the dullest of days. In the wild garden of East Riddlesden woodland at Wallington, along the Hall you’ll be greeted by white petalled ‘silver chimes’ Archive ©National Trust ha-ha walk at Beningbrough Hall narcissi, while at Seaton Delaval Hall there are vibrant 50 years on and on the riverbanks at Studley yellow Van Sion daffodils, thought to have been planted Royal Water Garden. There’ll be as the hall was being built nearly 300 years ago. There’ll the high street 10,000 pretty white wood anemones be a lawn of 100,000 crocuses at Wallington and a new Our shop in city centre has reached to spot at Gibside too. fragrant garden at Goddards, inspired by the original a milestone this year, having been open 1920s design. for 50 years. Archive photos of historic Goodramgate dating from 1969 show the original National Trust shop and it’s Wallington still there now. ©National Trust Images/Alex Prain Images/Alex Trust ©National All profits from the shop help us to look April May after special places, including nearby Treasurer’s House, so pop by next time Colourful tulips take over as spring On sunny days it’s easy to think you’re in York and enjoy some guilt-free continues. Pop into the award- summer has arrived. Explore the shopping, knowing that everything you winning garden at Treasurer’s yellow walk at Cragside to spot buy supports our work. House to see bright white tulips, azaleas, while at Beningbrough or spot yellow ones at Washington Hall, see how the white wisteria Old Hall. Look out for the new is settling into the Pergola. spring garden at Ormesby Hall, Bluebells will also be appearing with tulips and a new bluebell walk, in many woodlands – take in the which was funded by last year’s scent from the sea of blue at raffle ticket sales. Hardcastle Crags and in the ©National Trust Images/Stephen Robson Images/Stephen Trust ©National aptly named Bluebell Wood at Ravenscar. ©National Trust Images/Ian Ward Ward Images/Ian ©National Trust Puffin numbers Treasurer’s House

©National Trust Images/Chris Lacey Images/Chris Trust ©National on the up

The results of last year’s puffin census on the Farne Islands are in and we’ve seen the number of chicks being born go up Bringing back by 9% since 2013. We count the puffins every five years to see how the species the blooms is doing and make sure our work is helping them to thrive. We’re hoping to replant the Iris Garden at Nunnington Hall this After last year’s challenging weather, year with your help. It was a we were worried the puffin population favourite spot of Mrs Fife, who may have suffered but they seem to gifted her home to the National have coped much better than we Trust back in 1952. Buying a expected. However, with global raffle ticket will help us breathe numbers declining, the rangers will new life into the space, so now count the puffins annually to help everyone can continue to enjoy us get a better picture of the challenges it as much as she did. facing these charismatic seabirds.

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Low Wray Campsite, Lighthouse Keeper’s Windermere Cottages, Souter Lighthouse Active holidays Pitch your tent, pick a camping pod or try out a new tree tent in this lakeside Sitting alongside the iconic Kick start your year with an active campsite and let the stresses and lighthouse, these cottages offer strains of everyday life disappear. You impressive sea views along with miles outdoor break this spring. can take an early morning stroll along of scenic walking and running routes the shore, hire a bike to visit nearby – the newest part of the England Claife Viewing Station, then enjoy a Coastal Path and the finishing stretch night under the stars. of the Great North Run are both on the doorstep. High Lidmoor, New for 2019 Get well and truly off the beaten There are some brand new places track in this peaceful retreat. Once opening in 2019 too. From spring an 18th-century farmhouse, it has you can set up camp in a bothy at plenty of character and is an ideal Malham Tarn, perfect for exploring base for exploring the North York the rolling Yorkshire Dales, and there’ll Moors. It’s great for a digital detox be a cosy cottage in Wallington’s too – there’s no phone signal – North Wood, with acres of walks making it an ideal place to reconnect and cycle hire on the doorstep. with nature. ©National Trust Images/Paul Harris Images/Paul Trust ©National

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