THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE NEWSLETTER Issue 206 September 2014

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Worton Published by Upper Wensleydale Nevertheless, it has to be acknowledged The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter Editorial that in many of our local organisations, vil- Burnside Coach House, “Welcome to Wensleydale”. We seem to lage halls, churches, clubs, social and special Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT have done a good job this summer, as the Issue 206 September2014 interest groups, the positions of responsibility number of visitors and tourists appears to be are often held by relative newcomers to the Features holding up well. There’s a ‘feel-good’ factor area. Tel: 667785 about - for most people! Surely the best and most vibrant communi- e-mail: [email protected] Now what about the welcome we extend to Hardraw Brass Band Contest 5 ties are those where the long-standing incomers who intend to be permanent resi- ______knowledge of committed locals works along- dents? Are we still a bit ‘on our guard’? An side the wider experience and enthusiasm of Printed by Wensleydale Press BAWB School Collaboration 20 incomer was once asked “why have you some newcomers. Even better if more of our ______come to live here?” We wonder if the same Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, younger people can also be persuaded Police Report 19 attitude would be shown to those moving Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, (though some now are) of the feel-good fac- ______from here to towns or cities for education, Karen Jones, Alastair Macintosh, tor and the joy of getting involved and tak- Competition 5 work or to be nearer theatres or other big Neil Piper, Karen Prudden, ing responsibility. Janet W. Thomson (treasurer), Peter Wood ______events. We also accept that some people will Ruth Guy 22 move away to be nearer better transport or Final Processing: Sarah Champion, ______health services. Are they asked “why have Calling Aspiring Bell Ringers Adrian Janke Doctor’s Rotas 16 you come.” ______Is it just as acceptable that people should come here for a variety of reasons? General There will be a Bell Ringing Recruitment Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens Dales Calendar 25 , work? Yes there are opportunities and vacan- Day at St Oswald’s, Askrigg on Saturday ______cies, otherwise our overseas workers would- 6th September from 10.00am until 4.00pm. Sue Foster 23 Information will be provided in the church PLEASE NOTE n’t be here. Specialised work? It becomes ______easier by the day for people to set up on-line on bell ringing and accompanied tours to the What’s On 15 & 16 businesses, thereby living here but in touch ringing room for those interested in further This web-copy does not contain the commercial tuition. There will be NO access to the tower adverts which are in the full Newsletter. ______with ‘the world’! Others may see in these Plus all the regulars areas a gap in the market and an opportunity roof. K.P. As a general rule we only accept adverts from ______to venture into a new business; good luck to within the circulation area and no more than one- them. Yet others come in later life to an area Hawes Gala AGM third of each issue is taken up with them. they may have visited very frequently and now wish to live here. The AGM will take place on Wednesday, th Whilst we try to ensure that all information Maybe they should all come with a C.V. September 17 at 7.00pm in the back room is correct we cannot be held legally like applying for a job! So we would know: of the Fountain Hotel. Advertising responsible for omissions or inaccuracies in age; previous residence; occupation; marital This meeting is open to the public and all articles, adverts or listings, or for any are welcome. The accounts for the Gala’s Boxed adverts: £6, £12, £18 status; interests etc. inconvenience caused. Views expressed in There are more serious issues; there is no current financial year will be presented. articles are the sole responsibility of the This year several members of the committee There is a big reduction for six issues or doubt that mobility of the population gener- person by-lined. Articles by comittee have announced their intention to resign and, more, so for six issues the totals are: ally makes for a more fluid lifestyle with members carry just their initials. We people more eager to settle quickly into their consequently, we are looking for new mem- appreciate being asked before any part of new location. But how? It can be a tricky bers to ensure that the Gala continues to £25, £50 or £75 th the Newsletter is reproduced task. Some people arrive straight from high- thrive into and beyond its 48 year. If you can spare a small amount of your time over Greetings etc. £2.00 powered jobs with responsibility; others may the coming year, please come along and get What’s ons (non-commercial) are free have run companies or schools. They may THE OCTOBER 2014 ISSUE have been the movers and shakers where they involved. were and possibly coming after an early re- Ian Dixon Contacts for adverts: WILL BE PRODUCED ON tirement they want to get involved. SEPTEMBER 22nd to 24th There is a temptation on the part of the For Hawes area and westward: ‘locals’ (How long do you have to have been 'Young Voices' Concert here to be one?) who may be tired with long in the Market Hall, Hawes Barry Cruickshanks, Ashfield, Hardraw: 667458 years of community service, to rush to the on Friday 26th September at 7.00pm. DEADLINE FOR COPY: newcomers for help without getting to know £6.00 at the door. For elsewhere: them. It could be that some newcomers are a Tea and Biscuits, Raffle in the interlude. THURSDAY bit too eager and that can cause resentment Proceeds towards the St Margaret’s Church Sue Duffield, Fellside, SEPTEMBER 18th with locals feeling they are being pushed out Restoration Fund Thornton Rust: 663504 by people who ‘know it all’.

2 2 Published by Upper Wensleydale Nevertheless, it has to be acknowledged The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter Editorial that in many of our local organisations, vil- Burnside Coach House, “Welcome to Wensleydale”. We seem to lage halls, churches, clubs, social and special Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT have done a good job this summer, as the Issue 206 September2014 interest groups, the positions of responsibility number of visitors and tourists appears to be are often held by relative newcomers to the Features holding up well. There’s a ‘feel-good’ factor area. Tel: 667785 about - for most people! Surely the best and most vibrant communi- e-mail: [email protected] Now what about the welcome we extend to Hardraw Brass Band Contest 5 ties are those where the long-standing incomers who intend to be permanent resi- ______knowledge of committed locals works along- dents? Are we still a bit ‘on our guard’? An side the wider experience and enthusiasm of Printed by Wensleydale Press BAWB School Collaboration 20 incomer was once asked “why have you some newcomers. Even better if more of our ______come to live here?” We wonder if the same Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, younger people can also be persuaded Police Report 19 attitude would be shown to those moving Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, (though some now are) of the feel-good fac- ______from here to towns or cities for education, Karen Jones, Alastair Macintosh, tor and the joy of getting involved and tak- Competition 5 work or to be nearer theatres or other big Neil Piper, Karen Prudden, ing responsibility. Janet W. Thomson (treasurer), Peter Wood ______events. We also accept that some people will Ruth Guy 22 move away to be nearer better transport or Final Processing: Sarah Champion, ______health services. Are they asked “why have Calling Aspiring Bell Ringers Adrian Janke Doctor’s Rotas 16 you come.” ______Is it just as acceptable that people should come here for a variety of reasons? General There will be a Bell Ringing Recruitment Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens Dales Calendar 25 , work? Yes there are opportunities and vacan- Day at St Oswald’s, Askrigg on Saturday ______cies, otherwise our overseas workers would- 6th September from 10.00am until 4.00pm. Sue Foster 23 Information will be provided in the church PLEASE NOTE n’t be here. Specialised work? It becomes ______easier by the day for people to set up on-line on bell ringing and accompanied tours to the What’s On 15 & 16 businesses, thereby living here but in touch ringing room for those interested in further This web-copy does not contain the commercial tuition. There will be NO access to the tower adverts which are in the full Newsletter. ______with ‘the world’! Others may see in these Plus all the regulars areas a gap in the market and an opportunity roof. K.P. As a general rule we only accept adverts from ______to venture into a new business; good luck to within the circulation area and no more than one- them. Yet others come in later life to an area Hawes Gala AGM third of each issue is taken up with them. they may have visited very frequently and now wish to live here. The AGM will take place on Wednesday, th Whilst we try to ensure that all information Maybe they should all come with a C.V. September 17 at 7.00pm in the back room is correct we cannot be held legally like applying for a job! So we would know: of the Fountain Hotel. Advertising responsible for omissions or inaccuracies in age; previous residence; occupation; marital This meeting is open to the public and all articles, adverts or listings, or for any are welcome. The accounts for the Gala’s Boxed adverts: £6, £12, £18 status; interests etc. inconvenience caused. Views expressed in There are more serious issues; there is no current financial year will be presented. articles are the sole responsibility of the This year several members of the committee There is a big reduction for six issues or doubt that mobility of the population gener- person by-lined. Articles by comittee have announced their intention to resign and, more, so for six issues the totals are: ally makes for a more fluid lifestyle with members carry just their initials. We people more eager to settle quickly into their consequently, we are looking for new mem- appreciate being asked before any part of new location. But how? It can be a tricky bers to ensure that the Gala continues to £25, £50 or £75 th the Newsletter is reproduced task. Some people arrive straight from high- thrive into and beyond its 48 year. If you can spare a small amount of your time over Greetings etc. £2.00 powered jobs with responsibility; others may the coming year, please come along and get What’s ons (non-commercial) are free have run companies or schools. They may THE OCTOBER 2014 ISSUE have been the movers and shakers where they involved. were and possibly coming after an early re- Ian Dixon Contacts for adverts: WILL BE PRODUCED ON tirement they want to get involved. SEPTEMBER 22nd to 24th There is a temptation on the part of the For Hawes area and westward: ‘locals’ (How long do you have to have been 'Young Voices' Concert here to be one?) who may be tired with long in the Market Hall, Hawes Barry Cruickshanks, Ashfield, Hardraw: 667458 years of community service, to rush to the on Friday 26th September at 7.00pm. DEADLINE FOR COPY: newcomers for help without getting to know £6.00 at the door. For elsewhere: them. It could be that some newcomers are a Tea and Biscuits, Raffle in the interlude. THURSDAY bit too eager and that can cause resentment Proceeds towards the St Margaret’s Church Sue Duffield, Fellside, SEPTEMBER 18th with locals feeling they are being pushed out Restoration Fund Thornton Rust: 663504 by people who ‘know it all’.

3 3 Summer Competition Eunice the Ewe Answers Hardraw Scar Life is Blooming Annual Band Contest in the National Park 1. Beam Valley = RAYDALE Sunday September 14th 2. Distant mixed up brown is = from 10.00am A new report shows the National Park is FAR BORWINS Adjudicator: Mr I Brownbill home to many rare species of plants and 3. Test trounce = COUNTERSETT animals - from Red Squirrels to Black 4. Muddles racer in mixed byt = Couldn’t find me last month? BANDS NATIONAL Grouse - and they are thriving. THORESBY I was on holiday! IN ORDER OF PLAY GRADE 65 per cent of the area of priority habitats in 5. Pull hotting = THUPTON GILL Or truth to tell we forgot to hide her! the Yorkshire Dales National Park was in 6. Stroll to Redmire Falls from here = I am definitely in this issue! Shepherd Group Concert Ungraded "good" condition - and we have achieved an SWINITHWAITE MD Mike Pratt 89 per cent success rate so far. We have also 7 Big Pale Girl = HIGH WANLASS found that the populations of 38 of the 46 8. O Just Why? = JUSTY HOW Big Cheeses Knaresborugh Silver 4th Local Biodiversity Action Plan species (78 9. Stir the stew by the castle = MD Steve Morland per cent) that are currently 'monitorable' are WEST BOLTON stable - which has exceeded our initial target. 10. Pentecost = WHIT Murton Colliery 1st In fact, we are bucking the national trend 11. Post collapsed = TAKE FELL MD Lee Morris with some of our important priority bird 12. Nagger = GRANGE species like Lapwings, Curlews and Black 13. Re beggar taw = GREAT WEGBER Friendly (Sowerby Bridge) 3rd Grouse because the populations are stable 14. Blonde = BELDON MD Neil Robinson here while they are in decline nationally. 15. Top of map garden tools = Other successes in the first years include: NORTH RAKES Beverley Brass Ungraded * 45 per cent of upland calcareous grassland 16. Clearing crossing =THWAITE BRIDGE MD Peter Kench in England is found within the National Park 17. Addie is weld = WIDDALE SIDE and more than 93 per cent is in good 18. Doss flea = FOSSDALE Coleshill Town, Chesterfield 4th condition. MD Stephen Fagg * Conservation work supported by a number The word to be found from some of the last of organisations including YDNPA, Natural letters of the answers is NEWSLETTER. Leyburn Ungraded England and Yorkshire Dales Millennium MD George Lundberg Trust has resulted in more than 95 per cent of The winner of the August £50 prize is Jane upland hay meadows being classified as in Ritchie. Otley Brass Ungraded good condition. MD Will Rowson * The majority of Northern Brown Argus Derek operating labelling machine in 1982 butterfly sites are in appropriate September Competition Shirland Welfare , Cheshire 2nd management, and the populations of Small MD Lynden Cooper Pearl-bordered Fritillary butterflies are stable. Things you might find in the SHED! Walking or driving through the Upper Dales * The distribution of Red Squirrels is stable, this last month one could hardly fail to notice Hade Edge 1st as is the Dormouse population following its Anagrams the very delightful, thoughtful and efficient MD. Jonathan Beatty successful re-introduction in 2008 at way of encouraging public sales of our lo- Freeholders' Wood next to the Aysgarth Falls 1. BE TUCK cally made Wensleydale cheese. Besses o’ th’Barn 4th National Park Centre. 2. SIR DR MALLONEY The novel way of sticking labels on the MD Dean Jones * Populations of two LBAP priority 3. NEAT SNOW ends of hay bales standing in the flanking invertebrate species - the Fine-lined Pea 4. UNITE SITU SPENT BUTTER fields was a brilliant way of promoting our Durham Miners Association 1st Mussel and the Round-mouthed Whorl Snail 5. PA RUBS THIN local product. Congratulations to the brain MD Stuart Gray - are stable. 6. I’VE STILL REP behind it. The populations of 61 per cent of priority 7. LANCES IN SWARDS I could in my time at the Creamery maybe Ratby Coop Mid Leicestershire 4th plant species in the National Park are stable. 8. RAN TWIN CAGE have stuck a label on the bales but I would MD Geoff Newman. This includes Lady's Slipper-orchid, Marsh 9. MEL WON WAR have wanted a bit of help lifting them on to Saxifrage and Field Gentian. 10. GREBE WHIPS SUN the machine! The entry fee is £9. Refreshments are 11. EU ACTRESS Derek Ramsden available on site or from the Green Dragon 12. HEP POSIE Inn.

4 4 Summer Competition Eunice the Ewe Answers Hardraw Scar Life is Blooming Annual Band Contest in the National Park 1. Beam Valley = RAYDALE Sunday September 14th 2. Distant mixed up brown is = from 10.00am A new report shows the National Park is FAR BORWINS Adjudicator: Mr I Brownbill home to many rare species of plants and 3. Test trounce = COUNTERSETT animals - from Red Squirrels to Black 4. Muddles racer in mixed byt = Couldn’t find me last month? BANDS NATIONAL Grouse - and they are thriving. THORESBY I was on holiday! IN ORDER OF PLAY GRADE 65 per cent of the area of priority habitats in 5. Pull hotting = THUPTON GILL Or truth to tell we forgot to hide her! the Yorkshire Dales National Park was in 6. Stroll to Redmire Falls from here = I am definitely in this issue! Shepherd Group Concert Ungraded "good" condition - and we have achieved an SWINITHWAITE MD Mike Pratt 89 per cent success rate so far. We have also 7 Big Pale Girl = HIGH WANLASS found that the populations of 38 of the 46 8. O Just Why? = JUSTY HOW Big Cheeses Knaresborugh Silver 4th Local Biodiversity Action Plan species (78 9. Stir the stew by the castle = MD Steve Morland per cent) that are currently 'monitorable' are WEST BOLTON stable - which has exceeded our initial target. 10. Pentecost = WHIT Murton Colliery 1st In fact, we are bucking the national trend 11. Post collapsed = TAKE FELL MD Lee Morris with some of our important priority bird 12. Nagger = GRANGE species like Lapwings, Curlews and Black 13. Re beggar taw = GREAT WEGBER Friendly (Sowerby Bridge) 3rd Grouse because the populations are stable 14. Blonde = BELDON MD Neil Robinson here while they are in decline nationally. 15. Top of map garden tools = Other successes in the first years include: NORTH RAKES Beverley Brass Ungraded * 45 per cent of upland calcareous grassland 16. Clearing crossing =THWAITE BRIDGE MD Peter Kench in England is found within the National Park 17. Addie is weld = WIDDALE SIDE and more than 93 per cent is in good 18. Doss flea = FOSSDALE Coleshill Town, Chesterfield 4th condition. MD Stephen Fagg * Conservation work supported by a number The word to be found from some of the last of organisations including YDNPA, Natural letters of the answers is NEWSLETTER. Leyburn Ungraded England and Yorkshire Dales Millennium MD George Lundberg Trust has resulted in more than 95 per cent of The winner of the August £50 prize is Jane upland hay meadows being classified as in Ritchie. Otley Brass Ungraded good condition. MD Will Rowson * The majority of Northern Brown Argus Derek operating labelling machine in 1982 butterfly sites are in appropriate September Competition Shirland Welfare , Cheshire 2nd management, and the populations of Small MD Lynden Cooper Pearl-bordered Fritillary butterflies are stable. Things you might find in the SHED! Walking or driving through the Upper Dales * The distribution of Red Squirrels is stable, this last month one could hardly fail to notice Hade Edge 1st as is the Dormouse population following its Anagrams the very delightful, thoughtful and efficient MD. Jonathan Beatty successful re-introduction in 2008 at way of encouraging public sales of our lo- Freeholders' Wood next to the Aysgarth Falls 1. BE TUCK cally made Wensleydale cheese. Besses o’ th’Barn 4th National Park Centre. 2. SIR DR MALLONEY The novel way of sticking labels on the MD Dean Jones * Populations of two LBAP priority 3. NEAT SNOW ends of hay bales standing in the flanking invertebrate species - the Fine-lined Pea 4. UNITE SITU SPENT BUTTER fields was a brilliant way of promoting our Durham Miners Association 1st Mussel and the Round-mouthed Whorl Snail 5. PA RUBS THIN local product. Congratulations to the brain MD Stuart Gray - are stable. 6. I’VE STILL REP behind it. The populations of 61 per cent of priority 7. LANCES IN SWARDS I could in my time at the Creamery maybe Ratby Coop Mid Leicestershire 4th plant species in the National Park are stable. 8. RAN TWIN CAGE have stuck a label on the bales but I would MD Geoff Newman. This includes Lady's Slipper-orchid, Marsh 9. MEL WON WAR have wanted a bit of help lifting them on to Saxifrage and Field Gentian. 10. GREBE WHIPS SUN the machine! The entry fee is £9. Refreshments are 11. EU ACTRESS Derek Ramsden available on site or from the Green Dragon 12. HEP POSIE Inn.

5 5 t it did occur to me that it would be quite On Behalf of Important Notice Best Foot Forward his was a walk I called the Tour de magnificent to plan a Tour of the Lippy Logic/Hawes Church for Business Ratepayers Newsletter Area via Dentdale and Upper Relief Available on Retail Premises Wensleydale because it took place a Restoration Fund week after Le Tour. For a change Swaledale but now we’re getting into a T fantasy world recently inhabited by our Any premises classed as retail with a rateable there were eight of us, yours truly being the only Yorkshireman present. We started in esteemed ed! (see last edition). value of less than £50,000 may be eligible to So off we went to Aysgarth Falls, more claim up to a £1,000 reduction from their Leyburn, which gives a nice easy descent through the fields to Wensley. Pleasantly rock than water, through Carperby and up Business Rates for the Next 2 years (2014/15 on to Bolton Parks where a refreshing and 2015/16). through the woods, the river looked decidedly short of water, a reminder of how breeze cooled the heat of the day. A rest in Provided the Business has not received the shade of a Redmire tree and then up over 200,000 euros in state aid over a 3 year little rain we had had recently (well, as I write this a week later it is pouring down). again onto the Shawl. How satisfying it rolling period and they are not already in was to look across to Penhill and be receipt of a 100% reduction from Business From Lord’s Bridge there’s a great view of Bolton Hall but from there to Penhill it’s amazed at how far we had come. The finish Rates they may be eligible to apply and came with mixed feelings: joy at being able should contact the Council straight away by uphill all the way. Views from the Gallops Zut Alors! Two ladies meet are good but it pays to keep out of the way to rest tired legs; sadness at it all being The Tour de France near Hawes! phoning Gillian Thomson on 01748-901053 over. However, a good pint at the end or email: of the thundering hooves. What with that and a couple of Eurofighters blasting up the makes all the miles worth while and brings Two ladies took on the might of the Tour de local.taxation@richmondshire.gov.uk on thoughts of more walks, more planning France when it cycled through Hawes for This is a central government initiative and I dale, it’s not always all that quiet. Some twittering meadow pipits in the intervals and more days out. Splendid! dramatic purposes - and will present the would ask ratepayers who have not yet N.P. hilarious results in aid of the Hawes Church claimed this relief to do so immediately by made a nice change. Restoration Fund. contacting the Council. Pen Hill is a great viewpoint. It stands as a Lippy Logic Rides Again is at The Dales Yvonne Peacock sentinel guarding Wensleydale and has Countryside Museum on Wednesday 8th nothing in its way eastwards. The October at 7.30pm. It features original Hambleton Hills are a smudge on the comedy and drama written, produced and horizon in summer but a much sharper Ride and Stride skyline when it’s colder. In the old days if presented by Christine Hooley and Veronica A sponsored bike ride or walk in which you went up there in the dark you could see Caperon. They describe their style as "Alan people from all over the country walk or the blast furnaces on Teesside. Further back Bennett meets Victoria Wood" and will cycle between churches perform their 'encounter' with one of the in time you might have met trolls, the Big Sponsor Day Bargest or Bartle, who was reputedly world's greatest sporting events near Hawes. 13th September 2014 burned hereabouts. More about that at They also present their new piece A number of us will be Riding or Striding Witton Feast on 23rd August. "Photographing Kites" which stirs up round the churches in Penhill benefice to The pile of stones which is prominent poignant family memories with both humour raise money for our churches. from the valley and which used to be much and acute observation of human emotion. All monies raised go to the Historic bigger turns out not to be the top. Neither is The duo bring together "Veronica’s Churches Trust. 50% comes back to our own Moorcock Show the Beacon (of Armada fame) a hundred formidable writing skills and Christine’s churches, with 50% being retained by the Raising Funds for Air Ambulance metres further on. The true summit of remarkable ability to get under the skin of the Trust, along with any Gift Aid. Would you like the chance to win £25? Penhill, at 1814 feet or 553 metres, is characters she portrays" The Trust funds are used generally for the If so, come to the Moorcock Show on Sep- called the Height of Hazely and is rarely Tickets are £8 and available from 666960, upkeep of our Yorkshire churches. tember 7th and enter a competition to raise visited by anyone except a few grouse. [email protected], The Sweet Shop and Thank you in anticipation for your funds for the Northern Air Ambulance. There is no trig point, cairn or anything to Whites of Wensleydale, Hawes. More details support of us all. All you have to do is name three mem- denote the top, just find the highest tuft of and reveiws about the show and Lippy Logic Kristin Whalley bers on the Committee of the Moorcock can be found at lippylogic.co.uk. heather. Show who have appeared on the television Anyway we didn’t go there either, but and on which shows. followed the old quarry track down to High You can enter the competition by bring- Lane and West Burton. Lunch on Ox Letters to the Newsletter ing your entry to either the Northern Air BAINBRIDGE Pasture gives a pleasant view across to Ambulance stall or to the Secretary's trailer Please note that although we welcome letters 2 Bedroom Cottage For Sale Thoralby which was our turning point at the show. and emails, they must include the name of Rear Garden, Fantastic Views before heading back down the dale. What? Entries cost £1. All proceeds go to the the sender and will not be published without Econ. Air Source Central Heating I hear you say! Tour de Wensleydale, Northern Air Ambulance. it, unless agreed beforehand with the 01287 634077 you’ve hardly started. Well yes, I agree and Colin Luckett committee for very good reasons.

6 6 t it did occur to me that it would be quite On Behalf of Important Notice Best Foot Forward his was a walk I called the Tour de magnificent to plan a Tour of the Lippy Logic/Hawes Church for Business Ratepayers Newsletter Area via Dentdale and Upper Relief Available on Retail Premises Wensleydale because it took place a Restoration Fund week after Le Tour. For a change Swaledale but now we’re getting into a T fantasy world recently inhabited by our Any premises classed as retail with a rateable there were eight of us, yours truly being the only Yorkshireman present. We started in esteemed ed! (see last edition). value of less than £50,000 may be eligible to So off we went to Aysgarth Falls, more claim up to a £1,000 reduction from their Leyburn, which gives a nice easy descent through the fields to Wensley. Pleasantly rock than water, through Carperby and up Business Rates for the Next 2 years (2014/15 on to Bolton Parks where a refreshing and 2015/16). through the woods, the river looked decidedly short of water, a reminder of how breeze cooled the heat of the day. A rest in Provided the Business has not received the shade of a Redmire tree and then up over 200,000 euros in state aid over a 3 year little rain we had had recently (well, as I write this a week later it is pouring down). again onto the Shawl. How satisfying it rolling period and they are not already in was to look across to Penhill and be receipt of a 100% reduction from Business From Lord’s Bridge there’s a great view of Bolton Hall but from there to Penhill it’s amazed at how far we had come. The finish Rates they may be eligible to apply and came with mixed feelings: joy at being able should contact the Council straight away by uphill all the way. Views from the Gallops Zut Alors! Two ladies meet are good but it pays to keep out of the way to rest tired legs; sadness at it all being The Tour de France near Hawes! phoning Gillian Thomson on 01748-901053 over. However, a good pint at the end or email: of the thundering hooves. What with that and a couple of Eurofighters blasting up the makes all the miles worth while and brings Two ladies took on the might of the Tour de [email protected] on thoughts of more walks, more planning France when it cycled through Hawes for This is a central government initiative and I dale, it’s not always all that quiet. Some twittering meadow pipits in the intervals and more days out. Splendid! dramatic purposes - and will present the would ask ratepayers who have not yet N.P. hilarious results in aid of the Hawes Church claimed this relief to do so immediately by made a nice change. Restoration Fund. contacting the Council. Pen Hill is a great viewpoint. It stands as a Lippy Logic Rides Again is at The Dales Yvonne Peacock sentinel guarding Wensleydale and has Countryside Museum on Wednesday 8th nothing in its way eastwards. The October at 7.30pm. It features original Hambleton Hills are a smudge on the comedy and drama written, produced and horizon in summer but a much sharper Ride and Stride skyline when it’s colder. In the old days if presented by Christine Hooley and Veronica A sponsored bike ride or walk in which you went up there in the dark you could see Caperon. They describe their style as "Alan people from all over the country walk or the blast furnaces on Teesside. Further back Bennett meets Victoria Wood" and will cycle between churches perform their 'encounter' with one of the in time you might have met trolls, the Big Sponsor Day Bargest or Bartle, who was reputedly world's greatest sporting events near Hawes. 13th September 2014 burned hereabouts. More about that at They also present their new piece A number of us will be Riding or Striding Witton Feast on 23rd August. "Photographing Kites" which stirs up round the churches in Penhill benefice to The pile of stones which is prominent poignant family memories with both humour raise money for our churches. from the valley and which used to be much and acute observation of human emotion. All monies raised go to the Historic bigger turns out not to be the top. Neither is The duo bring together "Veronica’s Churches Trust. 50% comes back to our own Moorcock Show the Beacon (of Armada fame) a hundred formidable writing skills and Christine’s churches, with 50% being retained by the Raising Funds for Air Ambulance metres further on. The true summit of remarkable ability to get under the skin of the Trust, along with any Gift Aid. Would you like the chance to win £25? Penhill, at 1814 feet or 553 metres, is characters she portrays" The Trust funds are used generally for the If so, come to the Moorcock Show on Sep- called the Height of Hazely and is rarely Tickets are £8 and available from 666960, upkeep of our Yorkshire churches. tember 7th and enter a competition to raise visited by anyone except a few grouse. [email protected], The Sweet Shop and Thank you in anticipation for your funds for the Northern Air Ambulance. There is no trig point, cairn or anything to Whites of Wensleydale, Hawes. More details support of us all. All you have to do is name three mem- denote the top, just find the highest tuft of and reveiws about the show and Lippy Logic Kristin Whalley bers on the Committee of the Moorcock can be found at lippylogic.co.uk. heather. Show who have appeared on the television Anyway we didn’t go there either, but and on which shows. followed the old quarry track down to High You can enter the competition by bring- Lane and West Burton. Lunch on Ox Letters to the Newsletter ing your entry to either the Northern Air BAINBRIDGE Pasture gives a pleasant view across to Ambulance stall or to the Secretary's trailer Please note that although we welcome letters 2 Bedroom Cottage For Sale Thoralby which was our turning point at the show. and emails, they must include the name of Rear Garden, Fantastic Views before heading back down the dale. What? Entries cost £1. All proceeds go to the the sender and will not be published without Econ. Air Source Central Heating I hear you say! Tour de Wensleydale, Northern Air Ambulance. it, unless agreed beforehand with the 01287 634077 you’ve hardly started. Well yes, I agree and Colin Luckett committee for very good reasons.

7 7 Events at TOSH Ribblesdale Cheese Yoga Classes Saturday September 6th Scoop Three Golds Relax, stretch, unwind your tensions and lib- PENHILL POACHERS – A UNIQUE at International Cheese Show 2014 erate your health, with tried and tested knowl- LOCAL FOUR PIECE BAND. edge from one of the world’s greatest wisdom 8.00pm £10 to include supper Hawes based artisan goat cheese specialists, traditions, practised by millions throughout cen- Ribblesdale Cheese won three Gold awards at turies, increasingly validated by modern science ART WORKSHOP WITH KAREN the International Cheese Show, Nantwich in to optimise mind and body function. Even a INNES – ALL PROFITS TO THE OLD July. Two gold awards were given for their new little of the most basic skill, practised regularly, SCHOOL HOUSE Gouda Gold, an aged goat gouda made using can enhance health and wellbeing immeasura- 10.00am-4.00pm £45 to include a light milk from Lancashire and another Gold for their bly. lunch soft Goat Curd, repeating their Gold award at Yoga classes with Sue Lightfoot will recom- the International Cheese Show in 2013. Betty’s mence for Autumn Term the week beginning Saturday September 13th of Harrogate have Ribblesdale Goat Curd on Monday 8th September. ART WORKSHOP: details as September their summer menu. Wensley Village Hall, 6th Managing Director Iona Hill says, ‘we are so Mondays 7.00-8.30 pm proud of the three Gold awards at the 2014 In- West Burton Village Hall, Monday September 15th ternational Cheese Show, it is a massive Wednesdays 7.00-9.00pm CHARITY CURRY NIGHT AT achievement for the three of us: Stu, Andrew Sue is a fully qualified and experienced yoga SAFFRON IN AID OF THE OLD and I. We beat some stiff competition from teacher. Classes accommodate a range of abili- SCHOOL HOUSE some very talented cheese makers, so we could ties and new students are welcome. 6.00-8.00pm and 8.00-11.00pm two not be more pleased.’ Individual tuition tailored to specific needs is sittings Gouda Gold is available from independent also available, by appointment. £19.99 PER PERSON cheese shops, farm shops and delicatessens. For further details, advice and enrolments Ribblesdale Goat Curd is available from Deli- please contact Sue by telephone 663993 Saturday September 20th fresh and Wellocks wholesalers and at Betty’s or e-mail ([email protected]) JESSE TERRY – NASHVILLE AWARD Tea Rooms. WINNING SINGER/SONGWRITER About Ribblesdale Cheese 7.30pm £7.00 There are two cheese makers in Hawes: we are Got your A Level Results the small 2 ½ person cheese maker specialis- and heading off to University? Tuesday September 23rd Hawes United Football Club ing in artisan goat cheese. We make seven goat FASHION SHOW IN PARTNERSHIP cheeses, three ewe cheeses and a variety of Any student living within the This year’s fund raising sponsored walk WITH ST CATHERINE’S HOSPICE Wensleydale. Iona Hill took over the business Newsletter circulation area and now will take place on Sunday September SHOP.7.00pm from her uncle who formed it in 1978. going off to University is entitled to apply 14th. £10 to include a glass of wine. Contact details: for our Book and Equipment Award. It will be a circular walk taking in Tel 667788 email@ [email protected] Burtersett, Roman Road to Bainbridge, Hawes Allotments Please apply either in writing or email Askrigg and back to Hawes via Abbotside. (details on the back page of the Newsletter) Would you like to grow your own vegetables The 12 mile walk will start at Carrs giving full details of the University but do not have the space in your garden? Ribblesdale Cheese, Billingtons, Hawes, and finish at the and of the course to be followed, Then, like myself, you need an allotment, but Hawes Business Park Fountain Hotel where refreshments will be together with your full home address. unfortunately there are none in Hawes. served. We are looking for a Tuesday person to help us However, under the Small Holdings and Please meet at Carrs Billingtons at hand wax cheese. We will provide whites, Allotments Act 1908, the Council are required We will let you know if your 10.00am. hairnets and training; the person just needs to to provide allotments if six or more registered application is successful. be able to stand for long periods of time, be electors ask them to do so. For sponsor forms, more details, or to aware of food hygiene and be methodical. So if you’re interested in acquiring an make a donation please contact Dave When you have bought the books and Hours are 9.00am to 3.00pm - approx and allotment and you live in the Hawes area, please Calvert (667334) or Gordon.Sleightholm equipment needed for the course, could include potting up chutneys, waxing contact me and I will coordinate a request to the (667348). send the receipts or photocopies by post, and Local Authority. cheese or possibly even helping in the dairy. you will be entitled to a grant Colin Luckett Please contact Iona or Stu on 667788. Tel. 667071 of up to £250.

8 8 Events at TOSH Ribblesdale Cheese Yoga Classes Saturday September 6th Scoop Three Golds Relax, stretch, unwind your tensions and lib- PENHILL POACHERS – A UNIQUE at International Cheese Show 2014 erate your health, with tried and tested knowl- LOCAL FOUR PIECE BAND. edge from one of the world’s greatest wisdom 8.00pm £10 to include supper Hawes based artisan goat cheese specialists, traditions, practised by millions throughout cen- Ribblesdale Cheese won three Gold awards at turies, increasingly validated by modern science ART WORKSHOP WITH KAREN the International Cheese Show, Nantwich in to optimise mind and body function. Even a INNES – ALL PROFITS TO THE OLD July. Two gold awards were given for their new little of the most basic skill, practised regularly, SCHOOL HOUSE Gouda Gold, an aged goat gouda made using can enhance health and wellbeing immeasura- 10.00am-4.00pm £45 to include a light milk from Lancashire and another Gold for their bly. lunch soft Goat Curd, repeating their Gold award at Yoga classes with Sue Lightfoot will recom- the International Cheese Show in 2013. Betty’s mence for Autumn Term the week beginning Saturday September 13th of Harrogate have Ribblesdale Goat Curd on Monday 8th September. ART WORKSHOP: details as September their summer menu. Wensley Village Hall, 6th Managing Director Iona Hill says, ‘we are so Mondays 7.00-8.30 pm proud of the three Gold awards at the 2014 In- West Burton Village Hall, Monday September 15th ternational Cheese Show, it is a massive Wednesdays 7.00-9.00pm CHARITY CURRY NIGHT AT achievement for the three of us: Stu, Andrew Sue is a fully qualified and experienced yoga SAFFRON IN AID OF THE OLD and I. We beat some stiff competition from teacher. Classes accommodate a range of abili- SCHOOL HOUSE some very talented cheese makers, so we could ties and new students are welcome. 6.00-8.00pm and 8.00-11.00pm two not be more pleased.’ Individual tuition tailored to specific needs is sittings Gouda Gold is available from independent also available, by appointment. £19.99 PER PERSON cheese shops, farm shops and delicatessens. For further details, advice and enrolments Ribblesdale Goat Curd is available from Deli- please contact Sue by telephone 663993 Saturday September 20th fresh and Wellocks wholesalers and at Betty’s or e-mail ([email protected]) JESSE TERRY – NASHVILLE AWARD Tea Rooms. WINNING SINGER/SONGWRITER About Ribblesdale Cheese 7.30pm £7.00 There are two cheese makers in Hawes: we are Got your A Level Results the small 2 ½ person cheese maker specialis- and heading off to University? Tuesday September 23rd Hawes United Football Club ing in artisan goat cheese. We make seven goat FASHION SHOW IN PARTNERSHIP cheeses, three ewe cheeses and a variety of Any student living within the This year’s fund raising sponsored walk WITH ST CATHERINE’S HOSPICE Wensleydale. Iona Hill took over the business Newsletter circulation area and now will take place on Sunday September SHOP.7.00pm from her uncle who formed it in 1978. going off to University is entitled to apply 14th. £10 to include a glass of wine. Contact details: for our Book and Equipment Award. It will be a circular walk taking in Tel 667788 email@ [email protected] Burtersett, Roman Road to Bainbridge, Hawes Allotments Please apply either in writing or email Askrigg and back to Hawes via Abbotside. (details on the back page of the Newsletter) Would you like to grow your own vegetables The 12 mile walk will start at Carrs giving full details of the University but do not have the space in your garden? Ribblesdale Cheese, Billingtons, Hawes, and finish at the and of the course to be followed, Then, like myself, you need an allotment, but Hawes Business Park Fountain Hotel where refreshments will be together with your full home address. unfortunately there are none in Hawes. served. We are looking for a Tuesday person to help us However, under the Small Holdings and Please meet at Carrs Billingtons at hand wax cheese. We will provide whites, Allotments Act 1908, the Council are required We will let you know if your 10.00am. hairnets and training; the person just needs to to provide allotments if six or more registered application is successful. be able to stand for long periods of time, be electors ask them to do so. For sponsor forms, more details, or to aware of food hygiene and be methodical. So if you’re interested in acquiring an make a donation please contact Dave When you have bought the books and Hours are 9.00am to 3.00pm - approx and allotment and you live in the Hawes area, please Calvert (667334) or Gordon.Sleightholm equipment needed for the course, could include potting up chutneys, waxing contact me and I will coordinate a request to the (667348). send the receipts or photocopies by post, and Local Authority. cheese or possibly even helping in the dairy. you will be entitled to a grant Colin Luckett Please contact Iona or Stu on 667788. Tel. 667071 of up to £250.

9 9 UWIPS If you wish to have an informal conversa- Scoffing at a Pioneer Fitness Classes pper Wensleydale Industrial and tion, Geoff’s telephone number is 650117 England 1830 Provident Society (Registration no. and For those of you planning your Autumn IP27406R) is the organisation that e - mail address is g e o f f p h i l - In these days of lighting-fast express trains activities the following classes will be U [email protected]. it is hard to realise that 150 years ago the running from the second week in has provided transport, mainly to/from day care in Bainbridge since 1991. At the last locomotive was in its infancy, and its September: AGM, the committee took the difficult deci- ultimate possibilities were not dreamed of. At that time a well-known resident of Monday: Pilates – Thornborough Hall sion to bring the organisation to a close and Hawes cease activities. Liverpool said that, if it were ever proved 9.30am Indoor Bowling Club possible for a locomotive engine to travel at Pilates – Leyburn Primary School 5:45pm It was evident that the yellow minibus was Anniversary becoming too expensive to keep on the road ten miles per hour, he would eat a stewed Circuit Training – Leyburn Primary School because of substantial repair and mainte- In 2014 the Hawes Indoor Bowling Club is engine meal for breakfast. Whether the 7:00pm th nance costs. For the past two financial celebrating its 30 Anniversary. gentleman lived long enough to enjoy this years the organisation has operated at a Of the original founder members two, curious meal is not recorded. Tuesday: Staying Steady (a very gentle loss. Recently, it was determined that Edwin Pratt and Thomas Raw, are still regu- The press almost universally scoffed at exercise class) Brentwood 10:00am the funds required to get the minibus lar players with the club. The Bowling the same idea of rapid train travel, Pilates – Wensley Village Hall 6:00pm through the MOT were more than the vehi- Club is actively seeking new players (male declaring it impossible and denouncing its ‘Strictly’ (as seen on TV!) – Leyburn cle was actually worth. Additionally, it and female) to join for a friendly game of advocates as lunatics and fanatics. ‘Twelve Primary School 7:30pm would cost between £40K and £55K to re- indoor bowls. The Club meets every Tues- miles an hour’, exclaimed the Quarterly place the bus with a similar one, fitted with day at 7.30pm in the Market Hall. No pre- Review, in 1825 ‘Twelve miles an hour! As Wednesday: Beginners Pilates – The Old a lift for wheelchair users, and there are not vious experience is necessary, so why not well might a man be shot out of a School House 9:30am sufficient funds to do this. come along and have a go – you might have Congreave Rocket’. Pilates – The Old School House 10:45am Additionally, legislation compliance has a hidden talent or just enjoy the company. In about 1830, the great pioneering steam Pilates – Reeth Memorial Hall 6:00pm over the years become very costly, costs that Ring 667458 if you have any queries. engineer George Stephenson was cross were not incurred when the service was first B.M.C examined (and not for the first time) by a Thursday:Zumba Gold (for those prefer- introduced, and like most voluntary parliamentary committee with regard to ring a slower pace) – Thornborough Hall bodies, we have faced increasing difficulty constructing a railroad from Liverpool to 10:30am in recruiting new volunteers to serve. Family History Manchester. The interview was recorded Pilates – Sycamore Hall, Bainbridge for posterity by a local newspaper reporter. 5:50pm It is the organisation’s intention to hold a Meetings of the Upper Dales Family History final extraordinary AGM in October this Group recommence on Wednesday, Sep- year, at which final financial matters will be ‘Well, Mr Stephenson, perhaps you could In addition there is a Box Fit class tember 24th, with an evening meeting at go 17 miles an hour?’ planned on a Wednesday evening. dealt with. At this meeting, the commit- 7.30pm in Harmby village hall near Ley- tee intends to consider correspon- ‘Yes’, was the reply. ‘Perhaps some 20 Please register your interest as it will only burn. The speaker is Angela Clare on ‘Gert miles might be reached?’ ‘Yes, certainly.’ run if there are sufficient numbers. dence received in relation to the closure and and Jack Adam- Letters of a Doncaster Cou- also discuss and agree to the distribution of ‘Twenty-five, I dare say, you do not think For further information or to book a place ple in WWI’. Non-members very welcome, impossible?’ ‘Certainly not impossible.’ please ring Lesley on 07989 365363 or any remaining financial assets. £2. Contact telephone: 01748-850423 for The governing document states that any ‘Dangerous?’ ‘Certainly not.’ email: [email protected] details or see the website at ‘Now tell me, Mr Stephenson, ‘ said the surplus funds should be distributed to any www.upperdalesfhg.org.uk other charity having similar objects (i.e. to parliamentary member with indignation, assist with transport difficulties of the aged ‘will you say that you can go 30 miles?’ and/or infirm in the Upper Wensleydale.) If ‘Certainly,’ was the answer as before. Wensleydale Railway no such organisations can be identified we Questions ended for a time, and the Heritage Centre wiseacres of the committee burst into a roar will look to expand the geographical area or Hawes Art Group Rural Crafts Weekend of laughter. But Stephenson built the road perhaps look at similar charities that do not Aysgarth Station have the current restriction of ‘aged and Hawes Art Group’s first meeting of the au- and on his trial trip, astonished the world tumn session is on Wednesday September infirm’, rather serving the wider public in a with a speed of 36 miles an hour. Saturday and Sunday, September 13, charitable way. If you know of any charita- 17th at 1.00pm, firstly at Lane House for a (From ‘Railway’s Strangest Journeys’ by DVD then in the Market Hall at 1.30pm. 14th ble organisation in Wensleydale or Swale- Tom Quinn, published by Portico, RRP 10.00am to 4.00pm dale that may wish to apply for a share of New members are very welcome to join our £8.99) the available funds, please apply in writing small friendly group. If you are interested to the secretary before the end of September. come to our first session. More information from Ann Wood on 667897.

10 10 UWIPS If you wish to have an informal conversa- Scoffing at a Pioneer Fitness Classes pper Wensleydale Industrial and tion, Geoff’s telephone number is 650117 England 1830 Provident Society (Registration no. and For those of you planning your Autumn IP27406R) is the organisation that e - mail address is g e o f f p h i l - In these days of lighting-fast express trains activities the following classes will be U [email protected]. it is hard to realise that 150 years ago the running from the second week in has provided transport, mainly to/from day care in Bainbridge since 1991. At the last locomotive was in its infancy, and its September: AGM, the committee took the difficult deci- ultimate possibilities were not dreamed of. At that time a well-known resident of Monday: Pilates – Thornborough Hall sion to bring the organisation to a close and Hawes cease activities. Liverpool said that, if it were ever proved 9.30am Indoor Bowling Club possible for a locomotive engine to travel at Pilates – Leyburn Primary School 5:45pm It was evident that the yellow minibus was Anniversary becoming too expensive to keep on the road ten miles per hour, he would eat a stewed Circuit Training – Leyburn Primary School because of substantial repair and mainte- In 2014 the Hawes Indoor Bowling Club is engine meal for breakfast. Whether the 7:00pm th nance costs. For the past two financial celebrating its 30 Anniversary. gentleman lived long enough to enjoy this years the organisation has operated at a Of the original founder members two, curious meal is not recorded. Tuesday: Staying Steady (a very gentle loss. Recently, it was determined that Edwin Pratt and Thomas Raw, are still regu- The press almost universally scoffed at exercise class) Brentwood 10:00am the funds required to get the minibus lar players with the club. The Bowling the same idea of rapid train travel, Pilates – Wensley Village Hall 6:00pm through the MOT were more than the vehi- Club is actively seeking new players (male declaring it impossible and denouncing its ‘Strictly’ (as seen on TV!) – Leyburn cle was actually worth. Additionally, it and female) to join for a friendly game of advocates as lunatics and fanatics. ‘Twelve Primary School 7:30pm would cost between £40K and £55K to re- indoor bowls. The Club meets every Tues- miles an hour’, exclaimed the Quarterly place the bus with a similar one, fitted with day at 7.30pm in the Market Hall. No pre- Review, in 1825 ‘Twelve miles an hour! As Wednesday: Beginners Pilates – The Old a lift for wheelchair users, and there are not vious experience is necessary, so why not well might a man be shot out of a School House 9:30am sufficient funds to do this. come along and have a go – you might have Congreave Rocket’. Pilates – The Old School House 10:45am Additionally, legislation compliance has a hidden talent or just enjoy the company. In about 1830, the great pioneering steam Pilates – Reeth Memorial Hall 6:00pm over the years become very costly, costs that Ring 667458 if you have any queries. engineer George Stephenson was cross were not incurred when the service was first B.M.C examined (and not for the first time) by a Thursday:Zumba Gold (for those prefer- introduced, and like most voluntary parliamentary committee with regard to ring a slower pace) – Thornborough Hall bodies, we have faced increasing difficulty constructing a railroad from Liverpool to 10:30am in recruiting new volunteers to serve. Family History Manchester. The interview was recorded Pilates – Sycamore Hall, Bainbridge for posterity by a local newspaper reporter. 5:50pm It is the organisation’s intention to hold a Meetings of the Upper Dales Family History final extraordinary AGM in October this Group recommence on Wednesday, Sep- year, at which final financial matters will be ‘Well, Mr Stephenson, perhaps you could In addition there is a Box Fit class tember 24th, with an evening meeting at go 17 miles an hour?’ planned on a Wednesday evening. dealt with. At this meeting, the commit- 7.30pm in Harmby village hall near Ley- tee intends to consider correspon- ‘Yes’, was the reply. ‘Perhaps some 20 Please register your interest as it will only burn. The speaker is Angela Clare on ‘Gert miles might be reached?’ ‘Yes, certainly.’ run if there are sufficient numbers. dence received in relation to the closure and and Jack Adam- Letters of a Doncaster Cou- also discuss and agree to the distribution of ‘Twenty-five, I dare say, you do not think For further information or to book a place ple in WWI’. Non-members very welcome, impossible?’ ‘Certainly not impossible.’ please ring Lesley on 07989 365363 or any remaining financial assets. £2. Contact telephone: 01748-850423 for The governing document states that any ‘Dangerous?’ ‘Certainly not.’ email: [email protected] details or see the website at ‘Now tell me, Mr Stephenson, ‘ said the surplus funds should be distributed to any www.upperdalesfhg.org.uk other charity having similar objects (i.e. to parliamentary member with indignation, assist with transport difficulties of the aged ‘will you say that you can go 30 miles?’ and/or infirm in the Upper Wensleydale.) If ‘Certainly,’ was the answer as before. Wensleydale Railway no such organisations can be identified we Questions ended for a time, and the Heritage Centre wiseacres of the committee burst into a roar will look to expand the geographical area or Hawes Art Group Rural Crafts Weekend of laughter. But Stephenson built the road perhaps look at similar charities that do not Aysgarth Station have the current restriction of ‘aged and Hawes Art Group’s first meeting of the au- and on his trial trip, astonished the world tumn session is on Wednesday September infirm’, rather serving the wider public in a with a speed of 36 miles an hour. Saturday and Sunday, September 13, charitable way. If you know of any charita- 17th at 1.00pm, firstly at Lane House for a (From ‘Railway’s Strangest Journeys’ by DVD then in the Market Hall at 1.30pm. 14th ble organisation in Wensleydale or Swale- Tom Quinn, published by Portico, RRP 10.00am to 4.00pm dale that may wish to apply for a share of New members are very welcome to join our £8.99) the available funds, please apply in writing small friendly group. If you are interested to the secretary before the end of September. come to our first session. More information from Ann Wood on 667897.

11 11 Leyburn Bowling Club Middleham and Dales Homestay Teaching Families Up Disappointingly we had to cancel our August Local History Group Home Language International (HLI) is not a I'm sure you will enjoy this. I never knew Car Boot owing to the adverse weather. We language school, it is a family-run business one word in the English language can be a are, however, pleased to have been able to ‘History on Your Doorstep’ Open Day – offering language courses in over 30 noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition reschedule the event for Sunday 31st August, Free Entry Saturday 27 September countries worldwide. HLI are looking for That word is UP again at our usual venue of Craken House 2014 10.00am - 4.00pm, families locally, with a member of the family It's easy to understand UP, meaning Farm Field, Harmby Road, Leyburn, (opposite Middleham Key Centre having a teaching qualification (EFL or toward the sky or at the top of the list, but Tennants). All the features originally planned The Middleham and Dales Local History PGCE etc), to host international students at when we awaken in the morning, why do we will be there ( tombola, bric a brac stall, bottle Group has arranged an Open Day at the home and teach them English, treating them wake UP? in a bag competition, and sizzling bacon but- Middleham Key Centre to showcase the work as a member of the family. Students can be of At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? ties for sale). As the event is in aid of club of a number of local history groups covering any age but most tend to come to the UK in Why do we speak UP, and why are the funds we hope this time for good weather and the Yorkshire Dales. the school and university holidays and are officers UP for election (if there is a tie, it is an enjoyable day for buyers and sellers alike! This event is FREE for everyone. from a number of countries e.g. Spain, Italy, a toss UP) and why is it UP to the secretary Gates open for sellers from 7.00am and for Visitors are invited to drop in at any time to Russia. Host families are paid between £210 to write UP a report? buyers from 8.00am. look round the displays and share their own and £455 per week depending upon number We call UP our friends, brighten UP a In the JSW League we have had a knowledge with the various groups. These of hours of teaching needed. room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the reasonably successful time in the last month will include The Wensleydale Railway, HLI has been in existence for many years leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock winning 4 matches but losing 2. We started Swaledale and Arkengarthdale Archaeology but with most of the students going to the UP the house and fix UP the old car. with a a 5-2 home win against Sowerby Flatts Group(SWAAG), the Nidderdale Project and South of England. We would like to get this At other times, this little word has real and the following week saw Leyburn play 3 Pott and Agill Study Group. going locally. special meaning. People stir UP trouble, matches in 3 days, all away from home. These My contact details are Joy Garner line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, resulted in two 6-1 wins at Masham and Dr Elaine Joynes will give a half-hour talk on [email protected] Tel. 01748 824282 and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one Dishforth before a disappointing 0-7 defeat at "Coverham Abbey and the Lords of thing but to be dressed UP is special. Northallerton. The following 2 weeks saw Middleham" at 10.30am in the Lady Ann Neville room. A Huge Thank You And this UP is confusing: A drain must home games against Hutton Rudby, a 2-5 be opened UP because it is blocked UP. defeat, but a welcome 6-1 win in the return Car parking is provided at the rear of the ...to you all for coming to River View, We open UP a store in the morning but we match with Dishforth. Key Centre and coffee and tea will be Cowgill on August 2nd on such a terribly wet close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty Back to our own club competitions and on available throughout the day. day to support our charity tea party in the mixed UP about UP! 20th July we held our latest Sunday Jumbles For further information please contact garden. To be knowledgeable about the proper uses competition. Seemingly as always this year Tony Keates on 640436 or email We amazingly raised £1034 which will be of UP, look UP the word UP in the the competition resulted in clear cut winners [email protected] donated to Dent First Responders, North dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it and congratulations go to the worthy victors West Air Ambulance, Marie Curie Cancer takes UP almost a quarter of the page and Peter Nicholas and Steve Cotter with 29 Care and Cave and Fell Rescue. can add UP to about thirty definitions. points. Joint runners-up with 18 points were Definitions! Thank you again for donations of cakes, If you are UP to it, you might try building Mervyn Buckley and Nimrod Wilkinson / Coffee, noun. The person upon whom one gifts and most of all, your time. UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It Dennis Boyes, as well as David Halliday and coughs. Margaret and Tony Playfoot will take UP a lot of your time, but if you Peter Walker. don't give UP, you may wind UP with (UP Sat 2nd August saw Leyburn hold our an- Flabbergasted, adjective. Appalled by dis- to) a hundred or more. nual Pairs competition for the Tyson Cup. covering how much weight one has gained. Gunnerside Methodist Chapel When it threatens to rain, we say it is Winners this year were Mervyn Buckley and Willy-nilly, adjective. Impotent. York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir clouding UP. When the sun comes out, we Richard Carrington ( 5 wins from 6 matches ) say it is clearing UP. When it rains, the earth with Peter Walker and Mary King runners-up will give a concert on Negligent, adjective. Absentmindedly an- Saturday September 13th at 7.00pm soaks it UP. When it does not rain for a ( 3 wins, 2 draws ). while, things dry UP. One could go on and Our Club Singles competitions which are swering the door when wearing only a night- Tickets £8 at the door. gown. All proceeds for chapel funds on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now . . . My time played throughout the season are approaching is UP! conclusion and we will be holding our annual Oh . . . One more thing: What is the first Finals Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, Flatulence, noun. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a Sandra and Jim Facer thing you do in the morning and the last 13th, 14th September when 5 finals will be thing you do at night? played. Anyone wishing to come along to steamroller. Happy 30th Wedding Anniversary U P watch any of these finals is, of course, September 8th Did that one crack you UP? welcome to do so. Balderdash, noun. A rapidly receding hair- Love from all the family Now I'll shut UP Mervyn Buckley line.

12 12 Leyburn Bowling Club Middleham and Dales Homestay Teaching Families Up Disappointingly we had to cancel our August Local History Group Home Language International (HLI) is not a I'm sure you will enjoy this. I never knew Car Boot owing to the adverse weather. We language school, it is a family-run business one word in the English language can be a are, however, pleased to have been able to ‘History on Your Doorstep’ Open Day – offering language courses in over 30 noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition reschedule the event for Sunday 31st August, Free Entry Saturday 27 September countries worldwide. HLI are looking for That word is UP again at our usual venue of Craken House 2014 10.00am - 4.00pm, families locally, with a member of the family It's easy to understand UP, meaning Farm Field, Harmby Road, Leyburn, (opposite Middleham Key Centre having a teaching qualification (EFL or toward the sky or at the top of the list, but Tennants). All the features originally planned The Middleham and Dales Local History PGCE etc), to host international students at when we awaken in the morning, why do we will be there ( tombola, bric a brac stall, bottle Group has arranged an Open Day at the home and teach them English, treating them wake UP? in a bag competition, and sizzling bacon but- Middleham Key Centre to showcase the work as a member of the family. Students can be of At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? ties for sale). As the event is in aid of club of a number of local history groups covering any age but most tend to come to the UK in Why do we speak UP, and why are the funds we hope this time for good weather and the Yorkshire Dales. the school and university holidays and are officers UP for election (if there is a tie, it is an enjoyable day for buyers and sellers alike! This event is FREE for everyone. from a number of countries e.g. Spain, Italy, a toss UP) and why is it UP to the secretary Gates open for sellers from 7.00am and for Visitors are invited to drop in at any time to Russia. Host families are paid between £210 to write UP a report? buyers from 8.00am. look round the displays and share their own and £455 per week depending upon number We call UP our friends, brighten UP a In the JSW League we have had a knowledge with the various groups. These of hours of teaching needed. room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the reasonably successful time in the last month will include The Wensleydale Railway, HLI has been in existence for many years leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock winning 4 matches but losing 2. We started Swaledale and Arkengarthdale Archaeology but with most of the students going to the UP the house and fix UP the old car. with a a 5-2 home win against Sowerby Flatts Group(SWAAG), the Nidderdale Project and South of England. We would like to get this At other times, this little word has real and the following week saw Leyburn play 3 Pott and Agill Study Group. going locally. special meaning. People stir UP trouble, matches in 3 days, all away from home. These My contact details are Joy Garner line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, resulted in two 6-1 wins at Masham and Dr Elaine Joynes will give a half-hour talk on [email protected] Tel. 01748 824282 and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one Dishforth before a disappointing 0-7 defeat at "Coverham Abbey and the Lords of thing but to be dressed UP is special. Northallerton. The following 2 weeks saw Middleham" at 10.30am in the Lady Ann Neville room. A Huge Thank You And this UP is confusing: A drain must home games against Hutton Rudby, a 2-5 be opened UP because it is blocked UP. defeat, but a welcome 6-1 win in the return Car parking is provided at the rear of the ...to you all for coming to River View, We open UP a store in the morning but we match with Dishforth. Key Centre and coffee and tea will be Cowgill on August 2nd on such a terribly wet close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty Back to our own club competitions and on available throughout the day. day to support our charity tea party in the mixed UP about UP! 20th July we held our latest Sunday Jumbles For further information please contact garden. To be knowledgeable about the proper uses competition. Seemingly as always this year Tony Keates on 640436 or email We amazingly raised £1034 which will be of UP, look UP the word UP in the the competition resulted in clear cut winners [email protected] donated to Dent First Responders, North dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it and congratulations go to the worthy victors West Air Ambulance, Marie Curie Cancer takes UP almost a quarter of the page and Peter Nicholas and Steve Cotter with 29 Care and Cave and Fell Rescue. can add UP to about thirty definitions. points. Joint runners-up with 18 points were Definitions! Thank you again for donations of cakes, If you are UP to it, you might try building Mervyn Buckley and Nimrod Wilkinson / Coffee, noun. The person upon whom one gifts and most of all, your time. UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It Dennis Boyes, as well as David Halliday and coughs. Margaret and Tony Playfoot will take UP a lot of your time, but if you Peter Walker. don't give UP, you may wind UP with (UP Sat 2nd August saw Leyburn hold our an- Flabbergasted, adjective. Appalled by dis- to) a hundred or more. nual Pairs competition for the Tyson Cup. covering how much weight one has gained. Gunnerside Methodist Chapel When it threatens to rain, we say it is Winners this year were Mervyn Buckley and Willy-nilly, adjective. Impotent. York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir clouding UP. When the sun comes out, we Richard Carrington ( 5 wins from 6 matches ) say it is clearing UP. When it rains, the earth with Peter Walker and Mary King runners-up will give a concert on Negligent, adjective. Absentmindedly an- Saturday September 13th at 7.00pm soaks it UP. When it does not rain for a ( 3 wins, 2 draws ). while, things dry UP. One could go on and Our Club Singles competitions which are swering the door when wearing only a night- Tickets £8 at the door. gown. All proceeds for chapel funds on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now . . . My time played throughout the season are approaching is UP! conclusion and we will be holding our annual Oh . . . One more thing: What is the first Finals Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, Flatulence, noun. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a Sandra and Jim Facer thing you do in the morning and the last 13th, 14th September when 5 finals will be thing you do at night? played. Anyone wishing to come along to steamroller. Happy 30th Wedding Anniversary U P watch any of these finals is, of course, September 8th Did that one crack you UP? welcome to do so. Balderdash, noun. A rapidly receding hair- Love from all the family Now I'll shut UP Mervyn Buckley line.

13 13 What’s On 14 Gayle Mill blacksmithing course. See p.16 September 17 Hawes Art Group restarts. See p.10 To Sept. 21st—’Seeing is Believing: 17 Hawes Gala AGM. 7.00pm. See p.3 Tennants Auction Centre. See p.26 19 Stalling Busk Harvest Supper and talk. 2 Hawes Drama Group reads ‘Beyond a See p.17 Joke’. Gayle Institute, 7.30pm. 19 ‘Ronald d’Arcy Fife of Nunnington 2 St Andrew’s Church Drop in for Coffee: Hall, Soldier and Sportsman’. 10.00am ‘till noon, at The Rambles, 7.30pm. DCM Friends lecture Thornton Rust. 663626 20 “Missing Time” live in the Fountain 3 Muker Show, 10.00am to 5.30pm Hotel, Hawes 3 Church Coffee Club: 10.30am to noon 20 W.I. Show in the Market House, at Gordon Lodge, Redmire. 624171 Hawes 4 Guided walk: Falls, Freeholders and 21 West Burton Methodist Church Flagstones; Meet Aysgarth Falls N. Harvest 10.45am Pk. Centre, 1.15pm 21 Songs off Praise: 6.30pm with the 4,11 ‘Seeing is believing’ events: Askrigg Singing Group Tennants. See p.26 21 Table Top sale for Hawes Primary 5 Great North Air Ambulance clothes School in the Market House collection. See p.23 22 Upper Dales Health Watch Open 5,15,16,29,30 Annual Special Sheep Session. Yorebridge. 6.30 to 8.30pm shows and sales: Hawes Auction 23 Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, Mart. See p.18 Supporter Lunch at Tennants. 6 NSPCC Coffee morning in Aysgarth. See p.17 See p.14 24 Family History Group. 7.30pm. Mystery Picture. 6 Coffee Morning and Bell Ringing in St See p.10 Last month's was looking upstream from the top of Redmire Force on the river Ure. Oswald’s Askrigg. See p.3 26 Bolton Castle Medieval Banquet; 7 Moorcock Show. See p.7 7.30pm. 623981 See p.27 7 Working Barn Engines event. See p.24 26 Macmillan Biggest Coffee Morning: 7 Gayle Mill demonstration tours. Gayle Institute. See p.14 Upper Dales Healthwatch The Worlds Biggest 11.00am or 2.30pm. Admission for 26 Young Voices Concert for St Open session Coffee Morning two-hour tour £12. Children free. Margaret’s Church restoration. Dr Jones has invited all patients to meet In aid of Macmillan Cancer Support Booking advisable: 667320 See p.3 him and the new Practice Manager, Lynn Gayle Institute 7 Marsett Methodist Church Harvest 27 Macmillan Biggest Coffee Morning, Irwin at an Open Meeting on Monday 2.00pm Thoralby. See p.22 22nd September at the Yorebridge Com- Friday 26th September 8 Yoga classes re-start. See p.9 27 Middleham and Dales Local History from 9.00am ‘till noon munity and Sports Centre in Askrigg. Pa- 9 YDNPA Planning Committee: Group: Free entry open day. Donations of cakes appreciated tients are welcome to drop in any time be- Yoredale, Bainbridge. 1.00pm See p.13 phone Natasha on 667630 tween 6.30 - 8.30pm. The Central Dales 10 “From Farms to Arms”. Illustrated talk, 28 Gayle Methodist Church Harvest. Practice would welcome any suggestions to Thornton Rust. See p.24 2.00pm help the Practice offer the best possible Coffee In Aysgarth 13 Coffee morning; Thornton Rust. service to patients. Lynn is happy to dem- You are invited to a See p.14 onstrate SystemOnline to anyone interested Coffee Morning at Jean Cockburn’s 13 Carperby Village Show on Saturday September 6th Amala in using this for repeat prescriptions or for 13 Ride and Stride big sponsor day. Treasurer Needed checking appointments. Please can you from 10.00 to 11.30am. See p.6 Proceeds for NSPCC very kindly publicise this event and en- 13,14 Aysgarth Station Rural Crafts The Amala Children's Home and School, the courage all those with something to say to Weekend 10.00am to 4.00pm. Coffee Morning charity well known and supported by Wensley- come. See p.11 dale families, is looking for a Treasurer. Tea and Coffee will be available. Thornton Rust Village Institute 13,14 HERITAGE OPEN DAYS The Committee meet just three times a year Jane Ritchie, Saturday September 13th 14 Hardraw Scar Band Contest. See p.5 and the role of Treasurer is well supported by Hon. Secretary 10.00am to noon 14 Aysgarth Methodist Church Harvest. Admission £2.00; all welcome the Chairman and Trustees. 663385 6.30pm: Songs of Praise For more information please contact Mark 14 Hawes United Football Club, annual Ashcroft c/o The Wensleydale School or sponsored walk. See p.8 Vanda Hurn c/o Bainbridge Vets, 650263

14 14 What’s On 14 Gayle Mill blacksmithing course. See p.16 September 17 Hawes Art Group restarts. See p.10 To Sept. 21st—’Seeing is Believing: 17 Hawes Gala AGM. 7.00pm. See p.3 Tennants Auction Centre. See p.26 19 Stalling Busk Harvest Supper and talk. 2 Hawes Drama Group reads ‘Beyond a See p.17 Joke’. Gayle Institute, 7.30pm. 19 ‘Ronald d’Arcy Fife of Nunnington 2 St Andrew’s Church Drop in for Coffee: Hall, Soldier and Sportsman’. 10.00am ‘till noon, at The Rambles, 7.30pm. DCM Friends lecture Thornton Rust. 663626 20 “Missing Time” live in the Fountain 3 Muker Show, 10.00am to 5.30pm Hotel, Hawes 3 Church Coffee Club: 10.30am to noon 20 W.I. Show in the Market House, at Gordon Lodge, Redmire. 624171 Hawes 4 Guided walk: Falls, Freeholders and 21 West Burton Methodist Church Flagstones; Meet Aysgarth Falls N. Harvest 10.45am Pk. Centre, 1.15pm 21 Songs off Praise: 6.30pm with the 4,11 ‘Seeing is believing’ events: Askrigg Singing Group Tennants. See p.26 21 Table Top sale for Hawes Primary 5 Great North Air Ambulance clothes School in the Market House collection. See p.23 22 Upper Dales Health Watch Open 5,15,16,29,30 Annual Special Sheep Session. Yorebridge. 6.30 to 8.30pm shows and sales: Hawes Auction 23 Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust, Mart. See p.18 Supporter Lunch at Tennants. 6 NSPCC Coffee morning in Aysgarth. See p.17 See p.14 24 Family History Group. 7.30pm. Mystery Picture. 6 Coffee Morning and Bell Ringing in St See p.10 Last month's was looking upstream from the top of Redmire Force on the river Ure. Oswald’s Askrigg. See p.3 26 Bolton Castle Medieval Banquet; 7 Moorcock Show. See p.7 7.30pm. 623981 See p.27 7 Working Barn Engines event. See p.24 26 Macmillan Biggest Coffee Morning: 7 Gayle Mill demonstration tours. Gayle Institute. See p.14 Upper Dales Healthwatch The Worlds Biggest 11.00am or 2.30pm. Admission for 26 Young Voices Concert for St Open session Coffee Morning two-hour tour £12. Children free. Margaret’s Church restoration. Dr Jones has invited all patients to meet In aid of Macmillan Cancer Support Booking advisable: 667320 See p.3 him and the new Practice Manager, Lynn Gayle Institute 7 Marsett Methodist Church Harvest 27 Macmillan Biggest Coffee Morning, Irwin at an Open Meeting on Monday 2.00pm Thoralby. See p.22 22nd September at the Yorebridge Com- Friday 26th September 8 Yoga classes re-start. See p.9 27 Middleham and Dales Local History from 9.00am ‘till noon munity and Sports Centre in Askrigg. Pa- 9 YDNPA Planning Committee: Group: Free entry open day. Donations of cakes appreciated tients are welcome to drop in any time be- Yoredale, Bainbridge. 1.00pm See p.13 phone Natasha on 667630 tween 6.30 - 8.30pm. The Central Dales 10 “From Farms to Arms”. Illustrated talk, 28 Gayle Methodist Church Harvest. Practice would welcome any suggestions to Thornton Rust. See p.24 2.00pm help the Practice offer the best possible Coffee In Aysgarth 13 Coffee morning; Thornton Rust. service to patients. Lynn is happy to dem- You are invited to a See p.14 onstrate SystemOnline to anyone interested Coffee Morning at Jean Cockburn’s 13 Carperby Village Show on Saturday September 6th Amala in using this for repeat prescriptions or for 13 Ride and Stride big sponsor day. Treasurer Needed checking appointments. Please can you from 10.00 to 11.30am. See p.6 Proceeds for NSPCC very kindly publicise this event and en- 13,14 Aysgarth Station Rural Crafts The Amala Children's Home and School, the courage all those with something to say to Weekend 10.00am to 4.00pm. Coffee Morning charity well known and supported by Wensley- come. See p.11 dale families, is looking for a Treasurer. Tea and Coffee will be available. Thornton Rust Village Institute 13,14 HERITAGE OPEN DAYS The Committee meet just three times a year Jane Ritchie, Saturday September 13th 14 Hardraw Scar Band Contest. See p.5 and the role of Treasurer is well supported by Hon. Secretary 10.00am to noon 14 Aysgarth Methodist Church Harvest. Admission £2.00; all welcome the Chairman and Trustees. 663385 6.30pm: Songs of Praise For more information please contact Mark 14 Hawes United Football Club, annual Ashcroft c/o The Wensleydale School or sponsored walk. See p.8 Vanda Hurn c/o Bainbridge Vets, 650263

15 15 Doctors’ Rotas Supplied by the Health Centre Heavens Above messengers of Poseidon, the Sea God, and this particular one is credited with rescuing the ummer, alas, is nearly over! After the poet and musician Arion from drowning. equinox on September 23rd the nights Look out for the Harvest Moon this month. AYSGARTH SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning HAWES SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning become longer than the days and S It's the Full Moon nearest the autumn equinox Autumn, with its damp, unsettled weather, and falls on September 9th this year. Normally officially returns. There's a seasonal change Wb Sep 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th the Moon rises roughly 50 minutes later each Wb Sep 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th in the evening sky too. The three bright Day am pm am pm am pm am pm am pm night but around the time of the equinox its Day am pm am pm am pm am pm am pm Summer Triangle stars – Vega, Deneb, and Mon BW BW F F FB FB FJ FJ JB JB path is almost parallel to the horizon and as a Mon FJ FJ B B W W BW BW WF WF Altair - Tues J JF B B W W BW BW WF WF consequence the night-to-night difference is Tues BW BW F F B B FJ FJ J J t h o u g h Wed J J F F B B F F B B only about 30 minutes. As a result the Moon Wed F F B B F F J J F F still high Thur B B B B F F B B J J rises just after sunset for several nights in a Thur J J W W B B F F B B in the Fri F F W W J J J J F F row - a great boon to farmers at harvest time Fri B B F F F F B B J J s o u t h - in days gone by allowing them to work much w e s t , Doctors, B-Brown, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed Doctors: B-Brown, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed later into the evening. October's Full Moon are al- Morning Surgery: 9.00 - 10.30 am no appointments Morning Surgery: 8.45-10.15am Tues till 10.45 no appts for similar reasons is often called the Hunter's r e a d y Afternoon Surgery: 4.00 - 5.30 pm appointment only Afternoon Surgery: 5- 6.00pm Tues 1.30-4.00 appts only Moon. Have clear skies! slipping For appointments and all enquiries ring 663222 For appointments and all enquiries ring 667200 Al Bireo westwards making way for the autumnal star DCM What’s On and sportsman. As part of the patterns coming in from the east. By the friends of the museum lecture middle of the evening towards the end of the programme. £2. month Autumn's main constellation, Pegasus YDMT Supporter Lunch 28 Pathfinder course: Advanced. the Winged Horse, is well up in the south - Tennants, Leyburn Exhibitions: 10.00am to 4.30pm. Yorkshire Dales Journeys: the four stars forming its famous Square are Tuesday September 23rd from 10.00am £10 Booking required unmistakable. Beneath the Square the sky is An exhibition celebrating the 60th October filled by the large, dim constellations of the The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust is anniversary of the YDNP and the jour- 5 Join us to celebrate UK 'Celestial Water' – Pisces the Fishes, Aquarius holding this open event with a free lunch for ney of the Tour de France 2014 through Grandparents Day the Water-bearer, Cetus the Whale, and the all supporters to enable them to hear what the the Dales until the end of September. 7 7.30pm Lippy Logic presents an Sea-goat Capricornus. In the northern sky Trust has achieved as a result of legacies and evening of comedy and drama in The Textile Art Pool are displaying and Capella is gaining altitude in the east as Vega donations. There will also be an opportunity aid of St Margaret’s Church. sinks towards the west. Arcturus - so selling patchwork, quilting and Tickets £8 from the Sweet Shop to find out more about the auction house and embroidery. “All Sorts in Stitch” is in the prominent during the spring and summer browse the exhibitions in the afternoon. or Whites of Wensleydale. months - has almost faded away into the Waiting Room. See p.6 September evening twilight. The Plough is at its lowest right on the 4 YDNPA Walk– Falls, Freeholders YDNPA Walks. All walks cost £3 per Do You Like to Sing? northern horizon and the 'W' of Cassiopeia and Flagstones. adult, children under 16 free. Check almost overhead. Late evening sees the Askrigg Ladies Sing for Pleasure meet sec- 6 Sausage Making: 10.00am to noon with DCM for booking. beautiful Pleiades star cluster climbs into view ond and fourth Mondays in the back room of and 1.30 to 3.30pm. Make your For further information on any activity- in the north-east – a sure sign that the year's Askrigg Village Hall, 7.30 to 8.30pm. very own sausages from local phone 666210 produce. £10. Booking required on the turn. All ladies are welcome; we are not a choir 7 YDNPA Walk – Kisdon Classic Early Autumn is a good time to try and pick but a group of thirty jolly ladies who love Circular walk 6.5 miles1.15pm at out a less well-known constellation with music. No experience is necessary, no need to the Farmers Arms, Muker Gayle Mill watery connotations, Delphinus the Dolphin. read music. Just come along. 13,14 Heritage Open Days. 10.00am Sunday September 14th 10.30am to You'll find it just to the left of Altair, the For more information: Diana Hartley 650245 to 5.00pm. Free entry to the 4.30pm bottom-most star of the Summer Triangle. It Museum for everyone as we An introduction to and advanced looks a bit like one of these newfangled celebrate national annual blacksmithing course pennants on bendy supports that seem to be Heritage Open Days. £85 including lunch and materials everywhere these days. The four stars Stalling Busk Schoolroom 19 Steve Erskine: Ronald D’arcy Booking essential: 667320 or outlining the creature’s body form a distinct Harvest Supper Fife of Nunnington Hall, soldier www.gaylemill.org.uk diamond shape popularly known as Job's Cof- Friday September 19th , 7.30pm fin though nobody seems to know why. In Slide show by Bryan Peacock Greek mythology dolphins were seen as All welcome

16 16 Doctors’ Rotas Supplied by the Health Centre Heavens Above messengers of Poseidon, the Sea God, and this particular one is credited with rescuing the ummer, alas, is nearly over! After the poet and musician Arion from drowning. equinox on September 23rd the nights Look out for the Harvest Moon this month. AYSGARTH SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning HAWES SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning become longer than the days and S It's the Full Moon nearest the autumn equinox Autumn, with its damp, unsettled weather, and falls on September 9th this year. Normally officially returns. There's a seasonal change Wb Sep 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th the Moon rises roughly 50 minutes later each Wb Sep 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th in the evening sky too. The three bright Day am pm am pm am pm am pm am pm night but around the time of the equinox its Day am pm am pm am pm am pm am pm Summer Triangle stars – Vega, Deneb, and Mon BW BW F F FB FB FJ FJ JB JB path is almost parallel to the horizon and as a Mon FJ FJ B B W W BW BW WF WF Altair - Tues J JF B B W W BW BW WF WF consequence the night-to-night difference is Tues BW BW F F B B FJ FJ J J t h o u g h Wed J J F F B B F F B B only about 30 minutes. As a result the Moon Wed F F B B F F J J F F still high Thur B B B B F F B B J J rises just after sunset for several nights in a Thur J J W W B B F F B B in the Fri F F W W J J J J F F row - a great boon to farmers at harvest time Fri B B F F F F B B J J s o u t h - in days gone by allowing them to work much w e s t , Doctors, B-Brown, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed Doctors: B-Brown, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed later into the evening. October's Full Moon are al- Morning Surgery: 9.00 - 10.30 am no appointments Morning Surgery: 8.45-10.15am Tues till 10.45 no appts for similar reasons is often called the Hunter's r e a d y Afternoon Surgery: 4.00 - 5.30 pm appointment only Afternoon Surgery: 5- 6.00pm Tues 1.30-4.00 appts only Moon. Have clear skies! slipping For appointments and all enquiries ring 663222 For appointments and all enquiries ring 667200 Al Bireo westwards making way for the autumnal star DCM What’s On and sportsman. As part of the patterns coming in from the east. By the friends of the museum lecture middle of the evening towards the end of the programme. £2. month Autumn's main constellation, Pegasus YDMT Supporter Lunch 28 Pathfinder course: Advanced. the Winged Horse, is well up in the south - Tennants, Leyburn Exhibitions: 10.00am to 4.30pm. Yorkshire Dales Journeys: the four stars forming its famous Square are Tuesday September 23rd from 10.00am £10 Booking required unmistakable. Beneath the Square the sky is An exhibition celebrating the 60th October filled by the large, dim constellations of the The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust is anniversary of the YDNP and the jour- 5 Join us to celebrate UK 'Celestial Water' – Pisces the Fishes, Aquarius holding this open event with a free lunch for ney of the Tour de France 2014 through Grandparents Day the Water-bearer, Cetus the Whale, and the all supporters to enable them to hear what the the Dales until the end of September. 7 7.30pm Lippy Logic presents an Sea-goat Capricornus. In the northern sky Trust has achieved as a result of legacies and evening of comedy and drama in The Textile Art Pool are displaying and Capella is gaining altitude in the east as Vega donations. There will also be an opportunity aid of St Margaret’s Church. sinks towards the west. Arcturus - so selling patchwork, quilting and Tickets £8 from the Sweet Shop to find out more about the auction house and embroidery. “All Sorts in Stitch” is in the prominent during the spring and summer browse the exhibitions in the afternoon. or Whites of Wensleydale. months - has almost faded away into the Waiting Room. See p.6 September evening twilight. The Plough is at its lowest right on the 4 YDNPA Walk– Falls, Freeholders YDNPA Walks. All walks cost £3 per Do You Like to Sing? northern horizon and the 'W' of Cassiopeia and Flagstones. adult, children under 16 free. Check almost overhead. Late evening sees the Askrigg Ladies Sing for Pleasure meet sec- 6 Sausage Making: 10.00am to noon with DCM for booking. beautiful Pleiades star cluster climbs into view ond and fourth Mondays in the back room of and 1.30 to 3.30pm. Make your For further information on any activity- in the north-east – a sure sign that the year's Askrigg Village Hall, 7.30 to 8.30pm. very own sausages from local phone 666210 produce. £10. Booking required on the turn. All ladies are welcome; we are not a choir 7 YDNPA Walk – Kisdon Classic Early Autumn is a good time to try and pick but a group of thirty jolly ladies who love Circular walk 6.5 miles1.15pm at out a less well-known constellation with music. No experience is necessary, no need to the Farmers Arms, Muker Gayle Mill watery connotations, Delphinus the Dolphin. read music. Just come along. 13,14 Heritage Open Days. 10.00am Sunday September 14th 10.30am to You'll find it just to the left of Altair, the For more information: Diana Hartley 650245 to 5.00pm. Free entry to the 4.30pm bottom-most star of the Summer Triangle. It Museum for everyone as we An introduction to and advanced looks a bit like one of these newfangled celebrate national annual blacksmithing course pennants on bendy supports that seem to be Heritage Open Days. £85 including lunch and materials everywhere these days. The four stars Stalling Busk Schoolroom 19 Steve Erskine: Ronald D’arcy Booking essential: 667320 or outlining the creature’s body form a distinct Harvest Supper Fife of Nunnington Hall, soldier www.gaylemill.org.uk diamond shape popularly known as Job's Cof- Friday September 19th , 7.30pm fin though nobody seems to know why. In Slide show by Bryan Peacock Greek mythology dolphins were seen as All welcome

17 17 In Praise of Aprons Hawes Auction Mart Police Report A male was using his mobile telephone I don't think our kids know what an apron is. 2014 Special Sheep Sales when two females aged around 15 to 16, s I am writing this the final bank The principal use of Grandma's apron was to one with dark hair and one with long Each autumn, in addition to the normal ac- holiday of the year (prior to Christ- protect the dress underneath because she blonde hair, went past him and stole his tivities of the mart, Hawes Auction Mart mas that is) is fast approaching only had a few. It was also because it was holds a number of very large sheep sales. A phone out of his hands. As it happened which means summer is almost over! It easier to wash aprons than dresses and early evening, sometime around 6.30 to These are attended by dealers and farmers seems to have flown by this year and aprons used less material. But along with 7.00pm, I suspect that there will have been from all quarters of the country and are of weather-wise I do not think we can com- that, it served as a potholder for removing numerous witnesses. If you saw this please major economic importance to the Upper plain too much. hot pans from the oven. get in touch. I am wondering if this was Dale. The dates of the September sales (and Local crimes over the last month have It was wonderful for drying children's done as a bit of a prank and if you were early October) are detailed below. mainly been break-ins to sheds and out- tears, and on occasion was even used for involved it would assist your case if you buildings. The offenders have been looking cleaning out dirty ears. came forward and owned up. Friday 5th September for powered garden equipment, tools and From the chicken coop, the apron was Andy Foster PC826 Catalogued Show and Sale machine tools. At least one such crime was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and Leyburn Safer Neighbourhood Team Of 2,500 Store Lambs. to an insecure shed. Please get sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished Safer Neighbourhood Police Officer Sale at 10.00am “sheducated” (yes it’s a “buzz” word) and in the warming oven. for Upper Wensleydale fit good quality hasps and padlocks, or When company came, those aprons were Tel. 101 Monday and Tuesday mortise locks to your outbuildings. It is no ideal hiding places for shy kids.; and when SNTLey- 15th and 16th September good storing hundreds if not thousands of the weather was cold Grandma wrapped it [email protected] Great Annual Two Day Show and Sale of pounds of equipment in your shed if is se- around her arms. 32,000 Mule Gimmer Lambs. On behalf of cured by only a thrupence ha’penny lock Those big old aprons wiped many a per- the North of England Mule Sheep As- and hasp. Even better fit a shed alarm as spiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. sociation. well. They can be purchased from DIY British Humour is Different Chips and kindling wood were brought into Judging 8.00am. Sale at 9.00am each day. stores for around the same price as a decent the kitchen in that apron. These are classified ads which were padlock. From the garden, it carried all sorts of actually placed in U.K. Newspapers: Monday 29th September We keep getting sporadic thefts of dogs vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, 15,000 Mule, Masham and within the dales. This time it happened in it carried out the hulls. FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER Continental X Gimmer Lambs and Swaledale where two trained working dogs In autumn, the apron was used to bring in 8 years old, Hateful little bastard. Bites! Shearlings. were stolen. For those of you who have apples that had fallen from the trees. Sale at 9.00am followed by trained working dogs just be wary of those When unexpected company drove up the FREE PUPPIES a Catalogued Sale of Store Lambs. who seem to be paying unusual interest in road, it was surprising how much furniture your animals when you are attending 1/2 Cocker Spaniel, that old apron could dust in a matter of sec- Tuesday 30th September events. 1/2 sneaky neighbour's dog onds. 3,000 Crossed Swaledale and Dalesbred Although Upper Wensleydale has not had When dinner was ready, Grandma walked Ewes. Sale at Noon. a quad bike stolen for several months now JOINING NUDIST COLONY! out on to the porch, waved her apron, and (touch wood) please do not become com- Must sell washer and dryer £100. the men folk knew it was time to come in 300 Registered and Unregistered Bluefaced placent. We are conducting active patrols to from the fields to dinner. Leicester, Suffolk, Texel, Beltex and North try and keep this crime to a minimum but WEDDING DRESS FOR SALE It will be a long time before someone in- Country Cheviot Rams and Ram Lambs at one machine was stolen in Upper Swale- vents something that will replace that 'old- Worn once by mistake. 1.00pm dale in the last month. This has been recov- time apron' that served so many pur- Call Stephanie ered in the Peterlee area and three males poses. Thursday 2nd October were arrested. However the areas around Grandma used to put her hot baked apple And the WINNER is... Prize Show and Sale of 1,000 Registered Northallerton and Thirsk have been hit for pies on the window sill to cool. Her grand- Bluefaced Leicester Rams, Ram Lambs and this type of crime and it continues apace daughters put theirs on the window sill to FOR SALE BY OWNER Females for the Bluefaced Leicester Sheep elsewhere. It is only a matter of time before thaw. They would go crazy now trying to Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica, Breeders Association. they start targeting our patch again so figure out how many germs were on that 45 volumes. Excellent condition Judging 7.15am. Sale at 9.00am. please keep them safely locked away when apron!. £200 or best offer. not in use and don’t leave the keys in them. I don't think I ever caught anything from an No longer needed, got married, A strange occurrence happened in Hawes apron - but love. wife knows everything Market Place on Sunday the 17th August.

18 18 In Praise of Aprons Hawes Auction Mart Police Report A male was using his mobile telephone I don't think our kids know what an apron is. 2014 Special Sheep Sales when two females aged around 15 to 16, s I am writing this the final bank The principal use of Grandma's apron was to one with dark hair and one with long Each autumn, in addition to the normal ac- holiday of the year (prior to Christ- protect the dress underneath because she blonde hair, went past him and stole his tivities of the mart, Hawes Auction Mart mas that is) is fast approaching only had a few. It was also because it was holds a number of very large sheep sales. A phone out of his hands. As it happened which means summer is almost over! It easier to wash aprons than dresses and early evening, sometime around 6.30 to These are attended by dealers and farmers seems to have flown by this year and aprons used less material. But along with 7.00pm, I suspect that there will have been from all quarters of the country and are of weather-wise I do not think we can com- that, it served as a potholder for removing numerous witnesses. If you saw this please major economic importance to the Upper plain too much. hot pans from the oven. get in touch. I am wondering if this was Dale. The dates of the September sales (and Local crimes over the last month have It was wonderful for drying children's done as a bit of a prank and if you were early October) are detailed below. mainly been break-ins to sheds and out- tears, and on occasion was even used for involved it would assist your case if you buildings. The offenders have been looking cleaning out dirty ears. came forward and owned up. Friday 5th September for powered garden equipment, tools and From the chicken coop, the apron was Andy Foster PC826 Catalogued Show and Sale machine tools. At least one such crime was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and Leyburn Safer Neighbourhood Team Of 2,500 Store Lambs. to an insecure shed. Please get sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished Safer Neighbourhood Police Officer Sale at 10.00am “sheducated” (yes it’s a “buzz” word) and in the warming oven. for Upper Wensleydale fit good quality hasps and padlocks, or When company came, those aprons were Tel. 101 Monday and Tuesday mortise locks to your outbuildings. It is no ideal hiding places for shy kids.; and when SNTLey- 15th and 16th September good storing hundreds if not thousands of the weather was cold Grandma wrapped it [email protected] Great Annual Two Day Show and Sale of pounds of equipment in your shed if is se- around her arms. 32,000 Mule Gimmer Lambs. On behalf of cured by only a thrupence ha’penny lock Those big old aprons wiped many a per- the North of England Mule Sheep As- and hasp. Even better fit a shed alarm as spiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove. sociation. well. They can be purchased from DIY British Humour is Different Chips and kindling wood were brought into Judging 8.00am. Sale at 9.00am each day. stores for around the same price as a decent the kitchen in that apron. These are classified ads which were padlock. From the garden, it carried all sorts of actually placed in U.K. Newspapers: Monday 29th September We keep getting sporadic thefts of dogs vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, 15,000 Mule, Masham and within the dales. This time it happened in it carried out the hulls. FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER Continental X Gimmer Lambs and Swaledale where two trained working dogs In autumn, the apron was used to bring in 8 years old, Hateful little bastard. Bites! Shearlings. were stolen. For those of you who have apples that had fallen from the trees. Sale at 9.00am followed by trained working dogs just be wary of those When unexpected company drove up the FREE PUPPIES a Catalogued Sale of Store Lambs. who seem to be paying unusual interest in road, it was surprising how much furniture your animals when you are attending 1/2 Cocker Spaniel, that old apron could dust in a matter of sec- Tuesday 30th September events. 1/2 sneaky neighbour's dog onds. 3,000 Crossed Swaledale and Dalesbred Although Upper Wensleydale has not had When dinner was ready, Grandma walked Ewes. Sale at Noon. a quad bike stolen for several months now JOINING NUDIST COLONY! out on to the porch, waved her apron, and (touch wood) please do not become com- Must sell washer and dryer £100. the men folk knew it was time to come in 300 Registered and Unregistered Bluefaced placent. We are conducting active patrols to from the fields to dinner. Leicester, Suffolk, Texel, Beltex and North try and keep this crime to a minimum but WEDDING DRESS FOR SALE It will be a long time before someone in- Country Cheviot Rams and Ram Lambs at one machine was stolen in Upper Swale- vents something that will replace that 'old- Worn once by mistake. 1.00pm dale in the last month. This has been recov- time apron' that served so many pur- Call Stephanie ered in the Peterlee area and three males poses. Thursday 2nd October were arrested. However the areas around Grandma used to put her hot baked apple And the WINNER is... Prize Show and Sale of 1,000 Registered Northallerton and Thirsk have been hit for pies on the window sill to cool. Her grand- Bluefaced Leicester Rams, Ram Lambs and this type of crime and it continues apace daughters put theirs on the window sill to FOR SALE BY OWNER Females for the Bluefaced Leicester Sheep elsewhere. It is only a matter of time before thaw. They would go crazy now trying to Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica, Breeders Association. they start targeting our patch again so figure out how many germs were on that 45 volumes. Excellent condition Judging 7.15am. Sale at 9.00am. please keep them safely locked away when apron!. £200 or best offer. not in use and don’t leave the keys in them. I don't think I ever caught anything from an No longer needed, got married, A strange occurrence happened in Hawes apron - but love. wife knows everything Market Place on Sunday the 17th August.

19 19 Prunings growth and hang the stems upside down in BAWB School Collaboration for the afternoon for those who wish to A personal take on Plants, Propagating and paper bags in a warm airy place. They don’t extend their childcare/nursery session. If take very long and must be stored in airtight eptember will see another other related rural ramblings. you are interested in registering your child jars out of the light. This method works well development in the he weather breaks with wind and rain for the nursery, or would like to come and for lots of easy to grow herbs, but I usually Askrigg/Bainbridge Schools and we look back with regret, feeling S visit, please contact the school. as if we have had months of Summer; store some in the freezer as well because that Collaboration. West Burton School will be In addition to all these changes, we are T way I can retain colour. Parsley works joining the collaboration, under the is it all over? Not so, the chances are there delighted to be able to offer breakfast and particularly well by this method. I chop the leadership of Executive Head Teacher, will be more warm sunshine. after school clubs for the children at their leaves, pack them into ice cube trays, top up Charlotte Harper. However, West Burton home school. The breakfast club operates with a drop of water and freeze. When solid I will be a 'stand alone' school in the from 8.00am in the morning and is take them out of the trays and keep in sealed collaboration whilst Askrigg and available to all children, including plastic bags to stop them drying out. One of Bainbridge are going to launch into a new nursery. Transport can then be provided to my favourite veg. dishes is broad beans with arrangement sharing sites. their teaching school, where appropriate for lots of home-made fresh green parsley sauce. Children will continue to be registered at the start of morning lessons. A range of In the winter months the frozen parsley has the school of their choice, but nursery and after schools clubs will launch this term much better flavour than the supermarket infant children from both schools will be and details will be issued in due course, but variety which has been grown under glass. taught on the Bainbridge site and the junior will include photography, sports and a Herb butter is another storage method which children will be taught on the Askrigg church themed club. freezes well, and of course Dill and site. This will involve registration at their Lots of change, but hopefully better Coriander will have lots of seeds which keep 'home' schools and then a short journey by provision for our children. Please contact in airtight jars. bus between the schools. At the end of the A plethora of jobs present themselves in the school if you would like to come along I have been considering colour for next day, the children will all be returned to late summer. For someone like me who will and have a look. year: Rudbeckia Goldsturm is always their home school to take part in daily always prefer to sit and soak up the scents K.P wonderful, and reliable enough to grow from collective worship and celebration and the colour, there will have to be a seed. However, be warned, rabbits love them. assembly. There will be termly days when modicum of selection as I always run out of I once had dozens of small plants children from all three schools will get time. I have started on some grasses. I want overwintering in the polytunnel, and the together for a BAWB activity day as they Wensleydale Railway more plants, but not absolutely everywhere. rabbits got in when my back was turned. have for the past few years. There will also ANOTHER PEAK SEASON My solution is to dig up a favourite, cut off They even emptied the pots to get at the be visits and activities at the 'home' school the seed heads before the wind has Efforts with Bittern, Tour de France and roots! Adequate preventative measures are to ensure that each school can maintain its distributed them too widely, and then split the Diesel Gala (our best ever) have called for. own identity. the plants with a sharp knife. Health and resulted in a stunning profit of well over Some years ago I bought a Hydrangea from During the summer holidays a lot of work Safety borne in mind, I keep an old kitchen £20k, an excellent contribution and another Levens Hall Garden in Cumbria. It didn’t has been undertaken at Bainbridge School knife, (quite a big one as I have purchased step in improving our finances. It remains look much at the time, but I have kept it in a to refurbish and re-develop the better quality equipment over the years). It only a step, but it does mean we are large tub and this year it has rewarded me nursery. There is now a modern, up-to-date lives, well sharpened, in a cardboard sheath, moving slowly in the right direction. Thank with wonderful panicles of lilac flowers. Oh facility offering the best of current facilities and I always wear strong leather gloves when you all once again for your hard work on how I wish I could still find the label. On the and equipment for the children. using it. It remains the best way I know to these events. other hand – time to try some cuttings! Staff have been working with experts slice through congested root balls. Lots of There is more big news in that work on Good luck! And whatever you grow, take from 'Early Excellence' who are specialists perennial plants benefit from division, the halt at Northallerton West is now time to enjoy it. in the field of early years education and although many are better left until spring underway. I am very pleased to announce Rose Rambler. now have the environment and facilities to that John Graham, who masterminded the when the new growth appears. Grasses, provide the children with a superb range of design and planning stage, has agreed to however need to be done whilst they are still learning experiences. Nursery sessions will return to coordinate the build, ably assisted growing strongly. Simply chop them up, run five mornings a week and there is also by Phil Smith and Frank Clough. replant what you want, pot up the rest, water Great British an optional charged lunch hour service of- Planning is well advanced and work on well and keep in a sheltered place until you High Street Award fering play and lunch to nursery aged site has already started. Work is also going decide where to put them, or who to give Hawes has put in a bid for this award, children. We are delighted that there will ahead to provide more diesel multiple units them to! following the huge positive feedback fol- also be a bus service running between (DMUs) to allow for the service from It’s an excellent time just now to dry herbs lowing the town’s efforts during the prepara- Bainbridge School and Dalesplay in Hawes Leeming to Northallerton. from the garden. They will soon start to lose tions for the Tour de France. quality and flavour, so pick young fresh The application is to be based on Le Tour.

20 20 Prunings growth and hang the stems upside down in BAWB School Collaboration for the afternoon for those who wish to A personal take on Plants, Propagating and paper bags in a warm airy place. They don’t extend their childcare/nursery session. If take very long and must be stored in airtight eptember will see another other related rural ramblings. you are interested in registering your child jars out of the light. This method works well development in the he weather breaks with wind and rain for the nursery, or would like to come and for lots of easy to grow herbs, but I usually Askrigg/Bainbridge Schools and we look back with regret, feeling S visit, please contact the school. as if we have had months of Summer; store some in the freezer as well because that Collaboration. West Burton School will be In addition to all these changes, we are T way I can retain colour. Parsley works joining the collaboration, under the is it all over? Not so, the chances are there delighted to be able to offer breakfast and particularly well by this method. I chop the leadership of Executive Head Teacher, will be more warm sunshine. after school clubs for the children at their leaves, pack them into ice cube trays, top up Charlotte Harper. However, West Burton home school. The breakfast club operates with a drop of water and freeze. When solid I will be a 'stand alone' school in the from 8.00am in the morning and is take them out of the trays and keep in sealed collaboration whilst Askrigg and available to all children, including plastic bags to stop them drying out. One of Bainbridge are going to launch into a new nursery. Transport can then be provided to my favourite veg. dishes is broad beans with arrangement sharing sites. their teaching school, where appropriate for lots of home-made fresh green parsley sauce. Children will continue to be registered at the start of morning lessons. A range of In the winter months the frozen parsley has the school of their choice, but nursery and after schools clubs will launch this term much better flavour than the supermarket infant children from both schools will be and details will be issued in due course, but variety which has been grown under glass. taught on the Bainbridge site and the junior will include photography, sports and a Herb butter is another storage method which children will be taught on the Askrigg church themed club. freezes well, and of course Dill and site. This will involve registration at their Lots of change, but hopefully better Coriander will have lots of seeds which keep 'home' schools and then a short journey by provision for our children. Please contact in airtight jars. bus between the schools. At the end of the A plethora of jobs present themselves in the school if you would like to come along I have been considering colour for next day, the children will all be returned to late summer. For someone like me who will and have a look. year: Rudbeckia Goldsturm is always their home school to take part in daily always prefer to sit and soak up the scents K.P wonderful, and reliable enough to grow from collective worship and celebration and the colour, there will have to be a seed. However, be warned, rabbits love them. assembly. There will be termly days when modicum of selection as I always run out of I once had dozens of small plants children from all three schools will get time. I have started on some grasses. I want overwintering in the polytunnel, and the together for a BAWB activity day as they Wensleydale Railway more plants, but not absolutely everywhere. rabbits got in when my back was turned. have for the past few years. There will also ANOTHER PEAK SEASON My solution is to dig up a favourite, cut off They even emptied the pots to get at the be visits and activities at the 'home' school the seed heads before the wind has Efforts with Bittern, Tour de France and roots! Adequate preventative measures are to ensure that each school can maintain its distributed them too widely, and then split the Diesel Gala (our best ever) have called for. own identity. the plants with a sharp knife. Health and resulted in a stunning profit of well over Some years ago I bought a Hydrangea from During the summer holidays a lot of work Safety borne in mind, I keep an old kitchen £20k, an excellent contribution and another Levens Hall Garden in Cumbria. It didn’t has been undertaken at Bainbridge School knife, (quite a big one as I have purchased step in improving our finances. It remains look much at the time, but I have kept it in a to refurbish and re-develop the better quality equipment over the years). It only a step, but it does mean we are large tub and this year it has rewarded me nursery. There is now a modern, up-to-date lives, well sharpened, in a cardboard sheath, moving slowly in the right direction. Thank with wonderful panicles of lilac flowers. Oh facility offering the best of current facilities and I always wear strong leather gloves when you all once again for your hard work on how I wish I could still find the label. On the and equipment for the children. using it. It remains the best way I know to these events. other hand – time to try some cuttings! Staff have been working with experts slice through congested root balls. Lots of There is more big news in that work on Good luck! And whatever you grow, take from 'Early Excellence' who are specialists perennial plants benefit from division, the halt at Northallerton West is now time to enjoy it. in the field of early years education and although many are better left until spring underway. I am very pleased to announce Rose Rambler. now have the environment and facilities to that John Graham, who masterminded the when the new growth appears. Grasses, provide the children with a superb range of design and planning stage, has agreed to however need to be done whilst they are still learning experiences. Nursery sessions will return to coordinate the build, ably assisted growing strongly. Simply chop them up, run five mornings a week and there is also by Phil Smith and Frank Clough. replant what you want, pot up the rest, water Great British an optional charged lunch hour service of- Planning is well advanced and work on well and keep in a sheltered place until you High Street Award fering play and lunch to nursery aged site has already started. Work is also going decide where to put them, or who to give Hawes has put in a bid for this award, children. We are delighted that there will ahead to provide more diesel multiple units them to! following the huge positive feedback fol- also be a bus service running between (DMUs) to allow for the service from It’s an excellent time just now to dry herbs lowing the town’s efforts during the prepara- Bainbridge School and Dalesplay in Hawes Leeming to Northallerton. from the garden. They will soon start to lose tions for the Tour de France. quality and flavour, so pick young fresh The application is to be based on Le Tour.

21 21 What a Guy! chased after him, narrowly missing the Eighty Not Out alike. horses, upsetting quite a few judges and Some Newsletter readers may know Sue uth Guy from Warren Wood in he Newsletter has commented on a eventually managed to get him back into best through her beautiful soprano singing Marrick rears prize winning sheep - number of occasions about the the pen. By this time they were both voice. She was a member of a choir in Kent she recently won Reserve Male individuals who through voluntary R covered in horse manure and the ram was workT keep the wheels oiled for a whole and finding a good choir in Wensleydale was Champion with her North Country Cheviot so exhausted it refused to stand up when it one of her priorities when she moved up at the Yorkshire show, she also won 1st range of Upper Dales organisations and came time to enter their category! Learning here. She eventually settled on the Aysgarth place with her Ram Lamb. I was told Ruth activities. A prime example of this must be good techniques of showing does help Choral Society (now the Aysgarth Singers) may be difficult to pin down to interview Sue Foster of Hardraw. when it comes to selling sheep too, Ruth for whom she has been a soloist on and no wonder. She manages to fit in Having just celebrated her 80th birthday, said if you know how to present the breed numerous occasions over the last 20 years. showing sheep with her other jobs which Sue shows no signs of ‘slowing up’ as she well it can make all difference to the price Sue also enjoyed singing in most of the include running a sheep farm, keeping continues to pursue her wide range of at market. musicals that John Cockett directed in horses, letting a couple of holiday cottages, interests and activities. Born in Teesside, Ruth will be at all the upcoming shows, Hawes in the 1990s. hairdressing, show judging and being a Sue spent most of her childhood in the Lake Wensleydale, Reeth, Westmorland County So what does Sue do in her ’spare’ time. part time care assistant! I eventually caught District before training as a nurse in London, Show, Stokesley, Pateley Bridge, and the She walks. She developed a love of walking up with Ruth just before her shift at emigrating to Canada with her husband and last event of the showing season, the alone in the hills and dales during her Sycamore Hall in Bainbridge. then returning 3 years later with two children Masham sheep fair. So look out for Ruth childhood in the Lakes and to this day there She told me she first got into showing to live in Kent. Guy, she will be the one with a great big is rarely a day when she doesn’t climb in her when her father gave her two Jacobs sheep Here Sue had two more children and set up smile on her face, lapping up the car and set off for a 3or 4 mile hike when she was eight and she entered them her own Bookkeeping business until when atmosphere and maybe winning a few somewhere in the Upper Dales – she must into the Reeth show and amazingly won a the children left home she decided to ‘retire’ more prizes know every footpath there is! prize and has never looked back. Ruth back ‘up north’. Having spent an earlier K.J. Her 80th birthday was in July and her admits she gets a real kick out of holiday in Wensleydale she felt that this family organised a surprise party for her in competing which is very addictive. She has would be an excellent place to retire to and Hardraw with all four children and seven of been showing for over fifty years now and Aysgarth Garage Now Open! found a cottage in Hardraw in 1989. The cottage needed substantial building her ten grandchildren managing to attend. loves winning prizes, but mainly she just The fully refurbished garage, country store work undertaking and in order to ‘escape We wish her continued good health and enjoys the whole show atmosphere, and fuel forecourt is now open seven days a from the builders’ noise and clutter’ Sue hope she can continue to be such a catching up with friends and meeting new week from 7.00am to 7.00pm. The popped into Bob Tunstall’s Accountancy prominent figure in the Dale for many years people. The preparation is hard work and services on offer include grocery, snacks, offices in Hawes to see if they needed any to come. usually takes about two hours per sheep– newspapers, drinks and ice-cream. short-term help with bookkeeping. She B.M.C. clipping, washing, dipping and brushing The garage has a full up to date workshop stayed there for 10 years before finally but it’s all worth it when you proudly pin a which carries out servicing and repairs ‘retiring’ again – although she still ‘does the rosette to the pen. including diagnostic and MOT testing and books’ for one local organisation. Great North Air Ambulance Amazingly she told me that fashions there is a a tyre bay. In 1997 Sue was persuaded to become one change even in the showing world so you A DIY jet wash and vacuum facility is Clothes Collection of the two Churchwardens for the St Mary have to keep up with what the judges are open 24 hours a day all year. For further th and St John parish church which happened Friday September 5 2014 looking for. You have to learn how to clip details please telephone 663900. to be just across the road from her cottage. the wool to enhance particular features such Opening Bank Holiday Weekend, we She has held this voluntary post for 17 years Yorebridge Sport and Fitness at the as a long neck, straight back, long legs etc. wish Kathryn and Mark Oyston every – in addition to being the Church Treasurer. Wensleydale Centre, Askrigg is having a They even dip the sheep to dye the wool success in the future. The second ‘string’ to Sue’s volunteering clothes collection for the Great North Air which can go horribly wrong just before S.E.D. bow occurred about the same time when she Ambulance. show day if you get the wrong strength! We would be very grateful for any clothes, She has recently been enjoying judging agreed to become the Secretary of the Friends of the Dales Countryside Museum in shoes, bags (including suitcases), belts, the young handlers section at local shows. Macmillan Biggest towels, curtains, bed linen (not duvets or She feels it is really important that young 1996– a post she held for 8 years before be- Coffee Morning coming Chairman of ‘the Friends’ in 2004. pillows). Please bag them up and leave them farmers are encouraged to enter their outside the centre front door (next to the livestock as it’s a great way of learning 10.00 am– 1.00pm The Dales Countryside Museum is fortunate in that it is supported in both its premises blue outdoor store) from Wednesday handling skills. Things do go wrong Thoralby Village Hall September 3rd onwards up to 1pm on Friday th and staffing by the National Park but the however even for the most experienced of Saturday September 27 5th. handlers. At the Stokesley Show Ruth’s All contributions of cakes or Friends still play a vital role in helping to secure additional funding to help the Thank you for your support of this worthy ram managed to break down a hurdle and raffle prizes gratefully received cause. escape into the main show ring. She Museum fulfil its role in education and enlightenment to Dales locals and visitors Any queries just contact us on 650060 or email at [email protected]

22 22 What a Guy! chased after him, narrowly missing the Eighty Not Out alike. horses, upsetting quite a few judges and Some Newsletter readers may know Sue uth Guy from Warren Wood in he Newsletter has commented on a eventually managed to get him back into best through her beautiful soprano singing Marrick rears prize winning sheep - number of occasions about the the pen. By this time they were both voice. She was a member of a choir in Kent she recently won Reserve Male individuals who through voluntary R covered in horse manure and the ram was workT keep the wheels oiled for a whole and finding a good choir in Wensleydale was Champion with her North Country Cheviot so exhausted it refused to stand up when it one of her priorities when she moved up at the Yorkshire show, she also won 1st range of Upper Dales organisations and came time to enter their category! Learning here. She eventually settled on the Aysgarth place with her Ram Lamb. I was told Ruth activities. A prime example of this must be good techniques of showing does help Choral Society (now the Aysgarth Singers) may be difficult to pin down to interview Sue Foster of Hardraw. when it comes to selling sheep too, Ruth for whom she has been a soloist on and no wonder. She manages to fit in Having just celebrated her 80th birthday, said if you know how to present the breed numerous occasions over the last 20 years. showing sheep with her other jobs which Sue shows no signs of ‘slowing up’ as she well it can make all difference to the price Sue also enjoyed singing in most of the include running a sheep farm, keeping continues to pursue her wide range of at market. musicals that John Cockett directed in horses, letting a couple of holiday cottages, interests and activities. Born in Teesside, Ruth will be at all the upcoming shows, Hawes in the 1990s. hairdressing, show judging and being a Sue spent most of her childhood in the Lake Wensleydale, Reeth, Westmorland County So what does Sue do in her ’spare’ time. part time care assistant! I eventually caught District before training as a nurse in London, Show, Stokesley, Pateley Bridge, and the She walks. She developed a love of walking up with Ruth just before her shift at emigrating to Canada with her husband and last event of the showing season, the alone in the hills and dales during her Sycamore Hall in Bainbridge. then returning 3 years later with two children Masham sheep fair. So look out for Ruth childhood in the Lakes and to this day there She told me she first got into showing to live in Kent. Guy, she will be the one with a great big is rarely a day when she doesn’t climb in her when her father gave her two Jacobs sheep Here Sue had two more children and set up smile on her face, lapping up the car and set off for a 3or 4 mile hike when she was eight and she entered them her own Bookkeeping business until when atmosphere and maybe winning a few somewhere in the Upper Dales – she must into the Reeth show and amazingly won a the children left home she decided to ‘retire’ more prizes know every footpath there is! prize and has never looked back. Ruth back ‘up north’. Having spent an earlier K.J. Her 80th birthday was in July and her admits she gets a real kick out of holiday in Wensleydale she felt that this family organised a surprise party for her in competing which is very addictive. She has would be an excellent place to retire to and Hardraw with all four children and seven of been showing for over fifty years now and Aysgarth Garage Now Open! found a cottage in Hardraw in 1989. The cottage needed substantial building her ten grandchildren managing to attend. loves winning prizes, but mainly she just The fully refurbished garage, country store work undertaking and in order to ‘escape We wish her continued good health and enjoys the whole show atmosphere, and fuel forecourt is now open seven days a from the builders’ noise and clutter’ Sue hope she can continue to be such a catching up with friends and meeting new week from 7.00am to 7.00pm. The popped into Bob Tunstall’s Accountancy prominent figure in the Dale for many years people. The preparation is hard work and services on offer include grocery, snacks, offices in Hawes to see if they needed any to come. usually takes about two hours per sheep– newspapers, drinks and ice-cream. short-term help with bookkeeping. She B.M.C. clipping, washing, dipping and brushing The garage has a full up to date workshop stayed there for 10 years before finally but it’s all worth it when you proudly pin a which carries out servicing and repairs ‘retiring’ again – although she still ‘does the rosette to the pen. including diagnostic and MOT testing and books’ for one local organisation. Great North Air Ambulance Amazingly she told me that fashions there is a a tyre bay. In 1997 Sue was persuaded to become one change even in the showing world so you A DIY jet wash and vacuum facility is Clothes Collection of the two Churchwardens for the St Mary have to keep up with what the judges are open 24 hours a day all year. For further th and St John parish church which happened Friday September 5 2014 looking for. You have to learn how to clip details please telephone 663900. to be just across the road from her cottage. the wool to enhance particular features such Opening Bank Holiday Weekend, we She has held this voluntary post for 17 years Yorebridge Sport and Fitness at the as a long neck, straight back, long legs etc. wish Kathryn and Mark Oyston every – in addition to being the Church Treasurer. Wensleydale Centre, Askrigg is having a They even dip the sheep to dye the wool success in the future. The second ‘string’ to Sue’s volunteering clothes collection for the Great North Air which can go horribly wrong just before S.E.D. bow occurred about the same time when she Ambulance. show day if you get the wrong strength! We would be very grateful for any clothes, She has recently been enjoying judging agreed to become the Secretary of the Friends of the Dales Countryside Museum in shoes, bags (including suitcases), belts, the young handlers section at local shows. Macmillan Biggest towels, curtains, bed linen (not duvets or She feels it is really important that young 1996– a post she held for 8 years before be- Coffee Morning coming Chairman of ‘the Friends’ in 2004. pillows). Please bag them up and leave them farmers are encouraged to enter their outside the centre front door (next to the livestock as it’s a great way of learning 10.00 am– 1.00pm The Dales Countryside Museum is fortunate in that it is supported in both its premises blue outdoor store) from Wednesday handling skills. Things do go wrong Thoralby Village Hall September 3rd onwards up to 1pm on Friday th and staffing by the National Park but the however even for the most experienced of Saturday September 27 5th. handlers. At the Stokesley Show Ruth’s All contributions of cakes or Friends still play a vital role in helping to secure additional funding to help the Thank you for your support of this worthy ram managed to break down a hurdle and raffle prizes gratefully received cause. escape into the main show ring. She Museum fulfil its role in education and enlightenment to Dales locals and visitors Any queries just contact us on 650060 or email at [email protected]

23 23 Country Shows the judge’s scrutiny. Fortunately the show is a light-hearted event and we can all laugh Village or country shows are held during about such misadventures but I pity the the summer months throughout the country judges who have had to taste some of our photographers, however this photograph and no matter where they take place, the Calendar Celebrates efforts. held my attention, had treated the format is much the same: neatly arranged The Yorkshire Dales Much work goes on behind the scenes foreground very well and, at a time when rows of vegetables, colourful floral organizing country shows, whether they are people tend to 'over-do' software displays, handicraft items and mouth- large or small, and we should be grateful enhancements, was brave enough to be watering displays of cakes and pies. that there are people who are prepared to presented as an honest Black & White My earliest memory of a local produce give their time to the community in this image. It is a simple, but powerful record show is my mother’s beaming face when way. And their work would be to no avail if of the spirit of the location.” she learnt she had won a prize: for a last- exhibitors did not enter the competitions As well his winning photograph featuring minute ‘arrangement’ of marigolds in a and visitors did not come to admire the in the charity’s 2015 calendar, Nigel was milk jug’. The show in question was held in exhibits. Thank you to you all! awarded a prize hamper of tasty Yorkshire the early 1950s and took place in the large J.W.T. produce, courtesy of Yorkshire Cottages. wooden shed usually occupied by a couple The Yorkshire Dales has provided the Nigel said: “I love all aspects of of shire horses and a small herd of dairy inspiration for a charity calendar that will photography and spend many hours taking cattle. I do not recall any special effort From Farms to Arms raise money to help protect and enhance photos and editing them. Landscape being made to sanitize the shed for the Wednesday September 10th, 7.30pm this precious landscape, ensuring that it photography is my first love, and the UK show. An illustrated talk in Thornton Rust Village remains a special place for future has the best scenery in the world. Every Many years later, and in another county, Institute to remember the outbreak of WW1 generations to enjoy. time you go, you'll see something different the venue for our village show was more is entitled “From Farms to Arms– The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust’s and I find it a great honour to be able to up-market. The local primary school had a Catterick Garrison and Training Area Now 2015 calendar features some iconic Dales’ showcase my adventures.” good-sized hall for the display of exhibits, and Then”. scenes including Malham Cove, Scaleber Sarah Brewer, Fundraising and a kitchen from which the local WI served It should be a very interesting and Falls, Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent to Communications officer at YDMT, added: teas, and a large playing field with space informative evening. name just a few. The images were “Our 2015 calendar is a real team effort for children’s activities and a few stalls. All welcome; refreshments; Admission brought together through a Facebook with the Yorkshire Dales at its heart. It is The village system there was based on one £5.00 photography competition which the Trust inspired by the Dales and has been judged, large village surrounded by a necklace of ran. designed and printed by experts in the local smaller villages. At show time this Event: Working Barn Engines More than 150 images were entered into area to support this unique place. I’d like to engendered much rivalry between all the the competition by photographers from the thank all the talented photographers who participating villages and led to loud cheers At Maresfield Cottage, Mill Lane, Askrigg- local area as well as visitors to the Dales shared their photographs with us, along when the smaller villages won cups. Most Opposite the old school from 2.00pm, Sep- from all corners of England, plus Scotland, with Yorkshire Cottages, Steve Finch importantly, it was the one event each year tember 7th Cake stall, book stall, plant Wales and as far away as The Netherlands Photography and Fever Digital for all their when all the adjacent communities came stall and raffle Entrance £1.50 includes tea/ and Tokyo. help in producing this lovely calendar. We together for a social occasion. coffee and a cake. In aid off St Teresa's Professional Settle-based photographer, are thrilled with the finished result.” Now that we live in North Yorkshire, Drop-off points and contacts and long-standing supporter of YDMT, for news, articles, reports, letters, what’s on All money raised through the sale of the our local show is the Thornton Rust dates, competition entries, suggestions and Steve Finch had the difficult task of choos- calendar will play a vital role in helping Country Show. Initiated as a community comments: ing just one overall winner. After much YDMT to continue important projects event 32 years ago, it still serves its Hawes: Alan S. Watkinson, deliberation a striking shot of the limestone across the Yorkshire Dales and beyond, purpose in bringing the village together for Burnside Coach House. pavement near Ingleborough, by Nigel 667785 including restoring wildlife habitats such as an enjoyable and sociable occasion. Minor Gayle: Sarah Champion Hunter from Lancashire, was crowned the broadleaf woodlands and wildflower hay disasters, such as an exploding ginger beer 23, Little Ings 667006 winner. meadows, education and outreach work, exhibit one year, add hilarity to the day Bainbridge: Sylvia Crookes, Steve said: “Judging other people’s improvements to access, and supporting whilst the set recipe for a cake can produce 3, Bainside 650525 Askrigg: Rima Berry, photography to select a winner from such a local community groups and businesses. unexpected results. Some years ago 8 Mill Lane 650980 strong field of entries is difficult, but 'there The calendar is available to buy online everyone’s fruit loaf failed to cook as Carperby: Margaret Woodcock, can be only one'! I chose the winning entry priced at £10 (including UK delivery) via anticipated and about a dozen fruit bricks Bella Cottage 663488 based upon technical proficiency (the pho- West Burton: Nadine Bell, www.ydmt.org/shop or by calling 015242 were laid out for the judge’s inspection. Margaret’s Cottage 663559 tography was not a lucky accident), and its 51002. Another year the passion cakes did not rise Aysgarth: Hamilton’s Tearoom 663423 artistic appeal. The location is popular with to the occasion and this year, no-one had Redmire: see Carperby above the required large size of cake tin so an Thoralby: Sandra Foley, Shop 663205 assortment of cake sizes were on offer for

24 24 Country Shows the judge’s scrutiny. Fortunately the show is a light-hearted event and we can all laugh Village or country shows are held during about such misadventures but I pity the the summer months throughout the country judges who have had to taste some of our photographers, however this photograph and no matter where they take place, the Calendar Celebrates efforts. held my attention, had treated the format is much the same: neatly arranged The Yorkshire Dales Much work goes on behind the scenes foreground very well and, at a time when rows of vegetables, colourful floral organizing country shows, whether they are people tend to 'over-do' software displays, handicraft items and mouth- large or small, and we should be grateful enhancements, was brave enough to be watering displays of cakes and pies. that there are people who are prepared to presented as an honest Black & White My earliest memory of a local produce give their time to the community in this image. It is a simple, but powerful record show is my mother’s beaming face when way. And their work would be to no avail if of the spirit of the location.” she learnt she had won a prize: for a last- exhibitors did not enter the competitions As well his winning photograph featuring minute ‘arrangement’ of marigolds in a and visitors did not come to admire the in the charity’s 2015 calendar, Nigel was milk jug’. The show in question was held in exhibits. Thank you to you all! awarded a prize hamper of tasty Yorkshire the early 1950s and took place in the large J.W.T. produce, courtesy of Yorkshire Cottages. wooden shed usually occupied by a couple The Yorkshire Dales has provided the Nigel said: “I love all aspects of of shire horses and a small herd of dairy inspiration for a charity calendar that will photography and spend many hours taking cattle. I do not recall any special effort From Farms to Arms raise money to help protect and enhance photos and editing them. Landscape being made to sanitize the shed for the Wednesday September 10th, 7.30pm this precious landscape, ensuring that it photography is my first love, and the UK show. An illustrated talk in Thornton Rust Village remains a special place for future has the best scenery in the world. Every Many years later, and in another county, Institute to remember the outbreak of WW1 generations to enjoy. time you go, you'll see something different the venue for our village show was more is entitled “From Farms to Arms– The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust’s and I find it a great honour to be able to up-market. The local primary school had a Catterick Garrison and Training Area Now 2015 calendar features some iconic Dales’ showcase my adventures.” good-sized hall for the display of exhibits, and Then”. scenes including Malham Cove, Scaleber Sarah Brewer, Fundraising and a kitchen from which the local WI served It should be a very interesting and Falls, Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent to Communications officer at YDMT, added: teas, and a large playing field with space informative evening. name just a few. The images were “Our 2015 calendar is a real team effort for children’s activities and a few stalls. All welcome; refreshments; Admission brought together through a Facebook with the Yorkshire Dales at its heart. It is The village system there was based on one £5.00 photography competition which the Trust inspired by the Dales and has been judged, large village surrounded by a necklace of ran. designed and printed by experts in the local smaller villages. At show time this Event: Working Barn Engines More than 150 images were entered into area to support this unique place. I’d like to engendered much rivalry between all the the competition by photographers from the thank all the talented photographers who participating villages and led to loud cheers At Maresfield Cottage, Mill Lane, Askrigg- local area as well as visitors to the Dales shared their photographs with us, along when the smaller villages won cups. Most Opposite the old school from 2.00pm, Sep- from all corners of England, plus Scotland, with Yorkshire Cottages, Steve Finch importantly, it was the one event each year tember 7th Cake stall, book stall, plant Wales and as far away as The Netherlands Photography and Fever Digital for all their when all the adjacent communities came stall and raffle Entrance £1.50 includes tea/ and Tokyo. help in producing this lovely calendar. We together for a social occasion. coffee and a cake. In aid off St Teresa's Professional Settle-based photographer, are thrilled with the finished result.” Now that we live in North Yorkshire, Drop-off points and contacts and long-standing supporter of YDMT, for news, articles, reports, letters, what’s on All money raised through the sale of the our local show is the Thornton Rust dates, competition entries, suggestions and Steve Finch had the difficult task of choos- calendar will play a vital role in helping Country Show. Initiated as a community comments: ing just one overall winner. After much YDMT to continue important projects event 32 years ago, it still serves its Hawes: Alan S. Watkinson, deliberation a striking shot of the limestone across the Yorkshire Dales and beyond, purpose in bringing the village together for Burnside Coach House. pavement near Ingleborough, by Nigel 667785 including restoring wildlife habitats such as an enjoyable and sociable occasion. Minor Gayle: Sarah Champion Hunter from Lancashire, was crowned the broadleaf woodlands and wildflower hay disasters, such as an exploding ginger beer 23, Little Ings 667006 winner. meadows, education and outreach work, exhibit one year, add hilarity to the day Bainbridge: Sylvia Crookes, Steve said: “Judging other people’s improvements to access, and supporting whilst the set recipe for a cake can produce 3, Bainside 650525 Askrigg: Rima Berry, photography to select a winner from such a local community groups and businesses. unexpected results. Some years ago 8 Mill Lane 650980 strong field of entries is difficult, but 'there The calendar is available to buy online everyone’s fruit loaf failed to cook as Carperby: Margaret Woodcock, can be only one'! I chose the winning entry priced at £10 (including UK delivery) via anticipated and about a dozen fruit bricks Bella Cottage 663488 based upon technical proficiency (the pho- West Burton: Nadine Bell, www.ydmt.org/shop or by calling 015242 were laid out for the judge’s inspection. Margaret’s Cottage 663559 tography was not a lucky accident), and its 51002. Another year the passion cakes did not rise Aysgarth: Hamilton’s Tearoom 663423 artistic appeal. The location is popular with to the occasion and this year, no-one had Redmire: see Carperby above the required large size of cake tin so an Thoralby: Sandra Foley, Shop 663205 assortment of cake sizes were on offer for

25 25 How Many of These Handy Tips September at Castle Bolton Did You Know? Friday 26th September (from 7.30pm) Medieval Banquet November 7th, and anyone who would like A sealed envelope: put in the freezer for a few Access Forum Needs New Step back in time and experience an to be considered can obtain more hours, then slide a knife under the flap. The Members authentic Medieval banquet at Bolton information by contacting Mohammed envelope can then be resealed! A group that helps to improve public access Castle. Enjoy a medieval feast including Dhalech on 652363 or by email at To remove old wax from a glass candle- and recreation in the National Park is on Vegetable Pottage, Hog Roast and Fruit holder: put it in the freezer for a few hours, the lookout for new members. Posset with Old English Shortbread set in [email protected] or by then take the holder out, turn it upside down There are currently eight vacancies on the the atmospheric setting of the Great visiting the National Park Authority's and the wax will fall out. Chamber where guests have been independent Yorkshire Dales Access website at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/ Crayon marks on walls: a damp rag dipped in entertained for over 600 years. Forum, which provides guidance and ydaf . advice on ways to improve and manage baking soda; comes off with little effort. A medieval feast was never just about public access and opportunities for open-air Blood stains on clothes: just pour a little food! It’s a spectacle and an entertainment recreation in this beautiful landscape. hydrogen peroxide, and wipe off every drop of as well… With fanfares, comic tales and - Tennants: Seeing is Believing Mohammed Dhalec the National Park blood. most importantly - magnificent music, Authority's Access Development Officer, Trouvere Medieval Minstrels will transport said: "The forum's job is to work with indi- Vinegar: will get outside windows really clean. you back to the middle ages for a night of viduals and organisations who live and Don’t wash them on a sunny day– they dry too medieval delights. work in the 680 square miles of the quickly and will streak. Tickets: £25.00. Booking Essential 623981 National Park and those who use or visit To clean artificial flowers: pour some salt into the area for leisure and enjoyment, and to a paper bag and add the flowers. Shake Saturday 27th – Sunday 28th September advise on ways to improve access and vigorously and the salt will absorb all the dust (Noon-4.00pm)Medievel Minstrelsy with recreation in this special place. and dirt. Trouvere "This can be anything from looking at Discover the sweet sounds of medieval Spray your ‘Tupperware’ with non-stick mobility issues to suggesting an upgrade of music-making as Trouvere visit the castle. cooking spray before pouring in tomato-based a specific footpath. The members also Normal Admission Charges Apply sauces and there will be no stains. respond to consultations on a range of documents and strategies issued at local Cure for headaches: take a lime, cut it in half and national level." and rub it on the forehead. The throbbing Cycle Recycling The forum members should represent a will go away. Neil, at Low Mill in Bainbridge, who made balance of interests ranging from land Use air-fresheners to clean mirrors: it does a all the yellow bikes is happy to take back management and agriculture to local good job and leaves a lovely smell to the shine. any unwanted ones. business and outdoor recreation, although His intention is to make a peloton of there is currently under-representation in Clean a vase: to remove a stain from the bot- This free exhibition at Tennants continues hundreds. It will be interesting to see land management and farming. tom of a glass vase etc. fill with water and drop until September 21st, 8.30am to 5.00pm in two Alka-Seltzer tablets where it ends up being sited. The forum meets three times a year, but Over 40 works including some by well- some members also sit on a variety of known artists. advisory groups that meet regularly to A first for the new room! Sunday August consider specific issues in more detail and 17th the splendid new auditorium was used report back accordingly. for the first time as about 200 people Chairman Alistair Thompson said: assembled for a service with the Leyburn "Access forums were set up to improve Band to welcome the Art Collection. access in the countryside and to help Special events. resolve potential conflicts between those Lecture by Barbara Morden, cultural who own and work the land and the people historian, lecturer and writer in art history who use it for recreation. For that reason, it and literature. Thursday September 4th, is important that the members have a range 7.00pm of interests that enable the forum to Lunchtime tour through the exhibition by represent a balanced view." Rev. Graham Kent. Thursday September The deadline for applications is 11th. How Many of These Handy Tips September at Castle Bolton Did You Know? Friday 26th September (from 7.30pm) Medieval Banquet November 7th, and anyone who would like A sealed envelope: put in the freezer for a few Access Forum Needs New Step back in time and experience an to be considered can obtain more hours, then slide a knife under the flap. The Members authentic Medieval banquet at Bolton information by contacting Mohammed envelope can then be resealed! A group that helps to improve public access Castle. Enjoy a medieval feast including Dhalech on 652363 or by email at To remove old wax from a glass candle- and recreation in the National Park is on Vegetable Pottage, Hog Roast and Fruit holder: put it in the freezer for a few hours, the lookout for new members. Posset with Old English Shortbread set in [email protected] or by then take the holder out, turn it upside down There are currently eight vacancies on the the atmospheric setting of the Great visiting the National Park Authority's and the wax will fall out. Chamber where guests have been independent Yorkshire Dales Access website at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/ Crayon marks on walls: a damp rag dipped in entertained for over 600 years. Forum, which provides guidance and ydaf . advice on ways to improve and manage baking soda; comes off with little effort. A medieval feast was never just about public access and opportunities for open-air Blood stains on clothes: just pour a little food! It’s a spectacle and an entertainment recreation in this beautiful landscape. hydrogen peroxide, and wipe off every drop of as well… With fanfares, comic tales and - Tennants: Seeing is Believing Mohammed Dhalec the National Park blood. most importantly - magnificent music, Authority's Access Development Officer, Trouvere Medieval Minstrels will transport said: "The forum's job is to work with indi- Vinegar: will get outside windows really clean. you back to the middle ages for a night of viduals and organisations who live and Don’t wash them on a sunny day– they dry too medieval delights. work in the 680 square miles of the quickly and will streak. Tickets: £25.00. Booking Essential 623981 National Park and those who use or visit To clean artificial flowers: pour some salt into the area for leisure and enjoyment, and to a paper bag and add the flowers. Shake Saturday 27th – Sunday 28th September advise on ways to improve access and vigorously and the salt will absorb all the dust (Noon-4.00pm)Medievel Minstrelsy with recreation in this special place. and dirt. Trouvere "This can be anything from looking at Discover the sweet sounds of medieval Spray your ‘Tupperware’ with non-stick mobility issues to suggesting an upgrade of music-making as Trouvere visit the castle. cooking spray before pouring in tomato-based a specific footpath. The members also Normal Admission Charges Apply sauces and there will be no stains. respond to consultations on a range of documents and strategies issued at local Cure for headaches: take a lime, cut it in half and national level." and rub it on the forehead. The throbbing Cycle Recycling The forum members should represent a will go away. Neil, at Low Mill in Bainbridge, who made balance of interests ranging from land Use air-fresheners to clean mirrors: it does a all the yellow bikes is happy to take back management and agriculture to local good job and leaves a lovely smell to the shine. any unwanted ones. business and outdoor recreation, although His intention is to make a peloton of there is currently under-representation in Clean a vase: to remove a stain from the bot- This free exhibition at Tennants continues hundreds. It will be interesting to see land management and farming. tom of a glass vase etc. fill with water and drop until September 21st, 8.30am to 5.00pm in two Alka-Seltzer tablets where it ends up being sited. The forum meets three times a year, but Over 40 works including some by well- some members also sit on a variety of known artists. advisory groups that meet regularly to A first for the new room! Sunday August consider specific issues in more detail and 17th the splendid new auditorium was used report back accordingly. for the first time as about 200 people Chairman Alistair Thompson said: assembled for a service with the Leyburn "Access forums were set up to improve Band to welcome the Art Collection. access in the countryside and to help Special events. resolve potential conflicts between those Lecture by Barbara Morden, cultural who own and work the land and the people historian, lecturer and writer in art history who use it for recreation. For that reason, it and literature. Thursday September 4th, is important that the members have a range 7.00pm of interests that enable the forum to Lunchtime tour through the exhibition by represent a balanced view." Rev. Graham Kent. Thursday September The deadline for applications is 11th.

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