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Distributed FREE to households and businesses in Fell Lane, Exley Head, Laycock, , Utley, Long Lee, Riddlesden, & East Morton www.airevalleymag.co.uk Is your conservatory Warm Roof AIRECommunity News VALLEY And Local Business MAG Directory Too hot in summer have the solution Call us today for a free As the magazine lands through your door, no obligation quote Too cold in winter? the sound of gears whizzing and wheels and transform your spinning will not be far from your home. conservatory into an all The Tour de Yorkshire once again visits year round living space. the district with all the usual fanfare and excitement. I hope you enjoy the spectacle. May is the month we welcome many visitors to the Worth & Aire valleys with the Bronte VIntage Gathering and 1940s Weekends back to back. All of our installations are We begin our series of pull out walks, with covered by a Homepro Insurance backed warranty. author, Lee Senior, whose book Walking In the Aire will be featured over the next months. We appreciate and encourage your feedback. 01422 416 292 • www.warmroofsolutions.co.uk 01535 642227 Have a great month, Liz Barker, editor. BW&G Ltd Advert.pdf 1 20/04/2017 16:44

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Happy 100th Birthday to you Dame Vera Lynn (From Left) Local resident Andy Kissack with Fast Forward... A few months ago I was the war to boost morale and she is still his team, artist John Francis and printer Howard Baker contacted by Dame Vera’s family asking recognised for her contribution. She has meet Dame Vera Lynn and create a permission to reuse the “Victory” prints devoted much of her life to charity work limited edition print for charity. to raise funds for her Children’s charity for ex-service personnel, disabled children a for her 100th birthday, I replied, “Of and breast cancer. At 100 years old she course, but surely it needs revamping is still actively supporting charities and and dedicating to her.” So we set to and signing books for auctions. Her vitality and changed the text to “Century”. enthusiasm is remarkable. One hundred numbered prints were Meeting Dame Vera is like meeting a produced that DV signed and an additional favourite aunt; she is welcoming, happy, 400 with just Artist signatures. chatty and makes you feel relaxed; she is a As a gesture of thanks my team was genuine Lady with all the best virtues. invited as VIP guests to the London I was encouraged to look at her family Palladium event. photos on the mantelpiece and photo It was a special occasion indeed! albums of her performing in Burma as well. I will treasure my time with this amazing Dame Vera has recently released 3 CD’s woman forever. and one of them achieved number 3 in These experiences and encounters have

‘Happy 100th Birthday Dame Vera Lynn’ There’ll Always Be an , are amongst her Dame Vera Lynn Dame Vera Lynn, CH, DBE, LLD, M.Mus (born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917), is widely known as The Forces’ Sweetheart by Great Britain. As an English singer and actress, Vera’s musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War. We’ll Meet Again, The White Cliffs of Dover, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square and humbled me, making me realise the major many popular songs. She held outdoor concerts for the troops and helped to keep the nation’s spirits high during our darkest days at war. Dame Vera has remained ever popular after the war, appearing on radio and television in the UK and the United States. Devoting much time and energy to charity work connected with ex-servicemen, disabled children and breast cancer. She is still held in great affection by veterans John Francis of the Second World War and in 2000 was named ‘the Briton who best exemplified the spirit of the twentieth century’ and more recently ‘The companion of honour’ award. At the age of 100 she still continues raising money for her Children’s Charity which was formed in 2001. The charity offers an early intervention service for babies and children under 5 years of age with Cerebral Palsy and other motor learning impairments. Dame Vera Lynn has signed just 100 of these numbered, special birthday commemorative prints together with artist John Francis. All production costs and expenses have been donated so thatwww.dvlcc.org.uk we can ensure every single penny received from their sale goes to her charity. sacrifices and subsequent freedoms ©John Francis www.idivision.co.uk Poster illustration that I enjoy were paid for by Dame Vera’s generation. his year I was especially delighted For her contribution she has received andT honoured to take part in Dame Vera many awards including Voted as the Lynn’s official birthday celebrations Briton who best exemplified the spirit of including attending a gala performance the 20th Century. And more recently by at the London Palladium where Her the Queen “A member of the “Order of Magesty the Queen was in attendance. the Companions of Honour” The Citation highlighted Dame Vera as “The voice of Rewind... Back in 2015 I was part of the white cliffs of Dover, with searchlights the album charts, number 1 in the easy hope during the darkest days of WW2 committee that chose the “Victory” theme making a V for Victory over Saint Paul’s listening charts and number 3 in the for the 40’s event in Haworth to celebrate cathedral and jubilant crowds dancing in classical charts. She is the oldest person The words of her song strike a personal 70 years since the end of WW2. London. Dame Vera was very happy to to ever appear in the charts and to achieve chord with every one. Dame Vera personifies the positive and agree to the project and signed the 70 such high positions is a tribute to her ‘Can Do’ attitude that helped defeat the prints to raise funds for SSAFA, the world’s timeless appeal. “We’ll meet again, don’t Nazis; she notoriously gave millions of oldest military charity and the official know where, don’t know people hope for a better future. beneficiary of the 40’s event at that time. During the war DV toured Egypt, India and I proposed producing a portrait picture I even managed to successfully gain Dame Burma with ENSA at outside concerts when. But I know we’ll meet of DVL that encompassed iconic images, Vera’s patronage to SSAFA which was a bringing optimism to the Allied troops. DV again some sunny day.” Bluebirds and Spitfires in collage with the very welcomed outcome for the charity. worked tirelessly and selflessly through

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Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 12 13 from the Friends of The Settle-Carlisle on board, as well as 500 excited passengers Country Cooking by Cath Bromwich all all being looked after by our volunteer Stewards, we journeyed from Oxenhope Pour the seasoned flour over the chicken, to Carlisle, hauled by Flying Scotsman that proudly carried the ‘Keighley & Worth shake the bowl a lot to get the chicken fully Valley Railway’ headboard. Steaming over covered with flour the Ribblehead Viaduct, we could see Heat a large frying pan that has hundreds (some have suggested well a lid, with enough oil to cover the over a thousand in total) of people out to take photos and admire the spectacle. At base of the pan every station that we travelled through or When the oil is shimmering and is very called at and on every vantage point there hot carefully place your chicken in, get as were onlookers keen to get a glimpse of My Finger-licking much chicken placed on the bottom of the the iconic locomotive. Locals were out in pan as possible. Do not move the chicken for force, all so very pleased that their travel Fried Chicken a few minutes while it turns golden (about 5 The visit of Flying Scotsman has minutes) artery was reopened to traffic. We slowed Tasty and tender, for me this is comfort shown the Railway at its very Put the lid on and turn heat down, carefully as we passed to thank the workers at food. A treat, but you know what is in best. Asked in an interview ‘how cook for a few more minutes but turn Eden Brows where the landslip occurred, it. Get your hands dirty and lick you lips long have we been working on chicken over before it gets too dark (you which gave us some appreciation of the afterwards! You can vary the flavours of preparations for the visit?’, my want golden brown but not turning black) magnitude of work involved to reopen the this with different spices and seasonings, answer was ’49 years…’as next route. We were greeted by a full platform but I find it is quite tasty enough just with a When turned over turn the heat up again for year we will be celebrating 50 of well-wishers at Carlisle and the Mayor few good pinches of salt and pepper added a few minutes to get the golden colour, then years since the reopening train of Carlisle was also in attendance to to the flour. When I use teff flour it has a turn heat right down, put lid on and gently ran in June 1968. celebrate the special occasion. lovely nutty taste to it. keep cooking It was our experience that results in the After the journey to Carlisle on 31 March, I try to cook in total for 20-25 minutes. If quality of the Railway itself, its operation, the locomotive spent two days on static you do this then it should all be cooked, be infrastructure and our people, that all display, which allowed a lucky few to get Ingredients: tender on the inside and slightly crispy on the contributed to us being successful in on board on the footplate, and there Aproximatley 500g Chicken wings, outside, but it does take a little practice! Eat securing a visit of the national treasure. then followed seven days of hauling full, ideally jointed (a kind butcher will do straight away or cool on a plate with some Our nearly 50 years of experience were prebooked trains on the branch. The this), the supermarket won’t. kitchen roll under the chicken. feedback from passengers has been evident in us managing the crowds and 2 Tablespoons of any flour (e.g. plain Serve with all sorts of things; potato wedges, onlookers, as well as ensuring that the fantastic, and the numbers who joined me wheat, teff, a mixture of corn flour and calslaw, egg fried rice trains ran to time throughout the visit. at Damems and Oakworth when I was on rice flour) duty during the visit, were unprecedented, Cath Bromwich, a Silsden As part of the event, we had the honour of as people wanted to see the NRM’s Salt, pepper, any other seasoning e.g. resident, is a cookery teacher running the special train that celebrated Powdered 5 spice, smoked paprika treasure hard at work in the Valley. and forager. Her livelihood the reopening of the Settle-Carlisle route, Oil includes foraging and cookery It has taken the efforts of literally after Network Rail’s £23m of repairs Instructions: courses, such as cooking on a near Appleby that were necessary after hundreds of volunteers and handful of budget and outdoor foraging and cooking experiences. the line was severed following a significant staff to operate and manage the Flying Put the chicken wings in a large bowl She trained at Ballymaloe Cookery School, Ireland. landslip. With the Rail Minister, Chairman Scotsman visit, all of whom were fantastic Put flour into a small bowl, add 2-3 big For more information, or to pass on your stories and recipes, contact Cath at www.facebook.com/ of Network Rail, director of the National ambassadors for the Railway. pinches salt and pepper and any other foragercathyorkshire Railway Museum and representatives Matt Stroh www.kwvr.co.uk seasoning e.g. 1⁄2 a teaspoon five spice, mix Say you saw it in the Worth Valley Mag! 14 kwvr.co.uk 15 right along Dalton Lane until the historic going over the River Aire at Stockbridge. road. Continue still ascending, as we pass Walking in the Aire Dalton Mills. Cross the road opposite the Next we turn up Bar Lane, the second a short row of cottages on the left. Go up by Lee Senior mill. road on our left, continuing towards the a few steps before the path turns sharp Turn left down the next industrial side mini roundabout. Turn right onto the Leeds right directly behind some more houses. road (Worthbridge Road) passing various and Liverpool canal towpath until we reach Soon we emerge into an open field. Our Keighley –Airedale Greenway- Riddlesden- industrial units. Soon we cross the road another swing bridge. Leave the towpath path now follows the line of a stone wall to West and East Morton (linear) to where a boulder proudly proclaims here by turning left over the bridge on our left. 3.4 miles (5.47km) the words “Airedale Greenway”. A good Granby Lane. Continue on this level path soon bearing Maps required: OS297 Explorer Lower surfaced path takes us alongside the River We start to climb noticeably until a sharp left to go through a narrow stile next to a Wharfedale & Washburn Valley. Worth. left hand bend. At this point turn right on to large gate. Turn right adjacent to a stone We head under the dual carriageway and Southfield Avenue albeit very briefly. Now wall. Continue briefly to a small stile and We leave Keighley along the Airedale immediately turn right. Take a surfaced turn left by way of a waymarked footpath into another field. We proceed to negotiate Greenway, before a brief flirtation with the path in between the road and houses close sign pointing uphill. The enclosed path is a further stile adjacent to a large gate. Leeds and Liverpool canal. We then climb to the river. Eventually we reach the nearby stone flagged and quickly starts to test our Keep to a generally straight line close to the cobbled footpaths of Riddlesden and road junction. Turn left onto Aireworth lungs ascending steeply at times towards a fence. It is worth pausing to admire the Barley Cote before a nice mix of rural field Road and quickly cross it. A blue Airedale Barley Cote. This section is the toughest of wide views of the Aire Valley here. Go over paths leads to West and then East Morton. Greenway sign shows our route. Keep the walk. Cross the residential road ahead, an open stile into another field following a We start at Keighley Railway station. ahead until a junction with Bradford Road. onto another steeply ascending path. Stay wall on our left. The wall soon swings left to Pass the entrance to the college and turn Turn right here and cross the road, before on this obvious path until another minor reach a small gate, next to a larger gate.

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I have tried numerous ways to advertise my business but none of them have been as successful as disappears sharply towards a wall. This advertising in the Worth and Aire Valley magazines. Sensible short path quickly levels to emerge rather Lee Senior lives in Airedale advertising costs and local content make these magazines a suddenly between two conifer trees and on and is a very experienced focal point in the local community. to a tarmac driveway at Dene Hole. walker. He has walked 19 Chris (Bristles Chimney Sweep Service) Turn right down the driveway over a Long Distance Paths to date; I have advertised with the Aire Valley Mag now for a number mini speed bump. Continue ahead as we the longest being the 192 of years to which I have had a fantastic response, I feel that gradually descend. Ignore a short dead miles, Coast to Coast. Lee the magazine is an honest publication that local people end spur to our left. 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Great family afternoon out. include trips out, relaxing over a British Dragonboat Association (BDA) 10.00 am to 10.45 am. The charity aims to brighten the lives of children Refreshments available. Details at cuppa, playing traditional gams, crafts, There will be some 30 teams taking www.kdmes.org.uk/trains.htm dancing, bingo. £1.50 per person (inc part in the colourful event and each and young people badly affected by crime, helping to take away the hurt, Sun 21st May 2pm Music at the refreshments). For further info call will consist of up to 17 people – 16 Museum Cliffe Castle - Silsden 07587 210101 paddlers and one drummer, who restore self esteem and bring smiles back to faces. Singers. This a free performance and The Silver Line Helpline for older will beat the time and a dragon boat no need to book. people Information, friendship, instructor who will steer. 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Seasonal Walks - go walking with Tues 9th May 7.20pm East Morton Rides, Beer tent, food stalls, Displays. Free Parking. Admission Fees Apply. Meet Anthony Green at 10.30am at KHL. Short hour long walks around WI meet at Morton Insitute. Pat the entrance to Oxenhope Station for Devonshire Park, Cliffe Castle Park, Osborne - The Brontes will be the Proceeds in Aid of Manorlands. Thurs May 18th at 7.30 pm in the a circular walk taking in Leeming and & Parkwood. Starting speaker. Black Moor.

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