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REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD ISSUE NO. 295 JANUARY 2021 Your local news magazine for the Two Dales. PRICELESS REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD Covid-19 Support - Auld Lang Syne January If you are reading this New Years Eve after 10pm I will be in bed with Ear The anchor hub in Reeth will continue Plugs in dreading the midnight noise. to offer support in the two dales until Fireworks and drunken cheers. In my at least the end of March 2021. teens I tried the New Years Eve Parties but nobody at midnight was Full details of all the support that interesting in turning to me on the left there is can be found online at at midnight and giving me a kiss. Oh no, 2dales.org.uk/coronavirus and they would turn to their left and just www.swaledalearkengarthdaleparish.o keep turning until they found somebody rg.uk/Parish-News and else. Little did they know I would grow Facebook: up to be a rich Reeth Gazette editor! www.facebook.com/ReethDCT/ and The smug ones of us get up early New www.facebook.com/groups/ Years Day and go for a walk. Nobody ReethandDistrictCommunity/ around. Happy 2021. The year of high taxes Mike B If you can’t access the internet and HOLIDAY COTTAGE this information then please phone the anchor hub at Hudson House. REETH “Glenkobla” is a cosy holiday cottage Phone 01748 880 021 manned Monday to Friday 10 am to 1 pm ideally situated just off the top right (except bank holidays). Messages can hand corner of the village green. be left at any time. Sleeps 1-2 Tel. 01748 884237 Thank you to all who have volunteered E-mail: [email protected] and are providing this much needed support throughout the two dales. 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Chairman: James Alderson Company Number: 06541854 Greenways, Grinton, Richmond c/o The Company Secretary DL11 6HJ Tel: 01748 884 312 Andrew Bedford, Glory Be, Blades E-mail: [email protected] Richmond, North Yorkshire DL11 6PS Tel: 01748 886 974 Secretary: Sue Alderson E-mail: [email protected] Holme View, Low Row, Richmond, DL11 6PE No material may be reproduced in Tel: 01748 886 292 whole or in part without permission. E-mail: [email protected] Whilst every care is taken for Editor: Mike Barden accuracy, the publishers cannot be Kings Cottage, Reeth, Richmond held legally responsible for any errors DL11 6SX or opinions in articles, listings or Tel: 01748 884 737 advertisements. E-mail: [email protected] ADVERTISING Treasurer: Andrew Bedford For information on advertising and Glory Be, Blades, Richmond, DL11 6PS Tel: 01748 886 974 prices, please contact the treasurer. E-mail: [email protected] Advertising copy, should be sent to the editor. Subscriptions: Elsie Whitehead 5 Place Hill, Reeth, Richmond, The editor reserves the right not to DL11 6SD publish any advert or article Tel: 01748 884 132 considered to be inaccurate or E-mail: [email protected] misleading. Distribution: Trevor Brown All articles or items for inclusion The Cottage, Healaugh, Richmond, should be sent to the editor DL11 6UA E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 01748 884 111 or left at Reeth Post Office. The Editor welcomes feedback. Gazette Deadlines At the editor’s discretion ☺, these will be published with Editor The deadlines for the next responses in the ‘Letters to the two months are: Editor’ section. Please send feedback Feb issue: Jan 10th 2021 to [email protected] March issue: Feb 10th 2021 Posting The Gazette PLEASE NOTE: We will endeavour to To post a copy of this Gazette to a publish all suitable items submitted by friend or relative, will require a Large the deadline date but this cannot be Letter size and will cost £1.40 second guaranteed and is at the sole class, or £1.64 first class. discretion of the editor. 3 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD TAKE HOME A PIECE OF THE DALES Call into our shop in Muker Upper Swaledale and see what unique garments we have on display from hand knit cardigans, sweaters, hats, scarves & gloves to machine knit sweaters & cardigans for both ladies & gents. We also stock sheepskin rugs, slippers & gloves. 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There is Lesser-known than ‘It’s a wonderful life’ ice skating in Central Park, a comedy but in some ways more enjoyable, The relief taxi driver (James Gleason) and a Bishop’s Wife, whilst set at Christmas- kindly old history professor, whose time, can be appreciated at any time of ‘donation’ to the church fund of an old the year with its uplifting story of self- Roman coin he once excavated turns out affirmation and family life. Later to be much more valuable than he turned into a stage musical (by my good thought (thanks to Dudley’s unsurpris- self) and even getting a Motown ing knowledge of history). ‘You speak facelift in the 90s with Denzel Wash- French so well’ he is complimented – ington and the late Whitney Houston, ‘I’ve done a lot of work there’ he re- the monochrome original is a minor clas- plies! And another favourite line, when sic, featuring an ‘angel’ sent to Earth the Professor tells the Bishop ‘Dudley (‘Wonderful Life’ style) to offer Bishop knows more about history than I do’ David Niven guidance. Ostensibly his with the reply ‘He should do- he’s been problem is the building of a new cathe- at it longer!’ Sweet without ever being dral, financed by mean spirited widow saccharine, and deep without the dark- Gladys Cooper, who insists that it be ness, ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ deserves a built her way. Among the many stand wider audience, although it has started out lines is when she insists that the to appear across the channels in more statue of St. George conquering the recent years. Catch it if you can I’ll dragon has the countenance of her late leave you with my own favourite line as husband, and the Bishop ‘innocently’ the angel Dudley sorts through the asks ‘and who should the dragon repre- Bishop’s private post and is asked sar- sent?’. Of course the ‘wife’, played by castically by Niven ‘are you expecting a Loretta Young, is being somewhat for- letter’ and the killer reply – ‘well if I saken due to this major project and should get one, the stamp will be worth under extreme pressure one day the keeping!’. Bishop prays for guidance, only to be John Hunter visited by the angel ‘Dudley’, mischie- vously played by the incomparable Cary PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Grant, who proceeds to charm everyone General Building Work, Dry Lining, he meets and set a path for an uplifting Decorating, Electrical Work, Kitchen denouement. The film’s strength lies Fitting, Joinery, Paving, Garden with a plot in which the audience is ‘in’ Maintenance, Roofing, pointing & on the secret, but the cast are not – we guttering work. Small jobs welcome. all know that an innocent angel would Free estimates. never come between the Bishop and his Contact Martin or Django Tel 01748 886 465 Mob: 07813 715 120 wife – although Niven at one point is Email: [email protected] ready to fight Dudley as he suspects 6 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD All aspects of tree work carried out by fully insured and NPTC qualified tree surgeons. Tree removal, pruning, planting, hedging and stump grinding. Contact Tom Hollingworth 07929322227 www.arborestrees.co.uk R. & W. GIBSON & SON Ltd. 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