YORKSHIRE VERNACULAR BUILDINGS STUDY GROUP www.yvbsg.org.uk Newsheet No 36 April 2004 YVBSG Events For Your Diary Vernacular Buildings of Ryedale Committee news Friday 14 to Sunday 16 May 2004 We welcome Tony Robinson as a Annual recording conference, this year member of the committee and hope held in conjunction with the Ryedale that he enjoys his new role. All other Vernacular Building Materials Research committee members were re-elected Group. To be based at the Talbot Hotel, nem con at the AGM in March. Malton, North Yorkshire. Booking form The next full committee meeting will be enclosed; additional forms available held on Sunday 7 November 2004, from Lorraine Moor. although a ‘virtual’ meeting will be held Harewood Village and Estate – a Brief History during the summer to plan next year’s Saturday 3 July 2004 events. If you’d like to raise any matter, please contact David Crook. Talk and walkabout at Harewood led by Jon Finch, Unversity of York, Department of Archaeology. All welcome but numbers limited – apply to David Cook (contact Yorkshire Buildings details on back page). There may be a small charge for expenses, but the event will be free to people who booked on the YVBSG Estate Villages day school. Meeting Please contact the editor as soon as place and time will be confirmed on application and as soon as details are available. possible if you feel inspired to make a last-minute contribution to Yorkshire Conference Review Day Buildings 2004! Sunday 26 September 2004 A review of the buildings recorded during the conference in Malton in May. Next Newsheet Many thanks indeed to everybody who Cartographer needed Villages of Vision contributed to this newsheet. Please send items for the July newsheet to the Does anyone in the group have At the March day school on editor by the end of June 2004. cartographic skills? If so, Barry Harrison ‘Understanding the Buildings of Estate would welcome your assistance in Villages’, speaker Gillian Darley drafting some Swaledale maps. If you mentioned that she hoped to reprint Mike Younge think you could help, please give him a her 1975 book on British planned We are sorry to report that YVBSG ring on 01287 633182. villages, Villages of Vision (currently out member Mike Younge died suddenly of print). If anyone has new or additional on 9 February 2004. Mike was the information on model villages in Director of the Ripon Local Studies Personal data in Yorkshire, Gillian would be happy to Research Centre, and those who reports consider including it in the reprinted attended the YVBSG annual conference edition. Information may be sent to held in Ripon in 2002 will remember his In order to comply with the Data Gillian c/o David Cook. invaluable contribution to the event. Protection Act, YVBSG reports do not include the name of the owner of a building. The Archivist, however, needs Copyright of maps to know the name and address of the Members are reminded that Ordnance Survey maps are subject to a 50-year owner so that he can send a copy of the copyright law from the end of the year of publication. Even producing a sketch map report to them. Report writers are based on an OS map still in copyright is illegal. There are no restrictions on copying therefore asked to send these details on a maps published more than 50 years ago but the OS do ask you to show an separate sheet when submitting reports acknowledgement and reference number – contact them on 023 8030 5030 for to Don McLellan. The addresses of any details. Further information about copyright of maps is available on the OS website recorders who are not YVBSG members at www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Team leaders are asked to comply with copyright should also be sent to Don, again so that legislation when including maps with reports, bearing in mind that maps produced they may receive copies of the report. by organisations other than the OS are possibly also subject to copyright. Other events of possible interest ... Some of these events are publicised a long time in advance, so it’s worth checking that they are still running before you go! Oldham’s Listed Buildings Red House Local and Family History National Archaeology Days 2004 10 April to 8 May 2004 Roadshow Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 July 2004 Photographic exhibition of listed Sunday 16 May 2004 Events will be held across the UK on buildings, many in Saddleworth Drop in to this special Kirklees this weekend. For further information (historically Yorkshire), taken from the Community History Service Roadshow contact Jan Cox, Marketing Officer, fascinating Images of England database where you can find out more about Council for British Archaeology, tel (www.imagesofengland.org.uk). local and family history activity in the 01904 671417, email [email protected]. Oldham Art Gallery, Mon-Sat 10am- area and the resources available locally. YAS Hovingham Weekend 5pm, tel 0161 911 4653. 1pm to 4pm at Red House Museum, Oxford Road, Gomersal, tel 01274 Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 July 2004 Around Troutbeck 335100. Multidisciplinary event in Hovingham, Thursday 22 April 2004 organised by the Yorkshire Yorkshire Archive Users' Conference Walk with Andrew Lowe, building Archaeological Society. For details advisor from Lake District National Saturday 22 May 2004 telephone 0113 2457910. Park. Meet 10am at Town End car park, To be held at the National Centre for Craftsmen in timber and stone: Skilled Troutbeck, Ambleside. Tel 015394 46402. Early Music, York. Aims to highlight workers of the 16th and 17th centuries the views and needs of archive users Local History Month and the houses they built and identify ways in which to engage May 2004 new audiences. Further details from Saturday 2 October 2004 See www.history.org.uk for local events. Claire Dyson, tel 0113 3875425, email This day school at Kershaw House, [email protected]. mentioned in the last Newsheet, is 51 Fleetgate Open Days already fully booked. No more York Bricks and Brickmakers Saturday 1 May, Saturday 26 June, applications, please. Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September, Wednesday 26 May 2004 Yorkshire Landscapes Past and Future Saturday 27 November 2004 Meeting of the Borthwick Local History 51 Fleetgate, Barton upon Humber, Forum, led by Sandra Garside-Neville, Saturday 16 October 2004 North Lincolnshire, has a 15th century in room K111, King’s Manor, York at Conference at York St John College, timber-framed rear wing with crown 7.30pm. Details from Marjorie Harrison, York, organised by PLACE Research post roof, originally an open hall. Open tel 01904 744263. Non-members £1. Centre and the Society for Landscape 10am-3pm on above dates. Details from Studies. Speakers include George Ponden Hall: Thrushcross Grange or website www.geocities.com/fleetgate51/ Peterken, Robin Butlin, Andy Howard, Wuthering Heights? index.htm or tel 01652 660630. Barry Harrison, Jon Finch, Ian Dormor, Friday 28 May 2004 Simon Warwick, Stephen Moorhouse, Looking at Shibden Hall Estate University of Bradford Friday Robert Wright, Jane Wheeler, Mary Monday 3 May, Monday 31 May 2004 Afternoon Walk with tutor Helen Higham. See website www.yorksj.ac.uk/ Meet Michael Walton outside the front Broadhead. Includes tour of Ponden Hall centres/research/place/ or contact Dr entrance of Shibden Hall, Lister’s Road, with the owner. Details from website Margaret Atherden, tel 01904 716753. Halifax, at 2pm for a free guided historic www.brad.ac.uk or tel 01274 233216. Oakwell Hall walk of the grounds. Tel 01422 352246. East Riddlesden Hall Further to the last Newsheet, I’m told National Mills Weekend Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 June 2004 that admission to Oakwell Hall is in fact Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 May 2004 National Trust event. Explore the Hall’s FREE from November to February each A large number of wind and watermills architectural development with Mike year (and only £1.40 from 1 March to 31 will be open to the public. For further Freeman, House Steward, 10am-12 October). Cafe nearby. Candlelight details tel 020 7456 0909, website noon, followed by a light lunch. £12.95. evenings sell out quickly – look out for www.spab.org.uk/mills/index.html. Booking essential on 01535 607075. publicity or telephone 01924 326240. Retting, swingling and scutching in the Dales in a trough or in a ‘dubb’ or pond; then Can any members shed any light on whether hemp-growing and retting was swingling, ie beating to break the fibres; reflected in buildings? Some of the then scutching, ie more beating, on a following information derives from post or beam; then combing, and Arthur Raistrick’s WEA class in the finishing. The retting was done in the 1960s. Flax wouldn’t grow in the open (the stench was terrible); relics of Yorkshire Dales but hemp (Cannabis what may be the dubb survive in sativa) did. Any flax spun or woven up Hemplands at Starbotton. But were any here came from East Anglia or the Low building features adapted for swingling Countries. (By contrast, eighteenth weavers’ in parish registers, for example or scutching? century Knaresborough was a major Conistone, in fact wove hemp into Any information on the hemp industry linen centre, growing some flax locally.) ‘harden’ for working clothes. Some gratefully received! ‘Linen’-weaving flourished in the villages, such as Starbotton, have fields Richard Harland, Four Winds, seventeenth century at Airton and at called Hemplands. The process Grassington, Skipton BD23 5BJ, Brigflatts. But I fancy much more hemp involved retting (‘roteinge’ in email [email protected]. than flax was woven. Maybe ‘linen seventeenth century Arncliffe = rotting) Use of barn for hay! Caption competition A 200-year old field barn near Foxup at Many thanks to those who sent in entries for the Caption the head of Littondale has been restored Competition in the December Newsheet.