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THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE NEWSLETTER ISSUE 189 MARCH 2013 Donation please: 30p suggested or more if you wish Editorial Published by Upper Wensleydale This is a threefold plea then: keep on writ- t seems that we can be divided into two The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter ing – about what’s happening, what you saw, groups: the ‘chuckers-out’ and those who or what people said. A few words can be as Burnside Coach House, never throw anything away. Certainly, “It Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT I effective as a picture. Think before being too Issue 189— March 2013 might come in handy” is a guiding principle ruthless when clearing out (the author of this Features for many, as drawers, filing cabinets, cup- piece is telling himself). Record-offices or boards, spare rooms, lofts or outbuildings get museums will store quite a bit if you’ve no Tel: 667785 progressively cluttered up. On the other hand e-mail: [email protected] room. (Our museum has every Newsletter Editorial 3 there is, especially at this time of the year, an from issue number one.) Lastly – and this is ____________________________ urge to spring clean: “Why on earth have we directed to our younger readers – ask your Printed by Wensleydale Press True or False? 10 been keeping this?” Gran! There are so many documents or cer- ________________ ____________ tificates that you will find fascinating. Ask to Part of the problem these days is that we get Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, Skeldale House 15 see the ‘memorabilia’ box in the drawer under Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, sent, or assemble, so much ‘stuff’. Take for ____________________________ the bed, or wherever! The time could easily Sue Harpley, , Alastair Macintosh, example all the pictures, papers, documents Easter Church Servces 14 come when you suddenly realise there is no Neil Piper, Janet W. Thomson (treasurer), Peter and files on our computers; the storage capac- one of that era left to ask! Wood ____________________________ ity is immense and useful (as long as you re- Police Report 26 member where you filed things!) but equally, Forestry. We wholeheartedly agree with the Final Processing: Sarah Champion, Adrian ____________________________ carelessness can mean huge amounts can be YDNPA Planning Committee’s decision to Janke Best Foot Forward 19 lost for ever. forbid timber trucks descending from Fleet ____________________________ Moss and coming into, and through, Gayle. Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens Doctor’s Rotas 23 The many paper documents we collect seem Could have been calamitous! What is not a , at times to be of no relevance. Not so! Some ____________________________ cause for jubilation is the image of the 44 of our Newsletter articles over the last couple What’s On 23 tonne trucks coming down to Gearstones on PLEASE NOTE of years have relied heavily on the preserved ____________________________ the Cam High Road, a green lane used by collections that have been unearthed, jogging many cyclists and walkers. Equally calami- This web-copy does not contain the commercial Plus all the regulars the memories about people, events, places, tous. The original system of small tractor- adverts which are in the full Newsletter. ____________________________ buildings or organisations that never ‘hit the hauled loads re-assembled at the headlines’ but nevertheless give us a real in- bottom, and not needing a new bridge and As a general rule we only accept adverts from sight into the life and times of years ago. infrastructure, was acceptable. It seems to us within the circulation area and no more than one- Whilst we try to ensure that all information is Bills and receipts from businesses say much that once again, when the background to this third of each issue is taken up with them. correct we cannot be held legally responsible for about costs but also carry details of things is examined, money is the driving force, but it omissions or inaccuracies in articles, adverts or bought and sold, where people lived, their may not yet be too late to moderate the listings, or for any inconvenience caused. Views style of writing and sometimes their personal scheme. When all is said and done, the envi- Advertising expressed in articles are the sole responsibility of details! Old minute books of meetings say so ronment, walkers, cyclists and horse riders do the person by-lined. Articles by comittee mem- much about the inter-relations between mem- have to be considered, especially when it has Boxed adverts: £6, £12, £18 bers carry just their initials. We appreciate be- bers as well as decisions they might have been admitted all round, this development ing asked before any part of the Newsletter is taken. (See co-incidentally the articles on contravenes National Park principles and There is a big reduction for six issues or more, reproduced pages 4 or 32). Postcards from holidays carry purposes. so for six issues the totals are: much more than a picture; we only hope that the price of stamps or the ease of emailing £25, £50 or £75 doesn’t mean we stop sending them. Posters and leaflets of events tell us much about what An Event Not to be Missed! Greetings etc. £2.00 used to take place, and of the changing pres- The Annual General Meeting of the Upper What’s ons (non-commercial) are free THE MARCH ISSUE WILL BE entation of such publications. Wensleydale Newsletter will take place at PRODUCED ON Sycamore Hall, Bainbridge, on Wednesday, The problem with the photographs we keep March 20th from 7.30pm Contacts for adverts: MARCH 27TH AND 28TH. could well be that they often tend to record only the ‘special’ events, dramas, accidents, For Hawes area and westward: DEADLINE FOR COPY: parties, celebrations. We always need to put Pie & Pea Supper & Bar on record the life style and times of the OR- Barry Cruickshanks, Ashfield, Hardraw: 667458 THURSDAY Thoralby Village Hall DINARY. (Don’t forget either, on paper or 23 March at 7 for 7.30 computer, to date and label them!) Fortu- For elsewhere: MARCH 21ST Tickets £7.50 contact 663076 nately our area has both local history and fam- Funds for the Village Hall ily history groups, but of course history is in Sue Duffield, Fellside, the making all the time. Thornton Rust: 663504 2 2 Editorial Published by Upper Wensleydale This is a threefold plea then: keep on writ- t seems that we can be divided into two The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter ing – about what’s happening, what you saw, groups: the ‘chuckers-out’ and those who or what people said. A few words can be as Burnside Coach House, never throw anything away. Certainly, “It Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT I effective as a picture. Think before being too Issue 189— March 2013 might come in handy” is a guiding principle ruthless when clearing out (the author of this Features for many, as drawers, filing cabinets, cup- piece is telling himself). Record-offices or boards, spare rooms, lofts or outbuildings get museums will store quite a bit if you’ve no Tel: 667785 progressively cluttered up. On the other hand e-mail: [email protected] room. (Our museum has every Newsletter Editorial 3 there is, especially at this time of the year, an from issue number one.) Lastly – and this is ____________________________ urge to spring clean: “Why on earth have we directed to our younger readers – ask your Printed by Wensleydale Press True or False? 10 been keeping this?” Gran! There are so many documents or cer- ________________ ____________ tificates that you will find fascinating. Ask to Part of the problem these days is that we get Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, Skeldale House 15 see the ‘memorabilia’ box in the drawer under Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, sent, or assemble, so much ‘stuff’. Take for ____________________________ the bed, or wherever! The time could easily Sue Harpley, , Alastair Macintosh, example all the pictures, papers, documents Easter Church Servces 14 come when you suddenly realise there is no Neil Piper, Janet W. Thomson (treasurer), Peter and files on our computers; the storage capac- one of that era left to ask! Wood ____________________________ ity is immense and useful (as long as you re- Police Report 26 member where you filed things!) but equally, Forestry. We wholeheartedly agree with the Final Processing: Sarah Champion, Adrian ____________________________ carelessness can mean huge amounts can be YDNPA Planning Committee’s decision to Janke Best Foot Forward 19 lost for ever. forbid timber trucks descending from Fleet ____________________________ Moss and coming into, and through, Gayle. Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens Doctor’s Rotas 23 The many paper documents we collect seem Could have been calamitous! What is not a , at times to be of no relevance. Not so! Some ____________________________ cause for jubilation is the image of the 44 of our Newsletter articles over the last couple What’s On 23 tonne trucks coming down to Gearstones on PLEASE NOTE of years have relied heavily on the preserved ____________________________ the Cam High Road, a green lane used by collections that have been unearthed, jogging many cyclists and walkers. Equally calami- This web-copy does not contain the commercial Plus all the regulars the memories about people, events, places, tous. The original system of small tractor- adverts which are in the full Newsletter. ____________________________ buildings or organisations that never ‘hit the hauled loads re-assembled at the headlines’ but nevertheless give us a real in- bottom, and not needing a new bridge and As a general rule we only accept adverts from sight into the life and times of years ago. infrastructure, was acceptable. It seems to us within the circulation area and no more than one- Whilst we try to ensure that all information is Bills and receipts from businesses say much that once again, when the background to this third of each issue is taken up with them.