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 sent, or assemble, so much ‘stuff’. Take for Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, ______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 sent, or assemble, so much ‘stuff’. Take for Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, ______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

3 3 Competition March Competition Full Up; But Only For Now Wensleydale Decorative and Fine Arts Society Last Month’s Answers Here are some anagrams to named roads, Aysgarth Singers is a mixed voice choir that Supermarkets and chain stores lanes or tracks in our area. meets every Tuesday in the Aysgarth Institute THE COLOUR OF HEAVEN from 7.30-9.00pm. We meet from September ASDA Where did the blue in medieval manuscripts until Easter each year. TESCO come from, and how did the glaziers of our Our membership has now reached 50, so any MORRISONS 1. GRAM ORGAN BEADS Gothic cathedrals make their blue glass? Why interested singers would need to join our COMET 2. CHARM HID GOA doesn’t the Virgin Mary wear green, and why waiting list. We expect to be able to recruit WATERSTONES 3. DICE DRAGS OAR is Krishna painted blue? new members in September. DEBENHAMS 4. MINK NEAR BALE The Ancient Britons tattooed their bodies in We have more women than men (37:13) but ICELAND 5. SHAKE BAND a blue dye, and in a Parisian gallery 2,000 what the men lack in numbers, they make up SPAR 6. SHY NEATER LOB years later, Yves Kline painted his nude for with enthusiasm! BURTON 7. GEM HATTER PO models blue and dragged them across his Singers are able to join our choir without an NEXT 8. A TALL TEN WHINGE canvasses. audition; commitment and a love of singing DOROTHY PERKINS 9. TOWNIEST PEST are the only requirements. To be able to sight- BON MARCHE 10. O LATH GEL Out of the Blue: the Story of Blue in Art, read music is a great help, but certainly not RIVER ISLAND 11. HARROW OWED IT takes us to the lapis lazuli mines in essential. We find that singing and learning HOUSE OF FRASER 12. RACER RAGE PLOY DEN Afghanistan, the indigo dyers in Africa, and together is the best way to improve. MONSOON the studios of Titian, Vermeer and Chagall. Our choir was started in 1898 when it was As a professional artist herself, Alexandra THORNTON RUST INSTITUTE called the Aysgarth Choral Society. It has The winner of the £20 prize donated to Drysdale makes particular note of Looking for a place to flourished over the years under several notable Sycamore Hall Amenity Fund was Jennifer contemporary artists using blue; James hold that special event? conductors, regularly entering the Wensleydale Johnson, Hawes. Turrell’s Skyscapes in an inactive volcano, Bill If so, why not hire our village hall with Tournament of Song as well as performing Viola’s videos in Durham Cathedral, and Ann refurbished kitchen and fundraising concerts around the Dales. We are Hamilton’s Blue Jeans installation. new accessible toilets. now very fortunate to sing under the Letter For further details please contact directorship of Stan Roocroft MBE. He Alexandra Drysdale has been painting and I thought I should let know all those who helped Martyn Donno 662649 ensures our rehearsals are constructive, exhibiting work since graduating with a first in me with my enquiries in the autumn when I was stimulating and fun. Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 1985. seeking help with my research into the former We sing a wide variety of music that appeals She has recently undertaken an artist’s cricket leagues of North Yorks, where I have Richard III to singers and audiences alike. This ranges residency in Australia and her lectures aim to got to. I interviewed several people who had from sacred anthems and classical songs to open people’s eyes to the language of painting played in the Swaledale, Wensleydale, and *Apparently they also found Henry IV under a Leicester car park, but he was in two parts. spirituals and music from the shows. in a practical and imaginative way. VOM leagues. I decided I would concentrate If you are interested in joining our warm and initially on the Wensleydale League and after friendly choir in the future, please contact for This Wensleydale Decorative and Fine Arts Christmas settled down to the hard slog of *Breaking News: 561 year old hunchback more information : Society lecture is on Tuesday 12th March at working my way through the files of The D and questioned by Leicester police about the disappearance of two young boys. Di Clegg, 666059 2.00pm in Middleham Key Centre. Non- S Times beginning with the league's modest start members are welcome at £5 per lecture, pre- in 1947 when there were only four clubs. A few booking is essential, membership and further years’ records are missing. The other problem *So Richard III has been found dead underneath information is available from the Membership which I fear may be insoluble is that many of a car park in Leicester… Probably died of shock when he saw the NCP car park charges Letter Secretary, tel. 01748 886545. the clubs who played in these leagues are, and I saw an interesting article earlier this week. have been for some time, extinct and apart from The Alzheimer's Society is looking to train one *Burying people in multi-storey car parks? Hawes Bus Stop the odd photograph their records went with million people before 2015 on how to That's wrong on so many levels. them. Sadly it is also the case that it is so long recognise dementia. Volunteers can attend a Northern Rail have agreed that, when buses since the clubs were active that it may be that free session in a local village hall to learn how are substituted for Settle to Carlisle trains, *Leicester Car parks would like to apologise for there is nobody left alive who remembers them to spot the signs of dementia, and help there will be an additional calling point en any inconvenience caused whilst running a and their cricket fields are built on or have sufferers. Comedian Jo Brand, who trained as route from Ribblehead station to Garsdale skeleton service. reverted to farm land. a psychiatric nurse took part in a day's session. station, in Hawes town. This is a really Despite the problems I have described I am To register interest please visit positive step, and will avoid people on the bus *A hearse, a hearse! My kingdom for a hearse! not too dispirited and intend to dig further. If www.dementiafriends.org.uk You can sign up having to travel the needless six miles from you come across anything you think might be for a fortnightly newsletter.. Cheers ! Hawes (where the bus passed through but you *Someone said they were going to build a car helpful to me then please get in touch, Kate (Empsall) could not alight) through Appersett, Best wishes, park in Leicester. I said: ‘over my dead body’ Moorcock, and to Garsdale; followed closely John Winn: by your chauffeur in the car, who then drove [email protected] *I can never remember where I parked the the six miles back to Hawes. bloody horse.

4 4 Competition March Competition Full Up; But Only For Now Wensleydale Decorative and Fine Arts Society Last Month’s Answers Here are some anagrams to named roads, Aysgarth Singers is a mixed voice choir that Supermarkets and chain stores lanes or tracks in our area. meets every Tuesday in the Aysgarth Institute THE COLOUR OF HEAVEN from 7.30-9.00pm. We meet from September ASDA Where did the blue in medieval manuscripts until Easter each year. TESCO come from, and how did the glaziers of our Our membership has now reached 50, so any MORRISONS 1. GRAM ORGAN BEADS Gothic cathedrals make their blue glass? Why interested singers would need to join our COMET 2. CHARM HID GOA doesn’t the Virgin Mary wear green, and why waiting list. We expect to be able to recruit WATERSTONES 3. DICE DRAGS OAR is Krishna painted blue? new members in September. DEBENHAMS 4. MINK NEAR BALE The Ancient Britons tattooed their bodies in We have more women than men (37:13) but ICELAND 5. SHAKE BAND a blue dye, and in a Parisian gallery 2,000 what the men lack in numbers, they make up SPAR 6. SHY NEATER LOB years later, Yves Kline painted his nude for with enthusiasm! BURTON 7. GEM HATTER PO models blue and dragged them across his Singers are able to join our choir without an NEXT 8. A TALL TEN WHINGE canvasses. audition; commitment and a love of singing DOROTHY PERKINS 9. TOWNIEST PEST are the only requirements. To be able to sight- BON MARCHE 10. O LATH GEL Out of the Blue: the Story of Blue in Art, read music is a great help, but certainly not RIVER ISLAND 11. HARROW OWED IT takes us to the lapis lazuli mines in essential. We find that singing and learning HOUSE OF FRASER 12. RACER RAGE PLOY DEN Afghanistan, the indigo dyers in Africa, and together is the best way to improve. MONSOON the studios of Titian, Vermeer and Chagall. Our choir was started in 1898 when it was As a professional artist herself, Alexandra THORNTON RUST INSTITUTE called the Aysgarth Choral Society. It has The winner of the £20 prize donated to Drysdale makes particular note of Looking for a place to flourished over the years under several notable Sycamore Hall Amenity Fund was Jennifer contemporary artists using blue; James hold that special event? conductors, regularly entering the Wensleydale Johnson, Hawes. Turrell’s Skyscapes in an inactive volcano, Bill If so, why not hire our village hall with Tournament of Song as well as performing Viola’s videos in Durham Cathedral, and Ann refurbished kitchen and fundraising concerts around the Dales. We are Hamilton’s Blue Jeans installation. new accessible toilets. now very fortunate to sing under the Letter For further details please contact directorship of Stan Roocroft MBE. He Alexandra Drysdale has been painting and I thought I should let know all those who helped Martyn Donno 662649 ensures our rehearsals are constructive, exhibiting work since graduating with a first in me with my enquiries in the autumn when I was stimulating and fun. Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 1985. seeking help with my research into the former We sing a wide variety of music that appeals She has recently undertaken an artist’s cricket leagues of North Yorks, where I have Richard III to singers and audiences alike. This ranges residency in Australia and her lectures aim to got to. I interviewed several people who had from sacred anthems and classical songs to open people’s eyes to the language of painting played in the Swaledale, Wensleydale, and *Apparently they also found Henry IV under a Leicester car park, but he was in two parts. spirituals and music from the shows. in a practical and imaginative way. VOM leagues. I decided I would concentrate If you are interested in joining our warm and initially on the Wensleydale League and after friendly choir in the future, please contact for This Wensleydale Decorative and Fine Arts Christmas settled down to the hard slog of *Breaking News: 561 year old hunchback more information : Society lecture is on Tuesday 12th March at working my way through the files of The D and questioned by Leicester police about the disappearance of two young boys. Di Clegg, 666059 2.00pm in Middleham Key Centre. Non- S Times beginning with the league's modest start members are welcome at £5 per lecture, pre- in 1947 when there were only four clubs. A few booking is essential, membership and further years’ records are missing. The other problem *So Richard III has been found dead underneath information is available from the Membership which I fear may be insoluble is that many of a car park in Leicester… Probably died of shock when he saw the NCP car park charges Letter Secretary, tel. 01748 886545. the clubs who played in these leagues are, and I saw an interesting article earlier this week. have been for some time, extinct and apart from The Alzheimer's Society is looking to train one *Burying people in multi-storey car parks? Hawes Bus Stop the odd photograph their records went with million people before 2015 on how to That's wrong on so many levels. them. Sadly it is also the case that it is so long recognise dementia. Volunteers can attend a Northern Rail have agreed that, when buses since the clubs were active that it may be that free session in a local village hall to learn how are substituted for Settle to Carlisle trains, *Leicester Car parks would like to apologise for there is nobody left alive who remembers them to spot the signs of dementia, and help there will be an additional calling point en any inconvenience caused whilst running a and their cricket fields are built on or have sufferers. Comedian Jo Brand, who trained as route from Ribblehead station to Garsdale skeleton service. reverted to farm land. a psychiatric nurse took part in a day's session. station, in Hawes town. This is a really Despite the problems I have described I am To register interest please visit positive step, and will avoid people on the bus *A hearse, a hearse! My kingdom for a hearse! not too dispirited and intend to dig further. If www.dementiafriends.org.uk You can sign up having to travel the needless six miles from you come across anything you think might be for a fortnightly newsletter.. Cheers ! Hawes (where the bus passed through but you *Someone said they were going to build a car helpful to me then please get in touch, Kate (Empsall) could not alight) through Appersett, Best wishes, park in Leicester. I said: ‘over my dead body’ Moorcock, and to Garsdale; followed closely John Winn: by your chauffeur in the car, who then drove [email protected] *I can never remember where I parked the the six miles back to Hawes. bloody horse.

5 5 West Witton Folk Wensleydale Society Wensleydale Railway News Unwanted Clothes Collection Concert in West Witton Village Hall HERALDRY Pink Rabbit’s Easter Egg Hunt is on Easter Heraldry is all around us, not just in castles, Sunday March 31. Catch Wensleydale Rail- Friday 8th March; doors open 7.00pm The collection of unwanted clothing to raise cathedrals and churches but in every town and way’s train dep Leeming Bar station at 10.00, much needed money for the Great North Air city, from pub signs to the police station, on (dep Bedale 10.07; Finghall Lane (R) 10.23; The format will be a seated concert with enter- Ambulance and St. Margaret’s Church, Hawes, council vehicles and even lampposts. Leyburn 10.37; arrives Redmire 10.51 for tainment provided by the acclaimed folk band was very successful and well supported last On Friday 1st March, Brian Beeken will 11.00 start of walk). It’s a lovely one hour “Other Roads” comprising three accom- year. Thank you. introduce us to the basics of Heraldry in an walk (scamper!) up the hill on field paths - not plished musician/singer songwriters, Pete Ab- Another chance of having a clearout for entertaining talk. Please note that this is a suitable for pushchairs - to the entrance to bott, Gregor Borland and Dave Walmisley from Wednesday April 17th at 10..00am Please change from the published programme. Bolton Castle (www.boltoncastle.co.uk for England and Scotland who perform a melodic leave your bags any time before that date in St. The talk starts at 7.30 pm at West Burton Eggcellent Easter info). Return trains dep Red- and highly entertaining concert. Playing a wide Margaret’s church— any unwanted clothing, Village Hall and we make it easier to get to mire 13.40 and 16.00. One of the successes of array of instruments from fiddle to bouzouki, shoes, curtains, towels or bedding (not duvets), lectures by our return coach between Middle- last year’s programme of events on the mandolin and a variety of guitars and incorpo- plus (bagged separately) ink cartridges and ham and West Burton, which picks up in Wensleydale Railway was that sometimes rating some fine harmony singing they perform mobile phones. Harmby, Leyburn and West Witton. (details friends and colleagues chose to join the same an eclectic mix of music from soft lilting bal- Problems getting bags there? Ring: from Eileen Jackson 622287) Membership is event for a day out – notably the evening lads to “foot stomping” Celtic fiddle tunes and Janet Middleton 666070 choruses, creating an exciting and vibrant £5 per year, and members are welcome to Murder Mystery events, the Music Trains, a original sound. bring guests (£1 per guest). Our monthly walks themed excursion - or a guided walk followed The band have produced four albums of their programme for members adds to the enjoy- by lunch in a local pub. These events will be own music, but always include a song or two ment of Wensleydale and its wider environs, repeated in 2013 – enquiries and bookings to and is a wonderful way to get to know the Wensleydale Railway’s office, tel 08454 made popular by the late John Wright in their Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team concert; they are no strangers to The Dales area. 505474. Also, for several years, a West York- having performed at The Hardraw Folk Gather- Before we get too far into shire Rotary Club has used WR’s train to reach ing in 2011 and Reeth Memorial Hall in 2012. 2013, I hope there is time to the start of a guided walk in aid of their local Their expert musicianship and infectious enthu- look back at 2012 and for Broadband Progress hospice, followed by spectacularly successful siasm, laced with humour is guaranteed to the Swaledale Mountain Yorkshire Pudding lunches. The combination enthral and amuse you, the event promises to Rescue Team (SMRT) to Superfast broadband for Garsdale and Dent- of rail travel, Wensleydale scenery and a meal be a memorable evening of music laughter and thank again all the residents dale is one step nearer thanks to a grant from together seems to be very popular so we would song. and traders in Upper the National Park Authority. welcome enquiries for more such events! There will be a licensed bar and a raffle, all Wensleydale for their sup- The parish councils in the two dales have Most of WR’s 2013 programme of events is proceeds from the evening will go to the West port throughout the past year. SMRT (which, teamed up to create the Fibre Garden project, already on the website Witton Village Hall. Tickets are priced at as most of you will know, covers Wensleydale which aims to provide a 60-kilometre, super- www.wensleydalerailway.com However an £10.00 in advance and £12.00 on the door and as well as Swaledale) depends entirely on vol- fast broadband network connecting Garsdale extra 7 mile guided walk has been arranged are available from The West Witton Village untary financial contributions to provide a and Dentdale and more than 500 homes and from Redmire, to visit the Open Day at Shop or from search and rescue service to both residents and businesses. The project has been given a Aysgarth station site on Sunday August 25. Grant Humphreys on 622108 visitors. 2012 was a year of “average” £14,500 grant from the YDNPA's Sustainable Enquiries in advance about this event to Rod activity for us, with 26 call-outs in all. Most of Development Fund, which is managed by the Morris, chairman of the Aysgarth station these were in Swaledale, with only 6 incidents Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) group, at [email protected] in Wensleydale (why is that, I wonder?). ( tel 01733 331658 and 077241 21355). Rod is 50,000 People Support the Trust on behalf of the Authority. When it is com- 2013 has started off on a much busier note, plete, the Fibre Garden network will be able to also the organiser of an exhibition. to be held with 8 call-outs already in the first five weeks deliver broadband speeds of between 30Mbps at Aysgarth, from May 4-8 on Post Office The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust th of the year. Increasingly the team are asked by and 100Mbps. Currently, properties have less Communications in the early 20 Century, (YMDT) has recruited the support of 50,000 the police to assist in incidents outside our area than 2 Mbps - or no broadband service at all. including WWW1; it may be possible to ar- individuals since the charity began its work where our specialist skills and equipment (e.g. The scheme has also been awarded £157,000 range evening visits to the exhibition for caring for the landscape, environment and a swift-water rescue capability) may be of help. from the Rural Community Broadband Fund, groups by prior arrangement only. communities of the Yorkshire Dales in 1996. None of this would be possible without the funded by DEFRA and Broadband Delivery Ruth Annison 650349 YDMT recently reached this milestone with contributions made by local residents, either UK. the help of Alison Miernik from Knaresbor- directly, through our local street collections, or th ough who became the charity’s 50,000 sup- via the collection boxes in many local shops. Domino Drive in West Witton porter when she made a donation to support Many thanks from all members of the team! Church Burglaries YDMT’s woodland restoration project. Cash has been taken from 9 churches within Friday 22nd March - Domino Drive in aid of David Sharrod, YDMT Director, said: “We Tony Harrison, Burtersett. North Yorkshire. Please be alert to unusual West Witton Pre-school. West Witton Village are delighted to have reached this significant visitors in the area of local churches and report Hall at 7.30pm Adults £3.50 Children £2 milestone in the charity’s life, and are looking any suspicious activity, persons or vehicles to includes great supper, prizes and raffle. All forward to meeting many more people who the Police. welcome. wish to support our work in the future.”

6 6 West Witton Folk Wensleydale Society Wensleydale Railway News Unwanted Clothes Collection Concert in West Witton Village Hall HERALDRY Pink Rabbit’s Easter Egg Hunt is on Easter Heraldry is all around us, not just in castles, Sunday March 31. Catch Wensleydale Rail- Friday 8th March; doors open 7.00pm The collection of unwanted clothing to raise cathedrals and churches but in every town and way’s train dep Leeming Bar station at 10.00, much needed money for the Great North Air city, from pub signs to the police station, on (dep Bedale 10.07; Finghall Lane (R) 10.23; The format will be a seated concert with enter- Ambulance and St. Margaret’s Church, Hawes, council vehicles and even lampposts. Leyburn 10.37; arrives Redmire 10.51 for tainment provided by the acclaimed folk band was very successful and well supported last On Friday 1st March, Brian Beeken will 11.00 start of walk). It’s a lovely one hour “Other Roads” comprising three accom- year. Thank you. introduce us to the basics of Heraldry in an walk (scamper!) up the hill on field paths - not plished musician/singer songwriters, Pete Ab- Another chance of having a clearout for entertaining talk. Please note that this is a suitable for pushchairs - to the entrance to bott, Gregor Borland and Dave Walmisley from Wednesday April 17th at 10..00am Please change from the published programme. Bolton Castle (www.boltoncastle.co.uk for England and Scotland who perform a melodic leave your bags any time before that date in St. The talk starts at 7.30 pm at West Burton Eggcellent Easter info). Return trains dep Red- and highly entertaining concert. Playing a wide Margaret’s church— any unwanted clothing, Village Hall and we make it easier to get to mire 13.40 and 16.00. One of the successes of array of instruments from fiddle to bouzouki, shoes, curtains, towels or bedding (not duvets), lectures by our return coach between Middle- last year’s programme of events on the mandolin and a variety of guitars and incorpo- plus (bagged separately) ink cartridges and ham and West Burton, which picks up in Wensleydale Railway was that sometimes rating some fine harmony singing they perform mobile phones. Harmby, Leyburn and West Witton. (details friends and colleagues chose to join the same an eclectic mix of music from soft lilting bal- Problems getting bags there? Ring: from Eileen Jackson 622287) Membership is event for a day out – notably the evening lads to “foot stomping” Celtic fiddle tunes and Janet Middleton 666070 choruses, creating an exciting and vibrant £5 per year, and members are welcome to Murder Mystery events, the Music Trains, a original sound. bring guests (£1 per guest). Our monthly walks themed excursion - or a guided walk followed The band have produced four albums of their programme for members adds to the enjoy- by lunch in a local pub. These events will be own music, but always include a song or two ment of Wensleydale and its wider environs, repeated in 2013 – enquiries and bookings to and is a wonderful way to get to know the Wensleydale Railway’s office, tel 08454 made popular by the late John Wright in their Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team concert; they are no strangers to The Dales area. 505474. Also, for several years, a West York- having performed at The Hardraw Folk Gather- Before we get too far into shire Rotary Club has used WR’s train to reach ing in 2011 and Reeth Memorial Hall in 2012. 2013, I hope there is time to the start of a guided walk in aid of their local Their expert musicianship and infectious enthu- look back at 2012 and for Broadband Progress hospice, followed by spectacularly successful siasm, laced with humour is guaranteed to the Swaledale Mountain Yorkshire Pudding lunches. The combination enthral and amuse you, the event promises to Rescue Team (SMRT) to Superfast broadband for Garsdale and Dent- of rail travel, Wensleydale scenery and a meal be a memorable evening of music laughter and thank again all the residents dale is one step nearer thanks to a grant from together seems to be very popular so we would song. and traders in Upper the National Park Authority. welcome enquiries for more such events! There will be a licensed bar and a raffle, all Wensleydale for their sup- The parish councils in the two dales have Most of WR’s 2013 programme of events is proceeds from the evening will go to the West port throughout the past year. SMRT (which, teamed up to create the Fibre Garden project, already on the website Witton Village Hall. Tickets are priced at as most of you will know, covers Wensleydale which aims to provide a 60-kilometre, super- www.wensleydalerailway.com However an £10.00 in advance and £12.00 on the door and as well as Swaledale) depends entirely on vol- fast broadband network connecting Garsdale extra 7 mile guided walk has been arranged are available from The West Witton Village untary financial contributions to provide a and Dentdale and more than 500 homes and from Redmire, to visit the Open Day at Shop or from search and rescue service to both residents and businesses. The project has been given a Aysgarth station site on Sunday August 25. Grant Humphreys on 622108 visitors. 2012 was a year of “average” £14,500 grant from the YDNPA's Sustainable Enquiries in advance about this event to Rod activity for us, with 26 call-outs in all. Most of Development Fund, which is managed by the Morris, chairman of the Aysgarth station these were in Swaledale, with only 6 incidents Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) group, at [email protected] in Wensleydale (why is that, I wonder?). ( tel 01733 331658 and 077241 21355). Rod is 50,000 People Support the Trust on behalf of the Authority. When it is com- 2013 has started off on a much busier note, plete, the Fibre Garden network will be able to also the organiser of an exhibition. to be held with 8 call-outs already in the first five weeks deliver broadband speeds of between 30Mbps at Aysgarth, from May 4-8 on Post Office The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust th of the year. Increasingly the team are asked by and 100Mbps. Currently, properties have less Communications in the early 20 Century, (YMDT) has recruited the support of 50,000 the police to assist in incidents outside our area than 2 Mbps - or no broadband service at all. including WWW1; it may be possible to ar- individuals since the charity began its work where our specialist skills and equipment (e.g. The scheme has also been awarded £157,000 range evening visits to the exhibition for caring for the landscape, environment and a swift-water rescue capability) may be of help. from the Rural Community Broadband Fund, groups by prior arrangement only. communities of the Yorkshire Dales in 1996. None of this would be possible without the funded by DEFRA and Broadband Delivery Ruth Annison 650349 YDMT recently reached this milestone with contributions made by local residents, either UK. the help of Alison Miernik from Knaresbor- directly, through our local street collections, or th ough who became the charity’s 50,000 sup- via the collection boxes in many local shops. Domino Drive in West Witton porter when she made a donation to support Many thanks from all members of the team! Church Burglaries YDMT’s woodland restoration project. Cash has been taken from 9 churches within Friday 22nd March - Domino Drive in aid of David Sharrod, YDMT Director, said: “We Tony Harrison, Burtersett. North Yorkshire. Please be alert to unusual West Witton Pre-school. West Witton Village are delighted to have reached this significant visitors in the area of local churches and report Hall at 7.30pm Adults £3.50 Children £2 milestone in the charity’s life, and are looking any suspicious activity, persons or vehicles to includes great supper, prizes and raffle. All forward to meeting many more people who the Police. welcome. wish to support our work in the future.”

7 7 Letter Palm Sunday Concert at Hawes Portas Pilot Update been discussed. If you want to be included in We have read with St. Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth. the discount scheme then please contact Abbie interest the letter from The Alverton Singers, directed by Joan Foster, The Hawes Town Team Working Group has to at Hawes Community Office so that we can add Mary and Graham Watts will present a programme of Easter music on take forward the projects included in the a discount symbol next to your business name in last month’s Sunday 24th March at 7.00pm in St. application for £10,000 funding from the Portas in the brochure. Newsletter. The Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth. Pilot Scheme. residents of Hawes will The main work to be performed is “Stabat The projects to be taken forward with this The shuttle bus service be grateful to Mary and Mater” by Pergolesi. The soprano soloist will money were: The extension of the Little White Bus Service Grtaham for pointing out the need of extra care be Carole Lindsey, who is in the final year of a - a Hawes specific website, to include weekend evenings (Friday and for the elderly. Some of us will have music degree in vocal studies at Huddersfield - further development of the information Saturday) during the summer months will be enlightened self interest in the subject as we University. The mezzo soprano soloist is brochure containing details of local paid for through the Portas money. The are approaching the classification of elderly. Emma Wardell, who is well known in this area businesses/services, intention is to bring residents and visitors into The siting for this facility, if it were ever to for her fine solo performances, and the - a discount voucher scheme and Hawes Town Centre on an evening and return be built in these times of financial austerity, is organist will be John Foster. - an extension to Little White Bus Service. them home. This will help support the evening the pertinent question. The concert will also include “Panis economy including restaurants, pubs and The site at Turfy Top behind Lancaster Angelicus” by Cesar Franck, “The Legend” by The website events. The details of the scheme are to be Terrace has been rejected on many occasions Tchaikovsky and “Cantique de Jean Racine” The group decided to buy the domain name finalised through the current organisers of The for building, in fact an independent by Faure. www.visithawes.co.uk . The aim of the Little White Bus. If you have any ideas about government planning adjudicator also rejected Ticket £7.00 including refreshments, website is not to duplicate what already exists this scheme then please let Abi know planning for building development on the site. available from Penhill Benefice Office tel: but to provide a Hawes specific website (abi.bromirskyj@richmondshire.gov.uk) . No matter what the proposed building on the 663097, Cecilia House Carperby tel: 663368, containing information about Hawes Town, a site is, the original objections including safety or at the door. (16yrs and under – free.) map of the town, an events page, a issues, still stand. Plus the site is not conducive downloadable copy of the information Quilt Festival @ Farfield Mill to provision for the infirm or elderly. The walk brochure, links to other websites including the Farfield Mill is getting under the covers and to the Creamery as mentioned in the letter is business association, Welcome to Yorkshire, The first giving in to the love of layering with a fantastic certainly not one for the infirm. There are Dales Business Directory. A Facebook page, a available sites identified and passed for “Wensleydale Filling Station” display across all floors of quilted artworks and will be: held on Friday 10th May at 7.00 pm Twitter account and blog will also be set up. development in and around Hawes which have a range of participatory and gallery events – at Thornborough Hall, Leyburn `Please contact Abi if you have any further not been objected to and are more suitable for including workshops and demonstrations. Michael Hepper will lead the evening and the ideas or would like to be involved this kind of building development. Guest Speaker, Rev Richard Fothergill will ([email protected]) Much to the credit of the residents of Exhibitions: speak on the topic of ‘God with Us’ ‘Voices’ by international textile group Quilt Lancaster Terrace we have not been swayed in The information brochure Richard Fothergill is the national director of Art (www.quiltart.eu); our objections by personal gain in respect of Each year an information brochure detailing The Filling Station. He has a passion for the ‘Created in Cumbria: the Art of Layering’ – the generous offer of land. businesses, services, events in Hawes is powerful presence of God’s Spirit to be real in selected works by Cumbrian-based members of Finally we understand that the land has a produced by Abbie and Mick Rhodes and the the lives of Christians. He is an ordained The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles. greater value if passed for building Community Office. It is distributed to homes Anglican minister who has church planted in (www.quiltersguild.org.uk); development and have sympathy for the loss and businesses to provide information for local Cape Town, South Africa and Bristol. ‘Quilted Landscapes: inspired by the Hebridean of value when planning permission is not people and visitors. Formerly a member of Holy Trinity Brompton, Islands of Scotland’ by quilt artist Effie granted. The format and the purpose of the brochure London. Galletly (http://effiegalletly.co.uk) The residents of the proposed development will remain the same (as it works extremely The Filling Station will be a monthly event at ‘Signatures’ by Lynn Setterington (signed): John Hamer, M. Iveson, Signy well) but the brochure will be printed and this Thornborough Hall on the second Friday of (www.lynnsetterington.co.uk). Allen, N.J. Heseltine, G. Heseltine, E.A. is where some of the Portas money will be the month. Workshops: Beresford. directed. Prayer. Prayer will be an important part of the Friday 15th March – Traditional Welsh Quilts Abbie and Mick are currently updating the preparation for the start of this new venture with DeAnne Hartwell-Jones brochure and if you wish to update your and will be on-going once the Filling Station Saturday 23rd March - Recycled Quilts with Hawes 1st Brownies business information or add your business then becomes established. Several times and Lynn Setterington. please contact Abbie on Need your help! locations have been set aside for people to Both £40 call 015396 21958 to book a place. [email protected] The deadline We are still looking for someone to train up as come together to pray. Each session will last for information is 31st March. a leader to help run Brownies. It’s not as hard about an hour. The planned dates for prayer To accompany the event, a selection of fine If you can help with the distribution of the as you might think, so if anyone fancies it, are as follows: quality, British-made quilts and layered textiles brochure once completed then please contact please give me a call, as if we don’t get one Saturday 9th March 10.30 am at West will be on sale, plus books by quilt and textile Abbie. inn the near future we may lose Brownies— Burton Chapel specialists. and we do not want that. Monday 18th March 7.00pm at Dale View Discount Scheme Carol Hall (Brownie Leader) 667234 Castle Bolton. Quilt Festival runs until 7th April. ‘Shop local’, discount cards or vouchers have

8 8 Letter Palm Sunday Concert at Hawes Portas Pilot Update been discussed. If you want to be included in We have read with St. Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth. the discount scheme then please contact Abbie interest the letter from The Alverton Singers, directed by Joan Foster, The Hawes Town Team Working Group has to at Hawes Community Office so that we can add Mary and Graham Watts will present a programme of Easter music on take forward the projects included in the a discount symbol next to your business name in last month’s Sunday 24th March at 7.00pm in St. application for £10,000 funding from the Portas in the brochure. Newsletter. The Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth. Pilot Scheme. residents of Hawes will The main work to be performed is “Stabat The projects to be taken forward with this The shuttle bus service be grateful to Mary and Mater” by Pergolesi. The soprano soloist will money were: The extension of the Little White Bus Service Grtaham for pointing out the need of extra care be Carole Lindsey, who is in the final year of a - a Hawes specific website, to include weekend evenings (Friday and for the elderly. Some of us will have music degree in vocal studies at Huddersfield - further development of the information Saturday) during the summer months will be enlightened self interest in the subject as we University. The mezzo soprano soloist is brochure containing details of local paid for through the Portas money. The are approaching the classification of elderly. Emma Wardell, who is well known in this area businesses/services, intention is to bring residents and visitors into The siting for this facility, if it were ever to for her fine solo performances, and the - a discount voucher scheme and Hawes Town Centre on an evening and return be built in these times of financial austerity, is organist will be John Foster. - an extension to Little White Bus Service. them home. This will help support the evening the pertinent question. The concert will also include “Panis economy including restaurants, pubs and The site at Turfy Top behind Lancaster Angelicus” by Cesar Franck, “The Legend” by The website events. The details of the scheme are to be Terrace has been rejected on many occasions Tchaikovsky and “Cantique de Jean Racine” The group decided to buy the domain name finalised through the current organisers of The for building, in fact an independent by Faure. www.visithawes.co.uk . The aim of the Little White Bus. If you have any ideas about government planning adjudicator also rejected Ticket £7.00 including refreshments, website is not to duplicate what already exists this scheme then please let Abi know planning for building development on the site. available from Penhill Benefice Office tel: but to provide a Hawes specific website ([email protected]) . No matter what the proposed building on the 663097, Cecilia House Carperby tel: 663368, containing information about Hawes Town, a site is, the original objections including safety or at the door. (16yrs and under – free.) map of the town, an events page, a issues, still stand. Plus the site is not conducive downloadable copy of the information Quilt Festival @ Farfield Mill to provision for the infirm or elderly. The walk brochure, links to other websites including the Farfield Mill is getting under the covers and to the Creamery as mentioned in the letter is business association, Welcome to Yorkshire, The first giving in to the love of layering with a fantastic certainly not one for the infirm. There are Dales Business Directory. A Facebook page, a available sites identified and passed for “Wensleydale Filling Station” display across all floors of quilted artworks and will be: held on Friday 10th May at 7.00 pm Twitter account and blog will also be set up. development in and around Hawes which have a range of participatory and gallery events – at Thornborough Hall, Leyburn `Please contact Abi if you have any further not been objected to and are more suitable for including workshops and demonstrations. Michael Hepper will lead the evening and the ideas or would like to be involved this kind of building development. Guest Speaker, Rev Richard Fothergill will ([email protected]) Much to the credit of the residents of Exhibitions: speak on the topic of ‘God with Us’ ‘Voices’ by international textile group Quilt Lancaster Terrace we have not been swayed in The information brochure Richard Fothergill is the national director of Art (www.quiltart.eu); our objections by personal gain in respect of Each year an information brochure detailing The Filling Station. He has a passion for the ‘Created in Cumbria: the Art of Layering’ – the generous offer of land. businesses, services, events in Hawes is powerful presence of God’s Spirit to be real in selected works by Cumbrian-based members of Finally we understand that the land has a produced by Abbie and Mick Rhodes and the the lives of Christians. He is an ordained The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles. greater value if passed for building Community Office. It is distributed to homes Anglican minister who has church planted in (www.quiltersguild.org.uk); development and have sympathy for the loss and businesses to provide information for local Cape Town, South Africa and Bristol. ‘Quilted Landscapes: inspired by the Hebridean of value when planning permission is not people and visitors. Formerly a member of Holy Trinity Brompton, Islands of Scotland’ by quilt artist Effie granted. The format and the purpose of the brochure London. Galletly (http://effiegalletly.co.uk) The residents of the proposed development will remain the same (as it works extremely The Filling Station will be a monthly event at ‘Signatures’ by Lynn Setterington (signed): John Hamer, M. Iveson, Signy well) but the brochure will be printed and this Thornborough Hall on the second Friday of (www.lynnsetterington.co.uk). Allen, N.J. Heseltine, G. Heseltine, E.A. is where some of the Portas money will be the month. Workshops: Beresford. directed. Prayer. Prayer will be an important part of the Friday 15th March – Traditional Welsh Quilts Abbie and Mick are currently updating the preparation for the start of this new venture with DeAnne Hartwell-Jones brochure and if you wish to update your and will be on-going once the Filling Station Saturday 23rd March - Recycled Quilts with Hawes 1st Brownies business information or add your business then becomes established. Several times and Lynn Setterington. please contact Abbie on Need your help! locations have been set aside for people to Both £40 call 015396 21958 to book a place. [email protected] The deadline We are still looking for someone to train up as come together to pray. Each session will last for information is 31st March. a leader to help run Brownies. It’s not as hard about an hour. The planned dates for prayer To accompany the event, a selection of fine If you can help with the distribution of the as you might think, so if anyone fancies it, are as follows: quality, British-made quilts and layered textiles brochure once completed then please contact please give me a call, as if we don’t get one Saturday 9th March 10.30 am at West will be on sale, plus books by quilt and textile Abbie. inn the near future we may lose Brownies— Burton Chapel specialists. and we do not want that. Monday 18th March 7.00pm at Dale View Discount Scheme Carol Hall (Brownie Leader) 667234 Castle Bolton. Quilt Festival runs until 7th April. ‘Shop local’, discount cards or vouchers have

9 9 Middleham and Dales Local True or False? History Group Can you guess which of the following are true Beyond the attic door: further history of my and which are false? house and the sources used Dr Tony Nichol- son 1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. Spring course of 3 sessions beginning on 2. Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly Tuesday 5th March at 2.00pm at Middleham button. Key Centre and continuing on 19th and 26th 3. A packet-a-day smoker will lose about 2 March. teeth every 10 years. Tony Nicholson moved into an old house in 4. People do not get sick from cold weather; Cleveland back in 1999 and discovered a it's from being indoors a lot more. cache of Victorian photographs and letters in 5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions his attic. The astonishing love story that was stop, even your heart! revealed in these letters prompted him to re- 6. Only 7% of the population are lefties. search the history of his house, and in a 7. 40 people are sent to the hospital for MDLHG course in 2010 he talked about some dog bites every minute. of the stories that emerged. Tony is back by 8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They popular demand as the tutor for a new course don't appear until they are 2-6 years old. and this time, in addition to providing an up- 9. The average person over 50 will have date on his research, he will also offer advice spent 5 years waiting in lines. on the best sources and methods that anyone 10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498. Mystery picture. Last month’s was at the beck side going from Marsett along to can use to research the history of their house. 11 The average housefly lives for one month. Stalling Busk. Several readers phoned in with the correct answer for last month: beside Dr. Tony Nicholson is now retired and is 12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets Marsett Beck, but the quickest was James Fawcett! currently completing a book based on the each year. discoveries in his attic. 13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when The fee for the 3 sessions is £15 for members Local Food Pop Up Market Bridge in the Gap! straightened. of MDLHG and £20 for non-members or £30 14. The average computer user blinks 7 Last week, an excited reader rang to say that to include a year’s membership of the group. A celebration of Yorkshire Dales Food times a minute. he’d been studying the front cover in the last To register for a place on the course or for Dales Countryside Museum 15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than Newsletter and couldn’t understand where further details please contact Tony Keates: Sunday 21st April 2013 10.00am-4.00pm any other time of day. the small bridge was, crossing over the line, 640436 or email [email protected] Free stands in the exhibition Hall, meeting 16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our which appears in arch of the Hardraw Road room and concourse for local food producers bridge. sleep. and suppliers. A family event at the Dales 17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their Was it still there, he wondered, especially Countryside Museum promoting local food as all the bridges remembered between head in the sand is to search for water. producers and suppliers as part of our ongo- 18. The only two animals that can see behind Hawes and Appersett, take the railway over Bid and Boogie ing museum based local food project. There the road. themselves without turning their heads will be free admittance to the public Charity Auction and Dance are the rabbit and the parrot. Well it is, stone and sturdy, but we’ll be with Hog Roast Supper To book your free stall please email: surprised if many readers have ever seen it or 19. In most television commercials [email protected] In aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research advertising milk, a mixture of white paint know just where it is. It isn’t visible from and a little thinner is used in place of the any point in the town, carries no road, track ADVANCE NOTICE milk. or right of way and simply gives access from for Sunday May 26th in Askrigg Village Hall 20. Prince Charles and Prince William Visitor 2013 fields on either side. where it is expected that NEVER travel on the same airplane, just The National Park’s free ‘Visitor 2013’ The railway goes (or went) through a large over 250 people will attend. in case there is a crash. newspaper is now available from Tourist drumlin just behind Ings Lane/Penn Lane 21. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle Information Centres and libraries. and at the top can be seen a field-gate sized Donations invited for the auction, raffle and built in 1903 used a tomato can for a Businesses which would like to advertise in gap leading to the invisible bridge. for any form of sponsorship. carburettor. next year’s ‘Visitor’ should contact Sarah Always happy to help! Please contact: Nicholson, 01756 751618. A.S.W. Now, turn to page 24 for the answers. People wishing to promote an event for Kate Bell 650710 or Sandra Bell 666060. 2014 in the newspaper or on line should Women’s World Day of Prayer Many further details will appear in email: Friday 1st March future Newsletters. www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/add-an-event 2.30pm at Hardraw Church. before the end of October. Followed by tea/coffee in the ‘Cart House’.

10 10 Middleham and Dales Local True or False? History Group Can you guess which of the following are true Beyond the attic door: further history of my and which are false? house and the sources used Dr Tony Nichol- son 1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning. Spring course of 3 sessions beginning on 2. Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly Tuesday 5th March at 2.00pm at Middleham button. Key Centre and continuing on 19th and 26th 3. A packet-a-day smoker will lose about 2 March. teeth every 10 years. Tony Nicholson moved into an old house in 4. People do not get sick from cold weather; Cleveland back in 1999 and discovered a it's from being indoors a lot more. cache of Victorian photographs and letters in 5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions his attic. The astonishing love story that was stop, even your heart! revealed in these letters prompted him to re- 6. Only 7% of the population are lefties. search the history of his house, and in a 7. 40 people are sent to the hospital for MDLHG course in 2010 he talked about some dog bites every minute. of the stories that emerged. Tony is back by 8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They popular demand as the tutor for a new course don't appear until they are 2-6 years old. and this time, in addition to providing an up- 9. The average person over 50 will have date on his research, he will also offer advice spent 5 years waiting in lines. on the best sources and methods that anyone 10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498. Mystery picture. Last month’s was at the beck side going from Marsett along to can use to research the history of their house. 11 The average housefly lives for one month. Stalling Busk. Several readers phoned in with the correct answer for last month: beside Dr. Tony Nicholson is now retired and is 12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets Marsett Beck, but the quickest was James Fawcett! currently completing a book based on the each year. discoveries in his attic. 13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when The fee for the 3 sessions is £15 for members Local Food Pop Up Market Bridge in the Gap! straightened. of MDLHG and £20 for non-members or £30 14. The average computer user blinks 7 Last week, an excited reader rang to say that to include a year’s membership of the group. A celebration of Yorkshire Dales Food times a minute. he’d been studying the front cover in the last To register for a place on the course or for Dales Countryside Museum 15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than Newsletter and couldn’t understand where further details please contact Tony Keates: Sunday 21st April 2013 10.00am-4.00pm any other time of day. the small bridge was, crossing over the line, 640436 or email [email protected] Free stands in the exhibition Hall, meeting 16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our which appears in arch of the Hardraw Road room and concourse for local food producers bridge. sleep. and suppliers. A family event at the Dales 17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their Was it still there, he wondered, especially Countryside Museum promoting local food as all the bridges remembered between head in the sand is to search for water. producers and suppliers as part of our ongo- 18. The only two animals that can see behind Hawes and Appersett, take the railway over Bid and Boogie ing museum based local food project. There the road. themselves without turning their heads will be free admittance to the public Charity Auction and Dance are the rabbit and the parrot. Well it is, stone and sturdy, but we’ll be with Hog Roast Supper To book your free stall please email: surprised if many readers have ever seen it or 19. In most television commercials [email protected] In aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research advertising milk, a mixture of white paint know just where it is. It isn’t visible from and a little thinner is used in place of the any point in the town, carries no road, track ADVANCE NOTICE milk. or right of way and simply gives access from for Sunday May 26th in Askrigg Village Hall 20. Prince Charles and Prince William Visitor 2013 fields on either side. where it is expected that NEVER travel on the same airplane, just The National Park’s free ‘Visitor 2013’ The railway goes (or went) through a large over 250 people will attend. in case there is a crash. newspaper is now available from Tourist drumlin just behind Ings Lane/Penn Lane 21. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle Information Centres and libraries. and at the top can be seen a field-gate sized Donations invited for the auction, raffle and built in 1903 used a tomato can for a Businesses which would like to advertise in gap leading to the invisible bridge. for any form of sponsorship. carburettor. next year’s ‘Visitor’ should contact Sarah Always happy to help! Please contact: Nicholson, 01756 751618. A.S.W. Now, turn to page 24 for the answers. People wishing to promote an event for Kate Bell 650710 or Sandra Bell 666060. 2014 in the newspaper or on line should Women’s World Day of Prayer Many further details will appear in email: Friday 1st March future Newsletters. www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/add-an-event 2.30pm at Hardraw Church. before the end of October. Followed by tea/coffee in the ‘Cart House’.

11 11 bility. If you want to type longer documents more – if you want to use it on a desktop and touch screen are not at all helpful or comfort- Grow Your Own for Charity a laptop you must buy two copies, and when- able to use. Try writing a long and complicated It's the time of year ever you buy a new machine as an upgrade letter or email on a phone! There are also cur- when the green- (or even make major upgrades to your exist- rent issues with printing from these devices fingered amongst us ing computer) you will have to buy a new The Future of Computers – is There (though I am sure they will be resolved in start to plan for the copy of Office. Given that the pro version is One? time). The biggest difference is the use of year ahead and think £400 – this is not going to be very cost effec- Things are changing fast in the world of tech- quality software to do production type tasks – about buying seeds, tive for small versions! nology. There is a huge push by manufacturers if you want to edit photos or produce home bulbs and plants. Now gardeners can help to My advice is avoid Office 2013 – if you to sell and promote tablet and phone-based movies desktop and laptop software is far raise money for a local good cause whilst need to buy a copy of Office grab a copy of computer products and to begin the move more flexible and powerful. stocking up on fruits, vegetables and Office 2010 (the DVD version – not the key- away from traditional desktop and laptop com- One of the biggest worries is the change of flowering plants. card version) while you still can. puters. Wonder why – the answer is twofold mindset in companies like Microsoft. Many The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust Another alternative is stop buying Micro- but simple: money and politics! people use Word as their word processor of (YDMT) has teamed up with Suttons Seeds soft Office and use a FREE office package. The money argument is the simplest: Micro- choice – even if it is only to write letters. Lots to raise money to support the charity’s vital The one I recommend is LibreOffice (which soft, Apple and Google all use their own of people use Excel as a spreadsheet to manage work caring for the landscape, environment can be downloaded at www.libreoffice.org) online services to support their tablet products home finances or run their home businesses. and communities of the Yorkshire Dales. which is file compatible with Microsoft Of- and they are a cash cow for them. This means The latest version of Office (which contains For every £5 spent on plants, bulbs and fice. that every time you download a paid app, mu- Word and Excel amongst other options) has seeds ordered from the special fundraising Any comments or questions do contact me sic or film they get a large cut of the price you just been released in the form of Microsoft catalogue, YDMT will receive a £1 donation via my website at pay. Microsoft and Apple force users to use Office 2013. With this comes a big change in from Suttons Seeds to support the Trust’s www.dalescomputerservices.com their store alone – no competition. Google has the licensing and funding models. Microsoft charitable work. Carol Haynes Play store but doesn’t restrict you from want home users ideally to pay £80 subscrip- Sarah Brewer, Fundraising Officer at downloading apps from elsewhere. Traditional tion to use Office (confusing the subscription YDMT, said: “This is a really easy way to computers (laptops and desktops) have lots of version is called Office 365) which includes raise money to support our important work companies producing programs and applica- both Office online applications and the full Live-Shop-Hawes across the Dales. Simply choose from the tions and consequently MS, Apple and Google computer versions. £80 a year would allow up excellent selection of high quality flowers don’t get their cut. The whole process is very to five computers/users within a single house- We will be producing the 2013 leaflet again and edibles available in the Suttons Seeds anticompetitive. hold. If you have five computers it probably this year. Please call at the Community Of- catalogue, and for every £5 you spend, £1 Politically many governments (including the isn’t too bad a deal – except that it is in perpe- fice for a form, or e-mail Abbie at: will come straight to YDMT. Whether US and UK governments) would like to see the tuity! Traditionally many users buy a copy of [email protected] you’re looking for inspiration for a small power of general computers removed from the Office and only replace it when it is so old it This year we are adding a "shop local" window box or an entire allotment, there’s masses. This will stop lots of headaches with won’t work on a new computer (I still regu- scheme to the leaflet. Some businesses in sure to be something to tempt you, and with control issues – and both sides of the Atlantic larly come across Word 97). If you bought the Hawes already offer discounts to local peo- your help we can raise money to support even governments hate the fact the general popula- home and student DVD of Office 2010 and ple, or to those who spend over a certain more worthwhile projects in the local area.” tion has the power of general computing at still use it in five years’ time you will have amount, so we thought it would be easier to To request a free copy of the fundraising their fingertips. In particular governments are saved over £400 compared to the subscription. include a symbol in the brochure next to catalogue please call YDMT on 015242 under heavy pressure from entertainment in- Business subscriptions are much more expen- businesses who offered any sort of discount. 51002 or email [email protected]. dustries to put a stop to file sharing of copy- sive and more restrictive. Stickers for businesses who want to offer right material. Even worse is if you want to buy a DVD of discounts can also be distributed and dis- Does it really matter? For some people Office 2013. In short you can’t! Microsoft now played in their premises so that any shopper probably not a lot BUT (and it is a big BUT) only sell a licence key card for all versions of knows they are part of a local discount all of these new tablets lock you into an infra- scheme. The businesses can then offer any Coffee Morning Office. If you buy a copy the software only Saturday 9th March structure of one manufacturer and it is then installs on one device – and once installed is discounts they wish and manage this them- difficult to break away and have choice. Add selves without being tied to a specific In the back room of Askrigg Village Hall LOCKED TO THAT DEVICE for ever! If you between 10am and 12pm. to that they try desperately to take control of install Office on your laptop and your com- scheme. your personal data – to the extent of storing all Deadline for submission is 31st March All proceeds to St Oswald's Church. puter is stolen, develops a fault or even has to Entry is just £2 and there will be a popular your files (pictures, documents etc.) on their be returned and replaced under warranty – you (Easter weekend). Once again, entry into the own computers ‘in the cloud’ and charge leaflet is completely free, and it is a project cake stall, Fairtrade goods, Avon products will have to buy a new copy of Office to con- and raffle. Everyone is welcome. for that service and they have you locked in in tinue using it – at full price. for promoting the use of local businesses and more than one way – pay up or lose your data! services in Hawes. The Coffee Morning in February raised an This is a huge change – business users could amazing £300, thanks to the hard work of the Having said that, there are significant differ- always install Office on a desktop and a laptop Abbie Rhodes ences between tablets/phones and real 667400 organisers and the generosity of those who from a single purchase, and if they replace a came along computers when it comes to power and flexi- computer transfer it to a new machine. Not any

12 12 bility. If you want to type longer documents more – if you want to use it on a desktop and touch screen are not at all helpful or comfort- Grow Your Own for Charity a laptop you must buy two copies, and when- able to use. Try writing a long and complicated It's the time of year ever you buy a new machine as an upgrade letter or email on a phone! There are also cur- when the green- (or even make major upgrades to your exist- rent issues with printing from these devices fingered amongst us ing computer) you will have to buy a new The Future of Computers – is There (though I am sure they will be resolved in start to plan for the copy of Office. Given that the pro version is One? time). The biggest difference is the use of year ahead and think £400 – this is not going to be very cost effec- Things are changing fast in the world of tech- quality software to do production type tasks – about buying seeds, tive for small versions! nology. There is a huge push by manufacturers if you want to edit photos or produce home bulbs and plants. Now gardeners can help to My advice is avoid Office 2013 – if you to sell and promote tablet and phone-based movies desktop and laptop software is far raise money for a local good cause whilst need to buy a copy of Office grab a copy of computer products and to begin the move more flexible and powerful. stocking up on fruits, vegetables and Office 2010 (the DVD version – not the key- away from traditional desktop and laptop com- One of the biggest worries is the change of flowering plants. card version) while you still can. puters. Wonder why – the answer is twofold mindset in companies like Microsoft. Many The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust Another alternative is stop buying Micro- but simple: money and politics! people use Word as their word processor of (YDMT) has teamed up with Suttons Seeds soft Office and use a FREE office package. The money argument is the simplest: Micro- choice – even if it is only to write letters. Lots to raise money to support the charity’s vital The one I recommend is LibreOffice (which soft, Apple and Google all use their own of people use Excel as a spreadsheet to manage work caring for the landscape, environment can be downloaded at www.libreoffice.org) online services to support their tablet products home finances or run their home businesses. and communities of the Yorkshire Dales. which is file compatible with Microsoft Of- and they are a cash cow for them. This means The latest version of Office (which contains For every £5 spent on plants, bulbs and fice. that every time you download a paid app, mu- Word and Excel amongst other options) has seeds ordered from the special fundraising Any comments or questions do contact me sic or film they get a large cut of the price you just been released in the form of Microsoft catalogue, YDMT will receive a £1 donation via my website at pay. Microsoft and Apple force users to use Office 2013. With this comes a big change in from Suttons Seeds to support the Trust’s www.dalescomputerservices.com their store alone – no competition. Google has the licensing and funding models. Microsoft charitable work. Carol Haynes Play store but doesn’t restrict you from want home users ideally to pay £80 subscrip- Sarah Brewer, Fundraising Officer at downloading apps from elsewhere. Traditional tion to use Office (confusing the subscription YDMT, said: “This is a really easy way to computers (laptops and desktops) have lots of version is called Office 365) which includes raise money to support our important work companies producing programs and applica- both Office online applications and the full Live-Shop-Hawes across the Dales. Simply choose from the tions and consequently MS, Apple and Google computer versions. £80 a year would allow up excellent selection of high quality flowers don’t get their cut. The whole process is very to five computers/users within a single house- We will be producing the 2013 leaflet again and edibles available in the Suttons Seeds anticompetitive. hold. If you have five computers it probably this year. Please call at the Community Of- catalogue, and for every £5 you spend, £1 Politically many governments (including the isn’t too bad a deal – except that it is in perpe- fice for a form, or e-mail Abbie at: will come straight to YDMT. Whether US and UK governments) would like to see the tuity! Traditionally many users buy a copy of [email protected] you’re looking for inspiration for a small power of general computers removed from the Office and only replace it when it is so old it This year we are adding a "shop local" window box or an entire allotment, there’s masses. This will stop lots of headaches with won’t work on a new computer (I still regu- scheme to the leaflet. Some businesses in sure to be something to tempt you, and with control issues – and both sides of the Atlantic larly come across Word 97). If you bought the Hawes already offer discounts to local peo- your help we can raise money to support even governments hate the fact the general popula- home and student DVD of Office 2010 and ple, or to those who spend over a certain more worthwhile projects in the local area.” tion has the power of general computing at still use it in five years’ time you will have amount, so we thought it would be easier to To request a free copy of the fundraising their fingertips. In particular governments are saved over £400 compared to the subscription. include a symbol in the brochure next to catalogue please call YDMT on 015242 under heavy pressure from entertainment in- Business subscriptions are much more expen- businesses who offered any sort of discount. 51002 or email [email protected]. dustries to put a stop to file sharing of copy- sive and more restrictive. Stickers for businesses who want to offer right material. Even worse is if you want to buy a DVD of discounts can also be distributed and dis- Does it really matter? For some people Office 2013. In short you can’t! Microsoft now played in their premises so that any shopper probably not a lot BUT (and it is a big BUT) only sell a licence key card for all versions of knows they are part of a local discount all of these new tablets lock you into an infra- scheme. The businesses can then offer any Coffee Morning Office. If you buy a copy the software only Saturday 9th March structure of one manufacturer and it is then installs on one device – and once installed is discounts they wish and manage this them- difficult to break away and have choice. Add selves without being tied to a specific In the back room of Askrigg Village Hall LOCKED TO THAT DEVICE for ever! If you between 10am and 12pm. to that they try desperately to take control of install Office on your laptop and your com- scheme. your personal data – to the extent of storing all Deadline for submission is 31st March All proceeds to St Oswald's Church. puter is stolen, develops a fault or even has to Entry is just £2 and there will be a popular your files (pictures, documents etc.) on their be returned and replaced under warranty – you (Easter weekend). Once again, entry into the own computers ‘in the cloud’ and charge leaflet is completely free, and it is a project cake stall, Fairtrade goods, Avon products will have to buy a new copy of Office to con- and raffle. Everyone is welcome. for that service and they have you locked in in tinue using it – at full price. for promoting the use of local businesses and more than one way – pay up or lose your data! services in Hawes. The Coffee Morning in February raised an This is a huge change – business users could amazing £300, thanks to the hard work of the Having said that, there are significant differ- always install Office on a desktop and a laptop Abbie Rhodes ences between tablets/phones and real 667400 organisers and the generosity of those who from a single purchase, and if they replace a came along computers when it comes to power and flexi- computer transfer it to a new machine. Not any

13 13 Easter Church Services Hawes Area – United Walk of Witness Skeldale House Open Day 10.00am Leave from Gayle arrive at Keith and Lisa came to Askrigg from a village (H.C. = service includes Holy Communion) he doors of the newly-transformed 11.00am Service at Hawes Methodist Church near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, six and a half Skeldale House in Askrigg, 'home' to the Palm Sunday 24th March years ago, with son Ayrton and daughter Other Good Friday Services vets in the BBC TV series All Crea- 9.00am Breakfast in Redmire Village Hall T Orianne, now 20 and 18, buying the shop and tures Great and Small, will be 9.30am St. Margaret’s, Preston-under-Scar adjacent tea-room. Keith was a sales rep for an 9.40am Donkey Procession to Redmire opened to the public 10.15am St. Oswald’s, Castle Bolton engineering company and Lisa had been a fam- Church for the first 1.30 pm Meditation in St Oswald’s, Askrigg ily support worker, specialising in child protec- 10.00am Family Service St. Mary’s, Redmire time on Sat- 2.00pm St. Bartholomew’s, West Witton tion. 9.00am Breakfast in West Witton Village u r d a y , Hall Easter Sunday 31st March March 23rd, 9.45am Procession to St. Bartholomew’s “We loved village life but decided we wanted 6.30am Son-rise service; Pen Hill f r o m Church, to run our own business. The village we lived in 9.30am HC and baptism, St. Oswald’s 1.00pm. 9.30am Methodist Service, West Witton was destroyed by a big supermarket chain open- Castle Bolton 9.30am Holy Communion, Preston-under- ing a store nearby. Everything went. The post 9.30am St. Margaret’s, Preston-u-Scar HC V i s i t o r s Scar office, the butcher’s, the local shop and pub, all 9.30am St. Bartholomew’s, West Witton HC will be able 10.30 am Bainbridge Methodist Chapel just died. Askrigg is still a vibrant village and 10.30am St Oswald’s, Askrigg HC to tour the 10.30 am Hawes Methodist Church we want to help keep it that way,” says Lisa. 10.30am Aysgarth join Bainbridge Methodists f a m o u s 10.45 am Aysgarth Methodist Chapel H.C. three-storey building, which has been refur- 10.45 am West Burton Methodist Chapel HC They are working with Ian Ashton, director of 10.30am Hawes Methodist Church bished as a luxurious bed and breakfast, and take 2.00 pm Marsett Methodist Chapel HC the Herriot museum in Thirsk, where real-life vet 10.30am St Margaret’s Hawes HC a light tea in the elegant dining-room. 2.30pm Evensong, Thornton Rust Alf Wight, who wrote as James Herriot and 10.45am West Burton Chapel 'Shake-up' whose books formed the basis for the television service The six guest bedrooms and all the other pub- Holy Week Meditative Services (all at 7 pm) series, had his practice. 11.00am Family Communion with activities f lic rooms, including the imposing hall with its Mon 25th Aysgarth, Betsy Everett, 650180 for children, egg decorating and egg wrought ironwork staircase, will be open to view Tues 26th Preston, rolling etc. St. Andrew’s, Aysgarth for the first time since the major refurbishment Wed 27th West Witton 11.00am Holy Trinity, Wensley HC was completed by Lisa and Keith Wright, own- 2.00pm Marsett Chapel ers of the village shop. Maundy Thursday 28th March 2.30pm Evensong at St Matthew's, 9.30am H.C. West Witton. Stalling Busk. Apart from the plumbing and electrics, and the Uphill and Down Dale… 6.00pm Supper at St Oswald's ,Askrigg All 6.30pm Gayle Chapel H.C painting of the vast hall and stairwell, all the ... the Yorkshire Dales National Park is home to welcome, including children. decoration has been done by Keith and Lisa some of Yorkshire's most iconic scenery and 7.30pm West Burton H.C. Are You Clued Up About Fraud? themselves, with Lisa co-ordinating the individ- attractions. With spectacular limestone valleys, 7.00 pm Thornton Rust Mission Room HC ual colour schemes in each of the rooms, and Read the Little Book of Big Scams picture postcard villages and historic castles, it's choosing the period furniture, soft furnishings a place that stirs the emotions and stimulates the Good Friday 29th March Fraud costs the British economy £73 billion a and carpets from local suppliers. senses of everyone that visits. Penhill Area -The Stations Of The Cross year and criminals use a number of sophisti- The National Park brims over with fantastic 9.05am Preston-u-Scar, outside church, cated scams to try and snare victims To en- "It's been hard work but worth every minute sites to see and great days out on our E-bike 9.35 am Redmire, top green, sure the public are informed about these and a real labour of love for both of us. We know tours. The beautiful landscapes and cultural heri- 10.00am Castle Bolton Green scams to allow them to spot them, Thames there's been an awful lot of interest among local tage is simply ‘Yorkshire at its best’. 10.50am Carperby Cross, Valley Police has produced a booklet which people in what we are doing so we thought they The Dales have hundreds of events running 11.20am Thornton Rust Institute, meet outside aims to reduce the risk of becoming a victim would welcome the opportunity to see it before throughout the year, from bat walks to beer festi- Mission Room. of fraud. The Little Book of Big Scams, which we officially open for business," says Lisa. vals, traditional farming shows and village fetes 11.50am Thoralby upper green includes a foreword from Esther Rantzen, includes sections on identity fraud, scam mail, featuring fell races and sheep dog trials. 12.15pm Newbiggin, There will be a £3 entry charge for the open door to door scams and internet scams. As The thriving market towns of Grassington, 12.50pm West Burton Market Cross, day, which will include coffee and a home-made well as details on different types of frauds, Hawes, Settle and Ingleton are all “Hub” loca- 1.25pm Wensley Bolton Hall Gates, cake, with all the proceeds going to the Teenage there are a number of helpful hints, 10 golden tions to our Dales tours. Aysgarth Falls is our 1.45pm West Witton opposite Wensleydale Cancer Trust. rules to avoid becoming a victim, and case other “Hub” location and is a spectacular stretch Heifer, The iconic three-story building, whose famous studies. of water best known for its triple flight of water- 2.15pm Aysgarth Village Green, to finish railings and black front door are still seen on The booklet also gives details on where to falls. Escape the hustle and bustle. With over 500 with service television screens all over the world more than go to get help and how to report fraud if you miles of bridleways and byways to explore, it’s 2.30pm United service at Aysgarth 30 years after the popular dales drama was do become a victim. Contact: no wonder The Yorkshire Dales is one of the Methodist Chapel screened, was vacated by Broadacres Housing www.thamesvalley.police.uk/the-little-book- most popular national parks in England for bik- Association, who ran it as a home for vulnerable of-big-scams.pdf> ing and biking tours. adults, two years ago.

14 14 Easter Church Services Hawes Area – United Walk of Witness Skeldale House Open Day 10.00am Leave from Gayle arrive at Keith and Lisa came to Askrigg from a village (H.C. = service includes Holy Communion) he doors of the newly-transformed 11.00am Service at Hawes Methodist Church near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, six and a half Skeldale House in Askrigg, 'home' to the Palm Sunday 24th March years ago, with son Ayrton and daughter Other Good Friday Services vets in the BBC TV series All Crea- 9.00am Breakfast in Redmire Village Hall T Orianne, now 20 and 18, buying the shop and tures Great and Small, will be 9.30am St. Margaret’s, Preston-under-Scar adjacent tea-room. Keith was a sales rep for an 9.40am Donkey Procession to Redmire opened to the public 10.15am St. Oswald’s, Castle Bolton engineering company and Lisa had been a fam- Church for the first 1.30 pm Meditation in St Oswald’s, Askrigg ily support worker, specialising in child protec- 10.00am Family Service St. Mary’s, Redmire time on Sat- 2.00pm St. Bartholomew’s, West Witton tion. 9.00am Breakfast in West Witton Village u r d a y , Hall Easter Sunday 31st March March 23rd, 9.45am Procession to St. Bartholomew’s “We loved village life but decided we wanted 6.30am Son-rise service; Pen Hill f r o m Church, to run our own business. The village we lived in 9.30am HC and baptism, St. Oswald’s 1.00pm. 9.30am Methodist Service, West Witton was destroyed by a big supermarket chain open- Castle Bolton 9.30am Holy Communion, Preston-under- ing a store nearby. Everything went. The post 9.30am St. Margaret’s, Preston-u-Scar HC V i s i t o r s Scar office, the butcher’s, the local shop and pub, all 9.30am St. Bartholomew’s, West Witton HC will be able 10.30 am Bainbridge Methodist Chapel just died. Askrigg is still a vibrant village and 10.30am St Oswald’s, Askrigg HC to tour the 10.30 am Hawes Methodist Church we want to help keep it that way,” says Lisa. 10.30am Aysgarth join Bainbridge Methodists f a m o u s 10.45 am Aysgarth Methodist Chapel H.C. three-storey building, which has been refur- 10.45 am West Burton Methodist Chapel HC They are working with Ian Ashton, director of 10.30am Hawes Methodist Church bished as a luxurious bed and breakfast, and take 2.00 pm Marsett Methodist Chapel HC the Herriot museum in Thirsk, where real-life vet 10.30am St Margaret’s Hawes HC a light tea in the elegant dining-room. 2.30pm Evensong, Thornton Rust Alf Wight, who wrote as James Herriot and 10.45am West Burton Chapel 'Shake-up' whose books formed the basis for the television service The six guest bedrooms and all the other pub- Holy Week Meditative Services (all at 7 pm) series, had his practice. 11.00am Family Communion with activities f lic rooms, including the imposing hall with its Mon 25th Aysgarth, Betsy Everett, 650180 for children, egg decorating and egg wrought ironwork staircase, will be open to view Tues 26th Preston, rolling etc. St. Andrew’s, Aysgarth for the first time since the major refurbishment Wed 27th West Witton 11.00am Holy Trinity, Wensley HC was completed by Lisa and Keith Wright, own- 2.00pm Marsett Chapel ers of the village shop. Maundy Thursday 28th March 2.30pm Evensong at St Matthew's, 9.30am H.C. West Witton. Stalling Busk. Apart from the plumbing and electrics, and the Uphill and Down Dale… 6.00pm Supper at St Oswald's ,Askrigg All 6.30pm Gayle Chapel H.C painting of the vast hall and stairwell, all the ... the Yorkshire Dales National Park is home to welcome, including children. decoration has been done by Keith and Lisa some of Yorkshire's most iconic scenery and 7.30pm West Burton H.C. Are You Clued Up About Fraud? themselves, with Lisa co-ordinating the individ- attractions. With spectacular limestone valleys, 7.00 pm Thornton Rust Mission Room HC ual colour schemes in each of the rooms, and Read the Little Book of Big Scams picture postcard villages and historic castles, it's choosing the period furniture, soft furnishings a place that stirs the emotions and stimulates the Good Friday 29th March Fraud costs the British economy £73 billion a and carpets from local suppliers. senses of everyone that visits. Penhill Area -The Stations Of The Cross year and criminals use a number of sophisti- The National Park brims over with fantastic 9.05am Preston-u-Scar, outside church, cated scams to try and snare victims To en- "It's been hard work but worth every minute sites to see and great days out on our E-bike 9.35 am Redmire, top green, sure the public are informed about these and a real labour of love for both of us. We know tours. The beautiful landscapes and cultural heri- 10.00am Castle Bolton Green scams to allow them to spot them, Thames there's been an awful lot of interest among local tage is simply ‘Yorkshire at its best’. 10.50am Carperby Cross, Valley Police has produced a booklet which people in what we are doing so we thought they The Dales have hundreds of events running 11.20am Thornton Rust Institute, meet outside aims to reduce the risk of becoming a victim would welcome the opportunity to see it before throughout the year, from bat walks to beer festi- Mission Room. of fraud. The Little Book of Big Scams, which we officially open for business," says Lisa. vals, traditional farming shows and village fetes 11.50am Thoralby upper green includes a foreword from Esther Rantzen, includes sections on identity fraud, scam mail, featuring fell races and sheep dog trials. 12.15pm Newbiggin, There will be a £3 entry charge for the open door to door scams and internet scams. As The thriving market towns of Grassington, 12.50pm West Burton Market Cross, day, which will include coffee and a home-made well as details on different types of frauds, Hawes, Settle and Ingleton are all “Hub” loca- 1.25pm Wensley Bolton Hall Gates, cake, with all the proceeds going to the Teenage there are a number of helpful hints, 10 golden tions to our Dales tours. Aysgarth Falls is our 1.45pm West Witton opposite Wensleydale Cancer Trust. rules to avoid becoming a victim, and case other “Hub” location and is a spectacular stretch Heifer, The iconic three-story building, whose famous studies. of water best known for its triple flight of water- 2.15pm Aysgarth Village Green, to finish railings and black front door are still seen on The booklet also gives details on where to falls. Escape the hustle and bustle. With over 500 with service television screens all over the world more than go to get help and how to report fraud if you miles of bridleways and byways to explore, it’s 2.30pm United service at Aysgarth 30 years after the popular dales drama was do become a victim. Contact: no wonder The Yorkshire Dales is one of the Methodist Chapel screened, was vacated by Broadacres Housing www.thamesvalley.police.uk/the-little-book- most popular national parks in England for bik- Association, who ran it as a home for vulnerable of-big-scams.pdf> ing and biking tours. adults, two years ago.

15 15 How Wet Was 2012? It was officially the wettest year in England (and the second wettest in the UK) since records More from North Country Theatre A Senior Moment began but was it the wettest in Wensleydale? Well, we had a lovely afternoon doing the The other Sunday morning I was in con- The answer is no. It wasn’t even the wettest in the 11 years from 2002 that we have been report- play reading the other Sunday – such a templative mood, sitting in my car and ing rainfall figures across a range of locations in our area. Below we have summarised the total pleasant event and delicious cakes [thanks watching the wind-torn surface of the river rainfall figures for every year from 2002-2012. to the cake bakers!] Nobby is still hoping to swirling prettily about. All about. I was on recruit some more men for Blame it on my way to church as normal when the am- Bartle! Performance dates – dress rehearsal phibian qualities of my vehicle were ex- 3rd July then 4th 5th & 7th first week and posed as woefully inadequate for fording 11th, 12th & 14th the following week. Check the swollen, angry Ure just across Hay- out the North Country page on Facebook lands Bridge. for more info. Next workshop/rehearsal is 3rd March 2.00-5.00pm at the Catholic My thoughts as I sat there were such as Church Hall in Richmond. not to be shared in polite society. I just In addition there are a few areas where wished I could find a rewind button and more local people may be able to help start the journey again but in more sensible We are currently looking for somewhere fashion. Water was coming in round the to store our costumes, props and educa- door ‘seals’ and was steadily rising towards tional resources, as the office space along my knees. My feet were already suffering As can be seen, 2008 was wetter than 2012 in every one of our measuring locations and in Hawes the street from our offices is no longer from hypothermia and urgent action was 2012 was only the fourth wettest (after 2008, 2006 and 2004) – what short memories we have. available. So we are looking for a space 12’ necessary. I actually had my mobile phone The average rainfall in the UK during 2012 was 1331mm and each of our locations exceeded x 10’ [or that sort of volume] to relocate to. with me which had a well-charged battery that figure so we can confirm that Wensleydale is a fairly wet place (as if you needed telling). When we looked at commercial spaces we and there was a strong signal. These three Averaged over the last 11 years we can also confirm that Hawes is the wettest place followed discovered that they are more than we are requirements are seldom found together at by Stalling Busk. Bainbridge and Thornton Rust have similar totals and Askrigg and Carperby currently paying for our offices! We don’t one time and I offered up a prayer of thanks are the driest (relatively speaking). Indeed over the 11 year period Carperby has averaged only use it very often – just need somewhere we to my guardian angel. 70% of the rainfall of Hawes. In climate change terms, 11 years is too short a period for mean- can access which is dry. Does anyone have ingful comment but there is no obvious trend of Wensleydale getting wetter – it just feels that any ideas? Help was soon at hand in the form of the way. BMC Nobby has been in Norway over the Hawes fire engine, fully staffed and compe- weekend recruiting Trolls for Bartle – so tent. I was pushed out on to dry land where we shall be interested to hear how he’s got I was able to disembark and join my wife Programmes available from Towlers News- on. Thanks again for all your fantastic who had hurried to my rescue with a bag of Upper Dales Family History Group agen ts, Leyburn and the Corner House, West support and enthusiasm. Wellington boots. Later in the day a group The next meeting of the Upper Dales Family Burton Gillian Howells, 01748 825362 of kind friends towed the car to a safe History Group is at 2.00pm on Wednesday, MARCH 2013 place to await attention. March 27th, in Fremington Sunday School near Reeth in Swaledale. The speaker is June Lent Course It was altogether an interesting experi- Hall on ‘A forgotten emigration - Yorkshire ence but one I do not plan to repeat. I am Folk to Nova Scotia’. The talk will describe the “Finding a Voice” is the title of this year’s deeply grateful for the speed and compe- emigration of 1772-5, from the Yorkshire Lent Course. It is based on the film “The tence of the response to my mayday call; Dales, Vale of York and North York Moors, to King’s Speech”. We shall watch extracts and the concerned inquiries of everyone I what was then Nova Scotia, Canada. Many from the film and consider them together meet are heart-warming. I am preparing a descendants of the one thousand settlers still with related Bible passages. placard to wear bearing he words live in the Maritime provinces. Original corre- There will be three further meetings on “No, I am not planning to go swimming spondence, artefacts and family stories provide Affiliated to the British Feveration of Music Wednesday evenings at the vicarage in today.” evidence for the little known, but extremely Festivals of which Her Majesty the Queen is Carperby beginning at 7.00pm on March Hugh Bridgman hazardous journeys to a new land. The Upper Patron and will be held at 6th, 13th and 20th Everyone is invited to Dales Group is a branch of the Cleveland Fam- Methodist Hall, Leyburn come to all or any of the meetings as they ily History Society; entry is free for members March 12th-15th (Speech) fit in with your diaries! In Lent it is good The Craven Accordion Orchestra and non-members are very welcome at £2 each. March 19th– 22nd (Music) to join with others to think about different Saturday 9th March at 7.00pm For further details see the website at aspects of our faith and our calling to be in St. Margaret's Church, Hawes www.upperdalesfhg.org.uk or contact: Registered Charity No. 1007474 Christians. £5 at the door, followed by Tea and Bis- Tracy Little 01748-884759. Admission: Adults £1.00 per day; £2.00 per Sue and Penny cuits with Raffle.Proceeds towards the res- evening toration fund Children £0.50; Under 5s free

16 16 How Wet Was 2012? It was officially the wettest year in England (and the second wettest in the UK) since records More from North Country Theatre A Senior Moment began but was it the wettest in Wensleydale? Well, we had a lovely afternoon doing the The other Sunday morning I was in con- The answer is no. It wasn’t even the wettest in the 11 years from 2002 that we have been report- play reading the other Sunday – such a templative mood, sitting in my car and ing rainfall figures across a range of locations in our area. Below we have summarised the total pleasant event and delicious cakes [thanks watching the wind-torn surface of the river rainfall figures for every year from 2002-2012. to the cake bakers!] Nobby is still hoping to swirling prettily about. All about. I was on recruit some more men for Blame it on my way to church as normal when the am- Bartle! Performance dates – dress rehearsal phibian qualities of my vehicle were ex- 3rd July then 4th 5th & 7th first week and posed as woefully inadequate for fording 11th, 12th & 14th the following week. Check the swollen, angry Ure just across Hay- out the North Country page on Facebook lands Bridge. for more info. Next workshop/rehearsal is 3rd March 2.00-5.00pm at the Catholic My thoughts as I sat there were such as Church Hall in Richmond. not to be shared in polite society. I just In addition there are a few areas where wished I could find a rewind button and more local people may be able to help start the journey again but in more sensible We are currently looking for somewhere fashion. Water was coming in round the to store our costumes, props and educa- door ‘seals’ and was steadily rising towards tional resources, as the office space along my knees. My feet were already suffering As can be seen, 2008 was wetter than 2012 in every one of our measuring locations and in Hawes the street from our offices is no longer from hypothermia and urgent action was 2012 was only the fourth wettest (after 2008, 2006 and 2004) – what short memories we have. available. So we are looking for a space 12’ necessary. I actually had my mobile phone The average rainfall in the UK during 2012 was 1331mm and each of our locations exceeded x 10’ [or that sort of volume] to relocate to. with me which had a well-charged battery that figure so we can confirm that Wensleydale is a fairly wet place (as if you needed telling). When we looked at commercial spaces we and there was a strong signal. These three Averaged over the last 11 years we can also confirm that Hawes is the wettest place followed discovered that they are more than we are requirements are seldom found together at by Stalling Busk. Bainbridge and Thornton Rust have similar totals and Askrigg and Carperby currently paying for our offices! We don’t one time and I offered up a prayer of thanks are the driest (relatively speaking). Indeed over the 11 year period Carperby has averaged only use it very often – just need somewhere we to my guardian angel. 70% of the rainfall of Hawes. In climate change terms, 11 years is too short a period for mean- can access which is dry. Does anyone have ingful comment but there is no obvious trend of Wensleydale getting wetter – it just feels that any ideas? Help was soon at hand in the form of the way. BMC Nobby has been in Norway over the Hawes fire engine, fully staffed and compe- weekend recruiting Trolls for Bartle – so tent. I was pushed out on to dry land where we shall be interested to hear how he’s got I was able to disembark and join my wife Programmes available from Towlers News- on. Thanks again for all your fantastic who had hurried to my rescue with a bag of Upper Dales Family History Group agen ts, Leyburn and the Corner House, West support and enthusiasm. Wellington boots. Later in the day a group The next meeting of the Upper Dales Family Burton Gillian Howells, 01748 825362 of kind friends towed the car to a safe History Group is at 2.00pm on Wednesday, MARCH 2013 place to await attention. March 27th, in Fremington Sunday School near Reeth in Swaledale. The speaker is June Lent Course It was altogether an interesting experi- Hall on ‘A forgotten emigration - Yorkshire ence but one I do not plan to repeat. I am Folk to Nova Scotia’. The talk will describe the “Finding a Voice” is the title of this year’s deeply grateful for the speed and compe- emigration of 1772-5, from the Yorkshire Lent Course. It is based on the film “The tence of the response to my mayday call; Dales, Vale of York and North York Moors, to King’s Speech”. We shall watch extracts and the concerned inquiries of everyone I what was then Nova Scotia, Canada. Many from the film and consider them together meet are heart-warming. I am preparing a descendants of the one thousand settlers still with related Bible passages. placard to wear bearing he words live in the Maritime provinces. Original corre- There will be three further meetings on “No, I am not planning to go swimming spondence, artefacts and family stories provide Affiliated to the British Feveration of Music Wednesday evenings at the vicarage in today.” evidence for the little known, but extremely Festivals of which Her Majesty the Queen is Carperby beginning at 7.00pm on March Hugh Bridgman hazardous journeys to a new land. The Upper Patron and will be held at 6th, 13th and 20th Everyone is invited to Dales Group is a branch of the Cleveland Fam- Methodist Hall, Leyburn come to all or any of the meetings as they ily History Society; entry is free for members March 12th-15th (Speech) fit in with your diaries! In Lent it is good The Craven Accordion Orchestra and non-members are very welcome at £2 each. March 19th– 22nd (Music) to join with others to think about different Saturday 9th March at 7.00pm For further details see the website at aspects of our faith and our calling to be in St. Margaret's Church, Hawes www.upperdalesfhg.org.uk or contact: Registered Charity No. 1007474 Christians. £5 at the door, followed by Tea and Bis- Tracy Little 01748-884759. Admission: Adults £1.00 per day; £2.00 per Sue and Penny cuits with Raffle.Proceeds towards the res- evening toration fund Children £0.50; Under 5s free

17 17 comes close to the water along Mill Ayre. This There are so many difficult choices to make at Best Foot Forward Prunings river is apparently one of the cleanest in Eng- this time. I have always loved Dahlias, they Tony Harrison A personal take on Plants, Propagating and land. At this point a narrow lane comes are almost vulgar in their brilliant colours (Burtersett) emailed to other related rural ramblings. steeply down from the town to this interesting and spectacular shapes, but this year I shall say: "Thanks for the re- area but we carry on close by the water for a not buy tubers that promise blooms like din- cent Great Shunner Fell What a welcome taste of Spring it little way. Now here is the only hard bit: 85 th ner plates. In terms of helping out our flying article which I've just was, albeit brief. Today (20 ) (or thereabouts) steps (with handrail!) up to friends they are not a good option. Many of read with pleasure. I the temperature feels the View where you can sit down to enjoy the these large hybrids have been bred for looks, thoroughly agree with very wintry again. A scene which inspired both John Ruskin and and in producing huge heads of petals the your comments and can also recommend the week ago, coming JMW Turner. If you must return via the breeders have lost the stigma, stamens and Great Sleddale route - a wonderfully remote back from Bedale, the churchyard, fair enough, but the path contin- pollen that the insects feed on. If a flower dale. As well as a great walking hill, Gt Shun- fields were greening, ues eventually arriving at the village of does not produce seed it has no need to attract ner is just the right "steepness" for cross - not so here in the Kearswick. However, after a little while a pollinators with scent or nectar. If you too country skiing (at least for me!) - I've been up Dale: the greys of track bears left to the Kirkby Lonsdale Rugby love Dahlias choose the single ones. There are (and down!) it twice on skis recently.” Winter remain ines- Club. They must be a keen lot here; there are many in the Bishop family with superb dark Where am I this capable. Now, following three glorious sunny four pitches. From the slightly higher ground leaves and spectacular red flowers. What is t i m e ? ( j u s t days there is still a worrying amount of the look right again across the Lune to Barbon more you can save seed from them. Having strolling) white stuff lying behind the walls. Older and Middleton Fells, geographically and to- been ill in January I am now weeks behind This is the dales-folk assure me that more will come to pographically part of the Dales. The rugby and so many urgent jobs are still to be done. I f a m o u s shift it! Yesterday I planned to pot up some club lane leads back to the B6254 where, turn- am sowing seed and potting up rooted cut- Ruskin’s View’ Eryngeums which had been started off last ing left, takes us down to the far end of the tings as fast as possible. One real success has in Kirkby Lons- year as offsets. I had to put them in full sun town. While in the town, potter around the been the box cuttings started in “Roottrainers” dale and acces- until after lunch as the pots were frozen solid alleyways and old buildings especially be- a year last June. Out of 64 cuttings taken 63 sible for most and the weeds trapped. tween the shopping streets and the river. This plants have survived. I have never had a result people via the large churchyard which by the Strange how sunshine encourages us to plan is a pleasant stroll at any time of the year. like that. I shall be using “Roottrainers” a time you go will be just coming into its for the feast of colour to come: I have been Three-quarters of an hour to an hour should good deal more often in future. spring-bulb splendour. Here is a pleasant walk sorting through seeds. – If I grew a tenth of do it. Tearooms and pubs abound! Good luck! And whatever you grow, take to take it in, maybe while others are at the my current stash I could carpet the Dale. Seed A.S.W. merchants seem able to sell the less spectacu- time to enjoy it. shops. It may sound disloyal to our area, but lar varieties by the hundred, or even thousand, Rose Rambler Kirkby Lonsdale but the really choice ones are packeted in sin- has a good deal to Happy 21st birthday gle numbers. It says something about the mar- offer— and even to Hannah, Elizabeth Pedley keting of new strains. Much has been written Circle Dancing learn from! Love from about the demise of bee populations and we Granny, Granddad and uncle Nigel have completely lost some of our native spe- As our thoughts turn to Spring it’s time to Start with your XXXX cies. There seems to be little convincing con- start dancing again! back to the splen- sensus that we can rely on to explain these CIRCsLE DANCING SESSIONS start at didly refurbished changes, especially here in the Dales where Sycamore Hall, Bainbridge on Monday Royal Hotel look- Hannah Pedley alterations in agriculture and farming practice March 11th at 7.30pm ing to this building across the Market Place Happy 21st birthday; March 16th have been much less dramatic than in arable All are welcome, both new and experienced and go down the little narrow lane to its right, Lots of love from country. I have become increasingly inclined dancers. Contact numbers: past the privately-supported public toilets, and Mum, Dad, Stuart, Betheni and Archie to feel that we, as individuals should accept Paula 650548, Peter 624038 at the end turn right to carry on down to the XXXXX more environmental responsibility and pro- famous Devil’s Bridge. It is hard to imagine vide plants more appropriate for their wel- all the main road traffic once going over here. fare. If enough growers take this view it has to Have a look, read the information boards; you help. Last year I was tempted to grub out a Upright piano may well see several practising canoeists be- large cotoneaster that was threatening to de- AVAILABLE FREE low you as I did a few weeks ago. Returning molish a wall. In the end it had some serious up the road, the path upstream beside the Robert and Marina surgery to remove all the branches that were To be collected from West Lune has very recently been newly gravelled would like to thank family and doing damage. Now, what remains is budding Burton Chapel. or flagged (it used to be messy) and makes for friends for the lovely flowers, up and growing again, and I can look forward Ring Julie Pledge an easy walk next to the river. cards and gifts received on the to the constant “sing” of the buzzing creatures 663481 As the path swings round to the left, the that feed on it when it flowers. In addition the river splits round ‘The Island’ and the path occasion of their Golden Wedding. blackbirds love the berries in the autumn.

18 18 comes close to the water along Mill Ayre. This There are so many difficult choices to make at Best Foot Forward Prunings river is apparently one of the cleanest in Eng- this time. I have always loved Dahlias, they Tony Harrison A personal take on Plants, Propagating and land. At this point a narrow lane comes are almost vulgar in their brilliant colours (Burtersett) emailed to other related rural ramblings. steeply down from the town to this interesting and spectacular shapes, but this year I shall say: "Thanks for the re- area but we carry on close by the water for a not buy tubers that promise blooms like din- cent Great Shunner Fell What a welcome taste of Spring it little way. Now here is the only hard bit: 85 th ner plates. In terms of helping out our flying article which I've just was, albeit brief. Today (20 ) (or thereabouts) steps (with handrail!) up to friends they are not a good option. Many of read with pleasure. I the temperature feels the View where you can sit down to enjoy the these large hybrids have been bred for looks, thoroughly agree with very wintry again. A scene which inspired both John Ruskin and and in producing huge heads of petals the your comments and can also recommend the week ago, coming JMW Turner. If you must return via the breeders have lost the stigma, stamens and Great Sleddale route - a wonderfully remote back from Bedale, the churchyard, fair enough, but the path contin- pollen that the insects feed on. If a flower dale. As well as a great walking hill, Gt Shun- fields were greening, ues eventually arriving at the village of does not produce seed it has no need to attract ner is just the right "steepness" for cross - not so here in the Kearswick. However, after a little while a pollinators with scent or nectar. If you too country skiing (at least for me!) - I've been up Dale: the greys of track bears left to the Kirkby Lonsdale Rugby love Dahlias choose the single ones. There are (and down!) it twice on skis recently.” Winter remain ines- Club. They must be a keen lot here; there are many in the Bishop family with superb dark Where am I this capable. Now, following three glorious sunny four pitches. From the slightly higher ground leaves and spectacular red flowers. What is t i m e ? ( j u s t days there is still a worrying amount of the look right again across the Lune to Barbon more you can save seed from them. Having strolling) white stuff lying behind the walls. Older and Middleton Fells, geographically and to- been ill in January I am now weeks behind This is the dales-folk assure me that more will come to pographically part of the Dales. The rugby and so many urgent jobs are still to be done. I f a m o u s shift it! Yesterday I planned to pot up some club lane leads back to the B6254 where, turn- am sowing seed and potting up rooted cut- Ruskin’s View’ Eryngeums which had been started off last ing left, takes us down to the far end of the tings as fast as possible. One real success has in Kirkby Lons- year as offsets. I had to put them in full sun town. While in the town, potter around the been the box cuttings started in “Roottrainers” dale and acces- until after lunch as the pots were frozen solid alleyways and old buildings especially be- a year last June. Out of 64 cuttings taken 63 sible for most and the weeds trapped. tween the shopping streets and the river. This plants have survived. I have never had a result people via the large churchyard which by the Strange how sunshine encourages us to plan is a pleasant stroll at any time of the year. like that. I shall be using “Roottrainers” a time you go will be just coming into its for the feast of colour to come: I have been Three-quarters of an hour to an hour should good deal more often in future. spring-bulb splendour. Here is a pleasant walk sorting through seeds. – If I grew a tenth of do it. Tearooms and pubs abound! Good luck! And whatever you grow, take to take it in, maybe while others are at the my current stash I could carpet the Dale. Seed A.S.W. merchants seem able to sell the less spectacu- time to enjoy it. shops. It may sound disloyal to our area, but lar varieties by the hundred, or even thousand, Rose Rambler Kirkby Lonsdale but the really choice ones are packeted in sin- has a good deal to Happy 21st birthday gle numbers. It says something about the mar- offer— and even to Hannah, Elizabeth Pedley keting of new strains. Much has been written Circle Dancing learn from! Love from about the demise of bee populations and we Granny, Granddad and uncle Nigel have completely lost some of our native spe- As our thoughts turn to Spring it’s time to Start with your XXXX cies. There seems to be little convincing con- start dancing again! back to the splen- sensus that we can rely on to explain these CIRCsLE DANCING SESSIONS start at didly refurbished changes, especially here in the Dales where Sycamore Hall, Bainbridge on Monday Royal Hotel look- Hannah Pedley alterations in agriculture and farming practice March 11th at 7.30pm ing to this building across the Market Place Happy 21st birthday; March 16th have been much less dramatic than in arable All are welcome, both new and experienced and go down the little narrow lane to its right, Lots of love from country. I have become increasingly inclined dancers. Contact numbers: past the privately-supported public toilets, and Mum, Dad, Stuart, Betheni and Archie to feel that we, as individuals should accept Paula 650548, Peter 624038 at the end turn right to carry on down to the XXXXX more environmental responsibility and pro- famous Devil’s Bridge. It is hard to imagine vide plants more appropriate for their wel- all the main road traffic once going over here. fare. If enough growers take this view it has to Have a look, read the information boards; you help. Last year I was tempted to grub out a Upright piano may well see several practising canoeists be- large cotoneaster that was threatening to de- AVAILABLE FREE low you as I did a few weeks ago. Returning molish a wall. In the end it had some serious up the road, the path upstream beside the Robert and Marina surgery to remove all the branches that were To be collected from West Lune has very recently been newly gravelled would like to thank family and doing damage. Now, what remains is budding Burton Chapel. or flagged (it used to be messy) and makes for friends for the lovely flowers, up and growing again, and I can look forward Ring Julie Pledge an easy walk next to the river. cards and gifts received on the to the constant “sing” of the buzzing creatures 663481 As the path swings round to the left, the that feed on it when it flowers. In addition the river splits round ‘The Island’ and the path occasion of their Golden Wedding. blackbirds love the berries in the autumn.

19 19 too pleased to entertain you, give a cup of tea Sycamore News sunset from the 12th onwards. Over the next or coffee and introduce you to the staff and Heavens Above Monday January 21st was the night chosen by few nights as it climbs higher in the sky residents. Just give Michelle a ring: 0370 192 he nights become shorter than the the Licensed Victuallers to present local or- you should be able 4055 to confirm. days this month after we reach the ganisations with gifts of money raised by their to see it better Derek Ramsden vernal equinox on March 20th. It's annual road cycle run, venue being the Foun- T against the darker the date when the Sun is directly above tain Hotel at Hawes. However because of the background. the equator as it moves northwards in the very bad weather the event was cancelled and Cheers! Come on City There's really no cheques sent through the post. Each year they sky and marks the 'official' start of Spring. The only cheerful thing last month's editorial telling how bright have been very generous to Sycamore and our Don't confuse it with British Summer Time could name was 'Bradford City'. For the bene- st it will become amenities fund and it is very much appreciated which begins on March 31 when you need fit of non-sports fans, a Wembley cup final – it may turn out to by the residents. A kind donation of £300.00 to put your clocks forward an hour. with a fourth tier team is as unlikely as, say, be another flop like so many others - but if was received. I wonder how many readers There's a seasonal change in our view of Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish racing all the predictions are correct it should be know or realise that throughout the nation Feb- the night sky too, this month. The bright their bikes across Bainbridge village green quite a sight. So here's hoping for clear ruary 1st was DIGNITY ACTION DAY, a day winter stars are now well past their best and (whoops, bad comparison) Very surprising, skies! Al Bireo which aims to ensure that people receiving by the end of March they're beginning to a n y w a y . care are treated as individuals and are given fade into the western twilight. Now the I had a season ticket for City, aged eleven, choice, control and a sense of purpose. Mi- view south is filled with the less spectacu- and was never tempted to switch allegiance to chelle organised a full afternoon’s entertain- lar springtime groups – Leo, Virgo, Cancer, a posh rich team. My boys have supported ment here at Sycamore consisting of a quiz, a Bootes the Herdsman and the largest of all them through thick and thin and now our mo- chat about the event and a surprise and unex- the constellations, Hydra the Water Ser- ment has come. Getting tickets has been a pected puppet show by two of our carers, pent, straggling low over the horizon. The nightmare, but in scarves and shirts (claret and Julian and Barbara. Puppeteers at Sycamore; l familiar seven stars of the Plough are amber hoops not very flattering) off we went did not know we had such talent. Thanks to nearly overhead, which means the 'W' of We would like to congratulate Joanne, on February 24th. Snow was forecast, so on Michelle we then had sherry, cheese and bis- Cassiopeia is almost at its lowest in the Mike and family on the safe arrival of baby with the long johns..... and if there's extra time cuits after singing an appropriate song “What north. Bootes' leading star is golden-orange Harry. and penalties, will my nerves/bladder cope? I'll is this thing called love''. Arcturus, the fourth brightest in the sky. It's The children have been very busy making let you know. very prominent in the high east and is eas- some Valentine cards and doing other craft Sylvia Crookes 1 can honestly say that here at Sycamore eve- ily found by following the Plough's activities involving lots of hearts. ryday is a dignity day and the aims of such are 'Handle' downwards. Another really bril- Our topic very soon will be Easter and we Well, Sylvia did, with a ‘stop press’ brief very much taken into consideration, thanks to liant star is Capella the yellowish leader of will be very busy making things to cele- phone call from Wembley: “Nevertheless it Michelle and all the caring staff. On Wednes- Auriga the Charioteer. High overhead in brate this. Watch out for the posters with a was a grand day out”. A hasty email added, “ day 27th February a very welcome friend of winter, it's now sinking in the west though list of activities that will be going on during Swansea and Bradford fans mingled happily, ours will be here at 1.30pm. to entertain us. it never actually sets in UK skies. On the the Easter break. and one tipsy Welshman wanted to take me His name is Tony Hi1l and he never fails to opposite side of the Pole star, and about the We would like to say a big thank you to home because he liked my Yorkshire accent.” bring delight and enjoyment with his skill and same distance from it, is the blue-white the Jubilee committee and to the LVA for talent on the keyboard. I have been told that Vega in the little constellation of Lyra the their generous donations. We will be able refreshments will also be served. Wensleydale Red Squirrel Group Harp. It takes Capella's overhead position to use them to buy some new resources for during the summer months the setting. Comment heard this week at Sycamore by Now's your last chance to get a really Some of you may have seen our new bun- one of the ladies: “My husband talking in his good view of Jupiter before it disappears ting hanging in the main room and on our sleep happened to say ‘you are very beautiful until the autumn. It's a striking object low entrance door, this has been made by Jenny darling’ When on waking up she asked him if in the west where it sets around one o'clock Guy. Thank you Jenny it brightens up the he was dreaming about her, his comment back in the morning. Mars and Venus aren't visi- setting. was ’I shall have to go back to sleep and find ble this month so it's the ringed planet, Sat- As part of our ECAT (‘Every child a out' OUCH ! urn, that takes centre stage. It rises in the talker’) project we are sending home some east around 10 in the evening and is well story packs for the children to share at Once again top marks to Chris our Chef who placed for viewing after midnight amongst home with their families and then return during the bad weather the last few weeks has the stars of Libra. them to us with some feedback on what on Wednesday night collected fish and chips Comets are notoriously unpredictable but they thought. Each pack includes a book from the mobile fish and chip van on the with a bit of luck we should be able to see and a soft toy. Green and delivered then to the residents in Comet PANSTARRS during mid-March Please contact Dalesplay for any enquires their flats. “Cheers Chris'' very much appreci- after its closet approach to the sun on or bookings 667789 ated. Each month I write about the goings-on March 10th. Look for it (binoculars will Louise Cloughton at Sycamore Hall, but if anyone wants to give help) low in the west just over an hour after us a visit I am sure Michelle or I will only be www.wensleydalersg.co.uk

20 20 too pleased to entertain you, give a cup of tea Sycamore News sunset from the 12th onwards. Over the next or coffee and introduce you to the staff and Heavens Above Monday January 21st was the night chosen by few nights as it climbs higher in the sky residents. Just give Michelle a ring: 0370 192 he nights become shorter than the the Licensed Victuallers to present local or- you should be able 4055 to confirm. days this month after we reach the ganisations with gifts of money raised by their to see it better Derek Ramsden vernal equinox on March 20th. It's annual road cycle run, venue being the Foun- T against the darker the date when the Sun is directly above tain Hotel at Hawes. However because of the background. the equator as it moves northwards in the very bad weather the event was cancelled and Cheers! Come on City There's really no cheques sent through the post. Each year they sky and marks the 'official' start of Spring. The only cheerful thing last month's editorial telling how bright have been very generous to Sycamore and our Don't confuse it with British Summer Time could name was 'Bradford City'. For the bene- st it will become amenities fund and it is very much appreciated which begins on March 31 when you need fit of non-sports fans, a Wembley cup final – it may turn out to by the residents. A kind donation of £300.00 to put your clocks forward an hour. with a fourth tier team is as unlikely as, say, be another flop like so many others - but if was received. I wonder how many readers There's a seasonal change in our view of Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish racing all the predictions are correct it should be know or realise that throughout the nation Feb- the night sky too, this month. The bright their bikes across Bainbridge village green quite a sight. So here's hoping for clear ruary 1st was DIGNITY ACTION DAY, a day winter stars are now well past their best and (whoops, bad comparison) Very surprising, skies! Al Bireo which aims to ensure that people receiving by the end of March they're beginning to a n y w a y . care are treated as individuals and are given fade into the western twilight. Now the I had a season ticket for City, aged eleven, choice, control and a sense of purpose. Mi- view south is filled with the less spectacu- and was never tempted to switch allegiance to chelle organised a full afternoon’s entertain- lar springtime groups – Leo, Virgo, Cancer, a posh rich team. My boys have supported ment here at Sycamore consisting of a quiz, a Bootes the Herdsman and the largest of all them through thick and thin and now our mo- chat about the event and a surprise and unex- the constellations, Hydra the Water Ser- ment has come. Getting tickets has been a pected puppet show by two of our carers, pent, straggling low over the horizon. The nightmare, but in scarves and shirts (claret and Julian and Barbara. Puppeteers at Sycamore; l familiar seven stars of the Plough are amber hoops not very flattering) off we went did not know we had such talent. Thanks to nearly overhead, which means the 'W' of We would like to congratulate Joanne, on February 24th. Snow was forecast, so on Michelle we then had sherry, cheese and bis- Cassiopeia is almost at its lowest in the Mike and family on the safe arrival of baby with the long johns..... and if there's extra time cuits after singing an appropriate song “What north. Bootes' leading star is golden-orange Harry. and penalties, will my nerves/bladder cope? I'll is this thing called love''. Arcturus, the fourth brightest in the sky. It's The children have been very busy making let you know. very prominent in the high east and is eas- some Valentine cards and doing other craft Sylvia Crookes 1 can honestly say that here at Sycamore eve- ily found by following the Plough's activities involving lots of hearts. ryday is a dignity day and the aims of such are 'Handle' downwards. Another really bril- Our topic very soon will be Easter and we Well, Sylvia did, with a ‘stop press’ brief very much taken into consideration, thanks to liant star is Capella the yellowish leader of will be very busy making things to cele- phone call from Wembley: “Nevertheless it Michelle and all the caring staff. On Wednes- Auriga the Charioteer. High overhead in brate this. Watch out for the posters with a was a grand day out”. A hasty email added, “ day 27th February a very welcome friend of winter, it's now sinking in the west though list of activities that will be going on during Swansea and Bradford fans mingled happily, ours will be here at 1.30pm. to entertain us. it never actually sets in UK skies. On the the Easter break. and one tipsy Welshman wanted to take me His name is Tony Hi1l and he never fails to opposite side of the Pole star, and about the We would like to say a big thank you to home because he liked my Yorkshire accent.” bring delight and enjoyment with his skill and same distance from it, is the blue-white the Jubilee committee and to the LVA for talent on the keyboard. I have been told that Vega in the little constellation of Lyra the their generous donations. We will be able refreshments will also be served. Wensleydale Red Squirrel Group Harp. It takes Capella's overhead position to use them to buy some new resources for during the summer months the setting. Comment heard this week at Sycamore by Now's your last chance to get a really Some of you may have seen our new bun- one of the ladies: “My husband talking in his good view of Jupiter before it disappears ting hanging in the main room and on our sleep happened to say ‘you are very beautiful until the autumn. It's a striking object low entrance door, this has been made by Jenny darling’ When on waking up she asked him if in the west where it sets around one o'clock Guy. Thank you Jenny it brightens up the he was dreaming about her, his comment back in the morning. Mars and Venus aren't visi- setting. was ’I shall have to go back to sleep and find ble this month so it's the ringed planet, Sat- As part of our ECAT (‘Every child a out' OUCH ! urn, that takes centre stage. It rises in the talker’) project we are sending home some east around 10 in the evening and is well story packs for the children to share at Once again top marks to Chris our Chef who placed for viewing after midnight amongst home with their families and then return during the bad weather the last few weeks has the stars of Libra. them to us with some feedback on what on Wednesday night collected fish and chips Comets are notoriously unpredictable but they thought. Each pack includes a book from the mobile fish and chip van on the with a bit of luck we should be able to see and a soft toy. Green and delivered then to the residents in Comet PANSTARRS during mid-March Please contact Dalesplay for any enquires their flats. “Cheers Chris'' very much appreci- after its closet approach to the sun on or bookings 667789 ated. Each month I write about the goings-on March 10th. Look for it (binoculars will Louise Cloughton at Sycamore Hall, but if anyone wants to give help) low in the west just over an hour after us a visit I am sure Michelle or I will only be www.wensleydalersg.co.uk

21 21 Askrigg and District Produce years, maybe have a think about having an- HAWES SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning AYSGARTH SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning other go. Who knows? It could be the start of Show Wb Mar 4th Mar 10th Mar 18th Mar 25th Wb Mar 4th Mar 11th Mar 18th Mar 25th Hello from the current committee of the a whole new adventure. The show is on Au- th Day a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Day a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Askrigg and District Produce Association as gust 26 – Bank Holiday Monday. Any help th we approach what we believe to be our on setting up day on Sunday 25 from Mon W W F F WF WF FJ FJ Mon FJ FJ WJ WJ J J W W 72nd year of existence. As the incoming 11:00am and clearing up between 4.00 and Tues F F JW W J J W W Tues W W F J WF WF JF J Chairman (no-one else stood for election!) I 5:00pm on show day would be gratefully Wed J J F F W W F F Wed F F W W J J J J received as would any donations of cakes for have inherited some wonderful treasures such Thur F F W W J J W W Thur W W J J F F F F as the minutes dating back to 1953 in which the teas. Thank you in anticipation. Fri W W J J F F C C Fri J J F F W W C C there was discussion of rules regarding Mike Dechezeaux, Stoneybank, Askrigg ‘dressed poultry’ and the judging of hams! It Does anyone have a copy of the table ar- Doctors, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed would be fascinating to go back in time and rangements which were drawn out? We had Doctors: , F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed see what the show was like in those early one which was given to a committee member Morning Surgery: 9.00 - 10.30 a.m. (no appointments) Morning S'y: 8.45-10.15 Tues till 10.45 (no appointments) years when such skills were widespread in who has now moved away. Any information? Afternoon Surgery: 3.30 - 5.30 p.m. (appointment only) Afternoon S'y: 4.40-6.00 Tues 1.30-4.00 (appointments only) Please phone 650424 the dale. It has been intriguing for me to see For appointments and all enquiries ring 667200 For appointments and all enquiries ring 6673222 names of people winning prizes as children but who now have kids of their own who are entering every year. Christians Together in the Dales WHAT’S ON LISTING; please add these dates to your Diary As a committee we are charged with taking Thursday 14th March 2013 on this historically and culturally valuable March event and, whilst keeping it fresh and rele- “God Cares For You” 9 Craven Accordion Orchestra; St vant to today’s life, retaining the values that Margaret’s, Hawes. See p.17 1 Wensleydale Society, 7.30pm. See have kept it alive for such a long time. I have Exploring Ways of Giving and Receiving 10 Table top Sale in the Market p.7 House, Hawes joked that I have the opposite of green fingers Care 1 Chicken and chips supper and 10 Mothering Sunday. See p.22 and have no art, craft or culinary skills so am With The Rev’d Vera Sinton quiz. Wensleydale Pantry. From Special church services not the most obvious choice for chairman. I Methodist Church Hall, Middleham, Leyburn 6.30pm 10 West Burton Methodists at St am, however, extremely proud of my connec- From 9.30am (Registration and coffee to 1 Singer in bar to celebrate 25 years Andrew’s, Aysgarth; 11.00am tion with the show and I am passionate about 2.30pm) Charge for the Day £5 of Angus and Mandy at the 10 Aysgarth Methodists at keeping the show as vibrant and loved as it (including coffee, tea & biscuits on arrival has always been to people of all ages and Fountain Hotel, Hawes St Andrew’s,Aysgarth. 11.00am and at lunchtime) 1 World Day of Prayer; Hawes area abilities. 11 Lent Taize service for churches in Remember to bring your bible and a packed service, Hardaw, 2.30pm. See p.11 To this end the committee have tried to the Upper Dale. Hawes Methodist lunch 2 Traditional village dance in Askrigg capture some comments from people in the Chapel; 1.00pm. Contact: Paul and Helen Robson 623775 Village Hall from 8.00pm. Tickets area as to what changes would be welcomed 11 Marsett Chapel Sing-a-long, Mob: 07857 800818 £8.00. in the schedule and have come up with a 8.00pm. Gayle Ladies Choir 3 Bainbridge Methodists at Aysgarth, number of new categories, whilst hopefully 11 Circle dancing restarts, 7.30pm. 10.30am retaining a core of the long-standing ones to Mothering Sunday Services See p.18 5 Hawes Drama group reads “Living retain continuity. Don’t panic, Wilf, the Pic- 12 Decorative and Fine Arts Society, Special services will take place on 10 March: Together” by Alan Ayckbourn; 2.00pm. See p.5 calilli category is still there! 9.30am at St. Mary’s, Redmire Gayle Institute. 7.30pm Copies of the schedule will be displayed in 12 Wensleydale Tournament of Song 10.30am at St. Margaret’s, Preston under 5, 12, 19 Lent lunches and meditation; Begins. See p.16 the area wherever we are able to display them Scar Hawes Methodist Church from soon and also on the website at 12 YDNPA Planning Committee. 11am at St. Andrew’s,Aysgarth joined with noon. 1.00pm.Yoredale, Bainbridge www.askriggshow.talktalk.net . Schedules West Burton and Aysgarth Chapel 5 Middleham and Dales Local History 12 Coffee morning for Comic Relief: will be sent out to all in the catchment area as 4pm at St. Bartholomew’s, West Witton 6, 13, 20 Lent Course in Penhill Beckindales, Hawes. 10.00am till early as feasible once they are printed. If you Diocese. All welcome. See p.17 Noon live outside the area, there are usually a few 8 West Witton Folk Concert, from 13 Wensleydale Red Squirrel Group, spare copies so please get in touch if you Pie and Pea Supper 7.00pm. See p.6 7.30pm. See p.20 would like one. 15 March at 7.00pm 9,18 Preliminary prayers for ‘Filling 14 Christians Together in the Dales; After the poor weather last year reduced the at Berry’s at Swinithwaite Station’ project. See p.9 day course. See p.22 vegetable showing to a poorly looking selec- Raffle and Bingo 9 Coffee Morning for St Oswald’s at 15 Friends of the Museum meeting tion, it would be lovely to see a good display Tickets £8 from 663096 or 663443 Askrigg Village Hall. See p.13 7,30pm. See p. 25 in all the categories this year. Please take Mid Wensleydale Conservative Associa- time to have a look at the schedule and, if tion you’ve not put anything in the show for a few

22 22 Askrigg and District Produce years, maybe have a think about having an- HAWES SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning AYSGARTH SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning other go. Who knows? It could be the start of Show Wb Mar 4th Mar 10th Mar 18th Mar 25th Wb Mar 4th Mar 11th Mar 18th Mar 25th Hello from the current committee of the a whole new adventure. The show is on Au- th Day a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Day a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Askrigg and District Produce Association as gust 26 – Bank Holiday Monday. Any help th we approach what we believe to be our on setting up day on Sunday 25 from Mon W W F F WF WF FJ FJ Mon FJ FJ WJ WJ J J W W 72nd year of existence. As the incoming 11:00am and clearing up between 4.00 and Tues F F JW W J J W W Tues W W F J WF WF JF J Chairman (no-one else stood for election!) I 5:00pm on show day would be gratefully Wed J J F F W W F F Wed F F W W J J J J received as would any donations of cakes for have inherited some wonderful treasures such Thur F F W W J J W W Thur W W J J F F F F as the minutes dating back to 1953 in which the teas. Thank you in anticipation. Fri W W J J F F C C Fri J J F F W W C C there was discussion of rules regarding Mike Dechezeaux, Stoneybank, Askrigg ‘dressed poultry’ and the judging of hams! It Does anyone have a copy of the table ar- Doctors, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed would be fascinating to go back in time and rangements which were drawn out? We had Doctors: , F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed see what the show was like in those early one which was given to a committee member Morning Surgery: 9.00 - 10.30 a.m. (no appointments) Morning S'y: 8.45-10.15 Tues till 10.45 (no appointments) years when such skills were widespread in who has now moved away. Any information? Afternoon Surgery: 3.30 - 5.30 p.m. (appointment only) Afternoon S'y: 4.40-6.00 Tues 1.30-4.00 (appointments only) Please phone 650424 the dale. It has been intriguing for me to see For appointments and all enquiries ring 667200 For appointments and all enquiries ring 6673222 names of people winning prizes as children but who now have kids of their own who are entering every year. Christians Together in the Dales WHAT’S ON LISTING; please add these dates to your Diary As a committee we are charged with taking Thursday 14th March 2013 on this historically and culturally valuable March event and, whilst keeping it fresh and rele- “God Cares For You” 9 Craven Accordion Orchestra; St vant to today’s life, retaining the values that Margaret’s, Hawes. See p.17 1 Wensleydale Society, 7.30pm. See have kept it alive for such a long time. I have Exploring Ways of Giving and Receiving 10 Table top Sale in the Market p.7 House, Hawes joked that I have the opposite of green fingers Care 1 Chicken and chips supper and 10 Mothering Sunday. See p.22 and have no art, craft or culinary skills so am With The Rev’d Vera Sinton quiz. Wensleydale Pantry. From Special church services not the most obvious choice for chairman. I Methodist Church Hall, Middleham, Leyburn 6.30pm 10 West Burton Methodists at St am, however, extremely proud of my connec- From 9.30am (Registration and coffee to 1 Singer in bar to celebrate 25 years Andrew’s, Aysgarth; 11.00am tion with the show and I am passionate about 2.30pm) Charge for the Day £5 of Angus and Mandy at the 10 Aysgarth Methodists at keeping the show as vibrant and loved as it (including coffee, tea & biscuits on arrival has always been to people of all ages and Fountain Hotel, Hawes St Andrew’s,Aysgarth. 11.00am and at lunchtime) 1 World Day of Prayer; Hawes area abilities. 11 Lent Taize service for churches in Remember to bring your bible and a packed service, Hardaw, 2.30pm. See p.11 To this end the committee have tried to the Upper Dale. Hawes Methodist lunch 2 Traditional village dance in Askrigg capture some comments from people in the Chapel; 1.00pm. Contact: Paul and Helen Robson 623775 Village Hall from 8.00pm. Tickets area as to what changes would be welcomed 11 Marsett Chapel Sing-a-long, Mob: 07857 800818 £8.00. in the schedule and have come up with a 8.00pm. Gayle Ladies Choir 3 Bainbridge Methodists at Aysgarth, number of new categories, whilst hopefully 11 Circle dancing restarts, 7.30pm. 10.30am retaining a core of the long-standing ones to Mothering Sunday Services See p.18 5 Hawes Drama group reads “Living retain continuity. Don’t panic, Wilf, the Pic- 12 Decorative and Fine Arts Society, Special services will take place on 10 March: Together” by Alan Ayckbourn; 2.00pm. See p.5 calilli category is still there! 9.30am at St. Mary’s, Redmire Gayle Institute. 7.30pm Copies of the schedule will be displayed in 12 Wensleydale Tournament of Song 10.30am at St. Margaret’s, Preston under 5, 12, 19 Lent lunches and meditation; Begins. See p.16 the area wherever we are able to display them Scar Hawes Methodist Church from soon and also on the website at 12 YDNPA Planning Committee. 11am at St. Andrew’s,Aysgarth joined with noon. 1.00pm.Yoredale, Bainbridge www.askriggshow.talktalk.net . Schedules West Burton and Aysgarth Chapel 5 Middleham and Dales Local History 12 Coffee morning for Comic Relief: will be sent out to all in the catchment area as 4pm at St. Bartholomew’s, West Witton 6, 13, 20 Lent Course in Penhill Beckindales, Hawes. 10.00am till early as feasible once they are printed. If you Diocese. All welcome. See p.17 Noon live outside the area, there are usually a few 8 West Witton Folk Concert, from 13 Wensleydale Red Squirrel Group, spare copies so please get in touch if you Pie and Pea Supper 7.00pm. See p.6 7.30pm. See p.20 would like one. 15 March at 7.00pm 9,18 Preliminary prayers for ‘Filling 14 Christians Together in the Dales; After the poor weather last year reduced the at Berry’s at Swinithwaite Station’ project. See p.9 day course. See p.22 vegetable showing to a poorly looking selec- Raffle and Bingo 9 Coffee Morning for St Oswald’s at 15 Friends of the Museum meeting tion, it would be lovely to see a good display Tickets £8 from 663096 or 663443 Askrigg Village Hall. See p.13 7,30pm. See p. 25 in all the categories this year. Please take Mid Wensleydale Conservative Associa- time to have a look at the schedule and, if tion you’ve not put anything in the show for a few

23 23 15 Red Nose Day/Comic Relief 31 Easter Day 15 Pie and Peas supper at Berry’s 31 Pink Rabbit’s Easter Egg Hunt Swinithwaite. See p.22 on the Wensleydale Railway. 5.00pm. Make something crafty 15, 23 Quilting workshops, Fairfield See p.7 DCM What’s On for Mother’s Day. Mums visit the Mill.bSee p.8 museum free today! 16 Two bands at the Fountain Hotel, April 13 Tea, cakes and recipes;2.30 to Hawes. Funding raising for 1 Plant Sale at Castle Bolton (with Entry charge to Museum—£4 adults, 4.30pm. Bring along your favour- Amala Orphange. £5. 10pm ‘till coffee and cakes). 10.00am to £3.50 concession, free for under 16s. ite cake to share, have a cup of late 12 noon. All exhibitions are free and events in- tea and swop recipes. Free event 17 St Patrick’s Day 1,2,3 Tea and Scones with in Stalls in cluded in Museum entry price unless 15 Victorian Keld 7.30pm. A talk by 17, 31 Aysgarth Methodists at St Margaret’s Church, Hawes. otherwise stated. Duncan Blythell as part of the Bainbridge,10.30am. 1.00 till 3.00pm proceeds Friends of the DCM lecture 20 Newsletter AGM. See p.3 towards restoration fund 1 February till 27 February. “Your York- Programme. £2 20 Carperby W. I. 7.30pm. Paul shire Dales: a snapshot”. The top 20 Tea cakes and recipes in the Sheenan:n ‘Freeholders’ Wood twenty images and captions submitted evening 6.30 to 8.30pm. Bring and dormice’ to a photographic competition, which along your favourite cake to Gayle Mill What’s On 20 Upper Wensleydale Ladies show the special qualities of the York- share, have a cup of tea and Luncheon Club; Rose and shire Dales. swop recipes. Free event Crown, Bainbridge, Noon. Then 31 Mini Meadow Magic. 2.00 to Tony Smailes: ”Churchill, the Big Demonstration Tour: 11.00am and March 4.00pm. Help make a wildflower Gathering and Polar Bears”. 2.30pm. £12 per person. Booking 6, 7, 8 Afternoons. Ladies Textile Art meadow collage at our family 21 Aysgarth Parish Township advisable. Group are making a large quilt to workshop and sow your own mini Meeting;n7.30pm. In Aysgarth 10 Reinvent, Recycle and Revive — be for the Friends of DCM funds. meadow. Bring a plant pot. A Institute contemporary wire jewellery If you would like to join in—please Flowers in the Dales Festival 22 Hawes Primary School PTFA are Making course, using traditional drop in. No expertise required. It event Holding a Bingo Night from textile techniques. 10.30am— will be fun and there will be tea 6.30pm. in the School Hall. Bring 4.30pm. £40 per person. (limited and cake! For further information on any activity and share supper. spaces remain) 10 Mum’s the word! 10.00am to ’phone 666210 22 West Witton domino drive. See A Herriots kitchen lunch is in- p.7 cluded in the fee. 23 Skeldale House Open Day. See Booking essential. p.15 23 Ladies darts presentation night 16, 17 The Victorian Saw Mill and band. Tickets at the Experience Weekend. 9.30am to Fountain 5.00pm.£250 per person. This 23 Pie and Pea supper; Thoralby. course includes kitchen lunch, all See p.3 materials and tuition. 24 Bainbridge Methodist service in Booking essential. Sycamore Hall, 10.30am. 24 Palm Sunday concert at St An- 25—29 Afternoon tours only, at 1.00 drew’s Aysgarth. See p.9 and 3.00pm. £6 per ticket. 26 YDNPA full authority meeting; 10.30am. Yoredale, Bainbridge 27 Good Friday Answers to ‘True or False’ on page 27 Upper Dales Family History 10: Group 2.00pm. See p.16 All are true; go back and read 16 28 Hawes School ‘Eastertingle’ again! event; Hawes Methodist Church, 1.30pm

24 24 15 Red Nose Day/Comic Relief 31 Easter Day 15 Pie and Peas supper at Berry’s 31 Pink Rabbit’s Easter Egg Hunt Swinithwaite. See p.22 on the Wensleydale Railway. 5.00pm. Make something crafty 15, 23 Quilting workshops, Fairfield See p.7 DCM What’s On for Mother’s Day. Mums visit the Mill.bSee p.8 museum free today! 16 Two bands at the Fountain Hotel, April 13 Tea, cakes and recipes;2.30 to Hawes. Funding raising for 1 Plant Sale at Castle Bolton (with Entry charge to Museum—£4 adults, 4.30pm. Bring along your favour- Amala Orphange. £5. 10pm ‘till coffee and cakes). 10.00am to £3.50 concession, free for under 16s. ite cake to share, have a cup of late 12 noon. All exhibitions are free and events in- tea and swop recipes. Free event 17 St Patrick’s Day 1,2,3 Tea and Scones with in Stalls in cluded in Museum entry price unless 15 Victorian Keld 7.30pm. A talk by 17, 31 Aysgarth Methodists at St Margaret’s Church, Hawes. otherwise stated. Duncan Blythell as part of the Bainbridge,10.30am. 1.00 till 3.00pm proceeds Friends of the DCM lecture 20 Newsletter AGM. See p.3 towards restoration fund 1 February till 27 February. “Your York- Programme. £2 20 Carperby W. I. 7.30pm. Paul shire Dales: a snapshot”. The top 20 Tea cakes and recipes in the Sheenan:n ‘Freeholders’ Wood twenty images and captions submitted evening 6.30 to 8.30pm. Bring and dormice’ to a photographic competition, which along your favourite cake to Gayle Mill What’s On 20 Upper Wensleydale Ladies show the special qualities of the York- share, have a cup of tea and Luncheon Club; Rose and shire Dales. swop recipes. Free event Crown, Bainbridge, Noon. Then 31 Mini Meadow Magic. 2.00 to Tony Smailes: ”Churchill, the Big Demonstration Tour: 11.00am and March 4.00pm. Help make a wildflower Gathering and Polar Bears”. 2.30pm. £12 per person. Booking 6, 7, 8 Afternoons. Ladies Textile Art meadow collage at our family 21 Aysgarth Parish Township advisable. Group are making a large quilt to workshop and sow your own mini Meeting;n7.30pm. In Aysgarth 10 Reinvent, Recycle and Revive — be for the Friends of DCM funds. meadow. Bring a plant pot. A Institute contemporary wire jewellery If you would like to join in—please Flowers in the Dales Festival 22 Hawes Primary School PTFA are Making course, using traditional drop in. No expertise required. It event Holding a Bingo Night from textile techniques. 10.30am— will be fun and there will be tea 6.30pm. in the School Hall. Bring 4.30pm. £40 per person. (limited and cake! For further information on any activity and share supper. spaces remain) 10 Mum’s the word! 10.00am to ’phone 666210 22 West Witton domino drive. See A Herriots kitchen lunch is in- p.7 cluded in the fee. 23 Skeldale House Open Day. See Booking essential. p.15 23 Ladies darts presentation night 16, 17 The Victorian Saw Mill and band. Tickets at the Experience Weekend. 9.30am to Fountain 5.00pm.£250 per person. This 23 Pie and Pea supper; Thoralby. course includes kitchen lunch, all See p.3 materials and tuition. 24 Bainbridge Methodist service in Booking essential. Sycamore Hall, 10.30am. 24 Palm Sunday concert at St An- 25—29 Afternoon tours only, at 1.00 drew’s Aysgarth. See p.9 and 3.00pm. £6 per ticket. 26 YDNPA full authority meeting; 10.30am. Yoredale, Bainbridge 27 Good Friday Answers to ‘True or False’ on page 27 Upper Dales Family History 10: Group 2.00pm. See p.16 All are true; go back and read 16 28 Hawes School ‘Eastertingle’ again! event; Hawes Methodist Church, 1.30pm

25 25 Police Report including meter readers, they normally carry Heating oil thefts. Unfortunately we had more some form of identification on them. If you are of this type of incident. Two tanks were si- not sure then ring the company concerned to phoned at Nappa overnight 17th-18th February verify their credentials, or contact the police. If 2013. The offenders must be using a vehicle they are genuine they will wait around. with a large tank in the back. Any strange vans Land Rover Defenders appear to be the vehi- or curtain sided vehicles seen in Nappa re- cle of choice at the moment for thieves so cently? If so please let us know. please make sure yours is secure.. Several churches in Wensleydale have been the targeted The offender(s) are forcing their The antiques shop was broken into in Middle- way inside to gain access to any area where ham overnight in mid February. If you can money may be kept. This includes attacking offer any information that may help us to solve built-in donation boxes or taking “charity” type any of the above crimes contact either myself boxes which are loose. They are using flat on the number below or have a word with bladed implements in their attempts and even if PCSO Don WATSON. If you see suspicious unsuccessful they are causing damage. Please activity ring 101 or if you suspect a crime is assist us by reporting any suspect activity in or being committed 999. around churches PROMPTLY using 101 or if Andy Foster PC826 the suspect appears to be causing damage or Leyburn Safer Neighbourhood Team breaking in 999. Wards of Addlebrough and Hawes& High On 19th February 2013 a male called at a Abbotside house in Bainbridge. He spoke to the occupier Tel. 101 and told her she had a major water leak in the [email protected] back garden. He then conned his way into the house and asked that the downstairs taps be run whilst he went upstairs “to check the taps”. Only he went into a bedroom and stole some Thomas and Julie jewellery. It is predominantly our elder com- would like to thank everyone for munity that are targeted by this type of of- fender. Please be aware that if you had a major their cards, gifts and good water leak in your own back garden it would be wishes on the birth of their you that has to get a plumber in to sort out the matter, so you would not get an unexpected daughter Ella “cold caller” like this. If there is a major leak in the street then it would be dealt with in our Valerie Alderson area by Yorkshire Water (or their sub contactor wishes to thank her family, – usually Morrison Utilities) and they would normally notify residents by other means. So if neighbours and friends for the someone comes to your door with some spuri- flowers, cards, phone calls, and to ous story about checking your water supply all who visited her after her stay in PLEASE DO NOT LET THEM INTO YOUR HOME. Utility company employees, hospital.