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Issue 260 August 2019 THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE NEWSLETTER Issue 260 August 2019 Donation please: 50p suggested Wildflower Meadow and Barn by Larry Ward Covering Upper Wensleydale from Wensley to Garsdale Head plus Walden and Bishopdale, Covering Upper Wensleydale from Wensley to Garsdale Head, with Walden and Bishopdale, Swaledale from Keld to Gunnerside plus Cowgill in Upper Dentdale. Swaledale from Keld to Gunnerside plus Cowgill in Upper Dentdale. Cyclists by Tom Lynn Shady Trees by Jack Sutton 2 ‘Summer in the Dales’ We hope you enjoy the colour photos we have selected for our featured cover sheet this month. We would like to thank all of our readers who sent in a great collection of photos from which Eunice the Ewe we could choose. Last month I was just above the top boulder on the front cover drawing and the winner of the £10 prize is George Thornborrow of Thornton Wensleydale Society Dissolved Rust. Following an Extraordinary General Meeting Where am I now? To enter for the £10 prize, which considered the future of the Wensleydale please include your postal address if replying by Society held on July 5th a decision was reached email. to dissolve the Society with effect from the December 31st 2019. John Blackie The walks programme will cease following the planned walks for September and there will The Newsletter Committee would like to join be no winter talks programme. the many individuals and organisations who have expressed their gratitude for the immense It was also agreed that the Society’s assets be public service undertaken by Councillor John donated to the YDNP and to Marrick Priory to Blackie who died on July 13th. enable disadvantaged children to experience the Yorkshire Dales. The Society’s AV equipment He will always be remembered as the man is given to West Burton Village Hall and the behind the community takeover of a number of records and journals to the Dales Countryside services in Hawes, including the library, post Museum office, the Little White Bus service and the petrol station. His commitment and enthusiasm will be Postal Subscriptions sorely missed by all in Upper Wensleydale. If you would like to receive the Newsletter by post every month the cost is £12 per annum. Please send a cheque for this amount (made The accuracy, appropriateness or legitimacy out to the Upper Wensleydale Newsletter) plus of any product or service advertised in this your full address details to Janet Thomson, publication is the sole responsibility of the Stone House, Thornton Rust, DL8 3AW. advertiser and not of the Upper Wensleydale Newsletter. Submission of articles Please note that all submissions should comply In this Issue Page with current copyright legislation. If submitted Guest Editorial 4 articles are not the original work of the person Competition 6 submitting them, then all relevant permission Barn Conversions 8 should be sought and granted for reproduction. Notes from Thorney Mire 10 Mrs Farmer 18 DEADLINE FOR COPY FOR THE What’s On 20 Gayle Mill Trust 22 NEXT ISSUE IS Doctors’ Rotas 24 TUESDAY AUGUST 20th Pharmacy News 24 (Unless we are full earlier) Police Report 28 West Witton Feast 34 PUBLISHED ON AUG 29th Bainbridge Hill Climb 37 3 Guest Editorial business environment that the firm is operating in. He said the Creamery was paying “an I remember gripping the railings at Hawes incredibly supportive milk price”, with a primary school in my last term there in the premium paid for milk of the highest quality, spring of 1992. The Milk Race, a cycling event, with one supplier recently getting 31 pence per was about to swish down Main Street. The litre. The Creamery was paying more than most atmosphere was strangely quiet, not at all of its competitors, such as Dairy Crest, Meadow celebratory. People were lining the pavements Foods and Paynes Dairies, even though its holding placards. I didn’t understand at the profitability was below the market time, but this was the silent protest against average. Also, as a premium product, the closure of the dairy by the then owners, Wensleydale Cheese needed to be supported by Dairy Crest. Months later the dairy would be marketing, back office and innovation, and the bought out by local business people. Upper Creamery met those costs rather than suppliers, Wensleydale would have “died” without their and in terms of local supply, the Creamery still intervention, is how one retired farmer put it to had a relatively “tight milk field”. me. “It makes my blood boil when people question It was at an early age, then, that I learned how our integrity,” he said. “We have a sound, much Hawes depended on what is now the strong, committed relationship with our Wensleydale Creamery. The business remains producers and I’ve supported some of them to critical to the town. So it is with some keep them in business.” trepidation that I give an airing to some local concerns. There are grumblings on four That’s milk, now for pollution. The Hawes subjects: milk supply, pollution incidents, co- and High Abbotside Angling Association says it operation with other local businesses and a has complained for fifty years about discharge of rather tall building. waste from the Creamery into Gayle Beck. The association says the latest pollution incident When the Creamery reopened for Christmas happened in June. It believes there’s an 1992, a total of fifty two farmers, most of them overflow pipe which about five times a year within just a few miles of the dairy, signed up to spews waste into the sike that runs under the provide milk. The Creamery negotiated a milk Gayle Lane children's play area and into the price of 28.5 pence per litre. Times were good beck via Beulah Bank. The pipe was installed by for local dairymen. Kit Calvert, a man who has been described to Nearly 30 years on, there are now forty four me as “the great polluter”. There are no farmers in the milk producer group, most of breeding wild trout in the beck anymore. The them from well down Dale, and the standard river is dead, one Gayle farmer told me earlier price paid is 27.4 pence per litre. One farmer this year. No one knows why. joked to me that the dairy should really be called On this, Mr Hartley was incandescent. “We the “Wensleydale Robbery”. could have built the Creamery on the other side Market forces and other factors have led to of the A1 and not employ one hundred and fifty most of the original suppliers going out of people in Upper Wensleydale, and sometimes I milk. I do not wish to imply any blame to the wish we had,” he said in response to the angling Creamery for that. But the fact is there is now complaint. “I feel we’ve done everything within just one dairy farm left in Hawes parish, down our powers on this. We’ve got a business to from around twenty at the turn of the run.” century. That’s a sad job for those of us who He said the Creamery had paid for several can think of no finer sight than cows munching surveys of its drainage systems. The outlet pipe on August fog. Is it OK for the Creamery to was not for the overflow of waste, but simply to continue to make such a play of its cheese being take surface rainwater off the site. Pollution made from “local milk”? accidents had happened in the past, including a Creamery Managing Director David Hartley fuel spill earlier this year, but he was doing told me that people must try to understand the everything possible to mitigate environmental 4 risk on site. something. We spend endlessly on our retail The tall building came up next. Planning offer. What are the other businesses in Hawes permission was granted for the huge brown chill doing to change and lift their offer?” store at the east end of the site in 2010. At the It was clear to me that David didn’t take time, people complained to the Parish Council, kindly to being questioned (“Why should I have saying it spoilt the walk from Hawes to Gayle to justify myself to the newsletter?”) but I am and that they were “gobsmacked” at its size. Mr grateful that he did give me some time, because Hartley was quoted in the local paper saying there are always two sides to a story. that trees would be planted to screen the “Don’t have anyone doubt our commitment to building “if possible”. Such planting had not the well being of Hawes,” he said, which may been possible, he said to me. Room was needed provide reassurance for people worried about for a fork lift truck to go down that side of the whether the Creamery still cares about local building. If the Beulah Bank field owner was farmers and the local area. prepared to give up a small strip of land on the other side of the wall, he would “happily” plant Andrew Fagg the trees. Perhaps someone might like to try to make this happen? Lastly, there’s the concern that all roads for tourists now appear to lead to the top of the Moorhills. It was put to me by a local businessman that the Creamery has got “too big for its boots”, sucking all the coaches away from Main Street. “The Creamery should concentrate on its core business of cheese production”, he said. As someone who worked for seven years part-time in the Visitor Centre, washing up and then working in the cheese shop, and having an enjoyable time doing so, I can’t say a word against it.
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