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YORKSHIRE VERNACULAR BUILDINGS STUDY GROUP www.yvbsg.org.uk Newsheet No 53 August 2008 YVBSG Events For Your Diary Conference Review Day in Burnsall and Thorpe An Idle Recording Day Sunday 21 September 2008 Saturday 4 October 2008 A meeting to draw together and review Following an enjoyable walk around the information gathered during this the village of Idle, near Bradford, in year’s recording conference. The July 2007, Tish Lawson and local morning session will comprise historian Eileen White have arranged presentations on the buildings recorded for us to pay a return visit to record on 17 May 2008, to be held in Burnsall three or four of the buildings seen. We Grammar School (dated 1602) starting will meet at 10am, and there are plenty at 10am. Whether or not you attended of pubs in Idle for lunch or people can in May, you are invited to attend in this bring sandwiches. All members, new splendid building! or experienced, are invited to come along – please contact Tish Lawson, In the afternoon there will be a walk telephone 01274 586644, email round the delightful nearby village of [email protected]. Tish will Thorpe to see an array of seventeenth provide finalised details nearer the time. and eighteenth century buildings, Thorpe starting at 2pm. Next committee meeting If you’d like to come, please contact Malcolm Birdsall (contact details on back The next committee meeting will be page). Places are limited and there will be a nominal charge to cover the cost of the held on Sunday 9 November 2008. If hire of the school. You will need to make your own arrangements for lunch: if you you’d like to raise any matter or suggest would like to eat at the Red Lion in Burnsall, please let Malcolm know so that we any events please contact David Crook. can give them an idea of numbers beforehand. Tour of York House, Malton, and Talk on Recording Techniques Saturday 25 October 2008 YVBSG members attending a Ryedale Heritage Day in Malton in June were very impressed by a tour of York House and a talk on building recording techniques. So, we thought, why not invite the contributors to repeat this for the YVBSG? What an excellent idea! Nigel Copsey (www.nigelcopsey.com) and Alex Holton (http://holton.alex.googlepages.com) have kindly agreed to lead the event for us. York House is an exceptional building undergoing restoration, showing much of the c1684 build but also earlier phases of construction. Much to see and discuss. More information at www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/Wolds/malton.html. Programme: Front view of York House 13:15 Meet at York House, 41 Yorkersgate, Malton (SE 7851 7158) 13:30 Introduction, followed by tour of York House with Numbers are limited – please apply to David Cook (01740 Nigel Copsey 620098 or [email protected]) for a place before 30 September 2008. Acknowledgements will be sent. 15:00 Break 15:30 Talk on Recording Techniques and Case Studies, with particular emphasis on stone buildings, by Some dates for next year: Alex Holton 16:15 Questions and Discussion Annual Day School and AGM – Saturday 14 March 2009. 16:30 Close The theme of the day school will be cruck-framed buildings. Full details in the next Newsheet. Malton has good bus and rail connections. Trains run between York and Scarborough, calling at Malton. For more Annual Recording Conference – Friday 15 to Sunday 17 information see www.northyorkstravel.info. May 2009. Venue still to be confirmed. Other events of possible interest ... Some of these events are publicised a long time in advance, so it’s worth checking that they are still running before you go! Great Ayton and Stokesley A Celebration of the Local History Beverley Local History Book Fair Sunday 7 September 2008 and Archaeology of the Region Saturday 18 October 2008 A visit by the North East Vernacular Sunday 5 October 2008 10am to 4pm in Beverley Minster. Free Architecture Group, including a guided A day school sponsored by North York admission. Includes up to thirty walk round Great Ayton and the Moors National Park Authority and organisations, booksellers and conservation area of Stokesley. For Helmsley Archaeological and Historical publishers with an interest in all aspects information about NEVAG, contact the Society. 10am to 5pm at Helmsley Arts of local history. Enquiries: 01482 392788. secretary, Peter S Fletcher, email Centre. Speakers include: Barry Pennine Ways and Waymarkers [email protected], telephone Harrison – Recent Work on Cruck 01434 632853. Buildings in North-East Yorkshire; Ed Sunday 19 October 2008 Dennison – Recent work at Ayton Castle; Held by The Milestone Society at 10am Smithills Hall and Rivington: Gentry Graham Lee and Mags Waughman – in Saddleworth Museum, High Street, Landscapes in South Lancashire Recent Work and Discovery in the North Uppermill, telephone 01457 874093. 1200-2008 York Moors National Park; Stephen Find out about ancient highways and Tuesday 23 September 2008 Sherlock – The Excavation of an Iron Age turnpike features as well as recent A guided excursion with Dr Alan settlement and later Royal Anglo-Saxon restoration activities: a day of talks, Crosby, including refreshments in the cemetery at Street House, Yorkshire; Peter displays and a stroll. Fee £2, not cruck-framed Rivington Hall Barn near Wilson – Cawthorn: from Camps to Forts, including lunch. Details from Jan Scrine, Bolton, followed by tour of Smithills and others. Fee £10. Details from [email protected], Hall which has medieval origins. 9am Graham Lee, Senior Archaeological web www.yorkshire-milestones.co.uk. to 6pm, £29. For details contact Centre Conservation Officer, North York Valley of Stone for North West Regional Studies, Moors National Park Authority, The Lancaster University, Fylde College, Old Vicarage, Bondgate, Helmsley, Thursday 23 October 2008 Lancaster LA1 4YF, telephone 01524 York YO62 5BP, telephone 01439 Talk by Arthur Baldwin to Friends of 65201, www.lancs.ac.uk/users/cnwrs/. 770657, email g.lee@northyorkmoors- Rossendale Museum, 7.30pm at npa.gov.uk, or see website Rossendale Museum, Haslingden English Heritage Archaeology Store www.helmsleyarchaeological Road, Rawtenstall, telephone 01706 Wednesday 24 September 2008 andhistoricalsociety.org.uk. 260785. Non-members £1. Open day with free guided tours at York Archaeology and History Fair Field Systems Through Time 11am, 1pm and 3pm of the Archaeology Store at Helmsley, which contains Saturday 18 October 2008 Saturday 25 October 2008 carvings and other objects from English At the Guildhall, York. Displays from A CBA Yorkshire study day looking at Heritage properties. Please book with local societies, community groups and field systems from prehistory through Helmsley Tourist Information Centre specialist booksellers. Free admission. to the modern era. Held at the University on 01439 770 173. Directions to the store Enquiries: York Archaeological Trust, of Leeds, cost £12.50. For details contact will be given at the time of booking. telephone 01904 663000. Mike Edwards, Secretary CBA Yorkshire, 12 Smithwell Lane, Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge, West Heritage Open Days Yorkshire HX7 7NX. Please reserve Thursday 11 to Sunday 14 September 2008 place by sending your name, address, telephone number and email address Heritage Open Days celebrate England’s architecture and culture by offering (if applicable), enclosing a cheque free access to properties that are usually closed to the public or normally payable to CBA Yorkshire. charge for admission. Watch out for local publicity or see listings at www.heritageopendays.org.uk, or telephone 020 7539 7918. Events and Arts and Crafts Buildings and Gardens open buildings include: in the Region • Manorial Barn, Chaff Lane, Whiston, Rotherham (Sunday at 10am-4pm). Tuesday 11 November 2008 • A guided walk around the Domesday village of Ughill, Sheffield, looking Talk by Mark Whyman to Northallerton at listed and other buildings (Saturday at 10am, pre-booking required on and District Local History Society in 0114 2337463). the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Hall, • Storeys of Stone – a guided walk in the central Otley Conservation Area Thirsk Road, Northallerton at 7pm. £2 (Sunday at 2pm, pre-booking required on 01943 465398). per person. To join this friendly team of • 2 Blackburn’s Yard, Church Street, Whitby, with mullion windows, 17th volunteers carrying out ongoing century wood panelling, Georgian fireplace, and curved principal roof research into the history of the trusses (Saturday and Sunday at 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm). Northallerton area, contact Dorothy • Clarke Hall, Aberford Road, Wakefield. The Friends of Clarke Hall will be Edwards, telephone 01609 778947. costumed in the hall throughout the day, garden open if weather permits Lancashire Archaeology Day School (Saturday at 10.30am-2.30pm). • The Cragg, Whitby. From the 17th century this Saturday 15 November 2008 narrow lane along the cliff face below the Khyber Annual event at the University of Pass was tightly packed with fishermen’s Central Lancashire, Preston, with talks cottages, many of which have gone. The including Dendrochronology and dated residents of some of the surviving buildings from Lancashire by Ian Tyers. cottages will be available to talk to Details from Lynda Sutton, Lancashire visitors (Sunday at 2pm-4pm). County Council Archaeology Service, telephone 01772 533404. More events of possible interest ... South Yorkshire Archaeology Day The Historic Timber-framed Buildings Vernacular Buildings of the Calder Saturday 15 November 2008 of South and West Yorkshire Valley: an overview Annual Archaeology Day at the Wednesday 26 November 2008 Wednesday 10 December 2008 Showroom Cinema, Sheffield, Evening event in the new Lecture Talk by Peter Thornborrow to Hebden providing an opportunity to hear about Theatre, Thomas Rotherham College, Bridge Local History Society, 7.30pm at recent projects from the archaeologists off Moorgate Road, Rotherham, South the Methodist Church Hall, Market who undertook the work.