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THE TRINGLE serving Fryton, Slingsby & South Holme www.slingsbyvillage.co.uk / [email protected] Closing date for the next issue of 2016 [October/November] is Tuesday 20th September 2016. Please send news & event information to David Thornley, The Dower House, The Balk, Slingsby [Tel 01653 627210] August 2016/September 2016 No. 35 Non-subscribers: £1.20 Three Weddings…! Slingsby was host to two weddings on Saturday 28th May 2016. Charlotte Hoggarth married David Critchley at All Saints’ Church (right). Becky Ward married Jack Winpenny at Slingsby’s Methodist Church (below & see page 5). Lucy Harrison (whose parents Gill & Tony were also married at All Saints’) married Daniel Durrant at All Saints’ on Saturday 4th June 2016 (below). Very many congratulations to all the happy couples. ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH, SLINGSBY The picture on the back page shows the contents of NEWS & FORTHCOMING EVENTS the new Time Capsule which was re-buried in the church on Sunday 12th June on the occasion of the ANNUAL BIG CHURCH CLEAN ON SATURDAY Queen’s 90th Birthday weekend, at a very well 6th AUGUST 2016 from 10.00AM attended and lively celebration service devised by PLEASE CAN YOU SPARE AN HOUR TO HELP? Kate Giles & presented by both All Saints’ & We are very grateful to the volunteers who join the Methodist Church members. The capsule was church cleaning rota and thank them for their blessed by the Reverend John Warden at the end of continued support. Once a year we try to tackle the service and has now been sealed. We hope to some of the extra things we don’t always have time install a newly inscribed stone cover to mark its for to keep the church at its best to welcome presence next year on the 150th Anniversary of the visitors and worshippers. Keeping this large building start of the rebuilding of the church. The final looking good is a considerable task for the regular contents of the capsule (a glass cylinder packed congregation. Can you spare an hour to come & inside a lead box) are: a series of children's help? Mid-morning refreshments will be provided. drawings of Slingsby plus explanatory map and Please assemble from 10.00am, bringing sweeping notes, all printed on acid free paper; photos of HM brushes, dusters etc. for the jobs you feel you can The Queen’s 90th Birthday Street Party; Victorian help with such as (inside) dusting, sweeping, coins and modern coins; a small Nokia mobile window cleaning, polishing, higher cleaning, phone; a Morrison’s ‘March & More’ Card; a Yale cleaning the kitchen, brass & silver cleaning or key (all locks could be electronic in a few years’ (outside) removal of ivy from around the walls, time); a small model of a current make of 4 x 4; a clearing weeds, sweeping the porch & pathways & poll card for the recent Referendum; photo of mowing the ashes burial area. Thank you. Maypole dancing in 2016. A New Church Guide for YHCT ‘RIDE & STRIDE’ & CHURCHYARD MINI Children has been produced with help from MARKET AT ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH – SATURDAY Slingsby CP School’s pupils. This details the 10TH SEPTEMBER from 10.00am to 1.00pm interesting historic features of the church, many of (inside the church if wet) which are closely connected to the history of the Refreshments, cake and produce stall, raffle and village. The new publication is now available at the good quality second hand stall. Enjoy a cup of church. A comprehensive guide for adults is also coffee and cake and see if there is anything on the being produced, following detailed doctoral stalls to take your fancy. At 11.00am there will be a research, and will be available soon. New Audio guided tour of the church for visitors and local System: All Saints’ PCC has received permission for people who wish to learn about the unique historic a new loud speaker system to improve audibility. features of the building. This event coincides, as The system, which will also include a hearing loop, last year, with the Yorkshire Historic Churches Trust is due to be installed in September, and is part of Open Day, ‘Ride and Stride’, which encourages all the church’s wider plan to improve access for all. churches across Yorkshire, including those which Performance at All Saints’ by St John’s Ranmoor are not regularly accessible, to be open to visitors. Church Choir, Sheffield: St John’s gave a wonderful Some use it as an opportunity for sponsored cycle performance of the anthems they have sung at and car tours for fundraising, and others just follow recent services on the afternoon of Sunday 3rd July. the trail for interest. More information can be Our association with St John’s, a large parish on the found on www.yhct,.org.uk/events. The All Saints’ west side of Sheffield, goes back a long way. St Church heating and lighting are in need of serious John’s has a fine tradition of choral singing and still repair and upgrading and the PCC is raising funds to attracts young and committed singers. The concert tackle this major project and also to create other raised over £300 towards our current appeal. It was facilities such as a toilet to make the building fit for followed by a magnificent tea, which went down twenty-first century use. This event is intended to very well with the choirboys in particular. Very raise funds for this project. Donations of fresh many thanks to the members of the choir and the produce, cakes and sweets for the Children’s boys’ parents who gave up their Sunday to come all Tombola would be greatly appreciated and can be the way to Slingsby. Grateful thanks also to those left at the church from 9.30am onwards. Thank who organised the tea in the village hall afterwards you. and to those who contributed towards it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NEW OPENING TIMES AT _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Please submit news & details of future events to: [email protected] _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SLINGSBY METHODIST CHURCH NEWS & Slingsby Methodist Schoolroom from 12 noon. Do FORTHCOMING EVENTS come and join us for soup, sandwiches, a pudding and cup of tea. All are welcome especially seniors & On Saturday 28th May 2016 the wedding of Becky those who live alone. There is no charge but Ward and Jack Winpenny took place at Slingsby donations welcome. Everyone is welcome – no Methodist Church. The reception was held at The need to book – just come along. Contact Stephen & Worsley Arms Hotel, Hovingham (the bride arrived Rachel Prest (628277) & Trudy Carr (628302). in style below & see page two). Our HARVEST FESTIVAL is on Sunday 25th September at 10.30 am. It will be taken by Rev Ben Nicholson from Helmsley. After the service we will have a ‘Harvest Lunch’ in the schoolroom. All are welcome. Don’t forget that THE FISH & CHIP delivery courtesy of Malton & Norton Lions Club will resume in October 2016. It has been very successful with up to twenty-five people benefiting from this great service. Our minister Rev Jacky Hale is not well at the moment and may be off work for some time so if you would like to see one of the other ministers then please contact Audrey Foster who will arrange PRAYER WALK: On Saturday 13th August we are this for you (tel: 628643). Stephen Prest having a Prayer Walk which will start at Slingsby Chapel at 3.30pm. We will walk up Castle Howard SLINGSBY LADIES’ GROUP Road and the Long Balk up to Slingsby Wood. Then In June, eighteen of our members went by coach to we will head west along the wood to the visit George Smith’s garden at Heslington. On Baxtenhowe Road and then head down to Fryton arrival we were given a slide show showing how the and back across the fields to Slingsby. The walk gardens had changed over the years that he has ends at The Chapel with a Bring and Share Tea. On lived there and what was in bloom at different the walk we will stop at various points to pray for times of the year. We were then able to wander local villages, the area of Ryedale and reflect on the around freely and we were invited to purchase world situations. We shall also build a cairn plants which were for sale in the walled garden. It somewhere on route. We will provide transport for was a dull but warm evening and we were able to those who can’t walk the whole distance. Contact savour a glass of wine in the garden room after a Rachel & Stephen Prest for details (tel: 628277) very enjoyable evening. Our July meeting was a talk by Janet Pearson of Pearsons’ Soft Fruit at OPEN AIR SERVICE – SUNDAY 14TH AUGUST Sinnington. We heard how the business was We are joining with our friends from All Saints’ founded by her grandfather in a small paddock and Church to hold an Open Air Service on The Green at how they have expanded to seventeen acres. 10.30am. Everyone is welcome. Workers were brought in to pick the fruit and it was AFTERNOON TEA – WEDNESDAY 17TH AUGUST all sent to wholesale markets but over the years as We are having ‘Afternoon Tea’ at Stephen & pick your own became popular Pearsons also Rachel’s home, The Old Fold, Railway Street at changed and rather than supplying supermarkets 3.30pm (the next Soupa Lunch will be in they sell to local businesses plus being open for September). All are welcome but it would be PYO.