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THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO. 182 JULY 2012 Donation please: 30p suggested or more if you wish Mossdale Head by Tom Purvis disputed); the fist automobile, Benz 1888; the Published by Upper Wensleydale Editorial first radio broadcast, in America, 1906 or 1909 The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter et’s celebrate! (depending on whom you believe). Imagine life Burnside Coach House, There is a fair bit without these! going on at the Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT Issue 182—July2012 L We could go on throughout the 1900s and moment – Jubilee, Olympic victories (we remember with gratitude 1946 , the first meeting hope!), and it won’t be long before GCSE and of the United Nations Assembly in the Method- Tel: 667785 Features A-level students are gleefully hugging their suc- ist Central Hall Westminster; 1948, celebrating e-mail: [email protected] cessful fellow students. These days , too, we Bevan’s National Health Service; or 1967 and seem to make more of celebrating personal an- Barnard’s first heart transplant. Clearly this is Editorial 3 niversaries and birthdays than was once the merely a snapshot of different things worthy of Printed by Wensleydale Press ____________________________ case; celebrations are ‘big deals’ now! celebration. You might think of your own list. Olympic Torch 7 On the national scene we celebrate the obvi- And what of this year itself? Three hundred Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, ous religious occasions of Christmas and Easter, Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, ________________ ____________ years ago, 1712, Newcomen’s first steam en- Doctor’s Rotas 25 noting also the similar rejoicings of other faiths, gine, and one hundred years ago, 1912, the Na- Sue Harpley, , Alastair Macintosh, plus the yearly remembrance of the ends of wars ____________________________ tional Insurance Act regarded as the foundation Neil Piper, Janet W. Thomson (treasurer) (those we ‘won’ of course). Old TV Mast 24 of modern social welfare. Yet there are many other truly significant We have plenty of things, and people, to cele- Final Processing: Sarah Champion, Adrian ____________________________ events, affecting our lives, that never, or hardly Janke DCM What’s On 14 brate, not least just about 20 years since the ever, get a mention, never mind causing a bit of World Wide Web really became available. How ____________________________ a celebration. Take Magna Carta of the year else do you think all the above things could be Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens Computer Corner 16 , 1215, one of the most significant documents in so easily brought together! ____________________________ history: “No free man shall be seized or impris- PLEASE NOTE North Country Theatre 22 oned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or ____________________________ outlawed or exiled, nor will we proceed with This web-copy does not contain the commercial What’s On 23 force against him, except by the lawful judge- ment of his equals or by the law of the land. To adverts which are in the full Newsletter. ____________________________ no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay Plus all the regulars Annual Exhibition As a general rule we only accept adverts from right or justice.” That is certainly worth a cele- ____________________________ Preston under Scar Artists within the circulation area and no more than bration – and the keeping of a close eye on Friday 27th to Sunday 29th July one-third of each issue is taken up with them. things to see that it is preserved. The passing, in 1832, of the Representation of 10.00am to 6.00pm Whilst we try to ensure that all information is the People Act known as the Great Reform Act Selling exhibition of paintings and hand-made correct we cannot be held legally responsible got rid of “Rotten Boroughs” where just a hand- crafts all produced in the village. .Advertising for omissions or inaccuracies in articles, ad- ful of men could elect an M.P. but the rapidly Admission free but donations please to the Friarage Hospital. Boxed adverts: £6, £12, £18 verts or listings, or for any inconvenience growing industrial towns had none. Mind you, caused. Views expressed in articles are the sole even then only men who owned property over There is a big reduction for six issues or responsibility of the person by-lined. Articles £10 could vote, so most of the ‘working class’ more, so for six issues the totals are: by comittee members carry just their initials. were denied. Later Acts gradually increased the We appreciate being asked before any part of franchise, but remember that although New Zea- Drop-off points and contacts £25, £50 or £75 the Newsletter is reproduced land was the first country, in 1893, to grant votes for women, it was only in 1928 in Britain for news, articles, reports, letters, what’s on dates, competition entries, suggestions and Greetings etc. £2.00 that women (over 21) were allowed to vote. All comments: What’s ons (non-commercial) are free THE AUGUST ISSUE this process took a long time and is rarely cele- Hawes: Alan S. Watkinson, brated. Burnside Coach House. 667785 WILL BE PRODUCED ON What a year 1833 was; the Act to abolish Gayle: Lorna Ward, East House 667405 Contacts for adverts: slavery and the Factory Act forbidding the em- JULY 25TH AND 26TH ployment of children under nine, and limiting Bainbridge: Hammond’s Butchers 650631 For Hawes area and westward: AND DISTRIBUTED those under 13 to nine hours a day; aren’t those Askrigg: Rima Berry, worth, if not an annual celebration, then worth a 8 Mill Lane. 650980 Barry Cruickshanks, Ashfield, Hardraw: FROM ‘cheer’ every now and again? Carperby: Margaret Woodcock, 667458 Forster Square in Bradford reminds us of the Bella Cottage 663488 JULY 26TH TO 30TH famous Forster Education Act of 1870, a real West Burton: Nadine Bell, landmark setting out the education for all chil- Margaret’s Cottage 663559 For elsewhere: DEADLINE FOR Aysgarth: Hamilton’s Tearoom 663423 dren from five to twelve years old. Redmire: see Carperby above Sue Duffield, Fellside, AUGUST ISSUE, As for science and technology, three cheers Thoralby: Sandra Foley, Thornton Rust: 663504 THURSDAY JULY 19th for the electric light, 1800 -1809 (actual date Shop 663205 2 2 disputed); the fist automobile, Benz 1888; the Published by Upper Wensleydale Editorial first radio broadcast, in America, 1906 or 1909 The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter et’s celebrate! (depending on whom you believe). Imagine life Burnside Coach House, There is a fair bit without these! going on at the Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT Issue 182—July2012 L We could go on throughout the 1900s and moment – Jubilee, Olympic victories (we remember with gratitude 1946 , the first meeting hope!), and it won’t be long before GCSE and of the United Nations Assembly in the Method- Tel: 667785 Features A-level students are gleefully hugging their suc- ist Central Hall Westminster; 1948, celebrating e-mail: [email protected] cessful fellow students. These days , too, we Bevan’s National Health Service; or 1967 and seem to make more of celebrating personal an- Barnard’s first heart transplant. Clearly this is Editorial 3 niversaries and birthdays than was once the merely a snapshot of different things worthy of Printed by Wensleydale Press ____________________________ case; celebrations are ‘big deals’ now! celebration. You might think of your own list. Olympic Torch 7 On the national scene we celebrate the obvi- And what of this year itself? Three hundred Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, ous religious occasions of Christmas and Easter, Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, ________________ ____________ years ago, 1712, Newcomen’s first steam en- Doctor’s Rotas 25 noting also the similar rejoicings of other faiths, gine, and one hundred years ago, 1912, the Na- Sue Harpley, , Alastair Macintosh, plus the yearly remembrance of the ends of wars ____________________________ tional Insurance Act regarded as the foundation Neil Piper, Janet W. Thomson (treasurer) (those we ‘won’ of course). Old TV Mast 24 of modern social welfare. Yet there are many other truly significant We have plenty of things, and people, to cele- Final Processing: Sarah Champion, Adrian ____________________________ events, affecting our lives, that never, or hardly Janke DCM What’s On 14 brate, not least just about 20 years since the ever, get a mention, never mind causing a bit of World Wide Web really became available. How ____________________________ a celebration. Take Magna Carta of the year else do you think all the above things could be Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens Computer Corner 16 , 1215, one of the most significant documents in so easily brought together! ____________________________ history: “No free man shall be seized or impris- PLEASE NOTE North Country Theatre 22 oned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or ____________________________ outlawed or exiled, nor will we proceed with This web-copy does not contain the commercial What’s On 23 force against him, except by the lawful judge- ment of his equals or by the law of the land. To adverts which are in the full Newsletter. ____________________________ no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay Plus all the regulars Annual Exhibition As a general rule we only accept adverts from right or justice.” That is certainly worth a cele- ____________________________ Preston under Scar Artists within the circulation area and no more than bration – and the keeping of a close eye on Friday 27th to Sunday 29th July one-third of each issue is taken up with them. things to see that it is preserved. The passing, in 1832, of the Representation of 10.00am to 6.00pm Whilst we try to ensure that all information is the People Act known as the Great Reform Act Selling exhibition of paintings and hand-made correct we cannot be held legally responsible got rid of “Rotten Boroughs” where just a hand- crafts all produced in the village.