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THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO. 185 OCTOBER 2012 Donation please: 30p suggested or more if you wish Approach to Burtersett from the west. Tom Purvis Published by Upper Wensleydale Editorial of different current landowners, but technically The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter with the exception of one big road bridge and a ou know what they say about swans, beck bridge at Hawes, that section is feasible. Burnside Coach House, that they glide along looking so serene Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT There is also much pressure building for the Issue 185—October 2012 Ybut beneath the water they are paddling reinstatement of passenger trains daily (as op- like mad. It might appear like that to the casual posed to just Sundays and Bank Holidays) from visitor to our area. Very rural areas are com- the Settle to Carlisle line at Hellifield to a wide Tel: 667785 Features paratively quiet, calm, clean and peaceful, and e-mail: [email protected] range of Lancashire stations and including Man- we haven’t as yet got loads of closed shops or chester Airport. Maybe we have thought Editorial 3 businesses, but maintaining the status quo is for too long that we have the scenery and the Printed by Wensleydale Press hard work. ‘away from it all’ and that will suffice in bring- ____________________________ Of course, like many areas of the country, we Anyone for Tennis 18 ing the tourists. Not true. However, up and Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, are getting increasingly anxious about rising down the Dale in the various villages, as well as ________________ ____________ Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, costs especially for travel and food, and the re- the determination of the Wensleydale Railway Doctor’s Rotas 24 Sue Harpley, , Alastair Macintosh, duction in services, and add to these the dread- workers, there is new life and new ideas, and Neil Piper, Janet W. Thomson (treasurer), ____________________________ ful weather! More seriously though, of our main new websites (including our own )which are Peter Wood A Walk around Wensleydale 5 industries, (arguably THE main industry) tour- increasingly where people go to learn about an ____________________________ ism seems to be being hit extra hard, especially area. Final Processing: Sarah Champion, Adrian Gaping Gill 14 when it is announced that money coming into We’ve to use every opportunity, paddling like Janke ____________________________ Yorkshire for tourism is to be given to cities like mad, to tell the world what a great place it is to Schools’ Collaboration 8 Leeds or York. So some are really feeling under live in and to visit. We won’t mention the Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens pressure and paddling hard to keep going. downsides this month. , ____________________________ Although, either directly or indirectly, our Surgery News 24 local businesses rely on the tourists, we- the Footnote Memories were stirred by the article PLEASE NOTE ____________________________ locals- also need to use these services rather last month about the old Quaker Meeting room What’s On 23 than going elsewhere all the time. There’s very in the middle of Hawes. Latterly it was known This web-copy does not contain the commercial ____________________________ little this area can’t provide. And as for tour- as the Welfare Institute and Kit Calvert pro- adverts which are in the full Newsletter. Plus all the regulars ism, we can all contribute amazingly. By our vided an opportunity there for young people not ____________________________ open-hearted friendliness we can make the visi- old enough to go in the pubs. Downstairs there As a general rule we only accept adverts from tors return, or tell their friends to come. We can was table tennis and upstairs on the balcony a within the circulation area and no more than urge our shop-keepers, pubs, cafes, clubs and small library. There was also a billiards table, one-third of each issue is taken up with them. churches to provide a wide range of goods and but George Sumner tells us they had to use spe- services which will attract the widest possible Whilst we try to ensure that all information is cial short cues as the space was a bit small! clientele; we need visitors of all ages, back- correct we cannot be held legally responsible Advertising grounds and income groups to find what they for omissions or inaccuracies in articles, ad- want here. verts or listings, or for any inconvenience Be Warned! Boxed adverts: £6, £12, £18 Now although this Newsletter always carries caused. Views expressed in articles are the sole information about the Wensleydale Railway, we The Coal Road. Because of use by logging responsibility of the person by-lined. Articles There is a big reduction for six issues or will go a step further today and say that we trucks, this high route from Garsdale Station by comittee members carry just their initials. more, so for six issues the totals are: think the extension and development of this at over to Dentdale is becoming dangerous for We appreciate being asked before any part of both ends of the present passenger line is one of ordinary cars. the Newsletter is reproduced £25, £50 or £75 the best opportunities for exciting regeneration The wheels of the heavily-laden trucks have which we could wish (and work) for. Some pushed down the road surface to such an extent Greetings etc. £2.00 would have thought the project would have fal- that if great care isn’t taken the ‘hump’ between What’s ons (non-commercial) are free tered years ago! Swans paddling furiously in- the hollows is catching on the underside of cars deed! Other such schemes countrywide bear in quite a few places. THE NOVEMBER ISSUE witness to the great economic benefits brought, Contacts for adverts: WILL BE PRODUCED ON unthinkable when wholesale closures took place in the 1960s. For Hawes area and westward: OCTOBER 24TH AND Reinstating the short distance from Redmire to 'Dinner at the Hall' 25TH. Aysgarth Falls which is one of the biggest tour- A Three Course Meal Barry Cruickshanks, Ashfield, Hardraw: ist honey pots in our area, we think should be a with Guest Speaker Len Scott 667458 high priority. The huge developments already at Thoralby Village Hall undertaken at Aysgarth Station are preparing for Saturday, 20th October For elsewhere: DEADLINE FOR COPY: this. We know all about the difficulties from 7 .00 for 7.30pm THURSDAY Hawes to Garsdale because of the large number Tickets £15 obtainable from Sue Duffield, Fellside, Rona (663076) or Brian (663565) Thornton Rust: 663504 OCTOBER 18TH 2 2 Published by Upper Wensleydale Editorial of different current landowners, but technically The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Newsletter with the exception of one big road bridge and a ou know what they say about swans, beck bridge at Hawes, that section is feasible. Burnside Coach House, that they glide along looking so serene Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT There is also much pressure building for the Issue 185—October 2012 Ybut beneath the water they are paddling reinstatement of passenger trains daily (as op- like mad. It might appear like that to the casual posed to just Sundays and Bank Holidays) from visitor to our area. Very rural areas are com- the Settle to Carlisle line at Hellifield to a wide Tel: 667785 Features paratively quiet, calm, clean and peaceful, and e-mail: [email protected] range of Lancashire stations and including Man- we haven’t as yet got loads of closed shops or chester Airport. Maybe we have thought Editorial 3 businesses, but maintaining the status quo is for too long that we have the scenery and the Printed by Wensleydale Press hard work. ‘away from it all’ and that will suffice in bring- ____________________________ Of course, like many areas of the country, we Anyone for Tennis 18 ing the tourists. Not true. However, up and Committee: Alan S.Watkinson, are getting increasingly anxious about rising down the Dale in the various villages, as well as ________________ ____________ Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield, costs especially for travel and food, and the re- the determination of the Wensleydale Railway Doctor’s Rotas 24 Sue Harpley, , Alastair Macintosh, duction in services, and add to these the dread- workers, there is new life and new ideas, and Neil Piper, Janet W. Thomson (treasurer), ____________________________ ful weather! More seriously though, of our main new websites (including our own )which are Peter Wood A Walk around Wensleydale 5 industries, (arguably THE main industry) tour- increasingly where people go to learn about an ____________________________ ism seems to be being hit extra hard, especially area. Final Processing: Sarah Champion, Adrian Gaping Gill 14 when it is announced that money coming into We’ve to use every opportunity, paddling like Janke ____________________________ Yorkshire for tourism is to be given to cities like mad, to tell the world what a great place it is to Schools’ Collaboration 8 Leeds or York. So some are really feeling under live in and to visit. We won’t mention the Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens pressure and paddling hard to keep going. downsides this month. , ____________________________ Although, either directly or indirectly, our Surgery News 24 local businesses rely on the tourists, we- the Footnote Memories were stirred by the article PLEASE NOTE ____________________________ locals- also need to use these services rather last month about the old Quaker Meeting room What’s On 23 than going elsewhere all the time. There’s very in the middle of Hawes. Latterly it was known This web-copy does not contain the commercial ____________________________ little this area can’t provide. And as for tour- as the Welfare Institute and Kit Calvert pro- adverts which are in the full Newsletter.