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York Association Newsletter An Association of National Trust Members and Supporters June 2019 Number 189 Contents Page Chair’s Letter 3 Membership 4 Mystery Tour 4 Social and Fundraising Events 5 Holidays 6 Day trips 8 Country walks 10 NT Yorkshire News 15 Day Trip Review 17 Holiday reviews 18 Dates for your Diary Back cover Enclosed with this Newsletter are the AGM minutes, Holiday fliers and booking forms for Day Trips, Full Day Walks, and Social Activities (7 pages). Please contact the Newsletter editor if any of these are missing. Chair: Catherine Brophy [email protected] 01904 331273 Secretary: Jean Haywood [email protected] 01904 702402 Treasurer: Valerie Laud [email protected] 01904 704600 Membership: Elinor Bailey [email protected] 01347 821262 Day Trips: Colin Sherwood [email protected] 01904 640915 Walks: Alison Rutter [email protected] 01904 703430 Holidays: Peter Drew [email protected] 01904 702285 Events: Christine Truman [email protected] 01937 541163 Talks: Roger King [email protected] 01904 761274 Newsletter: Catherine Brophy [email protected] 01904 331273 Publicity: Mererid Hunt [email protected] 01653 690992 Website: Mike Morrow [email protected] 01904 654546 Cover: The Menagerie Garden at Nostell Priory © National Trust Images/Chris Lacey 2 Chair's Letter We are very grateful to Roger King for his sterling work leading the Association over the last four years. Roger is continuing as the Talks organiser and is also working on projects for the 50th anniversary next year. Thanks also to Mike Morrow, our excellent Web Editor, who has greatly improved the YANT website and overseen the successful installation by a new provider. Do have a look - and see below for a reminder of how to log on. We have received letters of thanks from the National Trust for the Association’s generous gift as a result of our fund raising activities. These included individual letters of appreciation from Goddards, Nostell Priory and Nunnington Hall. See Christine Truman’s Project’s Group report on page 6 for more details and we hope you will be able to support future fund raising events. Both the Programme and Walks Groups are providing some fascinating activities for members over the next three months, which I am sure many of you will want to enjoy. Both of these groups would really appreciate the help of new committee members so I do hope we will be able to recruit some new volunteers for them. Finally, please join us for our major fund raising event the “Summer Fair at St Crux” on Friday 28th June from 10am. We need both helpers and customers at this event so please do offer to help or pop in for a cup of tea and a delicious cake. I look forward to meeting you at many of these events throughout the summer. Catherine Brophy Website Reminder www.yant.org.uk User Name is: member Password is: yantmember 3 Membership We are very pleased to have welcomed the following new members to the Association in the last three months, bringing the total membership to 584. We look forward to meeting you all at some of the various events organised during the next few months. We will be arranging a coffee morning in September for new members who have joined since October 2018. Personal invitations will be sent out soon with the date and venue. John and Catherine Cuckson Brenda Crohill Joanne Day Christine Harver Dennis & Anne Reaston Susan Roberts Anne Palmer Pam Smith Patricia Thornton Janet Cooper Marjorie Winn Joan Wakefield Stephen and Jacqueline Holman Elinor Bailey, Membership Secretary Mystery Tour Tuesday 10th September This year we will be approaching our destination by a route that you will almost certainly not know. We will have a break for coffee at around 11am and reach our lunch venue by approximately 1.15pm. Cost £35. A booking form with details is enclosed. Ingleby’s Coach leaves Memorial Gardens at 9.30am and Middlethorpe Drive at 9.45am. Return to York by 4.30pm approximately. 4 Social and Fundraising Events Summer Fair at St Crux Friday 28th June from 10am All offers of help are greatly appreciated, during the day, to help our most important fundraising event of the year. If you can help, even for an hour, with preparation and cleaning up or if you plan to bake for the event please contact Christine Truman on 01937 541163 For books to donate and offers to help on the bookstall, contact Alison Rutter on 01904 703430 Scones and cakes can be delivered between 9am and 10am at St Crux on the day. Presentation to Julia Guppy ©Colin Wright 5 Summer Garden Party at Goddards, Tadcaster Road, YO24 1GG on Tuesday August 6th at 2.30pm Join us to enjoy the house and gardens with a full afternoon tea. Tickets are limited to 50 places due to health & safety rules. Please note there is disabled parking only. The Coastliner and buses 4, 13 etc stop close by on Tadcaster Road. Booking form enclosed with this newsletter. We had to cancel the March event with the Daytones Choir as too few tickets had been sold. We have decided to concentrate on organising events from May to November in future. We would appreciate any ideas members have for enjoyable fundraising activities. The Projects Group has welcomed Joanne Day to the committee as the new Treasurer and Carole Wright is now the Secretary. The group organises events for members to enjoy which, at the same time, make a small profit to give to the local National Trust houses for particular projects. Each year we receive a wish list from which we select items to support. This year our donation will provide new garden terrace furniture at Goddards and new garden seating at Nunnington Hall as well as a bench for the Menagerie Garden at Nostell Priory. At the March AGM committee member Chris Adams presented a cheque for £6,500 to Julia Guppy of the National Trust. Date for your diary: a History Wardrobe event on Friday 1st November on the theme of “All Creatures Great and Small”. Details and booking form with the September newsletter. We do hope to see many of you at future events. Christine Truman, Chairman Projects Group Holidays YANT Holidays 2019 and 2020. Places are still available on the remaining 2019 YANT holidays to Herefordshire (1 – 5 July), the Isle of Wight (10 – 14 August) and Denmark & Sweden (23 – 30 September). 6 Archaeologist Clive Warsop will be the guide for the Archaeology of Denmark & Sweden, one of Brightwater Holidays’ most popular archaeological tours with a host of attractions, from the sailing ship Vasa to the amazing centuries-old bog ‘bodies’. Michael Gill is the guide for Herefordshire and the Isle of Wight. Looking ahead to 2020, Brightwater Holidays are offering the once-in-a- decade opportunity to witness the famous Passion Play at Oberammergau in Bavaria, during a holiday that combines the scenic delights of the Austrian Tyrol with this epic production depicting the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Brightwater’s tour departs 12 – 17 August 2020 with flights from London, or from Manchester at a supplement of £100 per person (transfers to Manchester Airport not included). Note that this does not clash with YANT’s proposed Rhône River Cruise, 22 – 29 August 2020. See the enclosed flier for further details. Please contact Peter Drew on 01904 702285 or Andrew Sharples at Brightwater Holidays on 01334 845388, for further details. Lake District Winter Break Thursday 5th to Friday 6th December inclusive 2019 Based at The Skiddaw Hotel, Keswick Including a performance of “A Christmas Carol” At Theatre by the Lake, Keswick On Friday enjoy a delicious afternoon tea, (included), at “The Macdonald Old England Hotel and Spa” beside Lake Windermere Book with Brightwater Holidays on 01334 845388, See flier enclosed for more information Peter Drew, YANT Tours Organiser 7 Day Trips Tuesday 9th July: Visit to Gorton Monastery and Elizabeth Gaskell’s House, Manchester This month we shall be visiting two interesting but very different buildings in Manchester, starting with the Church and Friary of St Francis, a 19th-century former Franciscan friary in Gorton. The Franciscans arrived in Gorton in December 1861 and built their friary between 1863 and 1867. Most of the building work was done by the friars themselves, with a brother acting as clerk of works. The church closed for worship in 1989 and fell into disrepair. It is a prominent and fascinating example of High Victorian Gothic architecture, and has had Grade II* listed status since 1963. It was designed by Edward Welby Pugin and is generally regarded as his masterpiece. His father, A.W.N. Pugin, promoted the revival of Gothic architecture and designed the interior of the Palace of Westminster and the tower housing Big Ben. On arrival at the monastery at about 11.00 a.m., you will be given a 45 minute talk giving an insight into the life and work of the generations of friars who created and cherished this masterpiece of architectural and religious significance, plus the story of the rise, decline and fall of the monastery and its magnificent restoration . You will then have time to look around the monastery before a soup and sandwich lunch (included). The monastery is fully accessible. The coach will depart at 1.30 p.m. It is a short drive to 84 Plymouth Grove now known as Elizabeth Gaskell's House. The Grade II* listed neo-classical villa was the residence of William and Elizabeth Gaskell from 1850 till their deaths in 1884 and 1865 respectively.