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August/ September 2012 Issue No. 54 Saturday August 4th – From 10.00am The Saltersgate Farmer’s Hunt Country Show & Sports at Saltersgate Bank Top By kind permission of Mr & Mrs M Watson Classes include: Horses, Carriage Driving, Dogs, Hounds, Terriers, Lurchers, Cookery, Produce, Photography, Children’s Classes & Sports, Vintage tractors Come and watch the Hound Trail over the North Yorkshire Moors Trade Stands, Farmer’s Market, Car Boot Sale, Homemade Refreshments, Licensed Bar Admission £4, children under 16 £1, under 5 Free Free Car Parking – Show Field Parking £3 extra LET’S MAKE IT A LOCAL EVENT Help needed please on setting up the field and on the Show Day. Please come and support us. Any small amount of help will be greatly appreciated. Homemade refreshments, cakes etc. most welcome. Bring your children & pet dogs along too. Classes for all Please contact Freda Cockerill 460207, Sheila Garbutt 460468 or Stuart Warriner 460450 Lockton & Levisham LL’s Bells Heritage Group Our Jubilee Concert in Lev- In early June the group made isham Church on 3rd June was a an excursion to the wilds of huge success and many thanks Newtondale to locate the ruins go to all the performers and the of Beulah House which was oc- audience for their participation cupied by the Woodmansey farming family during and to Adrian and Duncan for the interval refresh- the 1920s, then rented out and allowed to deterio- ments. We were quite overcome by the positive rate. Does anyone have any more information? comments, including ‘I came with my son who lives in the village and I thought I was going to be really Beulah House bored, but suddenly it was the end of the concert as it is today. and I wanted to hear more.’! The next day we This is the front were lucky with the weather and rang for the bless- overlooking ing of the new flagpole and official raising of the Newtondale. At flag. We have also enjoyed our annual evening out the rear is a with the Poetry Group on 3rd July at the Fox and yard and out- Rabbit. buildings. Then by the time you read this there will have been the ‘All the Bells’ performance on 27th July. This was a nationwide event dreamed up by the artist Further up Newtondale, below Needle Point, are Martin Creed to get ‘all the bells in a country ringing Newtondale Springs described as a spa in Victorian as quickly and as loudly as possible for 3 minutes’ times. This will be the goal of our next outing. between 8.12am and 8.15am and it was broadcast Newspaper extracts on BBC Radio 2 and local BBC radio. We will have Malton Messenger 8 Sept 1877 done our bit at the flagpole and Lockton residents Advert: Saltersgate Inn. Set in the midst of splendid were invited to the Square to do theirs! Any bell and romantic mountain scenery & is a favourite resort were acceptable – bicycle bells, cow bells, mobile for tourists in the summer season. Pic Nics and School phone ring tones, cooking timers, clocks, etc, etc. Treats accommodation – a few days notice required For more details of this amazing if somewhat daft for large parties. Home cured ham -Tea provided dai- event go to www.allthebells.com. ly. Well aired beds. W Cooper proprietor. We are now taking a break from evening sessions th 31 Aug 1878. until Tuesday 11 September, but the drop-in ‘ring, Lockton School Board invite applications for the ap- coffee and chat’ mornings will continue on Fridays pointment of a teacher for their school at Lockton at 10.30am until 12 noon in Levisham Village Hall. which is constructed to accommodate 60 children. Ap- These are ideal for anyone who would like to give plications to state salary with half the government ringing a go and new faces are always most wel- come - if your children are over 8 they are particu- grant. Candidates will be required to provide instruc- larly welcome and it might be something different tion for the girls in sewing. Applications before Sept for them to do during the long school holiday. If 15th. Website: www.locktonlevisham.co.uk there is enough demand we can always bring the The Heritage Group holds weekly meetings in Lev- bells to Lockton, or lifts across to Levisham can be isham Village Hall or somewhere in the field every arranged. Phone Anne (460274) or Sue (460329) Tues at 2pm. All are welcome. for more details. Ray Halmshaw 460008 Other contacts: Ruth Strong 460445, John Gibbs 460358 or Betty Halse 476114 Village Hall Play area Spring clean – many thanks to the volunteers who The springies at the play area are now badly dam- came to help the Committee with the Annual Spring aged and should not be used. Unfortunately, the Clean. play area does not have any funds to replace these Computer table – there is a spare computer table in at the moment. There is the possibility that a small the village hall. If anyone would like this, please grant might be available in the future which the contact Jenny Bentley on 460417. committee is now looking into. St Giles Church Lockton Methodist Chapel Dear Friends, We still have no church- Normal services every warden in Lockton, (and Sunday at 6.15pm following my last article here no-one contacted me Everyone most welcome. to ask about what it might entail), but members of the Parochial Church Council are setting up the church for services, and it is thanks to them and all their efforts that Lock- Recent meetings ton Church remains open as a Parish Church. It The speaker for the June would be so sad if, now that St Giles’ is so well re- meeting was Mrs Dilys Cluer, stored and looks so beautiful, and after 1000 years a Green Party member from of history in the very centre of the village, it were to Scarborough, who gave an close in our generation. So thank you to all who illustrated talk on “Climate work to keep it open: your efforts ensure that Lock- Change”. The urgency of find- ton Church is a welcome place for visitors, and re- ing solutions to the problems arising from climate mains here for baptisms, weddings and funerals, change were vividly demonstrated by graphs and and to mark events in the life of the village. photographs. Dilys emphasised that the extent of Those of you who open and close the church, and the threat to the planet should not deter each of us who care for this loveliest of churches by cleaning from “doing our bit” and had many suggestions as and keeping it fresh with flowers: you make such a to how we could all help in this most important ar- difference, for by making that effort you make the ea. church so welcoming to all who visit. So thank you. The speaker for the July meeting was Mr Derek Services coming up …At the usual time of 10.30am, Haswell of the Beck Isle Museum who shared with Sunday services of Holy Communion will be held on us his memories of growing up in London during the August 12th and 26th , September 9th and 23rd , Second World War. Though not without its amusing October 14th and 28th . incidents (the tale of the mouldy blancmange for A Service of Harvest Thanksgiving will be held at example), this was a deeply moving account of the 7pm on Friday 5th October. Well-loved and well- almost unimaginable horrors of this period in our known hymns, of course. history. Derek painted a vivid picture of the appal- To this, and to all services and events, you are most ling destruction and loss of life which he had per- welcome: it is your church. sonally witnessed. A truly unforgettable evening. Future meetings — from 7.00pm Fr Antony Pritchett Vicar th Tel: 01751 472983 Wednesday September 5 Email: [email protected] “Every step of the way” Sally Millington will talk about Macmillan Cancer Support, an organization which provides practical, medical & financial sup- port to cancer sufferers and their families. Wednesday October 3rd “Not just a pretty face” Ralph Fieldhouse and “Teddy” will enlighten everyone as to how Hearing Dogs can provide their lucky owners with a life- to a coffee morning with pampered chef, changing level of independence, confidence and sale of homemade jams and raffle security. at Lockton Village Hall on Monday October 8th from 10.00am until 12 noon. Thanks for the holly Sorry but I forgot to include a note of thanks in the last Cryer. Many thanks to the person who anony- mously left some holly plants at Old Barn Cottage for the village hall garden. Saltersgate Farmers Hunt News RARE TURTLE-DOVES VISIT LOCKTON Graham Cockerill and Keith Acomb have been ap- “Like a pair of loving turtle-doves pointed temporary Joint Masters of Saltersgate That could not live asunder day or night” Farmers Hunt. They have said that it is their inten- tion to be “guardians for the season”. Denis Brown has been appointed Huntsman and Simon Richard- son 1st Whipper-in. Graham & Keith have plans for the hunt. For instance, they would like to consider putting up some jumps in some places to make the country more fun for the youngsters who join us. They also intend to work hard to gain more country for the Hunt. For Denis Brown, his appointment as Huntsman continues the long association of the Brown family with the Saltersgate Hunt. He has been interested in hunting hounds since he was at primary school and there are hunt members who remember those days! When William Shakespeare used this quote in Hen- ry VI, Part 1, he was well aware that turtle-doves were famous in folklore as a symbol of love and de- Lockton & Levisham votion.