THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO. 139 August 2008 20p DONATION Front Cover By Tom Purvis 1 Editorial put aside because you were over 50! So things have improved. OR HAVE e must rub it in that Friday, THEY? August 1st, is Yorkshire Day. What about the rising problem of Did you know that one in ten of W (especially young) people who wish to the population of the UK lives in dress ‘differently’? They can get beaten up. Yorkshire; that makes it bigger than many Who do people think they are to dictate countries in the world? It’s even more what ‘normal’ dress is? What about the significant when you consider what a fuss ludicrously low wages paid to ‘different’, true “Yorksher” people make about it! often overseas, workers in some places? We’re different; or is it all the rest who are What about lower social ‘class’ still different? keeping some young people out of Now, of course, although we’re proud particular higher education. We could go and can smile about it, we don’t kill off the on. In fact we will! other ‘side’ as they did in the Wars of the When the world seems to be teetering on Roses. The writer married a red-roser; she the edge of financial chaos, starvation, has green eyes. They used to put people serious climate change, huge population with green eyes on a ducking stool a few movements and desperate shortage of hundred years ago; we don’t do that now. energy, isn’t it a pity that sections of some Her mother was a Roman Catholic; think supposedly ‘caring’ institutions still can’t what used to happen to them; they built treat half the population (female) as fully their ‘priest holes’ in some large houses in equal, or find charity in their hearts for the north in which to hide for fear of being those of ‘different’ sexuality. Talk about killed or persecuted! We don’t do that now. fiddling while Rome burns. Why must we The writer and ‘red-roser’ have a good always have to have some people to ‘beat friend whose ancestors were taken as up’? And it is often the most vulnerable. indentured slaves to South America. That We need to get rid of our FEAR of dreadful slave-trade has ended. difference. The writer is also in another minority (about 7 to 10 percent of the population); when he was much younger they tried to PETER MOORE ‘rectify’ it; it caused great anxiety and Tel 650 464 stress. In all sorts of ways it makes life that Mob 07815194993 bit more difficult to cope with daily living; you see, he’s left-handed! They used to Over 30 years’ experience in all persecute ‘sinister’ people (that’s what they aspects of the building trade. called the left-handed). Now they are most Extensions, Alterations, Roofing highly respected and brilliant! and Plastering. 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Tea EXPERIENCED IT!! 4.30pm Cowgill – Dent – LA10 5RG 25th Videos of Grisedale, Lunds and Tel: 015396 25282 Moorcock. 7.30pm www.thesportsmansinn.com Life in the Dales after I uncover and will even supply a copy of World War 1 the work to anyone who is interested. If I am a final year student at Lancaster you would like to help please contact University studying History and Politics. Matthew Kirkbride, 667010 or 01748 For my dissertation I am going to 886968 investigate what life was like in the Dales after the end of the first World War. How Country Show did people react, for example, to the men returning from the front ,and indeed how Thornton Rust Institute Teas, tombola, did they return to normal family life. plant sale. From 2.00pm with auction of produce at 4.00pm. 16th August I would be interested to talk to anyone who has memories, stories or mementos, NEIL SCULLY including photographs of that time. CARPET & VINYL Being a Dales person myself I am particularly interested in this topic. I will be FITTING SERVICE more than willing to share any information 667772 4 The Ingleborough Pony and would welcome anyone who might be interested to learn more about this volunteer Another new bus link. work. On Sundays and Bank Holidays now until the end of September a new service under “The 45 volunteers at our local branch run the above name is running from Clapham a 24 hour confidential telephone crisis line village via Ingleton and Chapel le Dale Hill which gives callers in despair the space and Inn to Ribblehead Station with two of the time to explore their innermost fears and four journeys proceeding to Selside, Horton sometimes even suicidal feelings. The and Austwick thence to Clapham. majority of our calls come in the dark and lonely hours between 9.00pm and 9.00am One feature of this means that a climb up and we are actively seeking night owls to Ingleborough from Chapel le Dale need not help man our lines in those hours so that a mean a round trip but by descending via distressed caller never gets the engaged Gaping Ghyll to Clapham you can get the tone” said Siobhan Gifford, spokesperson bus back. For the full timetable pick up a for the branch. leaflet at the information centres. It contains details of other possible walks. “Manning the phones through the night can be challenging but can also be Night owls wanted for local crisis ultimately rewarding. It would suit you phone lines down to the ground if you’re the kind of person who thrives on little sleep or who is A LOCAL VOLUNTEER charity is used to working through the night” looking for “night owls” to help man their added Siobhan. crisis phone lines through the night when - people are at their lowest point and most Samaritans give their own in house likely to call for help. training and a new programme is due to start in October at the branch in Crosby Samaritans of Northallerton and The Road, Northallerton. New volunteers then Dales are running a recruiting campaign work with a mentor for six months until they are comfortable handling calls STRINGS WITHOUT TEARS alone.