REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD ISSUE NO. 265 JULY 2018 Your local news magazine for the Two Dales. PRICELESS REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD First Thoughts . up. I rang to complain that my broadband connection was not working; I’m not a technophobe: I was teaching I got a recorded message advising me about computers and computing over to go online to look for possible thirty years ago - although most of solutions. what I taught then is hardly relevant I’ll let you have a rant about people today. However, I am becoming becoming addicted to social media or to increasingly concerned about the ways computer games where the aim is to in which technology is taking over our shoot everybody on your island; or lives and how we are becoming about the perils of the internet. MAC dependant on it. Because, when the technology fails, what do we do? Just recently, because of a glitch, card machines across Europe were unable to accept payments, causing much wringing of hands amongst those who no longer carry cash. In April, a new system failure meant that nearly two million TSB customers could not access their online banking. And last year the NHS, together with many other organisations, was crippled by a worldwide ransomware attack meaning doctors could not see their patients; prescriptions couldn’t be processed; and treatments had to be postponed. Just three examples: The Fire Sale - an all-out cyberwarfare attack that performs a systematic attack on a nation's computer infrastructure – which formed the premise of Die Hard 4, does not seem so fanciful now. Unfortunately, we are getting less and less choice as more things are put online. You don’t need paper bills anymore – you can view them all online. Not much help though when you need a utilities bill as proof of address and only original bills are accepted. And if you are not computer-savvy – good luck to you. So what will happen when the whole IT infrastructure comes crashing down? BT’s answering service sums it 2 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD GAZETTE MANAGEMENT TEAM Published by The Reeth & District Gazette Ltd. Chairman: James Alderson Company Number: 06541854 Greenways, Grinton, Richmond c/o The Company Secretary DL11 6HJ Andrew Bedford, Glory Be, Blades Tel: 01748 884312 Richmond, North Yorkshire DL11 6PS E-mail: [email protected] Tel./Fax: 01748 886974 Secretary: Sue Alderson E-mail: [email protected] Holme View, Low Row, Richmond, DL11 6PE No material may be reproduced in Tel: 01748 886292 whole or in part without permission. E-mail: [email protected] Whilst every care is taken for Editor: Martin Cluderay accuracy, the publishers cannot be Reeth Post Office, Reeth, Richmond held legally responsible for any errors DL11 6SE or opinions in articles, listings or Tel: 01748 884201 advertisements. 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What else happened on that mournful day? 1 1200 In China, sunglasses are invented 2 1843 An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in South Carolina 3 1844 The last pair of Great Auks is killed. 4 1954 Meat and all other food rationing officially ends in Britain 5 1841 Thomas Cook opens first travel agency 6 1952 Last tram ride in London 7 1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released 8 1961 Fred Trueman takes 5-0 in 24 balls to rip through Aussies 9 1984 York Minster damaged in lightning storm 10 1962 Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched 11 1156 Siege of Shirakawa-den in Japan 12 1962 Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London) 13 1939 Frank Sinatra makes his recording debut 14 1967 The Who begin a US tour opening for Herman's Hermits 15 1898 Camillo Golgi discovers the Golgi Apparatus 16 1969 Apollo 11 launched, carrying 1st men to land on Moon 17 1473 Charles the Stout conquers Nijmegen 18 64 Great Fire of Rome begins while the Emperor Nero fiddles 19 1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth 20 1969 1st Moon landing: 21 1545 French troops invade the Isle of Wight 22 1967 Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour 23 1958 1st 4 women named to peerage in House of Lords 24 1935 1st greetings telegram sent in Britain 25 1965 Bob Dylan booed at Folk Festival for playing an electric guitar 26 1955 Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers 27 1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long) 28 1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut 29 1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts 30 1966 England beat West Germany 4-2 and start 52 years of hurt 31 1893 Henry Perky patents shredded wheat and eats three of them 5 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD Message From The Saturday 30th June Richard Lamb - A Tour of the Grinton Swaledale Museum Mill Site 10 am & 2pm [limited numbers, In Reeth booking essential]. Each tour will last approximately 2 hours and will The Museum is usually open every day encompass the mill and its environs from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm, watch out with the lime kiln and quarries on for our brand new bright blue signs. Sharrow Hill, the flue, mining remains We have just put a wonderful including Devis Hole and Swinston collection of wooden knitting sticks on Hush, the water supply, the peat house display. They include graceful and associated buildings which have not goosewings and slender spindles; some survived, and the development of, and are carved, some are plain; a few bear structures remaining within, the mill the initials of the owners; all have a itself. The fee of £9 includes a CD of beautiful patina of use. They are all Richard’s paper A Smelting Miscellany little pieces of social history belonging No. 3, made available by kind to a single local collector. What is permission of the Peak District Mines more, they are for sale. Why not pop in Historical Society, describing the likely to the Museum and purchase a bit of arrangement of the mill prior to its the past, for yourself or as a special redevelopment in 1820. present. Wednesday 11th July (a repeat of the Our Friends of the Museum Lecture lecture given on 9th May) programme continues, but places are Helen Bainbridge, ‘A Little Country in booking fast. We highly recommend Itself - Pontefract, Ingilby and that you contact us beforehand to Hartley's Swaledale’ secure your seat to avoid Wednesday 18th July disappointment. All lectures, unless David Johnson, 'Lime kilns in Swaledale otherwise stated, are in the Museum & Arkengarthdale: the where, the when and begin at 7.30. £4 for Friends of and the what for?’ Roger Preston’s the Museum; £5 for Visitors, all stunning black and white photographs welcome. of some of our local lime kilns will be on display in the Upper Gallery. REETH POST OFFICE . more than just a Post Office Reeth, Richmond, N. Yorks DL11 6SE Tel 01748 884201 We are members of Xtra Local - a consortium of independent retailers offering fantastic promotions to local communities: Great value deals across key brands. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter to receive updates of the promotions. Or visit our website to download a copy of the Monthly Promotions Leaflet SERVING OUR COMMUNITY www.reethpostoffice.co.uk 6 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD Wednesday 1st August The 2 Dales Lunch Clubs Dr Jane Grenville, ’Surveying the will be holding their annual Architecture of Swaledale and Arkengarthdale for the revised Cake & Produce Stall Pevsner’. Jane is currently revising the at Reeth Market Yorkshire: North Riding volume in the on Friday 6th July Pevsner Architectural Guides series. Your support would be She will talk about the buildings in greatly appreciated. Swaledale and Arkengarthdale and how they will be represented in the new For further details please phone guide. Julia on 886524 Saturday 4th August 2-4pm Come and Learn about Lichens.