REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD ISSUE NO. 276 JUNE 2019 Your local news magazine for the Two Dales. PRICELESS REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD First Thoughts . scriptwriter doesn’t appreciate the ambiguities of our language. ’Nothing When we watched the TV in our acts faster than Anadin’ is a classic younger days, we used to play a game of example: In that case, take nothing trying to be the first to guess what an then. advert was about. Things haven’t A more recent one is an advert for changed much: it can still take time to washing pods (I can’t remember the figure out what is being advertised. brand) which produce unbelievable Some adverts are excellent. The AA results, apparently. At the end of the advert with a young girl in the back of advert comes a health & safety a car singing along to Tina Turner’s warning: Keep away from children. I version of Proud Mary is brilliant. And can’t decide if this is said with tongue the Specsavers adverts, have brought in cheek (Try saying it yourself with a new phrase into our language: ‘Should your tongue in cheek.) or if they have have gone to Specsavers.’ Genius. just missed the ambiguity. Other adverts however fail to hit My current favourite, although not the mark and whilst you might strictly speaking an advert, is the remember the story of the advert, or slogan for a political party. Liberal the song they have used as a Democrats: Demand Better. I wonder soundtrack, you forget what was being how much the genius who came up with advertised. that got paid? (Sarcasm, by the way.) And some fail because the MAC 2 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD GAZETTE MANAGEMENT TEAM Published by The Reeth & District Gazette Ltd. 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Class of 1976 Quite often the Gazette is almost Where are they now? finished by that date, so the earlier items are submitted, the better. 3 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD Message From The some respects it is also misleading as will be explained. Marrick is indeed an Swaledale Museum unlikely place for innovation but In Reeth nevertheless the known history and surviving buildings allow an appreciation We are looking forward to welcoming of what once happened here, not the Shaun Richardson and Richard Lamb to largest or most complex site but the Museum this month to start our certainly one of the most picturesque lecture series. On Wednesday 5th and best preserved in Yorkshire. It June, Shaun will talk on: ‘Landscape deserves full recognition of its place in with Horses: Coal Mining at Tan Hill and history. Both talks in the Museum at Kings Pit Collieries’. Both collieries have 7.30 pm. a history of working covering a period Richard will also be leading an ALL of over 700 years. Using a combination DAY FIELD TRIP on Saturday 13th of previously unpublished documentary July to Surrender and Old Gang lead research undertaken by the late Les smelting mills. Following the success of Tyson, and new detailed measured the two previous guided tours to earthwork survey carried out by Ed Marrick and Grinton Mills, it was Dennison Archaeological Services Ltd, thought that something different the illustrated talk will provide an would be in order. So this year, it is an outline history of the collieries and also all day event visiting the two well- focus specifically on the survival of known smelting complexes of Surrender structures associated with the raising/ and Old Gang Mills situated on Barney winding of coal to the surface by Beck between Arkengarthdale and horses. What remains of these Swaledale. This will encompass all structures at Tan Hill/Kings Pit will be aspects of smelting in detail, together compared and contrasted to those with a little history, and should appeal elsewhere in the Yorkshire Dales. to the industrial archaeologist, local On Wednesday 15th June Richard historian and researcher into the lead Lamb will present his latest research industry. The party size is strictly 'Not once but twice: The introduction limited to 20 and will cost £10, payable of innovative lead smelting technology in advance to the Swaledale Museum, into Yorkshire. But where? Marrick of Reeth. All participants will receive a course’. Richard tells us that the title PDF handout prior to the trip via e-mail is deliberately intended to be intriguing providing background information and and poses all sorts of questions about some relevant plans to aid what is called technology transfer. In interpretation. Booking essential. If these events don’t take your M. GUY - PLUMBING fancy why not join us for 'Yorkshire Tea & Tales' with Rhoda Fraser on For all your plumbing requirements Saturday 29th June at 3pm, £8.00 per AGAS & RAYBURNS SERVICED person. Come and hear stories about chapel teas, traditional recipes and how Tel: 01748 - 825640 times have changed, while enjoying a 4 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD our Upper Gallery this season. Perhaps 5* Holiday Cottage you might want to commission your own near Gunnerside ‘Past and Present’ image from them, but with some of the best views first come and see what they can do. in Swaledale If you want to sign up for our FREE e- newsletters that come out every few Sleeps up to 6 weeks with latest developments do let No dogs us know, and we will put you on the Now booking for 2020 circulation list. www.throstlenest-swaledale.co.uk For advance information on events, why not become a Friend of the fine Dales tea. Limited to 20 includes Museum? Annual membership: single entry to Museum, talk and tea with £10, joint £15, family £20 gives cake, biscuits & Wensleydale cheese. unlimited free entry to the Museum, Booking essential. discount on talks, and our twice yearly Or if not tea, then lichens. Les and Newsletter. For more information Sue Knight will be hosting their annual contact Helen Bainbridge via Lichen Drop-In on Saturday 15th June, [email protected] or on 2.00 - 4.00pm. 07969 823232. Visit our website on You might also want to visit us to www.swaledalemuseum.org for the see our new and exciting temporary latest information. exhibition ‘Past & Present: A New Look Dame Helen Bainbridge at Old Swaledale’. We are all familiar with those popular picture books that show old images of a particular place, the sepia and black and white lending them a familiar air of age and authenticity. Sometimes these books also include pictures of the same sites as they are today. Our eyes flick back- and-forth between them, inviting a sort of distracting game of finding the difference. Well our very-own photographers at Scenic View in Reeth have come up with an innovative idea, employing the technical and aesthetic skills of their profession, combining old and new in a single image. Using the Museum’s collection they have chosen a selection of old photographs and merged their modern equivalent into a single view. Come and see the wonderful results in a select exhibition of these works in the Museum - the highlight of 5 REETH AND DISTRICT GAZETTE LTD Sustainable Swaledale – about the plants and when to pick them, and there may be space for you to add Already Growing extra edible plants if you have some spare. We are a small and growing community Please get in touch if you know of a group aiming to make Swaledale and small piece of land that could grow Arkengarthdale an environmentally edibles near you, and/or if you want to sustainable place to live, work and visit. get involved. We would love to have a People are finding our Facebook page, least one communal garden in all the and we’re creating a website Swaledale villages. As many of you will www.SustainableSwaledale.org to help know, freshly picked fruit, vegetables you to find out what’s happening and and herbs taste amazing.