THE UPPER WENSLEYDALE NEWSLETTER Issue 230 November 2016 Donation please: 30p suggested or more if you wish Main Street, Hawes, by Stuart Armstrong Covering Upper Wensleydale from Wensley to Garsdale Head, with Walden and Bishopdale, Swaledale from Keld to Gunnerside plus Cowgill in Upper Dentdale. Published by Upper Wensleydale The Upper Wensleydale Newsletter Burnside Coach House, Newsletter Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT Tel: 667785 Issue 230 November 2016 Email for submission of articles, what’s ons, letters etc.:[email protected] Features Newsletters on the Web, simply enter Competition 4 “Upper Wensleydale Newsletter” or ____________________________ ‘‘Welcome to Wensleydale’ Theatre Group Award 8 Archive copies back to 1995 are in the Dales ________________ ____________ Countryside Museum resources room. 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We appreciate being asked There is a big reduction for six issues or more, before any part of the Newsletter is so for six issues the totals are: reproduced £25, £50 or £75 THE DECEMBER Greetings etc. £2.00 What’s ons (non-commercial) are free ISSUE WILL BE Contacts for adverts: PRODUCED ON For Hawes area and westward: NOVEMBER 28th-29th Barry Cruickshanks, Ashfield, Hardraw: 667458 DEADLINE FOR COPY For elsewhere: Sue Duffield, Fellside, THURSDAY Thornton Rust: 663504 NOVEMBER 24th 2 Editorial Change—of Two Kinds! here’s a case for taking stock of the pros and 1. Following the closure of the HSBC Bank in cons of information technology (IT), not Hawes it will be less convenient to pay in hard cash Tleast for those of us who lived for several at the Post Office. Any shop or pub which thinks it decades without it featuring in our daily lives and might benefit from the cash which the Newsletter may still be struggling to come to terms with it. receives from its collecting boxes, in exchange for On the plus side there is the ease of notes, please contact us and we may be able to communication with family members in far-off make arrangements. lands through Skype and the ability to keep in touch 2. For over 20 years the general appearance of the with far more people than even the most energetic Newsletter, its title and layout have hardly changed. could manage when we had to rely on face to face The Committee has been wondering whether a meetings, phone calls and letters. Living in remote change would be welcome and has agreed to ask areas we value the choice of buying occasional you, the readers! You might also like to submit items on-line without needing to travel to Leeds or examples of possible logos. We have Eunice, of Newcastle or York. We have cheap access to course, but she is reserved for the ‘find Eunice’ information that few homes could have provided in monthly competition. earlier years. There are Uber and Airbnb and no doubt other imaginative apps will be coming along. A benefit that we won’t all have noticed is the Next Newsletter Issue greater ease of reading when the print can be Please remember that the next issue is for enlarged on a kindle. December AND JANUARY, so items for January In the Upper Dales we must hope that more and should arrive by the next deadline. more people in mid-career will be able to earn their living here by using IT to work at home and will incidentally improve the age balance in our Free Greetings communities as well as the quality of their own Once again the Newsletter is offering free lives. Christmas and New Year Greetings from businesses There is a downside however. Pornography and and readers. These can be phoned or emailed—see addiction to gambling have always been with us but page 40 for the details— or dropped off with any of IT makes them easier to reach and a particular our contacts in the villages; see page 3. Please make temptation to the young. We read about vulnerable sure that these arrive as soon as possible and in any people who have been bullied and frightened by case no later than WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER trends on social media. The information we pick up 23rd has little or no quality control and can be plain wrong. Is it OK for young people to spend more of their spare time communicating through Facebook, Snapchat etc. than actually talking to their friends face to face? The definition of “working holiday” seems to be changing to time away when we stay in touch by email. Which of us hasn’t seen a group sitting around a table in a restaurant each tapping at a keyboard or reading a screen? Is there a danger of damaging our most important relationships for the sake of instant and constant obsession with the ephemeral? Weighing up the pro and cons is a personal matter and will be different for each of us but it is a good idea for each of us to think about how we use IT. In Methodist Hall and itself technology is “neutral” but we all need to Tennants Garden Rooms, Leyburn make sure that for us it is beneficial. A final March 20-24th (Speech) thought - perhaps the more we use it the more March 27th-31st (Music) important it is to have a holiday away from it every Entries to be submitted by January 31st 2017 now and then. 3 October Competition Answers Places in the extended National Park 1. Big black bird very drunk with beer RAVENSTONEDALE Eunice the Ewe 2. It’s a bit short on sense I was in ‘Prunings’ on page 16 last month and the ORTON winner of the £10 prize is Janet Woolley, Hawes. 3. Yes brag at Where am I now? GREST ASBY 4. A burnt singing mix November Competition Missing middles. Several have a local connection SUNBIGGIN TARN WENSLEYDALE————STRAWS 5. Bing with the attic KINGS ————LENGTH CROSBY GARRETT GRAND————PARK 6. Odd ones near the ebay HAWES————GAME NATEBY MIDDLE————FISTED 7. Faraday’s cottage is here FORCED————TRIANGLE OUTHGILL COMPUTER————BUTTY 8. Nigel Eckersley’s place MOBILE————-CALL LECK GIMMER————CUTLET 9. Beast in a china shop with this TRAFALGAR————DANCE BULLPOT CARRIAGE ————-WORK 10. Mixed rest in Caton PAINTED————-HILL CASTERTON WIDDALE————ILL 11. B lousy place GARSDALE————LINE SOULBY CHEST————-HATCH 12. Take an ‘o’ from the heath. MORLAND Preston-under Scar The best entrant was Barbara Jolley, Bellerby. £20 Parish Council to the Great North Air Ambulance. This small Parish Council in Wensleydale has a vacancy for the post of part-time salaried clerk. Events at Reeth Memorial Hall The council meets a minimum of ten times each Friday December 2nd at 8.00pm – The Emily year, and in addition to the usual duties, the Smith Christmas Show – Emily Smith (Scots Singer successful candidate will act as Financial Officer of the Year 2014) brings her Christmas show to and also have the responsibility of maintaining the England after sell-out concerts in Scotland for the cemetery records. The hours are variable, but will past five years. Tickets £14 in advance (£16 on the be in the region of 15 hours each month with door), under 16s half price. remuneration in accordance with NALC approved Saturday December 3rd at 7.30pm –IF YOU pay scales. The ability to work from home by MISSED IT IN WENSLEYDALE North Country computer is essential. It is expected that the appointee will undertake training if not already Theatre – The Wish House – a comedy of rural superstition and urban myth - a story of fierce, qualified. insane, possessive love ... (and dark goings-on For a full job description contact: down on the farm). Based on a short story by Mrs Jan Jowett, 625425 Rudyard Kipling. Tickets £10, under 16s half price. Tickets are on sale at Reeth Post Office or phone [email protected] John Little 01748-884759 or Closing date for applications: November 30th 2016 visit www.reethmemorialhall.co.uk 4 Upper Dales Family History Group Gayle Mill Christmas Fayre The new season of meetings began with a talk by Saturday November 26th Dawn Webster, curator of Kiplin Hall. Drawing on 10.00am – 4.30pm – Admission Adults Kiplin’s vast archive of documents, photographs £2.50 Children 5-16 Year Free and artefacts her talk dealt with the role of the house and its owners in times of conflict from the 17th century onwards, beginning with a piece of wood supposedly from the block on which Charles I was beheaded during the Civil War! During the 18th century the hall was owned by the Crowe family. Christopher Crowe was commended for quelling a riot in Richmond in 1757 and received a commemorative piece of silver from the town’s mayor.