THEUPPER WENSLEYDALE

NEWSLETTERIssue 204

July 2014Donation please:

30p suggested or more if you wish

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EditorialTwo things might surprise you this month:firstly, we are not writing about the GrandDépart; we’ve enough bikey stuff! Our com-mittee decided to do that after the event inAugust; secondly, since the last few editori-als have been a bit heavy, this is maybe a bitlighter.

Have you noticed how a few words seem tobe everywhere? Take ‘devastated’ for exam-ple; so many situations seem to be‘devastating’. As for ‘like’, some young peo-ple seem to manage to, like, get ‘like’ severaltimes in one breath! The internet generatesnew words almost daily, and dictionaries arehard pressed to keep up; many new wordsoriginate in America.

However, an increasing trend seems to beto follow an Australian pattern of shorteningwords; some of us find this quite endearing,in proportion. The postie delivers the mailfrom the Salvos (the Salvation Army), youmight pick up a bargain at the op shop(opportunity shop= charity shop), no-oneeats breakfast; it’s always brekky. At the Bar-bie you probs see users on their mobes! Youmight take the kids to Maccas after kindie.Even the Australians are happy to live in Oz.Don’t know if the Kiwis are happy with theirtitle, but we’ve to be content to be Poms andthere are some bizarre explanations for thatword. No driver does a U-turn - it’s a uwey,and the utility vehicle disappeared in favourof the ute years ago. How these appearspelled in the dictionaries we don’t know!

Place names sound jolly! Brizzie, Tassie,Top End, the Coat Hanger, Alice, Westralia(You work them out) or Rocky for Rocking-ham and Bundy for Bundaberg seem to bealways used.

Are we catching on? Do you mind? We’vehad Buck House in London for years; HydePark brekkies seem to be here to stay butwe’ve yet to hear of anyone taking a dip inthe Serpy! Footballers have no difficultywith Darlo, Boro or ManU. How about‘Appy’ for Appersett (if that’s appropriate!)?;‘Carpy’ (not quite so nice!), Asky, Aysy (canbe a bit misty thereabouts!), Burty soundscheerful, or Reddo!; certainly locals drop the‘West’ from West Burton, the’ Rust’ fromThornton and they take the bus to Bed’l.Kent Dale became Kendal centuries ago andwe travel via Sed’b to get there and you still

hear ‘Bainbrig’. Newcomers of course areamused that we go to Widdle on the B6255.

Now here’s the challenge; how about creat-ing new names for people working in orthings used in our local industries of cheese,rope, tourism or local trades and retail? Orare there some already which we havemissed. Some day in Hawes you mightbump into a ‘ropy’ in the station yard or a‘curdy’ up Gayle Lane! Here comes theplummy with a load of pipes! Look out forthe Fall Guy to ask the way to AysgarthFalls!

Such words seem more friendly than theubiquitous abbreviations of texting: LOL,TY, BW, HAGD, but such are here to stay.Mind you TTFN came out from the wirelessin the 1940s.

Now SWYCD!

Gayle Mill NewsSunday 6th July 2014 at 11.00am and2.30pmTwo hour Demonstration Guided Tours – seeall the original 1879 machinery work-ing! Booking is advisedWednesday 16th July 10.30am – 4.30pmIntroduction to Simple Book Binding £50 perperson all materials & lunch includedSunday 20th July 10.00am – 4.30pmIntroduction to Wheelwrighting £60 per per-son including lunch & bring & share BBQ bythe fire afterwards!Wednesday 23rd July 10.00m – 4.00pmCoptic and Folded Books £45 all materialsand lunch included.Gayle Mill is also open for one hourguided tours (Sunday – Friday) at 1.00pmand 3.00pm Except 1st Sunday of eachmonth.Ring 667320 for bookings.

www.gaylemill.org.ukemail: admin@gaylemill.org.uk

St Matthew's Church,Stalling Busk -Sunday 6th July

The Church will be open for quiet contem-plation the day after the Tour de France. Allwelcome to come and enjoy the peace ofStalling Busk.

Published byThe Upper Wensleydale Newsletter

Burnside Coach House,Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT

Tel: 667785e-mail: alan.watkinson@virgin.net

Printed by Wensleydale Press

Committee: Alan S.Watkinson,Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield,

Karen Jones, Alastair Macintosh, Neil Piper, Karen Prudden,

Janet W. Thomson (treasurer), Peter Wood

Final Processing: Sarah Champion, Adrian Janke

Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens,

PLEASE NOTE

This web-copy does not contain the commercialadverts which are in the full Newsletter.

As a general rule we only accept adverts fromwithin the circulation area and no more than one-third of each issue is taken up with them.

Advertising

Boxed adverts: £6, £12, £18

There is a big reduction for six issues ormore, so for six issues the totals are:

£25, £50 or £75

Greetings etc. £2.00What’s ons (non-commercial) are free

Contacts for adverts:

For Hawes area and westward:

Barry Cruickshanks, Ashfield, Hardraw: 667458

For elsewhere:

Sue Duffield, Fellside,Thornton Rust: 663504

Upper Wensleydale Newsletter

Issue 204 — July 2014Features

St Margaret’s Restoration 9____________________________Blame it on Bartle 19________________ ____________W. Metcalfe & Sons 24____________________________Competition 5____________________________Askrigg Village Book 26____________________________Doctor’s Rotas 18____________________________Tour de France 10 & 28____________________________Dr Kristen Whalley 27____________________________What’s On 13 & 14____________________________Plus all the regulars____________________________

THE AUGUST 2014 ISSUEWILL BE PRODUCED ON

JULY 28th AND 29th

DEADLINE FOR COPY:THURSDAYJULY 24th

Whilst we try to ensure that all informationis correct we cannot be held legallyresponsible for omissions or inaccuracies inarticles, adverts or listings, or for anyinconvenience caused. Views expressed inarticles are the sole responsibility of theperson by-lined. Articles by comitteemembers carry just their initials. Weappreciate being asked before any part ofthe Newsletter is reproduced

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EditorialTwo things might surprise you this month:firstly, we are not writing about the GrandDépart; we’ve enough bikey stuff! Our com-mittee decided to do that after the event inAugust; secondly, since the last few editori-als have been a bit heavy, this is maybe a bitlighter.

Have you noticed how a few words seem tobe everywhere? Take ‘devastated’ for exam-ple; so many situations seem to be‘devastating’. As for ‘like’, some young peo-ple seem to manage to, like, get ‘like’ severaltimes in one breath! The internet generatesnew words almost daily, and dictionaries arehard pressed to keep up; many new wordsoriginate in America.

However, an increasing trend seems to beto follow an Australian pattern of shorteningwords; some of us find this quite endearing,in proportion. The postie delivers the mailfrom the Salvos (the Salvation Army), youmight pick up a bargain at the op shop(opportunity shop= charity shop), no-oneeats breakfast; it’s always brekky. At the Bar-bie you probs see users on their mobes! Youmight take the kids to Maccas after kindie.Even the Australians are happy to live in Oz.Don’t know if the Kiwis are happy with theirtitle, but we’ve to be content to be Poms andthere are some bizarre explanations for thatword. No driver does a U-turn - it’s a uwey,and the utility vehicle disappeared in favourof the ute years ago. How these appearspelled in the dictionaries we don’t know!

Place names sound jolly! Brizzie, Tassie,Top End, the Coat Hanger, Alice, Westralia(You work them out) or Rocky for Rocking-ham and Bundy for Bundaberg seem to bealways used.

Are we catching on? Do you mind? We’vehad Buck House in London for years; HydePark brekkies seem to be here to stay butwe’ve yet to hear of anyone taking a dip inthe Serpy! Footballers have no difficultywith Darlo, Boro or ManU. How about‘Appy’ for Appersett (if that’s appropriate!)?;‘Carpy’ (not quite so nice!), Asky, Aysy (canbe a bit misty thereabouts!), Burty soundscheerful, or Reddo!; certainly locals drop the‘West’ from West Burton, the’ Rust’ fromThornton and they take the bus to Bed’l.Kent Dale became Kendal centuries ago andwe travel via Sed’b to get there and you still

hear ‘Bainbrig’. Newcomers of course areamused that we go to Widdle on the B6255.

Now here’s the challenge; how about creat-ing new names for people working in orthings used in our local industries of cheese,rope, tourism or local trades and retail? Orare there some already which we havemissed. Some day in Hawes you mightbump into a ‘ropy’ in the station yard or a‘curdy’ up Gayle Lane! Here comes theplummy with a load of pipes! Look out forthe Fall Guy to ask the way to AysgarthFalls!

Such words seem more friendly than theubiquitous abbreviations of texting: LOL,TY, BW, HAGD, but such are here to stay.Mind you TTFN came out from the wirelessin the 1940s.

Now SWYCD!

Gayle Mill NewsSunday 6th July 2014 at 11.00am and2.30pmTwo hour Demonstration Guided Tours – seeall the original 1879 machinery work-ing! Booking is advisedWednesday 16th July 10.30am – 4.30pmIntroduction to Simple Book Binding £50 perperson all materials & lunch includedSunday 20th July 10.00am – 4.30pmIntroduction to Wheelwrighting £60 per per-son including lunch & bring & share BBQ bythe fire afterwards!Wednesday 23rd July 10.00m – 4.00pmCoptic and Folded Books £45 all materialsand lunch included.Gayle Mill is also open for one hourguided tours (Sunday – Friday) at 1.00pmand 3.00pm Except 1st Sunday of eachmonth.Ring 667320 for bookings.

www.gaylemill.org.ukemail: admin@gaylemill.org.uk

St Matthew's Church,Stalling Busk -Sunday 6th July

The Church will be open for quiet contem-plation the day after the Tour de France. Allwelcome to come and enjoy the peace ofStalling Busk.

Published byThe Upper Wensleydale Newsletter

Burnside Coach House,Burtersett Road, Hawes DL8 3NT

Tel: 667785e-mail: alan.watkinson@virgin.net

Printed by Wensleydale Press

Committee: Alan S.Watkinson,Barry Cruickshanks (web), Sue E .Duffield,

Karen Jones, Alastair Macintosh, Neil Piper, Karen Prudden,

Janet W. Thomson (treasurer), Peter Wood

Final Processing: Sarah Champion, Adrian Janke

Postal Distribution: Derek Stephens,

PLEASE NOTE

This web-copy does not contain the commercialadverts which are in the full Newsletter.

As a general rule we only accept adverts fromwithin the circulation area and no more than one-third of each issue is taken up with them.

Advertising

Boxed adverts: £6, £12, £18

There is a big reduction for six issues ormore, so for six issues the totals are:

£25, £50 or £75

Greetings etc. £2.00What’s ons (non-commercial) are free

Contacts for adverts:

For Hawes area and westward:

Barry Cruickshanks, Ashfield, Hardraw: 667458

For elsewhere:

Sue Duffield, Fellside,Thornton Rust: 663504

Upper Wensleydale Newsletter

Issue 204 — July 2014Features

St Margaret’s Restoration 9____________________________Blame it on Bartle 19________________ ____________W. Metcalfe & Sons 24____________________________Competition 5____________________________Askrigg Village Book 26____________________________Doctor’s Rotas 18____________________________Tour de France 10 & 28____________________________Dr Kristen Whalley 27____________________________What’s On 13 & 14____________________________Plus all the regulars____________________________

THE AUGUST 2014 ISSUEWILL BE PRODUCED ON

JULY 28th AND 29th

DEADLINE FOR COPY:THURSDAYJULY 24th

Whilst we try to ensure that all informationis correct we cannot be held legallyresponsible for omissions or inaccuracies inarticles, adverts or listings, or for anyinconvenience caused. Views expressed inarticles are the sole responsibility of theperson by-lined. Articles by comitteemembers carry just their initials. Weappreciate being asked before any part ofthe Newsletter is reproduced

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Wensleydale 100Chloe Richardson from Gayle isdoing a sponsored cycle ride onFriday August 1st: 100 milesin one day, for SARCOMA UKthe bone and soft tissue cancer charity.Starting at home, she is going up Fleet Moss,Buckden, West Witton, Middleham, Bedale,Scotton, Swaledale, Kirkby Stephen andHawes. If you would like to sponsor her:Justgiving.com ‘Wensleydale 100’ ChloeRichardson, or you can catch Chloe with hersponsor forms.

Thank you for your support and good luckChloe!

Hawes Bunting MakersThank you to all the ladies that marked out,cut, sewed and pressed the magnificent bun-ting adorning our town. It took several ladies,several weeks to complete the mammothtask. At one point we had 8 sewing machinesgoing full tilt and over a dozen ladies on theproduction line, not to mention the "homeworkers". We even had a visitor join us whohad seen the notice in Mason's window.

Special thanks to Anne Smithies who al-lowed the use of Chapel Gallery and her sew-ing machines, at her own expense and to RuthLyndsey for organising the "event". We areall hoping the bunting will be robust enoughto adorn our town for may years to come.

Bainbridge and DistrictMotor Club Hill Climb

Open ClassMotorcycle Hill Climb

and MotorshowWednesday 23rd July, 6.00pmSorrell Sykes Farm, Nr Aysgarth

Gates Open Midday.Practice 5.00 pm. Racing 6.00 pm

Competitor entry £20Refreshments Available

For information and Entries contact Bob Fos-ter 622331 or 07811 385392.

Entries close 16th July

The Old School HouseArts Centre Leyburn

FilmsAll showing at 5.00 and 7.30pm on

Thursdays and Fridays (except 25th)July 10,11th The Monuments MenJuly 17,18th The Grand Budapest HotelJuly 24th THE THIRD MAN (special

showing for the 1940sweekend)

July 31st, August 1stBest Exotic Marigold Hotel

Free TicketsFour train tickets have become available asdescribed below:

Two from Garsdale to London on Thursday3rd July at 13.03, changing at Leeds, intoLondon King's Cross at 17.28One from London King's Cross on Monday7th July at 12.05, changing at Leeds, intoGarsdale at 16.16One from London King's Cross on Thursday10th July at 12.05, changing at Leeds, intoGarsdale at 16.16All need the user to have a SENIOR RAILCARDAll free to anyone who can use them - ringme on 667500

Thanks, Andrew Mccullagh

June Competition AnswersSome Yorkshire man-made tourist spots–anagrams.

1. SEA TRAIL Saltaire 2. I HELP LACE Piece Hall 3. BONY BEFIT SAUNA Fountains

Abbey 4. COLON BATTLES Bolton Castle 5. VERY BIG LIFE SINE Bingley

Five Rise 6. DRIVE TUP BLEACH AID Ribblehead (Should have read TUB not TUP) Viaduct 7. DOCK AP NUMBER Duncombe Park 8. SHAP OR THONG AWARE Haworth

Parsonage 9. OWL DARES CHAT Castle Howard10. MIRK YES TORN York Minster11. CRAM CHOSE LINDT Richmond

Castle12. THAN LLANBUR GOES. Burton Agnes

HallThe winner was Jane Ritchie who confessed toreceiving a little help from Margaret Proctor sothe £20 prize is donated to Caring for Life,Leeds; Margaret’s choice.

July CompetitionYou won’t be surprised to see it’s aboutcycling and cycles. Not all are anagrams.

1. UTTERED 2. CYCLIST RAGES— BROKEN ONES 3. SPINE RAN WEIGHED DOWN 4. BLAND SHARE 5. I UNKNIT A BESOM 6. SOUNDS LIKE “OCEAN, DRINK,

LOOK” - but what does it stand for? 7. “WE’LL RUN THEM IN” 8. THE BIG LEAVING 9. REVEL MOOD10. TWO OLD COINS11. A CHIN FOR A CHANGE12. AT LENGTH AS A ROMAN MIGHT SAY

Incredible!Tuesday July 8th 7.30pm

Roughshod Theatre Company withTOUR DE FORCE—

an incredible journey of a lifetime!at Leyburn Arts Centre,The Old School House

Leyburn Bowling ClubThe latest month has proved a successful onefor Leyburn Bowling Club, consolidating ourposition amongst the leaders in this season’sJSW League.

We played 4 league matches during thisperiod. 2 home games against Masham andNorthallerton saw Leyburn record twoconsecutive 6-1 victories. The following weekwe travelled to champions Hutton Rudby.Unfortunately we had a number of regularplayers unavailable and a match played inalmost incessant rain saw us lose our unbeatenrecord with a 5-2 defeat but under all thecircumstances we still felt this had been a goodperformance. Finally this month another homematch, this time against Topcliffe, saw usachieve our first 7-0 win of the season. With 7games now having been played in this season’sJSW League (13 matches still remain) Leyburnhave made a strong start, winning 6 games withonly 1 defeat, and we are currently top of theleague, albeit very narrowly, and certainly somedifficult matches lie ahead !

Away from the JSW League matches, we held2 of our Sunday Jumbles ( Pairs ) competitionsduring the past month and both provided clear-cut winners. On 18th May Chris King and JohnHall won with a score of 26 points, whilst on8th June Keith Walling and Anne Steggles werethe victors with the outstanding Jumbles scoreof 32 points.

Finally, an early note that Leyburn BowlingClub will be holding their annual Car Boot Saleat the usual venue of Craken House Farm Field(opposite Tennants) in Leyburn on Sunday 10thAugust.

Mervyn Buckley

Hawes and High AbbotsideParish Council

The Council has decided to alter its hours at theCommunity Office. In future the Clerk (IanKing) will be in the Community Office onFridays from 11.00am - noon. When he is awaythe slot will be covered by one of theCouncillors. In addition, Councillor WalterHead will be working in the Office on Tuesdaysand Thursdays.

Eunice the Ewe

Last month I was hiding in the Hawes Galaon page 37. However, a little sprog crept intopage 39 (actually left over from last month).The winner of the £10 prize was MeganIveson, Hawes.

Where am I this month?

If sending your Eunice ‘finding’ by emailplease enclose your POSTAL address if youwish to be considered for the £10 prize.

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Wensleydale 100Chloe Richardson from Gayle isdoing a sponsored cycle ride onFriday August 1st: 100 milesin one day, for SARCOMA UKthe bone and soft tissue cancer charity.Starting at home, she is going up Fleet Moss,Buckden, West Witton, Middleham, Bedale,Scotton, Swaledale, Kirkby Stephen andHawes. If you would like to sponsor her:Justgiving.com ‘Wensleydale 100’ ChloeRichardson, or you can catch Chloe with hersponsor forms.

Thank you for your support and good luckChloe!

Hawes Bunting MakersThank you to all the ladies that marked out,cut, sewed and pressed the magnificent bun-ting adorning our town. It took several ladies,several weeks to complete the mammothtask. At one point we had 8 sewing machinesgoing full tilt and over a dozen ladies on theproduction line, not to mention the "homeworkers". We even had a visitor join us whohad seen the notice in Mason's window.

Special thanks to Anne Smithies who al-lowed the use of Chapel Gallery and her sew-ing machines, at her own expense and to RuthLyndsey for organising the "event". We areall hoping the bunting will be robust enoughto adorn our town for may years to come.

Bainbridge and DistrictMotor Club Hill Climb

Open ClassMotorcycle Hill Climb

and MotorshowWednesday 23rd July, 6.00pmSorrell Sykes Farm, Nr Aysgarth

Gates Open Midday.Practice 5.00 pm. Racing 6.00 pm

Competitor entry £20Refreshments Available

For information and Entries contact Bob Fos-ter 622331 or 07811 385392.

Entries close 16th July

The Old School HouseArts Centre Leyburn

FilmsAll showing at 5.00 and 7.30pm on

Thursdays and Fridays (except 25th)July 10,11th The Monuments MenJuly 17,18th The Grand Budapest HotelJuly 24th THE THIRD MAN (special

showing for the 1940sweekend)

July 31st, August 1stBest Exotic Marigold Hotel

Free TicketsFour train tickets have become available asdescribed below:

Two from Garsdale to London on Thursday3rd July at 13.03, changing at Leeds, intoLondon King's Cross at 17.28One from London King's Cross on Monday7th July at 12.05, changing at Leeds, intoGarsdale at 16.16One from London King's Cross on Thursday10th July at 12.05, changing at Leeds, intoGarsdale at 16.16All need the user to have a SENIOR RAILCARDAll free to anyone who can use them - ringme on 667500

Thanks, Andrew Mccullagh

June Competition AnswersSome Yorkshire man-made tourist spots–anagrams.

1. SEA TRAIL Saltaire 2. I HELP LACE Piece Hall 3. BONY BEFIT SAUNA Fountains

Abbey 4. COLON BATTLES Bolton Castle 5. VERY BIG LIFE SINE Bingley

Five Rise 6. DRIVE TUP BLEACH AID Ribblehead (Should have read TUB not TUP) Viaduct 7. DOCK AP NUMBER Duncombe Park 8. SHAP OR THONG AWARE Haworth

Parsonage 9. OWL DARES CHAT Castle Howard10. MIRK YES TORN York Minster11. CRAM CHOSE LINDT Richmond

Castle12. THAN LLANBUR GOES. Burton Agnes

HallThe winner was Jane Ritchie who confessed toreceiving a little help from Margaret Proctor sothe £20 prize is donated to Caring for Life,Leeds; Margaret’s choice.

July CompetitionYou won’t be surprised to see it’s aboutcycling and cycles. Not all are anagrams.

1. UTTERED 2. CYCLIST RAGES— BROKEN ONES 3. SPINE RAN WEIGHED DOWN 4. BLAND SHARE 5. I UNKNIT A BESOM 6. SOUNDS LIKE “OCEAN, DRINK,

LOOK” - but what does it stand for? 7. “WE’LL RUN THEM IN” 8. THE BIG LEAVING 9. REVEL MOOD10. TWO OLD COINS11. A CHIN FOR A CHANGE12. AT LENGTH AS A ROMAN MIGHT SAY

Incredible!Tuesday July 8th 7.30pm

Roughshod Theatre Company withTOUR DE FORCE—

an incredible journey of a lifetime!at Leyburn Arts Centre,The Old School House

Leyburn Bowling ClubThe latest month has proved a successful onefor Leyburn Bowling Club, consolidating ourposition amongst the leaders in this season’sJSW League.

We played 4 league matches during thisperiod. 2 home games against Masham andNorthallerton saw Leyburn record twoconsecutive 6-1 victories. The following weekwe travelled to champions Hutton Rudby.Unfortunately we had a number of regularplayers unavailable and a match played inalmost incessant rain saw us lose our unbeatenrecord with a 5-2 defeat but under all thecircumstances we still felt this had been a goodperformance. Finally this month another homematch, this time against Topcliffe, saw usachieve our first 7-0 win of the season. With 7games now having been played in this season’sJSW League (13 matches still remain) Leyburnhave made a strong start, winning 6 games withonly 1 defeat, and we are currently top of theleague, albeit very narrowly, and certainly somedifficult matches lie ahead !

Away from the JSW League matches, we held2 of our Sunday Jumbles ( Pairs ) competitionsduring the past month and both provided clear-cut winners. On 18th May Chris King and JohnHall won with a score of 26 points, whilst on8th June Keith Walling and Anne Steggles werethe victors with the outstanding Jumbles scoreof 32 points.

Finally, an early note that Leyburn BowlingClub will be holding their annual Car Boot Saleat the usual venue of Craken House Farm Field(opposite Tennants) in Leyburn on Sunday 10thAugust.

Mervyn Buckley

Hawes and High AbbotsideParish Council

The Council has decided to alter its hours at theCommunity Office. In future the Clerk (IanKing) will be in the Community Office onFridays from 11.00am - noon. When he is awaythe slot will be covered by one of theCouncillors. In addition, Councillor WalterHead will be working in the Office on Tuesdaysand Thursdays.

Eunice the Ewe

Last month I was hiding in the Hawes Galaon page 37. However, a little sprog crept intopage 39 (actually left over from last month).The winner of the £10 prize was MeganIveson, Hawes.

Where am I this month?

If sending your Eunice ‘finding’ by emailplease enclose your POSTAL address if youwish to be considered for the £10 prize.

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The Games we Used to PlayAn indoor game for the young and the

old,but all had to be crackers!

It will be fascinating to know of those read-ers who have played it.SPOTS. This party game is best suited forabout six or eight people sitting on chairsor the floor in a circle, and with the sootfrom a fire!

Each player chooses a name for him/herself, preferably the most outlandishfound. The Bible’s Old Testament is a goodplace to look. Players must try to rememberthe others’ names.

Play begins as one person recites veryseriously, using his chosen name, (for ex-ample): “I Nebuchadnezzar of the house ofNebuchadnezzar, and having no spots.How many spots hast thou, O (for exam-ple) Amaziah?”

To which Amaziah (assuming that’s theright name for the right player) replies inthe same vein: “I Amaziah…” to someoneelse.

If however, a mistake is made in thechoosing of the name or the right person, aSPOT, preferably of soot from the fire-place, is added to the face of the mistake-maker. As time goes on (and no-one cansee their own spots!) many mistakes aremade unless a careful count is kept of one’sown spots, otherwise a further spot isadded.

Written like this, the hilarious nature ofthe game might not be apparent. Believeme!

The winner is the one with the fewestspots after the game becomes uncontrolla-ble!

A.S.W.

Break InIn the late hours of Friday evening, 6thJune, the Low Mill instructor’s cottage inAskrigg was broken into. Thieves tookpersonal items belonging to instructorsincluding lap tops, digital cameras, ipodand a bike. Terry Hailwood at the Centre has moreinformation, the police have been involvedand also can be contacted with anyinformation. (Low Mill 650432).

Postman PatAt Hawes Gala on Saturday June 28th.He will be in town for the opening of the

newly-located Post Office

Burtersett ShowSunday July 27th 2.00pm

To be opened by Jack and Nancy SuttonAdult classes:Limerick theme: Tour de FrancePhotograph theme: Tour de France . Maxsize 7x5 inThree slices home-made shortbreadHome made strawberry jamHome brew of ‘your taste’Flower arrangementScarecrowChildren’s classes (Under 7s, 7-10s, 11-16s)Garden in a tinPhotography: theme, cycles. Max size 7x5in.Drawing : theme, cyclesThree decorated home-made biscuitsPoem or short story on ‘My pet’Pasta necklaceLargest dandelion leaf2.00pm Opening; 2.15-2.45pm Band2.45pm Country dancing; 3.15pm Fellrace;3.15-3.45pm Band; 3.45pm Dog show;4.00pm Awards and close; 4.15pm Eggthrowing.Entries to be handed in between 10.00and 11.00am

More Tour Parking

Please note that parking will be availableat Aysgarth Station on Friday and Satur-day, July 4th and 5th.

Plants by the CastleAgain we had great weather for our lastplant sale of the 2014 season, though saleswere a bit quiet.

Nevertheless, we reached £600 for thethree combined, so should be able to sendan extra £300 each to Mission AviationFellowship to support the work of Markand Sarah Newnham in Uganda, and toScripture Union UK to support their NeilJackson (based near Darlington) in hiswork with young people in NE England.

This has been the product of thecombined work and encouragement ofmany working together in the parish ofBolton-cum-Redmire, for whom I'm onlythe voice. What in 2015?

Robert Hall

Dales LVA Charity Bike RideOn Wednesday 11th June, 190 ridersgathered in Hawes to start the 28th LVAcharity Bike Ride which this year was fromHawes to Middleham. For the first time in along time, the sun shone from start to finishand with a brisk tail wind, nothing wasgoing to put a damper on it this year.

After a staggered start (as to avoid anycongestion) the cyclists headed ontoBainbridge only to realise that maybe theyshould have checked over their bikes afterall! A few chains off and a quick puncturelater everyone moved on to Askrigg where,with three pubs, plenty of soft drinks andwater was taken on board. From there, overWorton Bottom on to the Victoria Armswhere a warm welcome was given. (Afterall, this is where it all started all those yearsago with Ralph and crew.)

The ride then continued through toAysgarth, West Witton and turning atWensley church, through to Middleham.Roughly 6 hours in all! It is 20 miles long!With only a few cuts and bruises and sorelegs everyone managed to complete whatwas one of our most pleasant rides we'vehad in a long time.

I want to thank everyone who took part inthe ride and especially those who helpedme to marshal the event. It wouldn’thappen without them. I also want to thankall the public houses who provided foodalong the route, which was mostappreciated. Also, a big thanks to all theroad users that day for their patience andgenerosity. We even had money thrown outof car windows. All we need to do now iscollect all the money in, which can take awhile.

If you wish to send an application foryour organisation or group to beconsidered for a donation, please do so byOctober this year to Angus at the Fountain,Hawes.Here's looking forward to next year!

Angus McCarthy. Sec. N.R.D.L.V.A.

Haygarth HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM and DAD

(Margaret - 19th July; Gilbert - 28th July)

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The Games we Used to PlayAn indoor game for the young and the

old,but all had to be crackers!

It will be fascinating to know of those read-ers who have played it.SPOTS. This party game is best suited forabout six or eight people sitting on chairsor the floor in a circle, and with the sootfrom a fire!

Each player chooses a name for him/herself, preferably the most outlandishfound. The Bible’s Old Testament is a goodplace to look. Players must try to rememberthe others’ names.

Play begins as one person recites veryseriously, using his chosen name, (for ex-ample): “I Nebuchadnezzar of the house ofNebuchadnezzar, and having no spots.How many spots hast thou, O (for exam-ple) Amaziah?”

To which Amaziah (assuming that’s theright name for the right player) replies inthe same vein: “I Amaziah…” to someoneelse.

If however, a mistake is made in thechoosing of the name or the right person, aSPOT, preferably of soot from the fire-place, is added to the face of the mistake-maker. As time goes on (and no-one cansee their own spots!) many mistakes aremade unless a careful count is kept of one’sown spots, otherwise a further spot isadded.

Written like this, the hilarious nature ofthe game might not be apparent. Believeme!

The winner is the one with the fewestspots after the game becomes uncontrolla-ble!

A.S.W.

Break InIn the late hours of Friday evening, 6thJune, the Low Mill instructor’s cottage inAskrigg was broken into. Thieves tookpersonal items belonging to instructorsincluding lap tops, digital cameras, ipodand a bike. Terry Hailwood at the Centre has moreinformation, the police have been involvedand also can be contacted with anyinformation. (Low Mill 650432).

Postman PatAt Hawes Gala on Saturday June 28th.He will be in town for the opening of the

newly-located Post Office

Burtersett ShowSunday July 27th 2.00pm

To be opened by Jack and Nancy SuttonAdult classes:Limerick theme: Tour de FrancePhotograph theme: Tour de France . Maxsize 7x5 inThree slices home-made shortbreadHome made strawberry jamHome brew of ‘your taste’Flower arrangementScarecrowChildren’s classes (Under 7s, 7-10s, 11-16s)Garden in a tinPhotography: theme, cycles. Max size 7x5in.Drawing : theme, cyclesThree decorated home-made biscuitsPoem or short story on ‘My pet’Pasta necklaceLargest dandelion leaf2.00pm Opening; 2.15-2.45pm Band2.45pm Country dancing; 3.15pm Fellrace;3.15-3.45pm Band; 3.45pm Dog show;4.00pm Awards and close; 4.15pm Eggthrowing.Entries to be handed in between 10.00and 11.00am

More Tour Parking

Please note that parking will be availableat Aysgarth Station on Friday and Satur-day, July 4th and 5th.

Plants by the CastleAgain we had great weather for our lastplant sale of the 2014 season, though saleswere a bit quiet.

Nevertheless, we reached £600 for thethree combined, so should be able to sendan extra £300 each to Mission AviationFellowship to support the work of Markand Sarah Newnham in Uganda, and toScripture Union UK to support their NeilJackson (based near Darlington) in hiswork with young people in NE England.

This has been the product of thecombined work and encouragement ofmany working together in the parish ofBolton-cum-Redmire, for whom I'm onlythe voice. What in 2015?

Robert Hall

Dales LVA Charity Bike RideOn Wednesday 11th June, 190 ridersgathered in Hawes to start the 28th LVAcharity Bike Ride which this year was fromHawes to Middleham. For the first time in along time, the sun shone from start to finishand with a brisk tail wind, nothing wasgoing to put a damper on it this year.

After a staggered start (as to avoid anycongestion) the cyclists headed ontoBainbridge only to realise that maybe theyshould have checked over their bikes afterall! A few chains off and a quick puncturelater everyone moved on to Askrigg where,with three pubs, plenty of soft drinks andwater was taken on board. From there, overWorton Bottom on to the Victoria Armswhere a warm welcome was given. (Afterall, this is where it all started all those yearsago with Ralph and crew.)

The ride then continued through toAysgarth, West Witton and turning atWensley church, through to Middleham.Roughly 6 hours in all! It is 20 miles long!With only a few cuts and bruises and sorelegs everyone managed to complete whatwas one of our most pleasant rides we'vehad in a long time.

I want to thank everyone who took part inthe ride and especially those who helpedme to marshal the event. It wouldn’thappen without them. I also want to thankall the public houses who provided foodalong the route, which was mostappreciated. Also, a big thanks to all theroad users that day for their patience andgenerosity. We even had money thrown outof car windows. All we need to do now iscollect all the money in, which can take awhile.

If you wish to send an application foryour organisation or group to beconsidered for a donation, please do so byOctober this year to Angus at the Fountain,Hawes.Here's looking forward to next year!

Angus McCarthy. Sec. N.R.D.L.V.A.

Haygarth HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM and DAD

(Margaret - 19th July; Gilbert - 28th July)

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Penhill Benefice EventsTuesday 1st July 10.00am-noon at Grey-stones, Carperby (663714). Drop in for Cof-fee. £1 to include coffee/tea and biscuits. Pro-ceeds will be divided between St. Andrew’sChurch and a charity of the host’s choice.Wednesday 2nd July 10:30am to noon Bol-ton-cum-Redmire PCC. Church Coffee Morn-ingMargaret and Robert Hall (623012), DaleView, Castle Bolton – note change of venue.Wednesday 2nd July 7.30pm Concert at St.Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth. A celebration inwords and music of the birth of the RomanticMovement. Andrew Bannerman (Narrator) –TV actor, writer and director.Richard Frewer (Tenor) – Solo performer onBBC TV/radio and with major orchestras.Accompanied by John Foster (Piano).A fascinating insight into the lives, friend-ships and works of Wordsworth and Col-eridge, including excerpts from the dramaticpoem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”,with music from the period.Tickets £8.00 (incl. refreshments) Contact:663368/663097, or buy at the door.Advance Notice Wensley Flower Festival9th and 10th August. The theme is Musicand Song. Displays in Wensley Church withrefreshments in the village hall. Proceeds willgo towards the Wensley Organ Fund.Preview: 8th August with wine and canapésWe would like donations of cakes! Please ring

Pip Bolton 623674

Carperby Open Gardens

Carperby holds its annual garden festival ofgardens on Sunday 6th July from 11.00 amtill 5.00 pm. Refreshments all day, free offroad parking, and plant sales. Admission£4.00 children free.

It will be hard to equal the fantastic takingsof last year, but as it will be the day after “thebig race” there will be lots of visitors in thearea. Given good weather who knows? Re-cords are there to be broken. Many thanks. Pat Jackson

Hawes In BloomBy the time you read this I hope you will ap-prove of the new Hawes in Bloom! All weneed now is some gentle sun and light night-time rain ...

I would just like to mention a few tips forkeeping your baskets and containers in thebest condition.

I know most of you are diligent in your wa-tering and often do the baskets twice a day.This will ensure that they will have the bestpossible chance of a prolonged show through-out the Summer and well into Autumn. Theywill need watering even if we have had show-ery conditions.

Please can I ask you not to rest your water-can or put any additional weight on to thebaskets. They are the fullest and heaviest bas-kets I have ever hung and I have fitted thestrongest brackets but...!

Any troughs or other containers will gener-ally need less watering (depending on size),but just feel the compost first. When in doubt,water! If you have any concerns I am easilycontactable.

Well that is quite enough nagging, so let mefinish with a great big thank you to all thosewho have put up with me trying to drum upenthusiasm for flowers in those bleak wintermonths and have supported this mad schemeof mine!

The biggest thanks must, however, go tothose who have helped heave, hump, climb,plant, hang and water those seemingly endlessquantities of plants and baskets. I could nothave done it without you.

Keep watering, and have a lovely summer !Richard Noble,

on behalf of the Hawes and High AbbotsideTour de France Action Group

Hawes Fire StationOpen Day

Sunday August 3rd, noon to 4.00pmBouncy Castle, Face Painting,

Raffle, Tombola, BBQ.Everyone welcome.

Any questions please contactMichelle Barnes, 07967 443423

St Margaret's ChurchRestoration Update

A major milestone has been achieved in therestoration of St Margaret's church inHawes. Phase one of the restoration hasbeen completed! There is not very much tosee from the main road because this phasehas tackled the south side of the building.Have a look from the track up from TheHill or approaching from Bealer Bank andyou will see the new roof slates, the newlead work and stonework replaced wherethere was damage. Come inside, especiallyon a sunny day and you will see the beautyand brightness of the stained glass on thesouth and east sides where most of the win-dows have been removed, repaired andcleaned. For the first time in the last tenyears there is no polythene sheeting overthe organ to keep out the rain. The roof onthe south side is now sound and water-proof.

While we owe much to our architect,Elaine Blackett-Ord, for bringing the some-what extended project in on budget, ourreal debt is to the people of Hawes andaround for the constant support of our fre-quent fundraising ventures. Without thissupport the project would never have gotoff the ground.

With Phase One complete, we now moveon to Phase Two which will tackle thestructure of the tower as well as the walls,roof and porch on the north side, facing thetown. While discussions with contractorsare still on-going, we are hopeful that workon this phase will start in the next couple ofmonths. Learning a lesson from Phase One,we are likely to have a break over the worstof winter and complete the work nextspring and summer.

Part of the investigations for Phase Twodiscovered that the inside of the tower is ina bad state and so completion of work onthe tower internals, together with our newkitchen and lavatory will have to move intoa third phase. Incidentally the poor state ofthe internal woodwork has caused it to bedeclared unsafe and has prevented resump-tion of winding of the clock. It will be

some time before it is back in action. Whenall this work is complete we will have amuch lighter back to the church with a levelentrance to the new kitchen and lavatory.

As well as extending timescales, all theextra work identified means that the costshave increased significantly. While wehope to secure additional grant support forour project, we will have to raise a largeamount of extra money ourselves. The ther-mometer opposite the White Hart currentlyshows that we are most of the way toachieving our target. This is now incorrectand we still have a long way to go. We willincrease the scale shown on the thermome-ter just as soon as we obtain precise figuresfor the enlarged Phase Three.

So thank you all for your massive supportto date. I hope that you will continue tosupport us to achieve a full restoration of StMargaret's over the coming months.

A.M.

Hawes Town WebsiteThe new Hawes Town website is now live!www.visithawes.co.uk The website is adedicated website for Hawes. It’s aim is tobe a guide for visitors to show them whereto shop, stay, eat and what they can do inthe town.

We now need your help to ensure theinformation is correct and that the site isfull of useful information for visitors.

Please contact me if you’d like your busi-ness listing under the headings ‘where tostay’, ‘where to eat’ or ‘where to shop’.There is a downloadable copy of the LiveShop Hawes Brochure on the website,which covers services and businesses notdirectly related to visitors.

Please contact me if you would like anevent adding too. I will need dates, times,costs, contact details and some informationabout the event. We will be holding tutori-als shortly for those interested in contribut-ing to the blog.Contact details are:abi.bromirskyj@richmondshire.gov.uk or01748 901035.

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Penhill Benefice EventsTuesday 1st July 10.00am-noon at Grey-stones, Carperby (663714). Drop in for Cof-fee. £1 to include coffee/tea and biscuits. Pro-ceeds will be divided between St. Andrew’sChurch and a charity of the host’s choice.Wednesday 2nd July 10:30am to noon Bol-ton-cum-Redmire PCC. Church Coffee Morn-ingMargaret and Robert Hall (623012), DaleView, Castle Bolton – note change of venue.Wednesday 2nd July 7.30pm Concert at St.Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth. A celebration inwords and music of the birth of the RomanticMovement. Andrew Bannerman (Narrator) –TV actor, writer and director.Richard Frewer (Tenor) – Solo performer onBBC TV/radio and with major orchestras.Accompanied by John Foster (Piano).A fascinating insight into the lives, friend-ships and works of Wordsworth and Col-eridge, including excerpts from the dramaticpoem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”,with music from the period.Tickets £8.00 (incl. refreshments) Contact:663368/663097, or buy at the door.Advance Notice Wensley Flower Festival9th and 10th August. The theme is Musicand Song. Displays in Wensley Church withrefreshments in the village hall. Proceeds willgo towards the Wensley Organ Fund.Preview: 8th August with wine and canapésWe would like donations of cakes! Please ring

Pip Bolton 623674

Carperby Open Gardens

Carperby holds its annual garden festival ofgardens on Sunday 6th July from 11.00 amtill 5.00 pm. Refreshments all day, free offroad parking, and plant sales. Admission£4.00 children free.

It will be hard to equal the fantastic takingsof last year, but as it will be the day after “thebig race” there will be lots of visitors in thearea. Given good weather who knows? Re-cords are there to be broken. Many thanks. Pat Jackson

Hawes In BloomBy the time you read this I hope you will ap-prove of the new Hawes in Bloom! All weneed now is some gentle sun and light night-time rain ...

I would just like to mention a few tips forkeeping your baskets and containers in thebest condition.

I know most of you are diligent in your wa-tering and often do the baskets twice a day.This will ensure that they will have the bestpossible chance of a prolonged show through-out the Summer and well into Autumn. Theywill need watering even if we have had show-ery conditions.

Please can I ask you not to rest your water-can or put any additional weight on to thebaskets. They are the fullest and heaviest bas-kets I have ever hung and I have fitted thestrongest brackets but...!

Any troughs or other containers will gener-ally need less watering (depending on size),but just feel the compost first. When in doubt,water! If you have any concerns I am easilycontactable.

Well that is quite enough nagging, so let mefinish with a great big thank you to all thosewho have put up with me trying to drum upenthusiasm for flowers in those bleak wintermonths and have supported this mad schemeof mine!

The biggest thanks must, however, go tothose who have helped heave, hump, climb,plant, hang and water those seemingly endlessquantities of plants and baskets. I could nothave done it without you.

Keep watering, and have a lovely summer !Richard Noble,

on behalf of the Hawes and High AbbotsideTour de France Action Group

Hawes Fire StationOpen Day

Sunday August 3rd, noon to 4.00pmBouncy Castle, Face Painting,

Raffle, Tombola, BBQ.Everyone welcome.

Any questions please contactMichelle Barnes, 07967 443423

St Margaret's ChurchRestoration Update

A major milestone has been achieved in therestoration of St Margaret's church inHawes. Phase one of the restoration hasbeen completed! There is not very much tosee from the main road because this phasehas tackled the south side of the building.Have a look from the track up from TheHill or approaching from Bealer Bank andyou will see the new roof slates, the newlead work and stonework replaced wherethere was damage. Come inside, especiallyon a sunny day and you will see the beautyand brightness of the stained glass on thesouth and east sides where most of the win-dows have been removed, repaired andcleaned. For the first time in the last tenyears there is no polythene sheeting overthe organ to keep out the rain. The roof onthe south side is now sound and water-proof.

While we owe much to our architect,Elaine Blackett-Ord, for bringing the some-what extended project in on budget, ourreal debt is to the people of Hawes andaround for the constant support of our fre-quent fundraising ventures. Without thissupport the project would never have gotoff the ground.

With Phase One complete, we now moveon to Phase Two which will tackle thestructure of the tower as well as the walls,roof and porch on the north side, facing thetown. While discussions with contractorsare still on-going, we are hopeful that workon this phase will start in the next couple ofmonths. Learning a lesson from Phase One,we are likely to have a break over the worstof winter and complete the work nextspring and summer.

Part of the investigations for Phase Twodiscovered that the inside of the tower is ina bad state and so completion of work onthe tower internals, together with our newkitchen and lavatory will have to move intoa third phase. Incidentally the poor state ofthe internal woodwork has caused it to bedeclared unsafe and has prevented resump-tion of winding of the clock. It will be

some time before it is back in action. Whenall this work is complete we will have amuch lighter back to the church with a levelentrance to the new kitchen and lavatory.

As well as extending timescales, all theextra work identified means that the costshave increased significantly. While wehope to secure additional grant support forour project, we will have to raise a largeamount of extra money ourselves. The ther-mometer opposite the White Hart currentlyshows that we are most of the way toachieving our target. This is now incorrectand we still have a long way to go. We willincrease the scale shown on the thermome-ter just as soon as we obtain precise figuresfor the enlarged Phase Three.

So thank you all for your massive supportto date. I hope that you will continue tosupport us to achieve a full restoration of StMargaret's over the coming months.

A.M.

Hawes Town WebsiteThe new Hawes Town website is now live!www.visithawes.co.uk The website is adedicated website for Hawes. It’s aim is tobe a guide for visitors to show them whereto shop, stay, eat and what they can do inthe town.

We now need your help to ensure theinformation is correct and that the site isfull of useful information for visitors.

Please contact me if you’d like your busi-ness listing under the headings ‘where tostay’, ‘where to eat’ or ‘where to shop’.There is a downloadable copy of the LiveShop Hawes Brochure on the website,which covers services and businesses notdirectly related to visitors.

Please contact me if you would like anevent adding too. I will need dates, times,costs, contact details and some informationabout the event. We will be holding tutori-als shortly for those interested in contribut-ing to the blog.Contact details are:abi.bromirskyj@richmondshire.gov.uk or01748 901035.

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PruningsA personal take on Plants, Propagating

and other related rural ramblings.

The most wonderful aspect of this time ofyear is colour. The greens in the landscapehave matured with the surge of growth, andeverything is pushing out blossom to attractwild life so that the cycle can continue.

Today I visited a Plant and Book fair atKiplin Hall near Scorton. What a tempta-tion, plants and books in the same place!The books were all second hand and at 3for £1 represented an opportunity too goodto miss, and of course I brought home abagful. There were lots of fairly ordinaryplants too, but one nursery – Dark StarPlants from East Rounton – had some veryinteresting ones on offer, and I couldn’tresist!

One of the pretty plants which can beseen around dales villages in great profu-sion is Corydalis Lutea. It prefers to live ina south facing retaining wall where it canpush it roots back into the ground behind.When it is covered in frothy yellow blos-som as it is just now, people often ask if Ihave any for sale. Strangely it is not happyto be grown in pots. Although the seedsgerminate well they don’t like to be trans-planted or potted up. It must be the rootthat doesn’t accept being disturbed. Mynormal solution is simply to give away theseed as there is always plenty. Many hy-brids have been developed over the years,and yesterday I bought a blue specimenCorydalis flexuosa “Blue Dragon” It is avery attractive purplish blue with the usualfeathery foliage. Time will tell if it is toughenough to survive here.

I bought an unusual Campanula called“Pink Octopus” which has interesting spi-dery flowers, a Ceratostigma plumbagi-noides for its blue flowers and autumn col-our, and completed my collection with yetanother hardy Geranium, because I thoughtit looked suitably dainty for the front bor-der.

What I really need to find at the momentis something to grow next to our newporch. We have grown many different

climbers over the years, and I took out aHoneysuckle “Hallianna” last year, but as itis now thriving elsewhere I need somethingnew. I have tried Passiflora, which lasted afew years before it succumbed to a particu-larly bad winter, and have used Clematis.This time I might return to Clematis andhave been researching the evergreen winterflowering varieties. We don’t have manyplants which can put on a good show in thewinter so I fancied putting one in, if only tofind out the level of hardiness. It is not veryencouraging to discover that The RHS rec-ommend that in cold areas it should begrown in a container and overwintered in agreenhouse. That was not my plan! Moreresearch needed.

At Kiplin Hall there was a beautifulspecimen of the climbing rose“Compassion” In the sheltered walled gar-den it had every chance to be glorious. Ibought one of these in1970 on the recom-mendation of Mr Braithwaite at LeemingBar. It has been my best purchase ever,because it produces superb scented bloomsevery year, at least two flushes of colour,and in a mild Autumn it will still haveflowers in December. That’s hard to beatfor value.

Good luck! And whatever you grow, taketime to enjoy it.

Rose Rambler

Hawes Bonfireand Firework Committee

...will be raising money for the 2014 eventand need your help. We will be running theHopper's Refreshment in August on Satur-day 2nd.

If you can spare us an hour or/and bakeus a cake, or send some bread buns, bacon,coffee etc it would be hugely appreciated.

They can be dropped off with JoanneFothergill at 39 Little Ings after 6.30pm onFriday 1st or Dalesplay before 6.00pm. Ifyou can offer an hour in the Kitchen pleaselet Joanne know 667936.

Thank you for all your help and supportfor this community event. Lets keep tradi-tional events alive!

St Oswald's Church, AskriggEveryone Welcome

Saturday 12th July - 7.30 pm -Performance in Church By 'YoungVoices' (part of the Year of Musicprogramme). Entry free. Refreshmentsavailable.Saturday 19th July - 7.30 pm -Performance by The Wensleydale Chorusin church. Saturday 26th July -Lunchtime Organ Recital by StephenNewlove - Free entry.

Hawes Bike TrailAs part of the Grand Depart

celebrations we have devised theHawes Bike Trail.

Throughout Hawes over 41 bikes aredisplayed by various businesses, inside andout. On 21 of the velocipedes there areletters or figures, but which? You can buy the Entry Form, for £1, invarious shops and pubs around town,including Mason’s Newsagents and theDales Countryside Museum. Theparticipant has to find all the letters orfigures, write in the space next to thebusiness name then re-arrange to make arelevant phrase. Completed forms may bedropped into The Dales CountrysideMuseum, The White Hart Inn, or TheCommunity Office or posted to TheCommunity Office

Anyone can enter with prizes of £20 forunder 16 years and £20 for over 16 years.The closing date for entries is 31st July.The winning entry will be drawn onMonday 4th August.

Wensleydale Chorus 2014This year the Wensleydale Chorus will besinging the Masse di Gloria by Puccini andthe Diabelli Pastoral Mass in F opus 147.Performances, both at 7.30pmSaturday July 19th St Oswald’s ChurchAskriggSaturday July 26th St John’s Church EastWitton

Le TourThree special sections in our area are:The first King of the Mountains climbbetween Cray and Kidstones, the first sprintat Newbiggin and the second King of theMountains climb up the Buttertubs..

Summary of community events July 1-8 Hardraw Flower Festival 2 ‘Cart before the horse’; Dales

Countryside museum4,5 King of the Mountains Festival,

Muker4 West Burton Community Festival4 Thoralby Get together with wine

and cheese. Village Hall 5.00–7.00pm

4,5 Hawes Community Festival4 –6 Aysgarth St. Andrew’s Flower

Festival. Le Tour with Flowers10.00am -5.00pm

4 Murder Mystery; Bolton Castle 5 Big screen in Bainbridge 5 Aysgarth Institute: food!5,6 Thornton Rust Institute; food6 Stalling Busk; Reflection and

Refreshment. Bacon rolls, tea andcoffee. Service at 2.30pm

6 Askrigg Town Head Farm CreamTeas

Fuller details appear on other pages.

St.Margaret's ChurchRestoration Fund Raising

Tea, Scones and Stalls in St.Margaret'sChurch every Tuesday and Wednesday inJuly between 1.00pm and 3.00pm.Saturday 5th July - 10.00am-noon CoffeeMorning and stalls, 2.30 - 4.30pm Tea,Scones and stalls plus a stall in the MarketPlace from 2.30pm with Baking and Crafts.Friday 18th July, 7.30pm - A concert byMuker Band - Entry - £6.00 on the door.Raffle - Tea/Coffee in the interval.Saturday 26th July , 10.00am to 4.00pmSummer Fayre in the Market Hall, Hawes -. Morning Coffee, Lunch, Afternoon Tea.Various Stalls, Raffle, Tombola. FreeEntry. Everyone Welcome

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PruningsA personal take on Plants, Propagating

and other related rural ramblings.

The most wonderful aspect of this time ofyear is colour. The greens in the landscapehave matured with the surge of growth, andeverything is pushing out blossom to attractwild life so that the cycle can continue.

Today I visited a Plant and Book fair atKiplin Hall near Scorton. What a tempta-tion, plants and books in the same place!The books were all second hand and at 3for £1 represented an opportunity too goodto miss, and of course I brought home abagful. There were lots of fairly ordinaryplants too, but one nursery – Dark StarPlants from East Rounton – had some veryinteresting ones on offer, and I couldn’tresist!

One of the pretty plants which can beseen around dales villages in great profu-sion is Corydalis Lutea. It prefers to live ina south facing retaining wall where it canpush it roots back into the ground behind.When it is covered in frothy yellow blos-som as it is just now, people often ask if Ihave any for sale. Strangely it is not happyto be grown in pots. Although the seedsgerminate well they don’t like to be trans-planted or potted up. It must be the rootthat doesn’t accept being disturbed. Mynormal solution is simply to give away theseed as there is always plenty. Many hy-brids have been developed over the years,and yesterday I bought a blue specimenCorydalis flexuosa “Blue Dragon” It is avery attractive purplish blue with the usualfeathery foliage. Time will tell if it is toughenough to survive here.

I bought an unusual Campanula called“Pink Octopus” which has interesting spi-dery flowers, a Ceratostigma plumbagi-noides for its blue flowers and autumn col-our, and completed my collection with yetanother hardy Geranium, because I thoughtit looked suitably dainty for the front bor-der.

What I really need to find at the momentis something to grow next to our newporch. We have grown many different

climbers over the years, and I took out aHoneysuckle “Hallianna” last year, but as itis now thriving elsewhere I need somethingnew. I have tried Passiflora, which lasted afew years before it succumbed to a particu-larly bad winter, and have used Clematis.This time I might return to Clematis andhave been researching the evergreen winterflowering varieties. We don’t have manyplants which can put on a good show in thewinter so I fancied putting one in, if only tofind out the level of hardiness. It is not veryencouraging to discover that The RHS rec-ommend that in cold areas it should begrown in a container and overwintered in agreenhouse. That was not my plan! Moreresearch needed.

At Kiplin Hall there was a beautifulspecimen of the climbing rose“Compassion” In the sheltered walled gar-den it had every chance to be glorious. Ibought one of these in1970 on the recom-mendation of Mr Braithwaite at LeemingBar. It has been my best purchase ever,because it produces superb scented bloomsevery year, at least two flushes of colour,and in a mild Autumn it will still haveflowers in December. That’s hard to beatfor value.

Good luck! And whatever you grow, taketime to enjoy it.

Rose Rambler

Hawes Bonfireand Firework Committee

...will be raising money for the 2014 eventand need your help. We will be running theHopper's Refreshment in August on Satur-day 2nd.

If you can spare us an hour or/and bakeus a cake, or send some bread buns, bacon,coffee etc it would be hugely appreciated.

They can be dropped off with JoanneFothergill at 39 Little Ings after 6.30pm onFriday 1st or Dalesplay before 6.00pm. Ifyou can offer an hour in the Kitchen pleaselet Joanne know 667936.

Thank you for all your help and supportfor this community event. Lets keep tradi-tional events alive!

St Oswald's Church, AskriggEveryone Welcome

Saturday 12th July - 7.30 pm -Performance in Church By 'YoungVoices' (part of the Year of Musicprogramme). Entry free. Refreshmentsavailable.Saturday 19th July - 7.30 pm -Performance by The Wensleydale Chorusin church. Saturday 26th July -Lunchtime Organ Recital by StephenNewlove - Free entry.

Hawes Bike TrailAs part of the Grand Depart

celebrations we have devised theHawes Bike Trail.

Throughout Hawes over 41 bikes aredisplayed by various businesses, inside andout. On 21 of the velocipedes there areletters or figures, but which? You can buy the Entry Form, for £1, invarious shops and pubs around town,including Mason’s Newsagents and theDales Countryside Museum. Theparticipant has to find all the letters orfigures, write in the space next to thebusiness name then re-arrange to make arelevant phrase. Completed forms may bedropped into The Dales CountrysideMuseum, The White Hart Inn, or TheCommunity Office or posted to TheCommunity Office

Anyone can enter with prizes of £20 forunder 16 years and £20 for over 16 years.The closing date for entries is 31st July.The winning entry will be drawn onMonday 4th August.

Wensleydale Chorus 2014This year the Wensleydale Chorus will besinging the Masse di Gloria by Puccini andthe Diabelli Pastoral Mass in F opus 147.Performances, both at 7.30pmSaturday July 19th St Oswald’s ChurchAskriggSaturday July 26th St John’s Church EastWitton

Le TourThree special sections in our area are:The first King of the Mountains climbbetween Cray and Kidstones, the first sprintat Newbiggin and the second King of theMountains climb up the Buttertubs..

Summary of community events July 1-8 Hardraw Flower Festival 2 ‘Cart before the horse’; Dales

Countryside museum4,5 King of the Mountains Festival,

Muker4 West Burton Community Festival4 Thoralby Get together with wine

and cheese. Village Hall 5.00–7.00pm

4,5 Hawes Community Festival4 –6 Aysgarth St. Andrew’s Flower

Festival. Le Tour with Flowers10.00am -5.00pm

4 Murder Mystery; Bolton Castle 5 Big screen in Bainbridge 5 Aysgarth Institute: food!5,6 Thornton Rust Institute; food6 Stalling Busk; Reflection and

Refreshment. Bacon rolls, tea andcoffee. Service at 2.30pm

6 Askrigg Town Head Farm CreamTeas

Fuller details appear on other pages.

St.Margaret's ChurchRestoration Fund Raising

Tea, Scones and Stalls in St.Margaret'sChurch every Tuesday and Wednesday inJuly between 1.00pm and 3.00pm.Saturday 5th July - 10.00am-noon CoffeeMorning and stalls, 2.30 - 4.30pm Tea,Scones and stalls plus a stall in the MarketPlace from 2.30pm with Baking and Crafts.Friday 18th July, 7.30pm - A concert byMuker Band - Entry - £6.00 on the door.Raffle - Tea/Coffee in the interval.Saturday 26th July , 10.00am to 4.00pmSummer Fayre in the Market Hall, Hawes -. Morning Coffee, Lunch, Afternoon Tea.Various Stalls, Raffle, Tombola. FreeEntry. Everyone Welcome

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Gamover Zeus and other nastiesIn the way that is unique to the Britishpress the sky was about to fall on us all atany moment – and then silence. Such wasthe news of the latest anticipated cyber-attack. The BBC put up dire warning andgave links to websites for help that in-stantly crashed from the panicked responseof the public.

In the days following the warnings myphone rang constantly and my answeringmachine filled up with people asking foradvice following the announcement of theimminent collapse of society as we know it.The press have lost interested but I am stilldealing with their aftermath – now withcallers wondering why no one is mention-ing it any more.Here is my best effort advice:Security advice for everyone who usesthe internet or email1) There is no such thing as 100% security– if there was, cyber attacks would neverhappen. As I type, Dominoes Pizza inFrance and Belgium have been hacked andhad all their customer details stolen – thehackers are holding them to ransom withthreat of publishing lots of private informa-tion if they don’t pay up. The only way youcan be reasonably secure is to follow thesteps below and keep your head.2) First defence – eyes and ears and com-mon sense! Always look before you click –read things and take note BEFORE clicking(a surprising number of people seem toclick first and wonder later). When usingsearch engines make sure the website youare going to is actually the one you want(read the web address and check it looksright), never click on links when you don’tknow where they are going for certain;don’t just download things and install free-bies without checking out every screencarefully and never click on email attach-ments that you don’t expect. The goldenrule is BE PARANOID and if in doubt as-sume things are NOT genuine3) Second defence – Use a good antivirusprogram, make sure it is up to date and get

into the habit of running a scan regularly.This applies to mobile devices too – exceptiOS mobile devices where Apple will notallow you to run an antivirus (despite at-tacks increasing on these devices). Off thetop of my head look at the following possi-ble antivirus products:Windows: Free Products : Avast, AVG,Avira, Microsoft Security Essentials.Windows: Paid Products: AVAST, AVG,AVIRA, ESET NOD32 are all very good.MacOS: Sophos make a good free product.Android phones and Tablets: Free and paidversions of Lookout (it comes preinstalledon some devices).IMPORTANT don’t be tempted to installmore than one Antivirus!4) Additionally if you are using Windows,buy a copy of Malwarebytes Antimalware,install it and regularly run a scan with it – itwill also actively protect you while you areonline from other internet nasties that don’tget picked by antivirus programs.5) For windows users if you are worriedthat you may be infected by GameoverZeus then Norton have provided a free toolto scan and repair your system for this par-ticularly nasty cyber-attack. Go to: http://www.s ymantec .co m/co nnec t /b logs/international-takedown-wounds-gameover-zeus-cybercrime-network and follow theinstructions carefully.

That’s it for this month. Thanks to somany people for positive comments andfeedback about this column. As ever doget in touch if you have questions, com-ments or ideas for future articles.carol.haynes@dalescomputerservices.comor call 663798.

July1 Comedy of errors: Bolton Castle.

Bring own seating. Blankets notadvised. Adults £12. Children £10.Booking advised. 623981

1 Coffee Morning: 10.00am to noon atGreystones, Carperby 663714 forSt Andrew’s Church

1-6 Hardraw Flower Festival. See p.20 2 Coffee Morning: Bolton-cum-

Redmire PCC Venue now Mr &Mrs Hall, Dale View, Castle Bolton623012

2 Concert at St Andrew’s, Aysgarth;7.30pm. Tickets £8 663368 /663097 See p.8

3-6 Open days at Aysgarth Station:10.00am to 4.00pm.

4 Tour de Farce: 7.30pm. BoltonCastle. £25. Booking essential.623981

4 Live singer at the Fountain Hotel,Hawes

5 Le Tour 5 St Margret’s, Hawes; 10.00am to

noon. Coffee Morning. 2.30 to4.30pm. Tea, Scones and stallsand from 2.30pm a stall in the Market Place See p.10

5,11,18,25 Wensleydale CountryMarkets 11.00am to 2.00pm in TheOld School House

6 Gayle Mill: Guided Tours: 11.00amand 2.30pm. Ring 667320 forbookings

6 Carperby Open Gardens. See p. 8 6 St Matthew’s Church, Stalling Busk:

The Church will be open for quietcontemplation after the Tour deFrance

6 Open air morning service: WestBurton. See p.19

6 Guided walk: Semerwater andRaydale. Meet Semerwater1.00pm. 5.5 miles. NB all YDNPAwalks cost £3 per adult, childrenunder 16 free

6 Aysgarth Methodist Church, WestBurton. 10.45am.

6 Cream teas at Town Head Askrigg.See p.19

6,16,20,23 Gayle Mill events: See p.3 8 ‘Tour de Force’ at TOSH. See p.5 8 Induction of the Reverend Lynn

Purvis-Lee as Vicar the PenhillBenefice by the Bishop ofKnaresborough. 7.30pm inSt Andrew’s Church, AysgarthSee p.26

8 YDNPA Planning Committee:Yoredale, Bainbridge. 1.00pm.

8 Brownies’ coffee evening. See p.30 9 Guided walk: Mallerstang. Meet

Garsdale Stn, 10.30am. 8 miles 11 “Filing Station” at Middleham Key

Centre. 7.00pm 12 St Oswald’s Church, Askrigg:

7.30pm Performance by the‘Young Voices’ See p.10

16 Gayle Mill: Introduction to simplebook binding. 10.30am to 4.30pm.£50 per person. All materials andlunch included

17 Blame it on Bartle: Gates open6.30pm Bolton Castle. See p.19

17 Hawes W.I. ‘Organic make up’.Gayle Institute. 7.00pm.

18 Museum Friends Gift Day, talk‘Bishopdale through the ages’.7.30pm.

18 A concert by Muker Band: 7.30pm.Entry £6 in St Margret’s, Hawes

18-20 Wensleydale Railway Diesel Gala 18-20 Preston Artists’ annual exhibition.

See p.19 19 St Oswald’s Church: 7.30pm The Wensleydale Chorus. See p.10 19 Ingleton Gala Day: From noon 20 Bainbridge Methodists at Aysgarth.

10.45am. 20 Gayle Mill: Introduction to

Wheelwrighting. 10.00am to4.30pm. £60 including lunch andbring and share BBQ afterwards.

21 Gayle Institute: 11.00am to 3.00pm.Dogs Trust. Bring your dog to bechipped

21-25 Birds, Boar and Bees: BoltonCastle from 10.00am. 23 GayleMill: Coptic and Folded Books:£45 all material and lunchincluded.

GENERAL WHAT’S ON S

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Gamover Zeus and other nastiesIn the way that is unique to the Britishpress the sky was about to fall on us all atany moment – and then silence. Such wasthe news of the latest anticipated cyber-attack. The BBC put up dire warning andgave links to websites for help that in-stantly crashed from the panicked responseof the public.

In the days following the warnings myphone rang constantly and my answeringmachine filled up with people asking foradvice following the announcement of theimminent collapse of society as we know it.The press have lost interested but I am stilldealing with their aftermath – now withcallers wondering why no one is mention-ing it any more.Here is my best effort advice:Security advice for everyone who usesthe internet or email1) There is no such thing as 100% security– if there was, cyber attacks would neverhappen. As I type, Dominoes Pizza inFrance and Belgium have been hacked andhad all their customer details stolen – thehackers are holding them to ransom withthreat of publishing lots of private informa-tion if they don’t pay up. The only way youcan be reasonably secure is to follow thesteps below and keep your head.2) First defence – eyes and ears and com-mon sense! Always look before you click –read things and take note BEFORE clicking(a surprising number of people seem toclick first and wonder later). When usingsearch engines make sure the website youare going to is actually the one you want(read the web address and check it looksright), never click on links when you don’tknow where they are going for certain;don’t just download things and install free-bies without checking out every screencarefully and never click on email attach-ments that you don’t expect. The goldenrule is BE PARANOID and if in doubt as-sume things are NOT genuine3) Second defence – Use a good antivirusprogram, make sure it is up to date and get

into the habit of running a scan regularly.This applies to mobile devices too – exceptiOS mobile devices where Apple will notallow you to run an antivirus (despite at-tacks increasing on these devices). Off thetop of my head look at the following possi-ble antivirus products:Windows: Free Products : Avast, AVG,Avira, Microsoft Security Essentials.Windows: Paid Products: AVAST, AVG,AVIRA, ESET NOD32 are all very good.MacOS: Sophos make a good free product.Android phones and Tablets: Free and paidversions of Lookout (it comes preinstalledon some devices).IMPORTANT don’t be tempted to installmore than one Antivirus!4) Additionally if you are using Windows,buy a copy of Malwarebytes Antimalware,install it and regularly run a scan with it – itwill also actively protect you while you areonline from other internet nasties that don’tget picked by antivirus programs.5) For windows users if you are worriedthat you may be infected by GameoverZeus then Norton have provided a free toolto scan and repair your system for this par-ticularly nasty cyber-attack. Go to: http://www.s ymantec .co m/co nnec t /b logs/international-takedown-wounds-gameover-zeus-cybercrime-network and follow theinstructions carefully.

That’s it for this month. Thanks to somany people for positive comments andfeedback about this column. As ever doget in touch if you have questions, com-ments or ideas for future articles.carol.haynes@dalescomputerservices.comor call 663798.

July1 Comedy of errors: Bolton Castle.

Bring own seating. Blankets notadvised. Adults £12. Children £10.Booking advised. 623981

1 Coffee Morning: 10.00am to noon atGreystones, Carperby 663714 forSt Andrew’s Church

1-6 Hardraw Flower Festival. See p.20 2 Coffee Morning: Bolton-cum-

Redmire PCC Venue now Mr &Mrs Hall, Dale View, Castle Bolton623012

2 Concert at St Andrew’s, Aysgarth;7.30pm. Tickets £8 663368 /663097 See p.8

3-6 Open days at Aysgarth Station:10.00am to 4.00pm.

4 Tour de Farce: 7.30pm. BoltonCastle. £25. Booking essential.623981

4 Live singer at the Fountain Hotel,Hawes

5 Le Tour 5 St Margret’s, Hawes; 10.00am to

noon. Coffee Morning. 2.30 to4.30pm. Tea, Scones and stallsand from 2.30pm a stall in the Market Place See p.10

5,11,18,25 Wensleydale CountryMarkets 11.00am to 2.00pm in TheOld School House

6 Gayle Mill: Guided Tours: 11.00amand 2.30pm. Ring 667320 forbookings

6 Carperby Open Gardens. See p. 8 6 St Matthew’s Church, Stalling Busk:

The Church will be open for quietcontemplation after the Tour deFrance

6 Open air morning service: WestBurton. See p.19

6 Guided walk: Semerwater andRaydale. Meet Semerwater1.00pm. 5.5 miles. NB all YDNPAwalks cost £3 per adult, childrenunder 16 free

6 Aysgarth Methodist Church, WestBurton. 10.45am.

6 Cream teas at Town Head Askrigg.See p.19

6,16,20,23 Gayle Mill events: See p.3 8 ‘Tour de Force’ at TOSH. See p.5 8 Induction of the Reverend Lynn

Purvis-Lee as Vicar the PenhillBenefice by the Bishop ofKnaresborough. 7.30pm inSt Andrew’s Church, AysgarthSee p.26

8 YDNPA Planning Committee:Yoredale, Bainbridge. 1.00pm.

8 Brownies’ coffee evening. See p.30 9 Guided walk: Mallerstang. Meet

Garsdale Stn, 10.30am. 8 miles 11 “Filing Station” at Middleham Key

Centre. 7.00pm 12 St Oswald’s Church, Askrigg:

7.30pm Performance by the‘Young Voices’ See p.10

16 Gayle Mill: Introduction to simplebook binding. 10.30am to 4.30pm.£50 per person. All materials andlunch included

17 Blame it on Bartle: Gates open6.30pm Bolton Castle. See p.19

17 Hawes W.I. ‘Organic make up’.Gayle Institute. 7.00pm.

18 Museum Friends Gift Day, talk‘Bishopdale through the ages’.7.30pm.

18 A concert by Muker Band: 7.30pm.Entry £6 in St Margret’s, Hawes

18-20 Wensleydale Railway Diesel Gala 18-20 Preston Artists’ annual exhibition.

See p.19 19 St Oswald’s Church: 7.30pm The Wensleydale Chorus. See p.10 19 Ingleton Gala Day: From noon 20 Bainbridge Methodists at Aysgarth.

10.45am. 20 Gayle Mill: Introduction to

Wheelwrighting. 10.00am to4.30pm. £60 including lunch andbring and share BBQ afterwards.

21 Gayle Institute: 11.00am to 3.00pm.Dogs Trust. Bring your dog to bechipped

21-25 Birds, Boar and Bees: BoltonCastle from 10.00am. 23 GayleMill: Coptic and Folded Books:£45 all material and lunchincluded.

GENERAL WHAT’S ON S

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Hawes School NewsExhibitions:13 June—30 September in the Ex-

hibition HallYorkshire Dales Journeys:An exhibition celebrating the 60thanniversary of the YDNP and the journeyof the Tour de France 2014 through theDalesJuly 2 Trick cycle workshop: 2.00 to

3.30pm.8 available places suitablefor 12 yrs and upwards. Requiredto be a competent cyclist, and aclean bike in good order

2 Cart before Horse: 10 min show byStumble dance Circus: 11.30am,12.45 and 4.30pm.

13 Art in Wood; Margaret Garrarddemonstrates her woodturningskills; 10.00am to 4.00pm

18 Friends of the Museum Gift Day 20 Pathfinder course: Intermediate;

10.30am to 4.30pm. 23,30 Craft for Kids: 1.30 to 4.30pm. A

fun session for 5+. £3 per child 24 Seeing Red: 2.00 to 3.00pm. Join

Area Ranger Matt Neale to hearabout the conservation of RedSquirrels

25 Victorian Kitchen: 11.00am to3.00pm.

25-26 Family Archaeology Activities:10.00am to 4.00pm.

26 Learn to dry stone wall: 10.00am to4.00pm. Volunteers will show youthe basic skills used in this craft.Not suitable for children. Stoutboots, waterproofs and gloves re-quired. Adults £10. Bookingrequired.

26 Hawes Town Trail: 1.15 to 3.15pm. 27 Moth Identification: 11.00am to

2.30pm An informal session tohelp you identify these creatures

29 Dry stone walling demonstration:With five sessions between11. 00am and 3.00pm.

31 Country Kitchen: 2.00 to 4.00pm.Join Aunt Martha to reminisceabout tradition recipes.

All walks cost £3 per adult, children un-der 16 free. Check with DCM for booking.For further information on any activity’phone 666210 ‘

On Tuesday 10th June, Class 3 and Class 4went to Harrogate to go to the countrysideday. It was a great day out!Our first event was the woodlands. We wenton the search for three different types of leafwhich we turned into a bookmark. The nextevent was the sheep show there was dancingsheep and it was very funny to see! Next wehad dinner before the next event which wasthe northern power grid where we learntabout how it is dangerous to go near wires.We also got to see active electricity goingfrom one wire to another and answer a quiz.The next event was the sheepdog show. Wesaw lots of sheepdogs chasing geese aroundand into a cage. The fifth and final event wasthe arts and crafts where we made a collageof a tree. We went to look at some cockerelsand some of us made a grasshopper fora contest and we came third. It was a funtime.

Jake Alderson, Sophie Walker and Scott Barningham (Year 4)

Sponsored WalkWe held our annual sponsored walk onWednesday 11th June – we were lucky withthe weather and are very grateful to Mark andYvonne at the Green Dragon, Hardraw whovery kindly let us use their toilet facilities.Becky provided a lovely picnic lunch forwhen we got back which the children thor-oughly enjoyed. We would like to thank theparents and helpers who accompanied us onthe walk.

A Big Thank You….to all those who braved the weather andcame to the Craft Fair in Askrigg in aid of theAir Ambulance.

We raised £281. Lisa Webb

DCM What’s On

23 Guided walk: Meet Aysgarth FallsN. Pk. Centre. 11.00am. 7 miles

24 Wild Wednesday. Activities foraccompanied children. MeetAysgarth Upper Falls from 11.00am.

24 Wildlife in Snaizeholme. Meet Mirk PotHouse, 2.00pm.

26 NSPCC event, Redmire. See p.2926 St Oswald’s Church: Lunchtime Organ

recital by Stephen Newlove. See p.1026 Hawes Town Trail: Meet Hawes N. Pk

Centre, 1.15pm.26 St Margret’s Church, Hawes: Summer

Fair. See p.10

26,27 Leyburn ‘Home Front Village Fair’26,27 ‘Tournee’. 10.00am to 5.00pm.

Bolton Castle. Discover all aboutmilitary life in the 1300s.

27 Bainbridge Methodist Service inSycamore Hall

27 Monthly Table-top sale in HawesMarket Hall for Primary School

27 Burtersett Show. See p.631 Gayle Ladies ‘Strawberry Fayre’7.30pm

GENERAL WHAT’S ON S (CONTINUED)

Bainbridge SportsMonday 30th June, from 6.00pm.

Fancy Dress judging will be at 7.30 pm andHawes Band will lead the procession.

The fair as usual will be in attendance. What’sthe betting that cycling/France/Wiggins will ap-pear as themes, to complement all the yellowcycles festooned around the village? Neil McNair of Low Mill Guest House haschurned out now 150 bikes, making more than£1000 for the Air Ambulance He must wish he'dnever started! But he doesn't want to say no asit's for a good cause, and Andris Bergs hascarved the tree stump on the green into someinteresting sheepy/bikey shapes.

Poppy Peace WallAs the centenary of the First World War ap-proaches, the Poppy Peace Wall on the railingsof the Quaker Meeting House in Bainbridge isavailable for posts and you are invited and wel-come to add your uncensored contribution aboutanything which is important to you

The Meeting House is open on Wednesdays10.00am to noon and manned by volunteers toprovide materials for making your contributionand to answer any questions about the Exhibitionon display of the Friends Ambulance Unit whichwas manned by conscientious objectors, and in-cluded local men.

Wensleydale Railway NewsTrains run between Leeming Bar andRedmire on most days in July (exceptWed/Thurs July 2/3 and Mondays 14 & 21)and there are special timetables for theGrand Depart (Sat July 5) and a DieselGala on July 18/19/20.

SATURDAY JULY 5: On Grand DepartDay trains will run an extended timetablebetween Leeming Bar- Bedale-FinghallLane-Leyburn-Redmire as follows:FIRST TRAIN from Leeming Bar to Red-mire 07.30; LAST TRAIN to Leeming Barfro m Red mire de p a r t s 1 9 .15(from Leyburn 19.29). IN ADDITIONthere will be a part line servicedep Leyburn for Leeming Bar at 06.30and return dep Leeming Bar at 20.35 forLeyburn.Wensleydale Railway's trains will run every

day in August, with Open Days at Aysgarthstation on July 3-6, on Yorkshire Day, Fri-day August 1 and on BH week-end 23-25August.. Special events in July and Augustare shown on the 'Events - More Info' calen-dar page on www.wensleydalerailway.com.Please check with care for different timeta-bles, dates of steam trains and summer spe-cial events (some bookable) or phone WRoffice on 08454 50 54 74.

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Hawes School NewsExhibitions:13 June—30 September in the Ex-

hibition HallYorkshire Dales Journeys:An exhibition celebrating the 60thanniversary of the YDNP and the journeyof the Tour de France 2014 through theDalesJuly 2 Trick cycle workshop: 2.00 to

3.30pm.8 available places suitablefor 12 yrs and upwards. Requiredto be a competent cyclist, and aclean bike in good order

2 Cart before Horse: 10 min show byStumble dance Circus: 11.30am,12.45 and 4.30pm.

13 Art in Wood; Margaret Garrarddemonstrates her woodturningskills; 10.00am to 4.00pm

18 Friends of the Museum Gift Day 20 Pathfinder course: Intermediate;

10.30am to 4.30pm. 23,30 Craft for Kids: 1.30 to 4.30pm. A

fun session for 5+. £3 per child 24 Seeing Red: 2.00 to 3.00pm. Join

Area Ranger Matt Neale to hearabout the conservation of RedSquirrels

25 Victorian Kitchen: 11.00am to3.00pm.

25-26 Family Archaeology Activities:10.00am to 4.00pm.

26 Learn to dry stone wall: 10.00am to4.00pm. Volunteers will show youthe basic skills used in this craft.Not suitable for children. Stoutboots, waterproofs and gloves re-quired. Adults £10. Bookingrequired.

26 Hawes Town Trail: 1.15 to 3.15pm. 27 Moth Identification: 11.00am to

2.30pm An informal session tohelp you identify these creatures

29 Dry stone walling demonstration:With five sessions between11. 00am and 3.00pm.

31 Country Kitchen: 2.00 to 4.00pm.Join Aunt Martha to reminisceabout tradition recipes.

All walks cost £3 per adult, children un-der 16 free. Check with DCM for booking.For further information on any activity’phone 666210 ‘

On Tuesday 10th June, Class 3 and Class 4went to Harrogate to go to the countrysideday. It was a great day out!Our first event was the woodlands. We wenton the search for three different types of leafwhich we turned into a bookmark. The nextevent was the sheep show there was dancingsheep and it was very funny to see! Next wehad dinner before the next event which wasthe northern power grid where we learntabout how it is dangerous to go near wires.We also got to see active electricity goingfrom one wire to another and answer a quiz.The next event was the sheepdog show. Wesaw lots of sheepdogs chasing geese aroundand into a cage. The fifth and final event wasthe arts and crafts where we made a collageof a tree. We went to look at some cockerelsand some of us made a grasshopper fora contest and we came third. It was a funtime.

Jake Alderson, Sophie Walker and Scott Barningham (Year 4)

Sponsored WalkWe held our annual sponsored walk onWednesday 11th June – we were lucky withthe weather and are very grateful to Mark andYvonne at the Green Dragon, Hardraw whovery kindly let us use their toilet facilities.Becky provided a lovely picnic lunch forwhen we got back which the children thor-oughly enjoyed. We would like to thank theparents and helpers who accompanied us onthe walk.

A Big Thank You….to all those who braved the weather andcame to the Craft Fair in Askrigg in aid of theAir Ambulance.

We raised £281. Lisa Webb

DCM What’s On

23 Guided walk: Meet Aysgarth FallsN. Pk. Centre. 11.00am. 7 miles

24 Wild Wednesday. Activities foraccompanied children. MeetAysgarth Upper Falls from 11.00am.

24 Wildlife in Snaizeholme. Meet Mirk PotHouse, 2.00pm.

26 NSPCC event, Redmire. See p.2926 St Oswald’s Church: Lunchtime Organ

recital by Stephen Newlove. See p.1026 Hawes Town Trail: Meet Hawes N. Pk

Centre, 1.15pm.26 St Margret’s Church, Hawes: Summer

Fair. See p.10

26,27 Leyburn ‘Home Front Village Fair’26,27 ‘Tournee’. 10.00am to 5.00pm.

Bolton Castle. Discover all aboutmilitary life in the 1300s.

27 Bainbridge Methodist Service inSycamore Hall

27 Monthly Table-top sale in HawesMarket Hall for Primary School

27 Burtersett Show. See p.631 Gayle Ladies ‘Strawberry Fayre’7.30pm

GENERAL WHAT’S ON S (CONTINUED)

Bainbridge SportsMonday 30th June, from 6.00pm.

Fancy Dress judging will be at 7.30 pm andHawes Band will lead the procession.

The fair as usual will be in attendance. What’sthe betting that cycling/France/Wiggins will ap-pear as themes, to complement all the yellowcycles festooned around the village? Neil McNair of Low Mill Guest House haschurned out now 150 bikes, making more than£1000 for the Air Ambulance He must wish he'dnever started! But he doesn't want to say no asit's for a good cause, and Andris Bergs hascarved the tree stump on the green into someinteresting sheepy/bikey shapes.

Poppy Peace WallAs the centenary of the First World War ap-proaches, the Poppy Peace Wall on the railingsof the Quaker Meeting House in Bainbridge isavailable for posts and you are invited and wel-come to add your uncensored contribution aboutanything which is important to you

The Meeting House is open on Wednesdays10.00am to noon and manned by volunteers toprovide materials for making your contributionand to answer any questions about the Exhibitionon display of the Friends Ambulance Unit whichwas manned by conscientious objectors, and in-cluded local men.

Wensleydale Railway NewsTrains run between Leeming Bar andRedmire on most days in July (exceptWed/Thurs July 2/3 and Mondays 14 & 21)and there are special timetables for theGrand Depart (Sat July 5) and a DieselGala on July 18/19/20.

SATURDAY JULY 5: On Grand DepartDay trains will run an extended timetablebetween Leeming Bar- Bedale-FinghallLane-Leyburn-Redmire as follows:FIRST TRAIN from Leeming Bar to Red-mire 07.30; LAST TRAIN to Leeming Barfro m Red mire de p a r t s 1 9 .15(from Leyburn 19.29). IN ADDITIONthere will be a part line servicedep Leyburn for Leeming Bar at 06.30and return dep Leeming Bar at 20.35 forLeyburn.Wensleydale Railway's trains will run every

day in August, with Open Days at Aysgarthstation on July 3-6, on Yorkshire Day, Fri-day August 1 and on BH week-end 23-25August.. Special events in July and Augustare shown on the 'Events - More Info' calen-dar page on www.wensleydalerailway.com.Please check with care for different timeta-bles, dates of steam trains and summer spe-cial events (some bookable) or phone WRoffice on 08454 50 54 74.

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Upper Dales HealthwatchThe patient participation group for the Cen-

tral Dales GP Practice

Synopsis of the meeting, 12th May 2014There is no extra income available from any-where within the NHS to support deeply ruralpractices.

Defibrillators are in the process of beingobtained for Bainbridge, Thornton Rust,Thoralby, West Burton, Aysgarth and Pre-ston-under-Scar.

Dr Jones said he wanted to encourage apositive approach to the challenges ahead, andvery much welcomed the support of the UpperDales Health Watch Group of local represen-tatives in helping the Practice to offer the bestservice possible to patients.

At the end of the 7 years the Practice wouldhave a decreased annual budget of £25-31K.

Residents need to be encouraged to registerwith a GP practice when they move into thearea (not just when they first need a doctor).Appointments need to be encouraged if a pa-tient does not need immediate medical help.Telephone appointments are also encouraged.Home visits take place whenever necessaryafter morning surgeries.

Anyone wishing to see a specific GP canalways pre-book with a GP of their choice.

The views of Central Dales patients areneeded so as to help the Practice provide asgood a service as possible. The followingissues were discussed: sound proofing in sur-geries, minor alterations to surgery receptionareas, staff photos and dedicated UDHW no-tice boards and suggestion boxes in both sur-geries.

Any complaints will be dealt with sensi-tively by the Practice Manager. A copy of thecomplaints procedure is available on request.

The Practice is gearing up to launch Syst-mOnline which will allow patients to have aunique username and password to logon andorder repeat medications and check/cancelappointments.

Bids for funding by the Upper Dales HealthWatch could be very helpful for specific itemse.g. Anti-coagulation Near Patient testing kitor a GP defibrillator.

Jane Ritchie, Hon. Secretary

The children in Dalesplay have been busypreparing for the Tour de France, as you willsee from the outside of Dalesplay. We havenow hung up our beautifully decorated bikesand bunting to welcome the visitors and cy-clists. Owing to the expected high numbers ofpeople travelling to Hawes on Friday 4th Julywe have been advised to close at 1.00pm asparents may not be able to collect their chil-dren after this time and staff may not be ableto get home. We are all very excited about theupcoming event and will be open as usual onall other days.

The nursery children have begun their tran-sition to school by visiting school nurseryevery Monday morning with their key work-ers. They have really enjoyed getting to knowtheir wonderful new teacher, Miss Caygill andfamiliarising themselves with the environmentready for them starting in September. We areconfident they will all settle in really well.

We have been transforming our role-playarea into a Rocket and looking at what is be-yond the clouds through stories and games.The children have been making moon rockbuns and spaceships of their own. We madeour Daddies’ spaceship cards/ pictures to tellthem how much we love them and pretendedto walk on the moon.

From September we will be offering apickup service from Bainbridge nursery. Ifyou are interested in using this service pleasecontact us on 667789 or dales-play1@btconnect.com.

We are very pleased to inform everyone thatwe have just undergone an Ofsted inspection;our inspector was very impressed with thehigh quality care we provide the children inthe dales and awarded us a ‘Good’. Our Of-sted report is now available on the Ofstedwebsite; please take a look. If you need carefor your children we are here to help. Dales-play offers childcare for children aged 0-14years and offer this on a flexible monthlybooking system. We also offer two and threegovernment funded places for children in thedales. Feel free to ask for more information orvisit our website www.dalesplay.co.uk

Joanne Fothergill

Heavens Above

Summer's here and thespringtime constellationshave faded away into thelong evening twilight.Orange Arcturus, whichdominated the eastern

part of the sky during March and April, isnow well over in the west. Bright yellowCapella in the Charioteer - almost overheadin winter - sits right on the northern hori-zon. In the north-east the 'W' of Cassiopeiais gaining height. The Plough, on the oppo-site side of the pole star, has wheeled intothe north-west. In the east the Great Squareof Pegasus is just beginning to come intoview.

Much of the low southern sky is filled bythe rather lack-lustre constellations ofSerpens the Serpent, and Ophiuchus theSerpent Bearer. Ophiuchus is an old con-stellation associated with Aesculapius thelegendary Healer of the Ancient Greeks.He's usually depicted carrying a serpententwined around a staff, a symbol still usedtoday to represent the medical profession.

High in the south-east you'll find thebrilliant trio of stars forming the 'SummerTriangle' – Vega, Deneb and Altair. LikeOrion in winter, the Triangle is an abidingfeature of the night sky right through sum-mer and well into autumn.

Just above the southern horizon aroundone o'clock you'll find part of the constella-tion of Sagittarius the Archer. Its brighteststars form a distinctive pattern known asThe Teapot. It's easy to recognise andpoints downwards with the handle to theleft and the spout to the right. The densestar clouds towards the centre of the Galaxylie just below the Teapot – a glorious sighton a dark, moonless night.

On the planetary front we've lost Jupiterin the Sun's glare for now, but Mars andSaturn are still with us. Mars is low in thesouth-west in the evening and sets aroundmid-night. Saturn lies to the east of Mars inLibra and sets around 1 o'clock in themorning. Venus is in the early morning skyvery low in the NE from 3.00am onwards.Between July 12-25th Mercury lies just tothe lower left of Venus but you'll have to

have a really clear horizon to catch sight ofit.

With all the hullabaloo over this month'sGrand Depart I've been trying to come upwith some connection between cycling andastronomy. There's an asteroid called afterLance Armstrong but as he's now in dis-grace perhaps this shouldn't count. There'sanother named Wiggins and a Moon cratercalled Cavendish but neither of these hasany connection with the biking boys con-cerned. Never say die, however, and after abit of head scratching (and lots of researchon Wikipedia!) I have finally came up witha link. There used to be a British bicyclefirm called Hercules named after the leg-endary strongman of ancient Greece. (TheGreat Reg Harris - now he were a real cy-clist - rode his first competitive race in anevent organised by Hercules). The com-pany is now sadly defunct but the constella-tion of Hercules is still on show. For thenext few months you'll find it roughlyhalfway up the southern sky by late eve-ning. It looks nothing like a bike. Haveclear skies!

Al Bireo

West Burton School has had a busy start tothe half term, including taking part in theBikeability scheme and a Kwik Cricketcompetition. Bikeability started on the firstday back after half-term and we learnedabout road safety whilst riding our bikes.Although the instructors were very strict,we learned skills that will help us be safeon the roads throughout life.

Kwik Cricket took place at TheWensleydale School, during the secondweek of June. It was a beautiful, sunny dayand perfect for cricket. This was a clustertournament and everyone showed goodteam spirit. We shared transport with Bain-bridge and Askrigg schools and we all en-joyed meeting up for what was anotherfantastic sports opportunity.

We are looking forward to the manyevents still planned before the end of term.These include a visit from our link schoolfrom Leeds and our end of term celebra-tions

West Burton School News

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Upper Dales HealthwatchThe patient participation group for the Cen-

tral Dales GP Practice

Synopsis of the meeting, 12th May 2014There is no extra income available from any-where within the NHS to support deeply ruralpractices.

Defibrillators are in the process of beingobtained for Bainbridge, Thornton Rust,Thoralby, West Burton, Aysgarth and Pre-ston-under-Scar.

Dr Jones said he wanted to encourage apositive approach to the challenges ahead, andvery much welcomed the support of the UpperDales Health Watch Group of local represen-tatives in helping the Practice to offer the bestservice possible to patients.

At the end of the 7 years the Practice wouldhave a decreased annual budget of £25-31K.

Residents need to be encouraged to registerwith a GP practice when they move into thearea (not just when they first need a doctor).Appointments need to be encouraged if a pa-tient does not need immediate medical help.Telephone appointments are also encouraged.Home visits take place whenever necessaryafter morning surgeries.

Anyone wishing to see a specific GP canalways pre-book with a GP of their choice.

The views of Central Dales patients areneeded so as to help the Practice provide asgood a service as possible. The followingissues were discussed: sound proofing in sur-geries, minor alterations to surgery receptionareas, staff photos and dedicated UDHW no-tice boards and suggestion boxes in both sur-geries.

Any complaints will be dealt with sensi-tively by the Practice Manager. A copy of thecomplaints procedure is available on request.

The Practice is gearing up to launch Syst-mOnline which will allow patients to have aunique username and password to logon andorder repeat medications and check/cancelappointments.

Bids for funding by the Upper Dales HealthWatch could be very helpful for specific itemse.g. Anti-coagulation Near Patient testing kitor a GP defibrillator.

Jane Ritchie, Hon. Secretary

The children in Dalesplay have been busypreparing for the Tour de France, as you willsee from the outside of Dalesplay. We havenow hung up our beautifully decorated bikesand bunting to welcome the visitors and cy-clists. Owing to the expected high numbers ofpeople travelling to Hawes on Friday 4th Julywe have been advised to close at 1.00pm asparents may not be able to collect their chil-dren after this time and staff may not be ableto get home. We are all very excited about theupcoming event and will be open as usual onall other days.

The nursery children have begun their tran-sition to school by visiting school nurseryevery Monday morning with their key work-ers. They have really enjoyed getting to knowtheir wonderful new teacher, Miss Caygill andfamiliarising themselves with the environmentready for them starting in September. We areconfident they will all settle in really well.

We have been transforming our role-playarea into a Rocket and looking at what is be-yond the clouds through stories and games.The children have been making moon rockbuns and spaceships of their own. We madeour Daddies’ spaceship cards/ pictures to tellthem how much we love them and pretendedto walk on the moon.

From September we will be offering apickup service from Bainbridge nursery. Ifyou are interested in using this service pleasecontact us on 667789 or dales-play1@btconnect.com.

We are very pleased to inform everyone thatwe have just undergone an Ofsted inspection;our inspector was very impressed with thehigh quality care we provide the children inthe dales and awarded us a ‘Good’. Our Of-sted report is now available on the Ofstedwebsite; please take a look. If you need carefor your children we are here to help. Dales-play offers childcare for children aged 0-14years and offer this on a flexible monthlybooking system. We also offer two and threegovernment funded places for children in thedales. Feel free to ask for more information orvisit our website www.dalesplay.co.uk

Joanne Fothergill

Heavens Above

Summer's here and thespringtime constellationshave faded away into thelong evening twilight.Orange Arcturus, whichdominated the eastern

part of the sky during March and April, isnow well over in the west. Bright yellowCapella in the Charioteer - almost overheadin winter - sits right on the northern hori-zon. In the north-east the 'W' of Cassiopeiais gaining height. The Plough, on the oppo-site side of the pole star, has wheeled intothe north-west. In the east the Great Squareof Pegasus is just beginning to come intoview.

Much of the low southern sky is filled bythe rather lack-lustre constellations ofSerpens the Serpent, and Ophiuchus theSerpent Bearer. Ophiuchus is an old con-stellation associated with Aesculapius thelegendary Healer of the Ancient Greeks.He's usually depicted carrying a serpententwined around a staff, a symbol still usedtoday to represent the medical profession.

High in the south-east you'll find thebrilliant trio of stars forming the 'SummerTriangle' – Vega, Deneb and Altair. LikeOrion in winter, the Triangle is an abidingfeature of the night sky right through sum-mer and well into autumn.

Just above the southern horizon aroundone o'clock you'll find part of the constella-tion of Sagittarius the Archer. Its brighteststars form a distinctive pattern known asThe Teapot. It's easy to recognise andpoints downwards with the handle to theleft and the spout to the right. The densestar clouds towards the centre of the Galaxylie just below the Teapot – a glorious sighton a dark, moonless night.

On the planetary front we've lost Jupiterin the Sun's glare for now, but Mars andSaturn are still with us. Mars is low in thesouth-west in the evening and sets aroundmid-night. Saturn lies to the east of Mars inLibra and sets around 1 o'clock in themorning. Venus is in the early morning skyvery low in the NE from 3.00am onwards.Between July 12-25th Mercury lies just tothe lower left of Venus but you'll have to

have a really clear horizon to catch sight ofit.

With all the hullabaloo over this month'sGrand Depart I've been trying to come upwith some connection between cycling andastronomy. There's an asteroid called afterLance Armstrong but as he's now in dis-grace perhaps this shouldn't count. There'sanother named Wiggins and a Moon cratercalled Cavendish but neither of these hasany connection with the biking boys con-cerned. Never say die, however, and after abit of head scratching (and lots of researchon Wikipedia!) I have finally came up witha link. There used to be a British bicyclefirm called Hercules named after the leg-endary strongman of ancient Greece. (TheGreat Reg Harris - now he were a real cy-clist - rode his first competitive race in anevent organised by Hercules). The com-pany is now sadly defunct but the constella-tion of Hercules is still on show. For thenext few months you'll find it roughlyhalfway up the southern sky by late eve-ning. It looks nothing like a bike. Haveclear skies!

Al Bireo

West Burton School has had a busy start tothe half term, including taking part in theBikeability scheme and a Kwik Cricketcompetition. Bikeability started on the firstday back after half-term and we learnedabout road safety whilst riding our bikes.Although the instructors were very strict,we learned skills that will help us be safeon the roads throughout life.

Kwik Cricket took place at TheWensleydale School, during the secondweek of June. It was a beautiful, sunny dayand perfect for cricket. This was a clustertournament and everyone showed goodteam spirit. We shared transport with Bain-bridge and Askrigg schools and we all en-joyed meeting up for what was anotherfantastic sports opportunity.

We are looking forward to the manyevents still planned before the end of term.These include a visit from our link schoolfrom Leeds and our end of term celebra-tions

West Burton School News

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Who’s to Blame?After the spectacle comes the spectacular!Six large scale outdoor theatre perform-ances of Blame it on Bartle! presented byNorth Country Theatre, the people ofSwaledale, Wensleydale and Gudbrandsda-len [Norway] with live music, giant pup-pets, dancing and plenty of action and en-tertainment.

As the Tour de France cyclists pedal outof Richmondshire the stages will be put upfor this amazing tale of trolls, trials andtribulation plus Wensleydale’s own versionof the Wicker-man. Blame it on Bartle!starts at Richmond Castle on 10th and 11th

July before moving up the dale to GrintonLodge on 13th then across into Wensleydalewith performances at Castle Bolton on 17th

and Kiplin Hall on 19th and 20th.Over 40 performers will create this spec-

tacular theatrical event, with a live band,English and Norwegian folk dancing andmad cap chases across the crags. Watch asthe giant Knitter of Fate tries to unravel theblame game that develops in the lead min-ing communities of the early 19th century,join in the fun and celebrations of ReethBartle Fair and discover what horrors lurkdeep in the mines.

Written by Nobby Dimon this is the thirdRichmondshire Community play developedby North Country Theatre and gives ama-teur performers a unique opportunity towork alongside professional actors andmusicians under the direction of a profes-sional director. Taking the idea of a PeerGynt for the Dales, the company havelinked up with Richmond’s twin town ofNord Fron Kommune in Norway [home tothe Peer Gynt legend] and collaboratedwith Peer Gynt Teater to bring over sevenyoung performers to be part of the produc-tion.

All venues open early for people to picnicbefore the start of the performances whichbegin at 7.30pm [except for Grinton whichis a 7.00pm start]. People need to bring their own seating anddress for an outdoor performance. More

information and tickets can be found atwww.northcountrytheatre.com or by tele-phoning 01748 825288

Annual Artists’ ExhibitionPreston Under Scar

July 18th –20th 10.00am to 6.00pmSelling exhibition of paintings and crafts

made by local residents.Free entry; donations to Herriot Hospice.

Refreshments available

West Burton Village GreenOpen Air Shake Up

Sunday July 6th 10.45amContemporary Christian Worship.

Light lunch to follow in village hall.

Cream Teaat Town Head Farm, Askrigg

In aid of the Eve appeal andMacmillan Cancer supportJuly 6th 3.00pm onwards

DCM - ExhibitionThe current exhibition at the Dales Coun-tryside Museum is entitled ‘YorkshireDales Journeys’. It features material gath-ered through the Daisy Daisy project. We’ve had a fantastic response to our re-quest for stories, with about a 100 peoplesending in photos and stories of cycling inthe Yorkshire Dales. People have also beenvery generous in offering material on loanfor the exhibition. Jan Bee Brown – a col-laborative artist has worked with us to cre-ate the film featured in the exhibition. Sheheld a “Bums on Seats” event at the Mu-seum at which visitors could create theirown cycle seat cover from recycled materi-als. They also gave names to the “recycled”seats created by Jan and which are dis-played along side Daisy the tandem.

Material on show includes wonderfulphotographs like that of Minnie Cowper,who in the late 19th century found freedomon her Rudge Whitworth bicycle and mem-bers of the Sheffield Sports Cycling cluband the Eckington Wheelers who came tocycle the Dales in the 1950s.

We hope that people will enjoy readingthe stories, seeing the photos of early cy-cling in the area and that they will add theirown snippets too. They can always tweet orfacebook their photos for us to include@Dalesmuseum as the exhibition will behere all summer.

The exhibition runs until September 30th.Fiona Rosher, Museum Manager

Yorebridge Sportand Fitness Centre

Great North Air AmbulanceClothes collection - Friday September 5th

We would be very grateful for any clothes,shoes, bags (including suitcases), belts,towels, curtains, bed linen (not duvets orpillows). Please bag them up and leavethem outside the centre front door (next tothe blue outdoor store) from WednesdaySeptember 3rd onwards up to 1pm on Fri-day 5th. Thank you for your support of thisworthy cause. Any queries just contact uson 650060 or email at admin@yorebridge-

Doctors’ Rotas Supplied by the Health Centre

Wb Jun 30th July 7th 14th 21st 28thDay am pm am pm am pm am pm am pmMon WB WB F F FB FB JF JF J JTues JF JF BJ BJ J J B B F FWed J J F F B B J J J JThur B B B B J J B B F FFri F F B B F F F F W W

Doctors, B-Brown, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed Morning Surgery: 9.00 - 10.30 am no appointments

Afternoon Surgery: 4.00 - 5.30 pm appointment only

For appointments and all enquiries ring 663222

AYSGARTH SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning

Wb Jun 30th July 7th 14th 21st 28thDay am pm am pm am pm am pm am pmMon JF JF BJ BJ J J B B F FTues BW BW F F FB FB FJ FJ J JWed B B J J J J B B F FThur F F J J F F F F W WFri J J F F B B J J J J

Doctors: B-Brown, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed

Morning Surgery: 8.45-10.15am Tues till 10.45 no appts

Afternoon Surgery: 5- 6.00pm Tues 1.30-4.00 appts only

For appointments and all enquiries ring 667200

HAWES SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning

The photograph taken by Beki Harrison,shows the Giant Knitter of Fate prowling

the streets of Richmond in search ofBartle!

Application forms are available from:Richmondshire.gov.uk

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Who’s to Blame?After the spectacle comes the spectacular!Six large scale outdoor theatre perform-ances of Blame it on Bartle! presented byNorth Country Theatre, the people ofSwaledale, Wensleydale and Gudbrandsda-len [Norway] with live music, giant pup-pets, dancing and plenty of action and en-tertainment.

As the Tour de France cyclists pedal outof Richmondshire the stages will be put upfor this amazing tale of trolls, trials andtribulation plus Wensleydale’s own versionof the Wicker-man. Blame it on Bartle!starts at Richmond Castle on 10th and 11th

July before moving up the dale to GrintonLodge on 13th then across into Wensleydalewith performances at Castle Bolton on 17th

and Kiplin Hall on 19th and 20th.Over 40 performers will create this spec-

tacular theatrical event, with a live band,English and Norwegian folk dancing andmad cap chases across the crags. Watch asthe giant Knitter of Fate tries to unravel theblame game that develops in the lead min-ing communities of the early 19th century,join in the fun and celebrations of ReethBartle Fair and discover what horrors lurkdeep in the mines.

Written by Nobby Dimon this is the thirdRichmondshire Community play developedby North Country Theatre and gives ama-teur performers a unique opportunity towork alongside professional actors andmusicians under the direction of a profes-sional director. Taking the idea of a PeerGynt for the Dales, the company havelinked up with Richmond’s twin town ofNord Fron Kommune in Norway [home tothe Peer Gynt legend] and collaboratedwith Peer Gynt Teater to bring over sevenyoung performers to be part of the produc-tion.

All venues open early for people to picnicbefore the start of the performances whichbegin at 7.30pm [except for Grinton whichis a 7.00pm start]. People need to bring their own seating anddress for an outdoor performance. More

information and tickets can be found atwww.northcountrytheatre.com or by tele-phoning 01748 825288

Annual Artists’ ExhibitionPreston Under Scar

July 18th –20th 10.00am to 6.00pmSelling exhibition of paintings and crafts

made by local residents.Free entry; donations to Herriot Hospice.

Refreshments available

West Burton Village GreenOpen Air Shake Up

Sunday July 6th 10.45amContemporary Christian Worship.

Light lunch to follow in village hall.

Cream Teaat Town Head Farm, Askrigg

In aid of the Eve appeal andMacmillan Cancer supportJuly 6th 3.00pm onwards

DCM - ExhibitionThe current exhibition at the Dales Coun-tryside Museum is entitled ‘YorkshireDales Journeys’. It features material gath-ered through the Daisy Daisy project. We’ve had a fantastic response to our re-quest for stories, with about a 100 peoplesending in photos and stories of cycling inthe Yorkshire Dales. People have also beenvery generous in offering material on loanfor the exhibition. Jan Bee Brown – a col-laborative artist has worked with us to cre-ate the film featured in the exhibition. Sheheld a “Bums on Seats” event at the Mu-seum at which visitors could create theirown cycle seat cover from recycled materi-als. They also gave names to the “recycled”seats created by Jan and which are dis-played along side Daisy the tandem.

Material on show includes wonderfulphotographs like that of Minnie Cowper,who in the late 19th century found freedomon her Rudge Whitworth bicycle and mem-bers of the Sheffield Sports Cycling cluband the Eckington Wheelers who came tocycle the Dales in the 1950s.

We hope that people will enjoy readingthe stories, seeing the photos of early cy-cling in the area and that they will add theirown snippets too. They can always tweet orfacebook their photos for us to include@Dalesmuseum as the exhibition will behere all summer.

The exhibition runs until September 30th.Fiona Rosher, Museum Manager

Yorebridge Sportand Fitness Centre

Great North Air AmbulanceClothes collection - Friday September 5th

We would be very grateful for any clothes,shoes, bags (including suitcases), belts,towels, curtains, bed linen (not duvets orpillows). Please bag them up and leavethem outside the centre front door (next tothe blue outdoor store) from WednesdaySeptember 3rd onwards up to 1pm on Fri-day 5th. Thank you for your support of thisworthy cause. Any queries just contact uson 650060 or email at admin@yorebridge-

Doctors’ Rotas Supplied by the Health Centre

Wb Jun 30th July 7th 14th 21st 28thDay am pm am pm am pm am pm am pmMon WB WB F F FB FB JF JF J JTues JF JF BJ BJ J J B B F FWed J J F F B B J J J JThur B B B B J J B B F FFri F F B B F F F F W W

Doctors, B-Brown, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed Morning Surgery: 9.00 - 10.30 am no appointments

Afternoon Surgery: 4.00 - 5.30 pm appointment only

For appointments and all enquiries ring 663222

AYSGARTH SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning

Wb Jun 30th July 7th 14th 21st 28thDay am pm am pm am pm am pm am pmMon JF JF BJ BJ J J B B F FTues BW BW F F FB FB FJ FJ J JWed B B J J J J B B F FThur F F J J F F F F W WFri J J F F B B J J J J

Doctors: B-Brown, F - France, J - Jones, W - West , C - Closed

Morning Surgery: 8.45-10.15am Tues till 10.45 no appts

Afternoon Surgery: 5- 6.00pm Tues 1.30-4.00 appts only

For appointments and all enquiries ring 667200

HAWES SURGERY ROTA Wb - week beginning

The photograph taken by Beki Harrison,shows the Giant Knitter of Fate prowling

the streets of Richmond in search ofBartle!

Application forms are available from:Richmondshire.gov.uk

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Swaledale FestivalPercussion Project

The Swaledale Festival Percussion Projecthas just won one of the Prime Minister’sBig Society Awards for 2014. The pro-ject was devised by Malcolm Creese, Artis-tic Director of the Swaledale Festival, andinvolved woodworkers at Gayle Mill, ledby Michael Thomson and supported byLarry Ward, Neil Blunt, Maureen Princeand Janet Thomson, creating a range ofwooden percussion instruments for 100children from five Richmondshire primaryschools: Arkengarthdale, Gunnerside, LeCateau, Reeth and Wavell. All the childrenattended workshops at Gayle Mill wherethey learnt about local heritage, helped toassemble some of the instruments and wereintroduced to making music through per-cussion. They then took part in art work-shops at their schools, given by local artistsJill Eagle and Margaret Murphy, in whichthey decorated and personalised their in-struments.

Local music teacher Rosi Keatinge withGary Hammond and Sam Pirt from TheHut People then gave music workshops inwhich the children learnt to play musicspecially composed for them by Gary andSam. The five-month project ended inMarch 2014 with all the children perform-ing at a sell-out concert at the InfluenceChurch in Richmond with the professionalSamba band Forro Porro. It was a colourfuland joyous culmination of the project, eachchild playing the brightly decorated instru-ments that they had helped to make.

J.W.T.

Coffee at HardrawTo celebrate my 80th birthday I will beholding a coffee morning and bring-and-buy bake sale in aid of Hardraw church.

Please come to the Shepherd’s Dwelling,Hardraw, from 10.00am to noon onWednesday July 16th,

No presents please, but donations toHardraw Church would be most welcome.

Sue Foster

Marsett Methodist ChapelEvery week for more than 50 years Elaineand Tom Ewbank have wheeled water in amilk churn from their farm cottage toMarsett Methodist chapel, but when, onSunday June 22nd, the congregation cele-brated 200 years of Methodist worshipthe milk churn was left in the barn.

Following a £25,000 refurbishment of thebuilding the chapel now has running water,a washroom with disabled access and flushtoilet, a new kitchen, damp-proofed andnewly-plastered walls and a flagstone pathto the new extension.

The bulk of the funding came from theNorth Yorkshire Dales Methodist circuit,with a grant from the Darlington District,and another from the Council for the Pro-tection of Rural England. The congregationitself has contributed a sum far in excess ofwhat the local circuit expected.

Jane Sowerby, a regular worshipper withhusband, Andrew, and 14-year-old twins,Thomas and George, welcomes theimprovements. Thomas has cerebral palsyand getting his wheelchair into the buildingwas becoming impossible. “Thomas loveschapel. The singing and the company are areal joy to him and the new facilities meanother people with similar challenges willhave access, too, so it’s a blessing allr o u n d , ” s a y s J a n e .

Methodist minister, the Rev Janet Park,applauds the congregation’s commitment.“The chapel pays its own way and theyhave a vision of the future. They are gener-ous and welcoming and make the chapelavailable for everyone” she says.

The present building celebrated its cen-tenary back in 1997. The original one, nowa private house and up for sale, was built in1814.

Bainbridge Children Win at Harrogate

At the recent Harrogate Flower Show chil-dren from Bainbridge Primary School de-cided to put all the gardening skills theyhave learned over the last few years to gooduse and enter the pocket garden category.With a little help from the Yorkshire DalesMillennium Trust and garden designerChris Myers they designed and createdtheir own wildlife garden, using plants cho-sen by themselves. These included wildspring flowers such as Bluebells, Lily ofthe Valley, Cowslips and the insect eatingLords and Ladies!

The BBC got wind of these ambitiousplans and sent a film crew along to chartthe progress of the garden from early de-signs, to planting up seeds and bulbs andthen to the actual day of judgement itself, atthe show.

We are very proud to say that we wereawarded a certificate of merit by the judgesand had the documentary of our progressshown on Look North. The children weretremendously proud of their success andthe garden was transported back to schooland replanted in the school wildlife areawhere it will flower every year as a re-minder of the day we joined the likes ofTitchmarsh, Don and Swift as winners atHarrogate. D a v i dMoore

Letters on the Green MadnessOn Wednesday 18th of June children inyears 4,5,6 walked down to the green withletters designed by y6. The message speltBAINBRIDGE WELCOMES TDF 2014

a lady came to take our pictures she wasfrom the paper. The big yellow letters weregoing to be displayed on the green; the let-ters had sheep, jumpers and goats on them.Lots of cyclist stopped to look and see whatwas happening. They looked really good(the letters, not the cyclists!).

Eilish Grant and Mollie Clarkson

Are you aged 14 – 25and looking for a volunteering opportunitythis summer?

North Yorkshire Libraries are looking forenthusiastic young people to get involvedin Mythical Maze, this year’s reading chal-lenge. Every year thousands of young peo-ple flock to the library to take part in thisnational scheme and we need help!

The Summer Reading Challenge is one ofNorth Yorkshire’s success stories - morethan 10,000 will participate this year.

You will be involved with registeringchildren onto the challenge, assisting themto choose books, encouraging the childrento talk about the books they have read andhelping with activity events within the li-brary.

If you enjoy working with children andwould like to play a part in encouragingthem to read and have fun over the schoolholidays, we’d love to hear from you.

To apply or to find out more, go to:www.vinspired.com or pop into your locallibrary. Please apply by 30th June.

For more information on Mythical Maze,visit the reading challenge web-site:www.summerreadingchallenge.org.uk

Hardraw Church Flower FestivalDuring the week commencing July 1st, tocelebrate the Tour de France ‘Grand Dé-part’. All are invited to an evening of wineand nibbles, with organ music, in thechurch on Tuesday July 1st from 6.00pmto 7.00pm

Come and view the flowers, take somerefreshment and celebrate this momentousevent.

Bainbridge School News

Audrey Thornboroughwould like to say a huge thank you to herfamily, friends and neighbours for all the

lovely cards, flowers and gifts she receivedfollowing her recent stay in hospital.

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Swaledale FestivalPercussion Project

The Swaledale Festival Percussion Projecthas just won one of the Prime Minister’sBig Society Awards for 2014. The pro-ject was devised by Malcolm Creese, Artis-tic Director of the Swaledale Festival, andinvolved woodworkers at Gayle Mill, ledby Michael Thomson and supported byLarry Ward, Neil Blunt, Maureen Princeand Janet Thomson, creating a range ofwooden percussion instruments for 100children from five Richmondshire primaryschools: Arkengarthdale, Gunnerside, LeCateau, Reeth and Wavell. All the childrenattended workshops at Gayle Mill wherethey learnt about local heritage, helped toassemble some of the instruments and wereintroduced to making music through per-cussion. They then took part in art work-shops at their schools, given by local artistsJill Eagle and Margaret Murphy, in whichthey decorated and personalised their in-struments.

Local music teacher Rosi Keatinge withGary Hammond and Sam Pirt from TheHut People then gave music workshops inwhich the children learnt to play musicspecially composed for them by Gary andSam. The five-month project ended inMarch 2014 with all the children perform-ing at a sell-out concert at the InfluenceChurch in Richmond with the professionalSamba band Forro Porro. It was a colourfuland joyous culmination of the project, eachchild playing the brightly decorated instru-ments that they had helped to make.

J.W.T.

Coffee at HardrawTo celebrate my 80th birthday I will beholding a coffee morning and bring-and-buy bake sale in aid of Hardraw church.

Please come to the Shepherd’s Dwelling,Hardraw, from 10.00am to noon onWednesday July 16th,

No presents please, but donations toHardraw Church would be most welcome.

Sue Foster

Marsett Methodist ChapelEvery week for more than 50 years Elaineand Tom Ewbank have wheeled water in amilk churn from their farm cottage toMarsett Methodist chapel, but when, onSunday June 22nd, the congregation cele-brated 200 years of Methodist worshipthe milk churn was left in the barn.

Following a £25,000 refurbishment of thebuilding the chapel now has running water,a washroom with disabled access and flushtoilet, a new kitchen, damp-proofed andnewly-plastered walls and a flagstone pathto the new extension.

The bulk of the funding came from theNorth Yorkshire Dales Methodist circuit,with a grant from the Darlington District,and another from the Council for the Pro-tection of Rural England. The congregationitself has contributed a sum far in excess ofwhat the local circuit expected.

Jane Sowerby, a regular worshipper withhusband, Andrew, and 14-year-old twins,Thomas and George, welcomes theimprovements. Thomas has cerebral palsyand getting his wheelchair into the buildingwas becoming impossible. “Thomas loveschapel. The singing and the company are areal joy to him and the new facilities meanother people with similar challenges willhave access, too, so it’s a blessing allr o u n d , ” s a y s J a n e .

Methodist minister, the Rev Janet Park,applauds the congregation’s commitment.“The chapel pays its own way and theyhave a vision of the future. They are gener-ous and welcoming and make the chapelavailable for everyone” she says.

The present building celebrated its cen-tenary back in 1997. The original one, nowa private house and up for sale, was built in1814.

Bainbridge Children Win at Harrogate

At the recent Harrogate Flower Show chil-dren from Bainbridge Primary School de-cided to put all the gardening skills theyhave learned over the last few years to gooduse and enter the pocket garden category.With a little help from the Yorkshire DalesMillennium Trust and garden designerChris Myers they designed and createdtheir own wildlife garden, using plants cho-sen by themselves. These included wildspring flowers such as Bluebells, Lily ofthe Valley, Cowslips and the insect eatingLords and Ladies!

The BBC got wind of these ambitiousplans and sent a film crew along to chartthe progress of the garden from early de-signs, to planting up seeds and bulbs andthen to the actual day of judgement itself, atthe show.

We are very proud to say that we wereawarded a certificate of merit by the judgesand had the documentary of our progressshown on Look North. The children weretremendously proud of their success andthe garden was transported back to schooland replanted in the school wildlife areawhere it will flower every year as a re-minder of the day we joined the likes ofTitchmarsh, Don and Swift as winners atHarrogate. D a v i dMoore

Letters on the Green MadnessOn Wednesday 18th of June children inyears 4,5,6 walked down to the green withletters designed by y6. The message speltBAINBRIDGE WELCOMES TDF 2014

a lady came to take our pictures she wasfrom the paper. The big yellow letters weregoing to be displayed on the green; the let-ters had sheep, jumpers and goats on them.Lots of cyclist stopped to look and see whatwas happening. They looked really good(the letters, not the cyclists!).

Eilish Grant and Mollie Clarkson

Are you aged 14 – 25and looking for a volunteering opportunitythis summer?

North Yorkshire Libraries are looking forenthusiastic young people to get involvedin Mythical Maze, this year’s reading chal-lenge. Every year thousands of young peo-ple flock to the library to take part in thisnational scheme and we need help!

The Summer Reading Challenge is one ofNorth Yorkshire’s success stories - morethan 10,000 will participate this year.

You will be involved with registeringchildren onto the challenge, assisting themto choose books, encouraging the childrento talk about the books they have read andhelping with activity events within the li-brary.

If you enjoy working with children andwould like to play a part in encouragingthem to read and have fun over the schoolholidays, we’d love to hear from you.

To apply or to find out more, go to:www.vinspired.com or pop into your locallibrary. Please apply by 30th June.

For more information on Mythical Maze,visit the reading challenge web-site:www.summerreadingchallenge.org.uk

Hardraw Church Flower FestivalDuring the week commencing July 1st, tocelebrate the Tour de France ‘Grand Dé-part’. All are invited to an evening of wineand nibbles, with organ music, in thechurch on Tuesday July 1st from 6.00pmto 7.00pm

Come and view the flowers, take somerefreshment and celebrate this momentousevent.

Bainbridge School News

Audrey Thornboroughwould like to say a huge thank you to herfamily, friends and neighbours for all the

lovely cards, flowers and gifts she receivedfollowing her recent stay in hospital.

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with nothing better to do add a further cairnto ‘scare off the Scottish raiders’ (it issaid!)

It is maybe as well that this day’s walk isonly about 11 miles because from the Riggdue north although there is a steadydescent across Winton Fell, there is noobvious track. We emerged to a network offootpaths around 840096 and towards theriver Belah where there was a splendidtrestle viaduct on the Co. Durham toKirkby Stephen railway. If ever there was astructure that should have been retained,this is it. Onwards and northwards alongfootpaths with annoyingly blocked stiles(this is a lost area as far as walkers areconcerned) via South Stainmore to thePunch Bowl pub at North Stainmore on abit of the old A66 now bypassed. Not smarton the outside; OK inside.

Mickle Fell had dominated the fronthorizon this day; that’s the highest peak inold Yorkshire and in a ‘danger area’ buttoo good to miss. Tell you about it nexttime: North Stainmore to Langdon Beck inTeesdale.

A.S.W.

Annie Taylorof Nannup, Western Australia, formerly ofSouth View, Gayle, Hawes, died peacefullyon June 10th aged 93 years. Annie emigrated to Australia five yearsago to live with her daughter and family.She enjoyed her remaining years there withthe family and new friends, joining inmany community activities and attendingthe local church.

On Friday June13th at Rook-hurst in Gayle ,Sir Joe and LadyAnn Pilling wel-comed guests toan evening ofpoetry to launch‘Say Cheese’, abook of nearly100 happy poems‘to give you com-fort, joy and con-

solation’ collected and introduced by Dalespoet Ann.

The book is a mixture of poems by deadand living poets, and to make them really‘come to life’ several contributors fromlocal poetry groups read their own poems.There is a strong northern presence in thecollection— the landscape, sheep andcheese— hence the ‘matured in Wensley-dale’.

It’s a real joy to read! Here’s a taste:‘Famous’ poems: Cargoes, (John Mase-field) ‘Quinquireme of Ninevah’, remem-ber it from school– with the dirty Britishcoaster with the salt-caked smoke stack?;Morning has broken, Jabberwocky andThe Lark in the Clear Air, rub shoulderswith ‘Welcome Bonny Brid’, WensleydaleCounting Rhyme’ and modern poems fromthe area like ‘Delicious Babies’ or‘Engine’.

You will so enjoy it; it is sold on behalfof St Margaret’s Church restoration andavailable at the Newsagent’s in Hawes.

A.S.W

“Two Hundred QuidWould be Nice!”

That’s what Neil McNair at Low Mill,Bainbridge, thought he might make for theAir Ambulance when he designed his yel-low bikes and made a few out of plywood. He’s now made about 350 and raised£2,800. Magnificent! To contribute:justgiving .com/neilsyellowbikes

.

Best Foot ForwardWe did it my way! Ways: there are somany; Pennine, Dales, South Downs,Cleveland, Cumbria, Cambrian and Coastto Coast path. They all have theirchallenges and are fine if you’re content tofollow the guide book.

But why not create Your Way? This is asplendid thing to do in the depths of winterwhen you are more likely to have hills inthe head than under the feet. So it was thatI dreamt of a Horseshoe Walk. An anti-clockwise traverse from Chapel le Dale viathe Dales, the North Pennines, the Vale ofEden and the Lakes to arrive at Scafell Pikeand on to the coast — a somewhatroundabout way to do Scafell Pike.

Transferring the idea on to the mapsdepicted a horseshoe that no decent horsewould countenance! A Wobbly HorseshoeWalk.

I thought you might like a sketch of thefirst few days with the high and low points.Chapel le Dale to Hawes. We climbedWhernside via Bruntscar (the way theThree-peakers come down) and then set oursights north-east via becks and shootingbutts down towards the old marble works atStone House and Arten Gill, whose viaductwas a good marker, until it disappeared aswe dropped further down. The crossing ofthe young river Dee is easy if you manageto arrive at the only nearby footbridge;there is a ford, and in dry weather therewon’t be any water at all!

The viaduct is a good place for lunchbefore the climb up the gill. (Cyclists do

not like this link to the Pennine Bridlewayowing to the newly-made deep cross-channels difficult to see). At the top weturned left to the summit of GreatKnoutberry, probably the best view-pointfor the whole of Richmondshire, and it hasa rough seat-shelter looking northeast.

To say the high level route down towardsAppersett is easy would be a down-rightlie! It is about six miles, and it’s rough. It isadvisable to keep to the fences or walls(except where the fence goes straight intoWiddale Great Tarn!). From there it is atwisting route to Little Scar Moss and thebest way then is to follow the straight wallalong the top of Widdale Fell scar. Variouswalls can then be followed to join, atlength, the bridleway from near TarneyFors to Appersett.Hawes to Nateby We took the most directway via Hardraw and the long footpathfrom just beyond Bluebell Hill along theright hand side of Cotterdale, northwestinto the village.

Turning west, we climbed up through theplantation, now felled, to join the famousHigh Road of Lady Anne Clifford famepast High Dike, High Way and High Hallto the famous Hell Gill Bridge. If you wantto pick the best bilberries this is the place;there is a fenced area where the sheep can’tget them. You must be there at the righttime! Last year, about the same place, acuckoo’s shouting across the daleaccompanied me most of the morning.

Not for us the direct route intoMallerstang. We turned up to Hugh Seat,then on, and on along the National Parkboundary to High Seat and High Pike; longbut fairly level. Towards the end of thewalk it was maybe unwise to strike offnorth west, leaving any semblance of atrack and making for Great Bell and thenthe footpath to Nateby (for B and B). Wecould have made for the B-road, but whowants over three miles of it?Nateby to North Stainmore Here, theHorseshoe takes a very distinct wobble tomake, via Hartley Fell, for Nine StandardsRigg. There are sometimes ten, as walkers

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with nothing better to do add a further cairnto ‘scare off the Scottish raiders’ (it issaid!)

It is maybe as well that this day’s walk isonly about 11 miles because from the Riggdue north although there is a steadydescent across Winton Fell, there is noobvious track. We emerged to a network offootpaths around 840096 and towards theriver Belah where there was a splendidtrestle viaduct on the Co. Durham toKirkby Stephen railway. If ever there was astructure that should have been retained,this is it. Onwards and northwards alongfootpaths with annoyingly blocked stiles(this is a lost area as far as walkers areconcerned) via South Stainmore to thePunch Bowl pub at North Stainmore on abit of the old A66 now bypassed. Not smarton the outside; OK inside.

Mickle Fell had dominated the fronthorizon this day; that’s the highest peak inold Yorkshire and in a ‘danger area’ buttoo good to miss. Tell you about it nexttime: North Stainmore to Langdon Beck inTeesdale.

A.S.W.

Annie Taylorof Nannup, Western Australia, formerly ofSouth View, Gayle, Hawes, died peacefullyon June 10th aged 93 years. Annie emigrated to Australia five yearsago to live with her daughter and family.She enjoyed her remaining years there withthe family and new friends, joining inmany community activities and attendingthe local church.

On Friday June13th at Rook-hurst in Gayle ,Sir Joe and LadyAnn Pilling wel-comed guests toan evening ofpoetry to launch‘Say Cheese’, abook of nearly100 happy poems‘to give you com-fort, joy and con-

solation’ collected and introduced by Dalespoet Ann.

The book is a mixture of poems by deadand living poets, and to make them really‘come to life’ several contributors fromlocal poetry groups read their own poems.There is a strong northern presence in thecollection— the landscape, sheep andcheese— hence the ‘matured in Wensley-dale’.

It’s a real joy to read! Here’s a taste:‘Famous’ poems: Cargoes, (John Mase-field) ‘Quinquireme of Ninevah’, remem-ber it from school– with the dirty Britishcoaster with the salt-caked smoke stack?;Morning has broken, Jabberwocky andThe Lark in the Clear Air, rub shoulderswith ‘Welcome Bonny Brid’, WensleydaleCounting Rhyme’ and modern poems fromthe area like ‘Delicious Babies’ or‘Engine’.

You will so enjoy it; it is sold on behalfof St Margaret’s Church restoration andavailable at the Newsagent’s in Hawes.

A.S.W

“Two Hundred QuidWould be Nice!”

That’s what Neil McNair at Low Mill,Bainbridge, thought he might make for theAir Ambulance when he designed his yel-low bikes and made a few out of plywood. He’s now made about 350 and raised£2,800. Magnificent! To contribute:justgiving .com/neilsyellowbikes

.

Best Foot ForwardWe did it my way! Ways: there are somany; Pennine, Dales, South Downs,Cleveland, Cumbria, Cambrian and Coastto Coast path. They all have theirchallenges and are fine if you’re content tofollow the guide book.

But why not create Your Way? This is asplendid thing to do in the depths of winterwhen you are more likely to have hills inthe head than under the feet. So it was thatI dreamt of a Horseshoe Walk. An anti-clockwise traverse from Chapel le Dale viathe Dales, the North Pennines, the Vale ofEden and the Lakes to arrive at Scafell Pikeand on to the coast — a somewhatroundabout way to do Scafell Pike.

Transferring the idea on to the mapsdepicted a horseshoe that no decent horsewould countenance! A Wobbly HorseshoeWalk.

I thought you might like a sketch of thefirst few days with the high and low points.Chapel le Dale to Hawes. We climbedWhernside via Bruntscar (the way theThree-peakers come down) and then set oursights north-east via becks and shootingbutts down towards the old marble works atStone House and Arten Gill, whose viaductwas a good marker, until it disappeared aswe dropped further down. The crossing ofthe young river Dee is easy if you manageto arrive at the only nearby footbridge;there is a ford, and in dry weather therewon’t be any water at all!

The viaduct is a good place for lunchbefore the climb up the gill. (Cyclists do

not like this link to the Pennine Bridlewayowing to the newly-made deep cross-channels difficult to see). At the top weturned left to the summit of GreatKnoutberry, probably the best view-pointfor the whole of Richmondshire, and it hasa rough seat-shelter looking northeast.

To say the high level route down towardsAppersett is easy would be a down-rightlie! It is about six miles, and it’s rough. It isadvisable to keep to the fences or walls(except where the fence goes straight intoWiddale Great Tarn!). From there it is atwisting route to Little Scar Moss and thebest way then is to follow the straight wallalong the top of Widdale Fell scar. Variouswalls can then be followed to join, atlength, the bridleway from near TarneyFors to Appersett.Hawes to Nateby We took the most directway via Hardraw and the long footpathfrom just beyond Bluebell Hill along theright hand side of Cotterdale, northwestinto the village.

Turning west, we climbed up through theplantation, now felled, to join the famousHigh Road of Lady Anne Clifford famepast High Dike, High Way and High Hallto the famous Hell Gill Bridge. If you wantto pick the best bilberries this is the place;there is a fenced area where the sheep can’tget them. You must be there at the righttime! Last year, about the same place, acuckoo’s shouting across the daleaccompanied me most of the morning.

Not for us the direct route intoMallerstang. We turned up to Hugh Seat,then on, and on along the National Parkboundary to High Seat and High Pike; longbut fairly level. Towards the end of thewalk it was maybe unwise to strike offnorth west, leaving any semblance of atrack and making for Great Bell and thenthe footpath to Nateby (for B and B). Wecould have made for the B-road, but whowants over three miles of it?Nateby to North Stainmore Here, theHorseshoe takes a very distinct wobble tomake, via Hartley Fell, for Nine StandardsRigg. There are sometimes ten, as walkers

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From Mole-catching toCountrywide Haulage

There have been reported sightings ofW.Metcalfe and Sons Ltd all over the Brit-ish Isles for years, and only now have wethought to feature the Appersett-basedhaulage company.

These Metcalfes are as hefted inAppersett as the nearby sheep are on thefells! William, Mowdy Bill (mowdy’s amole round here) caught rabbits andmowdies as his first job but then in 1927turned his hand to coal delivering, pickingup the coal in Hawes Station Yard to takearound very locally. He was very proudsoon after to get a second wagon— anAlbion.

These early memories were related to mewith great enthusiasm in Rose Cottage,next door to where William had lived, byson Ken and his wife Margaret (married in1969). As business grew with three wagonsthey turned increasingly to livestock, to-ingand fro-ing from Hawes Auction Mart withthe other son, Nathan driving for 40 yearsuntil his death. (His widow, a very keenNewsletter reader lives in Hudswell). Kenwho started driving in 1958 continued untila bad accident in the 1990s. He spent 5½months in hospital.

Some years ago, two admirers of Kenrolled up at Hawes Methodist Church forhis funeral; wrong Metcalfe! Well there area lot!

Ken and Nathan went into partnership in1968 and William retired in 1969. Forthose who like to put the locals into per-spective, William’s third child is Joan Foxwho lives on the Hill in Hawes.

By the 1960s there were six wagons andthe work branched out: livestock, hay,straw and ‘one went general’ picking upvaluable business on a regular long runfrom Teesside to Merseyside and back,taking Castrol Engine oil from EllesmerePort refinery to ICI Teesside, ten hoursdriving there and back but sleeping athome; Appersett’s well placed, roughlymid-way. Incidentally, from then they

have always had red trucks.Ken and Margaret’s son Peter took

over the running of the company in 1999when it became W. Metcalfe and Sons Ltd.Since Foot and Mouth year no livestock hasbeen carried but business has flourished; ayard near Catterick for five years now, 17trucks and 45 trailers. Despite the trucksproudly displaying Hawes only a couple ofdrivers are local, 22 full, part-time andnight and dayfrom Richmond,Teesside and Car-lisle. The office, inthe annex to thenewish house justeast of Appersettemploys two full- and two part-timers.‘They are very keen to operate a keenlycompetitive service and the office is a hiveof activity.

As with father and grandfather, Peterwon’t be budged from Appersett; likesorganising the trucks, his partner drives,and Catterick would be more convenient.He’s another hefted Metcalfe, and what’shis hobby? Three classic wagons to take toshows and display weekends like KirkbyStephen’s!

A.S.W.

Come and Have Teain the Garden

With Margaret and Tony PlayfootAt River View, Lea Yeat, Cowgill, Dent.

Saturday August 2nd, 11.00am to4.00pm

Proceeds in aid of Marie Curie,Dent First Responders and Air Ambulance

ChairsAbout 20 sturdy grey plastic stackingchairs with tubular steel legs are availablefrom the Hawes Methodist rooms. They arein good condition and would suit one of thevillage halls in our area. 667785 for furtherdetails.

Consultation Beginson Planning Documents

Consultation has begun on two documentsthat will guide the way planning decisionsare made in the National Park in the future.

The first is a draft Local Plan that willhelp shape development decisions in theYorkshire Dales between 2015 and 2030. Itis taking a fresh look at every aspect oflocal planning policy except housing -which was only recently reviewed by theYorkshire Dales Housing DevelopmentPlan 2012 - 2025.

Over the last 15 months the NationalPark Authority has been consulting aboutthe planning issues and policy options thata new Local Plan should tackle.

This consultation has identified the prior-ity planning issues as creating high-qualityemployment, developing tourism, holdingon to local services, supporting land man-agement, quarrying and re-using barns.

Peter Stockton, the Authority's Head ofSustainable Development, said: "The draftLocal Plan proposes an agenda of growth tocombat the risk of economic and popula-tion decline.

"In particular it aims to support youngadults and people of working age to enablethem to live in the National Park instead ofmoving away. We aim to do this by allocat-ing more brownfield sites for business de-velopment and providing more flexibility tosupport farm and rural estate diversifica-tion.

"Another objective is to encourage morevisitors to stay over night in the NationalPark by expanding camping and temporaryvisitor accommodation."In addition, the draft Local Plan supports amore considered approach to the develop-ment of indoor visitor facilities that are notdirectly related to the National Park's spe-cial qualities but are, nevertheless, impor-tant to a more rounded visitor enjoyment ofthe area.

"In discussion with parish councils, thedocument is also reviewing local greenspace around settlements. Areas have been

identified that are of particular importanceto local communities or which are key tovillage character, with the intention of pro-tecting them from development that wouldharm their contribution.

"There has been a lot of recent discussionabout the future of the thousands of tradi-tional barns in the National Park. The Au-thority accepts that conversion of barns tonew uses plays an important part in theirconservation. The Local Plan is, therefore,consulting on a policy that would releaseroadside barns for residential or intensivenew business uses."

The draft Local Plan and the draft Plan-ning Design Guide can be viewed on theA u t h o r i t y w e b s i t e a twww.yorkshiredales.org.uk and will beemailed to an extensive list of consultees.

Consultation responses can be made viaemail localplan@yorkshiredales.org.uk orin writing to Planning Policy, YorkshireDales National Park Authority, Yoredale,Bainbridge, Leyburn, DL8 3EL.

LetterDear NewsletterLooking for a word to describe Hawes,would astonishment, delight or wow beappropriate? I think from a Yorkshire lass'gobsmacked' would be best to describehow great the town looks decked out in redand white. The whole town has rallied tocelebrate as only Hawes can.

I'm sure I'm not the only one to congratu-late all the people who have made it possi-ble from committees to businesses andhouseholders. Often time and effort is hid-den but I would like to mention one groupand one person in particular for the visualeffect round town. Ladies have workedvery hard with the bunting and RichardNoble has worked very hard to organiseand plant the baskets, troughs and madeflowers available.

Once again thank you to all the quietgroups and workers. What a great place to

live!Ann Wood

Gobsmacked of Hawes

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From Mole-catching toCountrywide Haulage

There have been reported sightings ofW.Metcalfe and Sons Ltd all over the Brit-ish Isles for years, and only now have wethought to feature the Appersett-basedhaulage company.

These Metcalfes are as hefted inAppersett as the nearby sheep are on thefells! William, Mowdy Bill (mowdy’s amole round here) caught rabbits andmowdies as his first job but then in 1927turned his hand to coal delivering, pickingup the coal in Hawes Station Yard to takearound very locally. He was very proudsoon after to get a second wagon— anAlbion.

These early memories were related to mewith great enthusiasm in Rose Cottage,next door to where William had lived, byson Ken and his wife Margaret (married in1969). As business grew with three wagonsthey turned increasingly to livestock, to-ingand fro-ing from Hawes Auction Mart withthe other son, Nathan driving for 40 yearsuntil his death. (His widow, a very keenNewsletter reader lives in Hudswell). Kenwho started driving in 1958 continued untila bad accident in the 1990s. He spent 5½months in hospital.

Some years ago, two admirers of Kenrolled up at Hawes Methodist Church forhis funeral; wrong Metcalfe! Well there area lot!

Ken and Nathan went into partnership in1968 and William retired in 1969. Forthose who like to put the locals into per-spective, William’s third child is Joan Foxwho lives on the Hill in Hawes.

By the 1960s there were six wagons andthe work branched out: livestock, hay,straw and ‘one went general’ picking upvaluable business on a regular long runfrom Teesside to Merseyside and back,taking Castrol Engine oil from EllesmerePort refinery to ICI Teesside, ten hoursdriving there and back but sleeping athome; Appersett’s well placed, roughlymid-way. Incidentally, from then they

have always had red trucks.Ken and Margaret’s son Peter took

over the running of the company in 1999when it became W. Metcalfe and Sons Ltd.Since Foot and Mouth year no livestock hasbeen carried but business has flourished; ayard near Catterick for five years now, 17trucks and 45 trailers. Despite the trucksproudly displaying Hawes only a couple ofdrivers are local, 22 full, part-time andnight and dayfrom Richmond,Teesside and Car-lisle. The office, inthe annex to thenewish house justeast of Appersettemploys two full- and two part-timers.‘They are very keen to operate a keenlycompetitive service and the office is a hiveof activity.

As with father and grandfather, Peterwon’t be budged from Appersett; likesorganising the trucks, his partner drives,and Catterick would be more convenient.He’s another hefted Metcalfe, and what’shis hobby? Three classic wagons to take toshows and display weekends like KirkbyStephen’s!

A.S.W.

Come and Have Teain the Garden

With Margaret and Tony PlayfootAt River View, Lea Yeat, Cowgill, Dent.

Saturday August 2nd, 11.00am to4.00pm

Proceeds in aid of Marie Curie,Dent First Responders and Air Ambulance

ChairsAbout 20 sturdy grey plastic stackingchairs with tubular steel legs are availablefrom the Hawes Methodist rooms. They arein good condition and would suit one of thevillage halls in our area. 667785 for furtherdetails.

Consultation Beginson Planning Documents

Consultation has begun on two documentsthat will guide the way planning decisionsare made in the National Park in the future.

The first is a draft Local Plan that willhelp shape development decisions in theYorkshire Dales between 2015 and 2030. Itis taking a fresh look at every aspect oflocal planning policy except housing -which was only recently reviewed by theYorkshire Dales Housing DevelopmentPlan 2012 - 2025.

Over the last 15 months the NationalPark Authority has been consulting aboutthe planning issues and policy options thata new Local Plan should tackle.

This consultation has identified the prior-ity planning issues as creating high-qualityemployment, developing tourism, holdingon to local services, supporting land man-agement, quarrying and re-using barns.

Peter Stockton, the Authority's Head ofSustainable Development, said: "The draftLocal Plan proposes an agenda of growth tocombat the risk of economic and popula-tion decline.

"In particular it aims to support youngadults and people of working age to enablethem to live in the National Park instead ofmoving away. We aim to do this by allocat-ing more brownfield sites for business de-velopment and providing more flexibility tosupport farm and rural estate diversifica-tion.

"Another objective is to encourage morevisitors to stay over night in the NationalPark by expanding camping and temporaryvisitor accommodation."In addition, the draft Local Plan supports amore considered approach to the develop-ment of indoor visitor facilities that are notdirectly related to the National Park's spe-cial qualities but are, nevertheless, impor-tant to a more rounded visitor enjoyment ofthe area.

"In discussion with parish councils, thedocument is also reviewing local greenspace around settlements. Areas have been

identified that are of particular importanceto local communities or which are key tovillage character, with the intention of pro-tecting them from development that wouldharm their contribution.

"There has been a lot of recent discussionabout the future of the thousands of tradi-tional barns in the National Park. The Au-thority accepts that conversion of barns tonew uses plays an important part in theirconservation. The Local Plan is, therefore,consulting on a policy that would releaseroadside barns for residential or intensivenew business uses."

The draft Local Plan and the draft Plan-ning Design Guide can be viewed on theA u t h o r i t y w e b s i t e a twww.yorkshiredales.org.uk and will beemailed to an extensive list of consultees.

Consultation responses can be made viaemail localplan@yorkshiredales.org.uk orin writing to Planning Policy, YorkshireDales National Park Authority, Yoredale,Bainbridge, Leyburn, DL8 3EL.

LetterDear NewsletterLooking for a word to describe Hawes,would astonishment, delight or wow beappropriate? I think from a Yorkshire lass'gobsmacked' would be best to describehow great the town looks decked out in redand white. The whole town has rallied tocelebrate as only Hawes can.

I'm sure I'm not the only one to congratu-late all the people who have made it possi-ble from committees to businesses andhouseholders. Often time and effort is hid-den but I would like to mention one groupand one person in particular for the visualeffect round town. Ladies have workedvery hard with the bunting and RichardNoble has worked very hard to organiseand plant the baskets, troughs and madeflowers available.

Once again thank you to all the quietgroups and workers. What a great place to

live!Ann Wood

Gobsmacked of Hawes

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Keeping out of Hospital.Few people express a desire to stay in hospitalany longer than necessary, so it’s good newsthat for the last 12 months the NHS in Hamble-ton and Richmondshire has been running a suc-cessful rapid response health and social careteam who are providing support for suitablyassessed patients. Often these are older peoplewho may have been discharged from hospital orwhose recovery, perhaps after A&E treatment,may simply be better at home. The care serviceis day and night and is made up of nurses, occu-pational therapists, healthcare assistants andsocial care workers. Most patients are referredby their GPs and the feedback so far from thosewho have used the service has been positive.No doubt visitors benefit too, saving long jour-neys to Northallerton and beyond. If you wantto know more about it ring the NHS NorthYorkshire and Humber Communications Teamon 0300 303 8394.

Bellerby Open Gardens and Scarecrow Festival

“IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH”Sunday 13th July 2014

11am – 4.00pmGardening is good for your health 'it's official',and even gazing at lovely plants and grassylawns can raise the spirits.

All this, plus music from The Old Glory JazzBand, plant sales and a craft stall. Refreshmentswill be available in the Memorial Hall wherethere is an outdoor children's play area.

Bellerby, a village of becks and bridges dat-ing back to before the Norman Conquest, is 1.5miles north of Leyburn on the A6108 road toRichmond.

Admission is £3.50 each, for adults, childrenunder 16 go free and there is free off-road park-ing. Proceeds will be shared between localgood cause

Handy Hints!Use vertical strokes when washing windowsoutside and horizontal inside: then you can tellwhich side has the streaks.Wrap celery in aluminium foil when putting inthe fridge and it will keep for weeks

A Piece of Village HistoryAskrigg may be unique in having a series ofhand-made, sometimes hand-written, leather-bound, village books. The first was producedby the then Askrigg WI in 1965 as part of anational competition to make a villagescrapbook. It came second nationally butgiven the content, design and artistic quality,it’s hard to imagine what could have beatenit.

The next marked the Queen’s silver jubileein 1977. Not so much a scrapbook, more aphotograph album with pictures of just aboutevery resident and their brief biographies.There was another one in 1990, paid for witha donation from the BBC in recognition ofthe village’s contribution to its All CreaturesGreat and Small series, and a fourth to markthe Millennium. All were beautifullyillustrated with paintings by Janet Rawlins,Terry Kirkbride and Marie Hartley, whowith her friend Joan Ingilby, oversaw theirproduction. Many willing volunteers helpedwith the writing, photography and research.

Now, a new village book is planned,marking the 50th anniversary of the originalone of 1965. It will paint a picture of theparish of Askrigg and Low Abbotside over a12-month period: work and leisure, schools,health, transport, fashion, homemaking andlots more, plus pictures and biographies ofevery resident, reflecting the content of thesubsequent books. A small steering commit-tee has been formed and we now have anoutline of the 20-plus chapter headings. Vol-unteers are being recruited to take one ormore of the chapters - health and wellbeing,education, transport and so on - to work onwith fellow recruits. The book will be basedon the original WI book of 1965, and will beproduced next year to mark the 50th anniver-sary of that remarkable piece of work.

Betsy Everett

St. Andrew’s Church, AysgarthTuesday 8th July 2014 at 7.30pm

Institution and Inductionof the Rev. Lynn Purvis-Lee as Vicar of thePenhill Benefice by James Bell, Bishop ofKnaresborough, followed by lightrefreshments.

Dr Kristin WhalleyOptimistic, energetic, hardworking,enthusiastic and talkative. From driving asteamroller around her father’s gravel worksat the age of eight to being involved in livelyand demanding voluntary work as anoctogenarian, the words above aptly describeDr Kristin Whalley of Newbiggin inBishopdale. A lady not good at doing nothing!

Kristin’s family roots are from a Hampshirefarming background., although her father wasa chemical engineer and her mother was amathematician and physicist. Both parentswere part of Frank Whittle’s team of fivescientists working for RAE Farnborough onthe jet engine. During the war the companymoved to Clitheroe, where Kristin and herbrother spent their holidays cycling around thecountry lanes and walking with their parentsin the Lake District. Kristin’s love of the hillsand hillwalking and climbing began there, awonderful playground for a young girl whoalready enjoyed the outdoor life. With herparents she met many of the early Everestclimbers and Alpinists such as Murray,Somerville and Bourdillon. In the early 1950sKristin’s family established the BrackencloseFell and Rock Club hut for climbers andwalkers in the Lake District. Kristin herself isstill a member of the Fell and Rock Club after55 years.

Both Kristin and her brother remained atseparate boarding schools in the south ofEngland. Kristin had no problem with examsand had announced at age seven that sheintended to be a brain surgeon. It was nosurprise therefore that she pursued a career inmedicine at Bart’s teaching hospital. It waswhile at Bart’s that she met Clive Whalley, afellow medical student at Cambridge. Cliveand his friends were Christian and it wasthrough them that Kristin developed herstrong personal relationship with God, whichhas directed and supported her in life eversince. Three months after qualifying in themedical profession Clive and Kristin weremarried. For their first job, as junior housedoctors, they arrived at Bridge of EarnHospital in Scotland, where Kristin furtheredher studies in orthopaedic surgery and inprecious time off continued climbing and

walking in Torridon and other parts ofScotland.

Clive’s call up for National Service led himto join the Colonial Medical Service and Kris-tin travelled with him to do medical work inBasutoland, now Lesotho. Here their firstchild, James, was born. It was here too thatKristin’s work for the Gideon Society began.Returning to Cambridge two years later Clivecontinued to work in orthopaedics. Andrewwas born but when he was eighteen monthsold Kristin faced her first trauma when he wasseriously ill after a scalding accident. Sheadmits that it was her strong Christian faithwhich saw her through these days withAndrew. Their third child, Jane, arrivedshortly after.

Kristin and Clive had a year working inAmerica before returning to England whereKristin became a consultant in rheumatologyin Sussex in 1969. In November 1970 traumastruck again when, without warning, she suf-fered a cardiac arrest. No defibrillators inthose days: doctors worked for an hour torestart her heart. Some loss of memory wasinevitable so no further medical exams werepossible but her determination and faithensured that she remained in clinical workuntil she retired in 1998. Her third traumaoccurred in 1982 when Clive was killed in aroad accident.

Kristin maintained her love of the north andon her retirement rented a house in Redmire.Since then she has lived in Newbiggin. Shebecame chairman of the northern area GideonSociety and travelled thousands of milesrecruiting new members. She is also chairmanof the Wensleydale branch of the Campaign toProtect Rural England. Her love of music hascontinued throughout her life and she enjoysplaying the flute with the “Wensleydale Phil-harmonic Orchestra”.

Kristin’s outlook on life has always beenpositive. She firmly believes that God hasdirected her life and she has had thesatisfaction of overcoming her problems andhas faced adversity with faith and courage.Last year she took on the role ofchurchwarden in Redmire - not an easy task atthe age of eighty but Dr Kristin Whalley is “alady not good at doing nothing!”

N.P. and Liz Piper

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Keeping out of Hospital.Few people express a desire to stay in hospitalany longer than necessary, so it’s good newsthat for the last 12 months the NHS in Hamble-ton and Richmondshire has been running a suc-cessful rapid response health and social careteam who are providing support for suitablyassessed patients. Often these are older peoplewho may have been discharged from hospital orwhose recovery, perhaps after A&E treatment,may simply be better at home. The care serviceis day and night and is made up of nurses, occu-pational therapists, healthcare assistants andsocial care workers. Most patients are referredby their GPs and the feedback so far from thosewho have used the service has been positive.No doubt visitors benefit too, saving long jour-neys to Northallerton and beyond. If you wantto know more about it ring the NHS NorthYorkshire and Humber Communications Teamon 0300 303 8394.

Bellerby Open Gardens and Scarecrow Festival

“IT'S GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH”Sunday 13th July 2014

11am – 4.00pmGardening is good for your health 'it's official',and even gazing at lovely plants and grassylawns can raise the spirits.

All this, plus music from The Old Glory JazzBand, plant sales and a craft stall. Refreshmentswill be available in the Memorial Hall wherethere is an outdoor children's play area.

Bellerby, a village of becks and bridges dat-ing back to before the Norman Conquest, is 1.5miles north of Leyburn on the A6108 road toRichmond.

Admission is £3.50 each, for adults, childrenunder 16 go free and there is free off-road park-ing. Proceeds will be shared between localgood cause

Handy Hints!Use vertical strokes when washing windowsoutside and horizontal inside: then you can tellwhich side has the streaks.Wrap celery in aluminium foil when putting inthe fridge and it will keep for weeks

A Piece of Village HistoryAskrigg may be unique in having a series ofhand-made, sometimes hand-written, leather-bound, village books. The first was producedby the then Askrigg WI in 1965 as part of anational competition to make a villagescrapbook. It came second nationally butgiven the content, design and artistic quality,it’s hard to imagine what could have beatenit.

The next marked the Queen’s silver jubileein 1977. Not so much a scrapbook, more aphotograph album with pictures of just aboutevery resident and their brief biographies.There was another one in 1990, paid for witha donation from the BBC in recognition ofthe village’s contribution to its All CreaturesGreat and Small series, and a fourth to markthe Millennium. All were beautifullyillustrated with paintings by Janet Rawlins,Terry Kirkbride and Marie Hartley, whowith her friend Joan Ingilby, oversaw theirproduction. Many willing volunteers helpedwith the writing, photography and research.

Now, a new village book is planned,marking the 50th anniversary of the originalone of 1965. It will paint a picture of theparish of Askrigg and Low Abbotside over a12-month period: work and leisure, schools,health, transport, fashion, homemaking andlots more, plus pictures and biographies ofevery resident, reflecting the content of thesubsequent books. A small steering commit-tee has been formed and we now have anoutline of the 20-plus chapter headings. Vol-unteers are being recruited to take one ormore of the chapters - health and wellbeing,education, transport and so on - to work onwith fellow recruits. The book will be basedon the original WI book of 1965, and will beproduced next year to mark the 50th anniver-sary of that remarkable piece of work.

Betsy Everett

St. Andrew’s Church, AysgarthTuesday 8th July 2014 at 7.30pm

Institution and Inductionof the Rev. Lynn Purvis-Lee as Vicar of thePenhill Benefice by James Bell, Bishop ofKnaresborough, followed by lightrefreshments.

Dr Kristin WhalleyOptimistic, energetic, hardworking,enthusiastic and talkative. From driving asteamroller around her father’s gravel worksat the age of eight to being involved in livelyand demanding voluntary work as anoctogenarian, the words above aptly describeDr Kristin Whalley of Newbiggin inBishopdale. A lady not good at doing nothing!

Kristin’s family roots are from a Hampshirefarming background., although her father wasa chemical engineer and her mother was amathematician and physicist. Both parentswere part of Frank Whittle’s team of fivescientists working for RAE Farnborough onthe jet engine. During the war the companymoved to Clitheroe, where Kristin and herbrother spent their holidays cycling around thecountry lanes and walking with their parentsin the Lake District. Kristin’s love of the hillsand hillwalking and climbing began there, awonderful playground for a young girl whoalready enjoyed the outdoor life. With herparents she met many of the early Everestclimbers and Alpinists such as Murray,Somerville and Bourdillon. In the early 1950sKristin’s family established the BrackencloseFell and Rock Club hut for climbers andwalkers in the Lake District. Kristin herself isstill a member of the Fell and Rock Club after55 years.

Both Kristin and her brother remained atseparate boarding schools in the south ofEngland. Kristin had no problem with examsand had announced at age seven that sheintended to be a brain surgeon. It was nosurprise therefore that she pursued a career inmedicine at Bart’s teaching hospital. It waswhile at Bart’s that she met Clive Whalley, afellow medical student at Cambridge. Cliveand his friends were Christian and it wasthrough them that Kristin developed herstrong personal relationship with God, whichhas directed and supported her in life eversince. Three months after qualifying in themedical profession Clive and Kristin weremarried. For their first job, as junior housedoctors, they arrived at Bridge of EarnHospital in Scotland, where Kristin furtheredher studies in orthopaedic surgery and inprecious time off continued climbing and

walking in Torridon and other parts ofScotland.

Clive’s call up for National Service led himto join the Colonial Medical Service and Kris-tin travelled with him to do medical work inBasutoland, now Lesotho. Here their firstchild, James, was born. It was here too thatKristin’s work for the Gideon Society began.Returning to Cambridge two years later Clivecontinued to work in orthopaedics. Andrewwas born but when he was eighteen monthsold Kristin faced her first trauma when he wasseriously ill after a scalding accident. Sheadmits that it was her strong Christian faithwhich saw her through these days withAndrew. Their third child, Jane, arrivedshortly after.

Kristin and Clive had a year working inAmerica before returning to England whereKristin became a consultant in rheumatologyin Sussex in 1969. In November 1970 traumastruck again when, without warning, she suf-fered a cardiac arrest. No defibrillators inthose days: doctors worked for an hour torestart her heart. Some loss of memory wasinevitable so no further medical exams werepossible but her determination and faithensured that she remained in clinical workuntil she retired in 1998. Her third traumaoccurred in 1982 when Clive was killed in aroad accident.

Kristin maintained her love of the north andon her retirement rented a house in Redmire.Since then she has lived in Newbiggin. Shebecame chairman of the northern area GideonSociety and travelled thousands of milesrecruiting new members. She is also chairmanof the Wensleydale branch of the Campaign toProtect Rural England. Her love of music hascontinued throughout her life and she enjoysplaying the flute with the “Wensleydale Phil-harmonic Orchestra”.

Kristin’s outlook on life has always beenpositive. She firmly believes that God hasdirected her life and she has had thesatisfaction of overcoming her problems andhas faced adversity with faith and courage.Last year she took on the role ofchurchwarden in Redmire - not an easy task atthe age of eighty but Dr Kristin Whalley is “alady not good at doing nothing!”

N.P. and Liz Piper

28 28

Very soon you will see “event guides” poppingup at shops and businesses that will give fulldetails of the activities that are planned over theweekend, please get in touch if you would liketo have some copies to distribute.

We have been working hard to host a varietyof events including our very own bike trail(please see the separate piece about this), otherevents include music to suit every taste,children’s activities and a number of marketstalls.

The live music will start at 7.00pm on Friday4th July in the Penny Garth Café and finisharound 11.00pm. From 9.00am on Saturday 5th

Hawes town centre will host a number ofmarket stalls and children’s activities with livemusic starting again around 6.00pm through tomidnight. We still have space for a few moremarket stalls so if you know anyone whomay be interested please let us know.

We have just obtained permission fromNatural England to create a temporary bicyclefashioned from “Terram”, a woven fabric, onthe hillside above Simonstone (a big thank youto Stag fell estate for permission to use theirland). We are hoping to create this on June 29th

and we need some volunteers to help create thisgiant “Art Attack” - if you can lend a hand thatday please get in touch.

Estimated visitor numbers range from 10,000through to 40,000. We have been asked to passon the following information to as many peopleas we can about what to expect on the day itselfbut please bear in mind that things may changeat any time depending on when people actuallyarrive in the area.Route road closures:An abundance of signage is now erected toindicate clearly where the roads will closed andfull details can be found on this website:www.northyorkshire.gov.uk.Car ParkingFor those of you who live along the route andnormally park a vehicle on the road, and only ifit is on the road itself, you are likely to beeligible for a “residents parking pass” that willallow you to park in the top car park adjacent tothe school which has been designated for thisuse by Richmondshire District Council.Please get in touch if you need a pass but youwill need to provide proof that the vehicle is

The remaining spaces in that car park will beavailable for business in the town to use on afirst come first serve basis, again please getin touch if you need one for that Saturday.Mobile phone coverageFor the TDF event we are aware of at leastone provider (O2) who will be erectingtemporary antennae to cope with theadditional demand but depending on actualnumbers of visitors it is still possible thatcoverage will be patchy.SecuritySecurity and first aid provision has been putin place for all of the events planned in thetown and most of the pubs. Whilst we don’texpect any particular issues, with the numberof people that are expected to arrive therestill may be an element of “opportunistic”crime so thought should be given to justdouble checking that you don’t leave anyvaluables on show and things like charitycollection tins are adequately secured. Ifanyone who hasn’t already got provision inplace would like some security please let usknow.TimingsThe riders themselves around 2:00pm-2:30pm, The Caravan from around 11.00am,this is when the crowds will start to wait forthe cyclists. We would therefore urge anyonethat wants to watch the caravan to get totheir preferred place very early that morning.Please try to encourage anyone that youknow to make their way to their preferredviewing place as early as possible to avoiddisappointment.Crowd ControlThis is high on the organiser’s agenda. Theyhave particular concerns about the “pinchpoints” that may occur between HawesTown centre and Town foot when peoplestart to make their way down to the raceroute at Town foot. To help with this a teamof around 250 volunteers have been as-signed to the area to help control the crowdsand ensure that everyone remain as safe aspossible. .Medical provisionWe have been assured that we will havesufficient cover in the Upper Dales; it lookslike we will have a number of ambulancesstationed in Hawes and Simonstone and ifany ambulances are required we have

assurances that they will be able to use the raceroute if they have to.VolunteersIf you wish to be a part of the event on the daywe are constantly looking for volunteers tohelp with various aspects of organisation onthe Friday and Saturday. If you are interestedplease get in touch; see contact details below.After the eventI’m sure that the day itself will be like noother, and we will all be inconvenienced insome way or another but I am certain that wewill give the spectators our usual fantasticallywarm Yorkshire welcome and a day toremember so that they choose to visit the areaover the coming years.Finally I hope that you will join me inthanking all those who have helped with allthe preparations, giving up hours or days, toput on an event that we will all remember foryears to come. Here’s to July 5th!

Griff ThomasHHA TDF Committee Chairman

hawestdf@outlook.com 01969 666111

Bainbridge and District Motor ClubRally

A glorious sunny night on Wednesday 18thJune was the perfect weather for the rallywhich was organised by Luke Metcalfe andDave Scarr. This rally was held to raisemoney for Askrigg Playgroup so we appreci-ate the parents that came along to support.

The rally was mainly based around Garsdaleand Dentdale which is true Luke territory! Wealso ventured back into Wensleydale throughGayle and Burtersett before heading back tothe pub; marker boards were very sneakilyplaced on the route round and questions in thevillages were to be answered, most cars man-aged to completed the rally but one did end upin Ingleton and doing approx 30 miles moret h e n t h e y s h o u l d h a v e d o n e !

It was a most enjoyable night and theweather certainly helped. The next rally whichis on the 16th July, will be organised by MikePercival and Chloe Billingham.

Emma Thwaite

Running for CharityMike, Rachel and Stuart Haygarth competedin the City of Manchester 10K on Sunday18th May. They ran for Macmillan CancerSupport, a charity very close to them as Mar-garet, their mother, has recently undergonetreatment for cancer. The support offered byMacmillan to the family has been invaluable.

As others in the race would confess, it wasa blisteringly hot day and not ideal to run intemperatures exceeding 25 degrees! If onlythe city had lived up to its reputation andprovided some much needed rain to coolthem down!

They just wanted to take this opportunityto thank friends and family for all the kindwords of encouragement and support, as wellas the great many donations that have beenreceived.To date, with money already raised andsponsors promised, the total is very near£2000. THANK YOU!

If you wish to donate to this very worthycause, you can still do this byvisiting theirJustGiving page:www.justgiving.com/haygarthfamily10K

To say they have now got the fitness bug isan understatement! Mike is completing inthe Great Manchester Swim on 19th July andMike and Stuart will hopefully be competingin the Birmingham 10K towards the end ofthe year

NSPCCThe NSPCC event will take place in Red-

mire on Saturday 26th July between 2.00and 4.00pm.

There will be stalls and teas.

Tour de France– More Details

Mystery picture. Last month’s was of thelarge house behind Hardraw.

Where are we now?

29 29

Very soon you will see “event guides” poppingup at shops and businesses that will give fulldetails of the activities that are planned over theweekend, please get in touch if you would liketo have some copies to distribute.

We have been working hard to host a varietyof events including our very own bike trail(please see the separate piece about this), otherevents include music to suit every taste,children’s activities and a number of marketstalls.

The live music will start at 7.00pm on Friday4th July in the Penny Garth Café and finisharound 11.00pm. From 9.00am on Saturday 5th

Hawes town centre will host a number ofmarket stalls and children’s activities with livemusic starting again around 6.00pm through tomidnight. We still have space for a few moremarket stalls so if you know anyone whomay be interested please let us know.

We have just obtained permission fromNatural England to create a temporary bicyclefashioned from “Terram”, a woven fabric, onthe hillside above Simonstone (a big thank youto Stag fell estate for permission to use theirland). We are hoping to create this on June 29th

and we need some volunteers to help create thisgiant “Art Attack” - if you can lend a hand thatday please get in touch.

Estimated visitor numbers range from 10,000through to 40,000. We have been asked to passon the following information to as many peopleas we can about what to expect on the day itselfbut please bear in mind that things may changeat any time depending on when people actuallyarrive in the area.Route road closures:An abundance of signage is now erected toindicate clearly where the roads will closed andfull details can be found on this website:www.northyorkshire.gov.uk.Car ParkingFor those of you who live along the route andnormally park a vehicle on the road, and only ifit is on the road itself, you are likely to beeligible for a “residents parking pass” that willallow you to park in the top car park adjacent tothe school which has been designated for thisuse by Richmondshire District Council.Please get in touch if you need a pass but youwill need to provide proof that the vehicle is

The remaining spaces in that car park will beavailable for business in the town to use on afirst come first serve basis, again please getin touch if you need one for that Saturday.Mobile phone coverageFor the TDF event we are aware of at leastone provider (O2) who will be erectingtemporary antennae to cope with theadditional demand but depending on actualnumbers of visitors it is still possible thatcoverage will be patchy.SecuritySecurity and first aid provision has been putin place for all of the events planned in thetown and most of the pubs. Whilst we don’texpect any particular issues, with the numberof people that are expected to arrive therestill may be an element of “opportunistic”crime so thought should be given to justdouble checking that you don’t leave anyvaluables on show and things like charitycollection tins are adequately secured. Ifanyone who hasn’t already got provision inplace would like some security please let usknow.TimingsThe riders themselves around 2:00pm-2:30pm, The Caravan from around 11.00am,this is when the crowds will start to wait forthe cyclists. We would therefore urge anyonethat wants to watch the caravan to get totheir preferred place very early that morning.Please try to encourage anyone that youknow to make their way to their preferredviewing place as early as possible to avoiddisappointment.Crowd ControlThis is high on the organiser’s agenda. Theyhave particular concerns about the “pinchpoints” that may occur between HawesTown centre and Town foot when peoplestart to make their way down to the raceroute at Town foot. To help with this a teamof around 250 volunteers have been as-signed to the area to help control the crowdsand ensure that everyone remain as safe aspossible. .Medical provisionWe have been assured that we will havesufficient cover in the Upper Dales; it lookslike we will have a number of ambulancesstationed in Hawes and Simonstone and ifany ambulances are required we have

assurances that they will be able to use the raceroute if they have to.VolunteersIf you wish to be a part of the event on the daywe are constantly looking for volunteers tohelp with various aspects of organisation onthe Friday and Saturday. If you are interestedplease get in touch; see contact details below.After the eventI’m sure that the day itself will be like noother, and we will all be inconvenienced insome way or another but I am certain that wewill give the spectators our usual fantasticallywarm Yorkshire welcome and a day toremember so that they choose to visit the areaover the coming years.Finally I hope that you will join me inthanking all those who have helped with allthe preparations, giving up hours or days, toput on an event that we will all remember foryears to come. Here’s to July 5th!

Griff ThomasHHA TDF Committee Chairman

hawestdf@outlook.com 01969 666111

Bainbridge and District Motor ClubRally

A glorious sunny night on Wednesday 18thJune was the perfect weather for the rallywhich was organised by Luke Metcalfe andDave Scarr. This rally was held to raisemoney for Askrigg Playgroup so we appreci-ate the parents that came along to support.

The rally was mainly based around Garsdaleand Dentdale which is true Luke territory! Wealso ventured back into Wensleydale throughGayle and Burtersett before heading back tothe pub; marker boards were very sneakilyplaced on the route round and questions in thevillages were to be answered, most cars man-aged to completed the rally but one did end upin Ingleton and doing approx 30 miles moret h e n t h e y s h o u l d h a v e d o n e !

It was a most enjoyable night and theweather certainly helped. The next rally whichis on the 16th July, will be organised by MikePercival and Chloe Billingham.

Emma Thwaite

Running for CharityMike, Rachel and Stuart Haygarth competedin the City of Manchester 10K on Sunday18th May. They ran for Macmillan CancerSupport, a charity very close to them as Mar-garet, their mother, has recently undergonetreatment for cancer. The support offered byMacmillan to the family has been invaluable.

As others in the race would confess, it wasa blisteringly hot day and not ideal to run intemperatures exceeding 25 degrees! If onlythe city had lived up to its reputation andprovided some much needed rain to coolthem down!

They just wanted to take this opportunityto thank friends and family for all the kindwords of encouragement and support, as wellas the great many donations that have beenreceived.To date, with money already raised andsponsors promised, the total is very near£2000. THANK YOU!

If you wish to donate to this very worthycause, you can still do this byvisiting theirJustGiving page:www.justgiving.com/haygarthfamily10K

To say they have now got the fitness bug isan understatement! Mike is completing inthe Great Manchester Swim on 19th July andMike and Stuart will hopefully be competingin the Birmingham 10K towards the end ofthe year

NSPCCThe NSPCC event will take place in Red-

mire on Saturday 26th July between 2.00and 4.00pm.

There will be stalls and teas.

Tour de France– More Details

Mystery picture. Last month’s was of thelarge house behind Hardraw.

Where are we now?

30 30

Take a SeatIf you have walked through Gayle recently,you may have noticed that a new woodenseat has appeared at the end of thebridge .It has been donated by Gayle La-dies, as was the previous one which hadbecome beyond repair.

Next year is the 50th Anniversary ofGayle Ladies (yes, it really is that long!)and the plan was to replace the seat then,but we recently heard that local retiredjoiner Chris Heseltine had one that wecould buy so decided to replace it this year.

The old seat was well-used by locals andvisitors alike and we’re sure the new onewill be too, whether to rest weary feet,take in the view or just sit and have a natterand put the world to rights!

Brenda Peacock, for Gayle Ladies

Hawes 1st BrowniesTuesday July 8th 6.00 to 7.30pm

Coffee evening, stalls and raffle at theMarket Hall. All welcome

Thornton Rust Village InstituteSaturday and Sunday July 5th and 6th

10.00am to 4.00pmBacon, bangers, beef burgers in baps,

hot and cold drinks; eat in or take away.All welcome

AUDREY STRINGER of ASKRIGG wouldlike to thank all her friends and neighbours fortheir good wishes and kindness to her while in

hospital recently.

Aysgarth GarageNow Recruiting!

- Fully Skilled Mechanics/MOT Testers- Apprentice Mechanic- Part time shop/fuel forecourt assistants

Excellent working conditions andprospects for the right candidates.

Please send full C.V. to:Aysgarth Garage, Aysgarth,Leyburn, DL8 3AD

or email to:oystonautotech@btconnect.com

OFFICE VACANCY (Hawes):Unexpected vacancy for a full-time

Secretary at the Ropeworks. 37.5 hourweek; salary £15,000-£18,000 according toqualifications and experience. Initial enquir-

ies to Peter and Ruth Annison 650349(day or evening).

Cleaner RequiredSt Oswald's Church in Askrigg.

Two hours per week and payment willbe £15. The work can be undertaken at

a time to suit, dependent of course,upon services and church events .For further information, or to apply,please contact the Parish Office on

65080.

Drop-off points and contacts for news, articles, reports, letters, what’s ondates, competition entries, suggestions andcomments: Hawes: Alan S. Watkinson,

Burnside Coach House. 667785

Gayle: Sarah Champion23, Little Ings 667006

Bainbridge: Sylvia Crookes, 3, Bainside 650525

Askrigg: Rima Berry, 8 Mill Lane 650980

Carperby: Margaret Woodcock, Bella Cottage 663488

West Burton: Nadine Bell, Margaret’s Cottage 663559

Aysgarth: Hamilton’s Tearoom 663423 Redmire: see Carperby above Thoralby: Sandra Foley, Shop 663205