ValleyNewsNorth York Moors News, Views and Anecdotes ★ Nº 105 ★ April 2013 ★ £1.50

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★ The Mystery Man from Kildale who went down with the Titanic

★ Holy Moly & The Crackers comes to Danby

★ Confessions of a Ukulele Addict

★ Otter on the Esk!

After a year ofcollaboration betweenCastleton and Glaisdaleprimary schools, a formalconsultation and publicmeetings, the governorsof the two schools tookthe decision to federate inApril (right).The children of Egton CEVA School ll woresomething red orsomething funny on RedNose Day (middle).

(see News from theSchools, page 51)

One hundred years on,the sinking of the WhiteStar line ship Titanic afterit struck an iceberg on itsmaiden voyage, arousesalmost universal interest.One of the people wholost their lives came fromKildale in North Yorkshire.(see Local History, page 2)

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours. Mark Twain

FROM THE EDITORS CONTENTS

Well, Valley News is finally joining the digital

revolution… Thanks to some excellent workshops

for local businesses organised by the National Park

with Susan Briggs of the Tourism Network we now

have plans to ensure that more readers will access

the stories and information provided in Valley

News, including visitors to the Park. We are now

on Twitter (@EskValleyNews) and Facebook

(www.facebook.com/eskvalleynews) and are

developing a dedicated website and e-newsletter.

We can then pull much greater weight in

promoting local businesses.

One sad consequence is that Nicola has had to

give up her co-ordinator role for the Heather

Hopper minibus in order to have more time to

develop our publishing business, but the wonderful

friends and contacts she has made will be

maintained as she will still be a volunteer!

There is much talk of snow and freezing

temperatures, and the lambs are tragically

suffering in surely the worst winter we have

witnessed here since we arrived in 2009. But the

Esk Valley keeps lively – last month Holy Moly and

the Crackers delighted a packed Danby Village Hall

with their ‘If the River Was Whiskey’ performance

(page 10) and in the coming month we look

forward to welcoming back the class act ‘Jump Jive

‘n’ Wail’ at the Esk Valley Theatre’s Spring Dance

(page 12).

Thank you to all for the exciting stories that

bring this area truly alive.

Nicola & Pascal

2 The Mystery Man from Kildale . . .10 Holy Moly and the Crackers comes to Danby11 If the River was Whiskey12 Esk Valley Theatre News13 Noticeboard14 Ammonite Quilters / Dalesmen Singers15 Confessions of a Ukelele Addict20 Local News26 Past News – Storms and Floods27 Esk Valley Flooding 193028 A Moorsholm Diary30 Travel Journal in Australia33 Friends of Abbeyfield – 100 Club33 An Evening of Poetry34 Poets’ Corner39 Gardening Calendar40 Upper Esk Valley Garden Club40 Grosmont Gardening Group41 Farming Report42 Danby Young Farmers42 Nature Notes43 National Park News45 Health Tips49 Trials & Motocross49 Esk Valley Fell Club49 Cricket – 100 Club50 Lealholm Football Club51 News from the Schools54 Esklets Playgroup54 Reports from the WIs56 Coming Events60 Courses/Workshops63 Regular Activities & Services69 Church Diary – At Your Service70 Puzzles & Enigmas71 Local Directory

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Some nine years ago Malcolm Bisby of

Kildale spotted an intriguing news

item in his daily paper concerning the

‘Titanic disaster’. It announced a

forthcoming exhibition in Bradford of

memorabilia relating to the R.M.S.

Titanic* and mentioned four Yorkshire

victims of the maritime tragedy. One of

these was a John Montgomery Smart

from No. 3 Woodend Cottages, Kildale

(now called New Row, Kildale).

Not having a computer at the time,

Malcolm asked his friend, Mr Cedric

Anthony of Kildale, to search the

Internet for further information as

Cedric was already researching and

planning a book on the history of

Kildale. Sadly, Cedric died of cancer

before he could complete his project but

his wife Valerie has since edited and

published his work. The book, Glimpses

of Kildale History, is available, price £15,

from Mrs Joan Scott, 77 The Stripe,

Stokesley (01642 710592) – all proceeds

to Cuthbert’s Church, Kildale.

This story of the mystery man of

Kildale – a victim of the Titanic disaster

– is taken from the book with kind

permission of Mrs Scott:

One hundred years on, the great

maritime catastrophe, the sinking of the

White Star line ship Titanic after it struck

an iceberg on its maiden voyage, arouses

almost universal interest. At an exhibition

in Bradford in January 2004 about the

tragic event, the display material showed

that four people who lost their lives came

from Yorkshire. One of these was stated to

be John Montgomery Smart, 56, from

Kildale in North Yorkshire, who gave his

address as 3 Woodend Cottages (now

known as New Row), Kildale, via Grosmont

(the post came to Kildale by train from

Grosmont for many years), York.

This address immediately aroused

interest and intrigue as to how someone

living in a very small terraced cottage could

afford to travel to New York on the maiden

voyage of this great ship. What is more, he

travelled first class on a ticket costing

£26.11s! Was he a companion of a wealthy

widow? Had he won the money in a bet?

How could this situation be explained?

LOCAL HISTORY

The Mystery Man from Kildalewho went down with the Titanic

*R.M.S. Titanic = Royal Mail Ship Titanic

▲ New Row, Kildale

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Thanks to the Internet, and in particular

a useful site known as Encyclopaedia

Titanica, some of the answers have

emerged. It seems that John M. Smart was

an American citizen from New Jersey –

though some of his friends believed he

came from Massachusetts – and had

become President of the American Cold

Storage and Shipping Company. He was a

widower, whose wife had died about 1902,

and he lived in the Victoria Hotel in New

York where he conducted his business. He

regularly travelled to England where his

company had set up distribution depots

for frozen food for the English market. He

was obviously a far-sighted individual, a

real entrepreneur. This was early in the

time when frozen meat was being shipped

across the world from countries like

Argentina and cold storage of foodstuffs

became very important. Seizing this

opportunity, one might say he was Smart

by name and smart by nature.

On this occasion it is reported that he

had been visiting England to see his two

children, George aged 20 and Annie aged

18. They had been sent to Europe for

their education when their mother had

died, as John Smart had told various

people that he wanted them to learn

several languages by actually living in

various European countries.

Several of his acquaintances recall him

talking about his children though it

seems that no one had actually met them

in person. It is said he sent a parcel to

them on one occasion and told a fellow

traveller that he had visited them in

London just before embarking on the

Titanic to return to New York.

On his fateful journey, John Smart

occupied a first class cabin, number

113792, and this was probably on Deck E.

His colleague, a commercial lawyer by the

name of Frederick Kimber Seward,

occupied cabin 113794, next door but one. ▶

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They actually booked their passage

separately as Smart had been away in

England for some weeks whereas Seward

had made a short visit and was surprised

to meet Smart on board. Seward knew

John Smart as ‘Jim’ and his friends also

called him by that name and thought that

he was called James. This added to the

mystery later on.

One wonders whether this enterprising

individual had emigrated from Kildale to

seek his fortune in the United States, and

then taken American citizenship. No

information about him has been found in

the Census of the time, but it does reveal

who the occupants of 3 New Row cottages

were: the 1911 Census shows that William

Smart, head of the household, aged 68

and born in 1843, was a retired

Commercial Clerk, born at Wingate

Colliery in Co. Durham. His wife Sarah

Smart, who had been married to him for

46 years, was born in Great Ayton in

1839. There is no mention of anyone else

residing there on the day of the Census.

The fact that William and Sarah Smart

were living in one of the mining cottages

suggests that he might have worked in a

clerical capacity for the Whinstone

mining company in Kildale, but this is

merely supposition. William continued to

live at the same address till the 1920s,

when he would have been in his late

seventies. Nobody by the name of Smart

appears in the Kildale Burial Register so

it is likely that William and Sarah moved

away from Kildale before they died. There

is also no mention of the name Smart in

Kildale Baptism or Marriage registers. To

date, no information has been found

about the twenty or so years they spent at

New Row.

The fact that John M. Smart gave their

address as his home implies some sort of

relationship; perhaps he was William’s

younger brother, as he was born in or

around 1856, thirteen years after William?

On April 14th1912, the Titanic sank. The

lawyer Seward was saved by swimming to

an overturned lifeboat and was then

picked up by the Carinthia together with

other survivors; he died in 1943. John M.

Smart was not so fortunate. His body was

probably lost at sea, along with 1,533

other lives. There is no record of his

burial in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where

others were buried, so either the body

was not identifiable or more probably it

was never recovered.

Because he lived in a hotel in New York,

he was accustomed to taking all his

personal papers with him in a trunk when

he was travelling, and it seems from

Frederick Seward’s statement that the

trunk was in Smart’s cabin during the

voyage. After the shipwreck this trunk

was lost and there were no means of

knowing the whereabouts of his children

or any means of contact. The only address

was that of William Smart in Kildale.

When lawyers tried to trace the relatives,

they drew a blank although they went to

great lengths to discover them.

From the implication of his prestigious

title of ‘President’ of the American Cold

Storage and Shipping Company, it might

be thought that Mr Smart was a wealthy

man. Estimates of his wealth at the time

were put between $20,000 and

$100,000, so several lawyers set

themselves the task of finding his next of

kin. His assets in England only amounted

to £134.17s.9d and he had also inherited

his late wife’s money which he kept in

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trust for his children, not spending a cent

of it himself. A search for a Will resulted

in one being found dated 1897, which

named two people living in Melbourne,

Australia, as recipients: Jeremiah

Twomey, who was to have one third of his

assets, and Annie Frances Brown, who

was to have two-thirds. The signature on

this was disputed because it was shown

as ‘John’, although he was known by all

his acquaintances as ‘Jim’ and in fact the

signature may well have been valid. The

genuineness of the Will was questioned

because no one knew of the two

individuals in Australia. Mr Smart may

well have made a later will in favour of his

children and perhaps even his relatives in

Kildale, but it would have been lost at sea

if it was with all his other papers.

However the main search was for his

two children ‘somewhere in Europe’. The

investigation was led by a lawyer Frank J.

Ryan, who had known Mr Smart in the

Victoria Hotel for more than ten years

and had heard him talk about his family.

The situation was publicised and two

children were found in Belgium who were

at first thought to be Mr Smart’s heirs,

but later they was discredited. It was

thought by some lawyers that George and

Annie may well have had sufficient

means from their mother’s estate to live

independently and may have deliberately

chosen not to make a claim because of all

the publicity in the newspapers. Others

postulated that there never had been any

children despite Mr Smart’s references to

them. A porter at the Hotel said he had

posted a parcel to them at one time but

could not recall the address. In the

meantime, many creditors came forward

to be paid and the legal fees mounted

rapidly. The valuation of John Smart’s

estate dwindled to less than £10,000 and

eventually the 1897 Will was ratified by

the Court.

The New York Times’ headlines for

several weeks in 1913 and 1914 were

taken up by the mystery of this man:

‘Partner says Smart didn’t sign the Will’

. . . ‘Starts new search for Smart

children’ . . . ‘Titanic Victim’s Estate’ . . .

‘Seek the children of the Titanic victim’

. . . There are still people studying the

Titanic disaster who speculate about who

he was and why the children were

apparently never found. One wonders

whether anyone contacted William and

Sarah Smart in Kildale to assist with their

enquiries. A hundred years after the

shipwreck, there are many questions still

to be answered.◼

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Through rural arts, based in Thirsk,

we try and book acts once or twice a

year to perform at Danby Village Hall.

Without their sponsorship of these events

it would be very difficult to afford what

are very professional performers.

This year we were lucky in booking Holy

Moly and the Crackers to perform on

Friday 8 March. Keeping tickets to the

minimum price allowed (£6 adults, £3

children) we attracted our best audience to

date. As usual the evening was advertised

as bring your own drink and food which

always adds to the atmosphere.

Over 100 people were treated to a

brilliant performance by young talented

musicians and singers who, with a

medley of original songs, told a story of a

man with a love affair of whiskey. This

seemed to strike a chord with some of the

audience judging by their reaction!

With ticket sales and a great response

to the raffle we managed to make almost

£400 on the evening.

Why travel miles to the theatre when

you can see this class of act on your

doorstep at very low prices.

Look out in Valley News for the next

act hopefully later in the year.◼

Les Underwood

Danby Village Hall Secretary

RuRAL ARTS

Holy Moly and the Crackerscomes to Danby

© Lauren Stone

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DANbY VIllAgE HAll, 8 MARCH 2013

We arrived in Danby early afternoon. We’d

been winding and bumping our way down

from Newcastle in a 1953 Land Rover. The

rain hadn’t been long gone and the mist

was rising from the hedges. The silence of

the countryside was immense. This was a

long way off from our usual stomping

grounds – the rowdy clubs we play up on

the banks of the Tyne.

We had travelled down to perform our

show If the River was Whiskey in Danby

Village hall as part of Rural Arts OnTour.

We were welcomed by Les Underwood

who introduced us to the very impressive

stage – red theatre curtains, lovely wooden

panelling, a trap door, and a green room …

it could almost have been the Albert Hall.

We spent the afternoon setting up and

sound checking, only to be interrupted by

an invasion of sheep, who stormed the

village green. We panicked, running

around the village like headless chickens in

an attempt to warn the inhabitants of

these shaggy marauders. We were quickly,

and with a certain amount of ‘dear me, it’s

the city folk’, reassured that the farmers

regularly brought the herd off the hills in

bad weather. On with the sound check.

Later, Les brought down homemade

cottage pie and a bottle of wine. Smiles

around the table widened.

And then the crowd started tumbling in.

The show itself is inspired by Americana

folk/oldtime/blues music and the story-

telling tradition that comes with it: an

evening of lively music, tall tales and hard

liquor, a collision of rowdy music, dancing,

storytelling and drinking. It is the story of

Willy O’Connell whose love affair with

whiskey leads him away from home and into

the path of malt soaked Scots, wild women

and old American moonshiners. And in

similar style the performance turns out to be

an absolute hoot; plenty of whiskey

guzzling, foot stomping and hat flinging.

The crowd were both attentive and

interactive, giving back as much as we threw

at them. It was an absolute pleasure and an

honour to perform in front of such a grand

bunch of people. What really sticks with you

is the awesome sense of community. To be

welcomed, fed, accommodated and cheered

on, to give back in performance what you

are handed in hospitality.

The role of Rural Arts OnTour is vital in

sending out troupes to the countryside.

Being a North Yorkshire boy myself, my

first memories of performances are from

my local village hall, put on by Rural Arts

and similar organisations. It is what first

interested me in the stage, and I hope our

show will have similar effect.

Holy Moly and the Crackers plan to

continue working with Rural Arts and

developing If the River was Whiskey. There

are plans to take it north to Edinburgh and

south to London. Look to the road, we’re sure

to be passing by, a-hooting and a-hollering.

Thank you to Rural Arts and Alex Wright

at Flanagan Collective for putting us on tour,

Danby Village and especially Les for making

us so welcome, to Chris for driving us and

making us sound much better than we

should be, and all who turned up to listen to

our tale of love, loss and a heck of a lot of

whiskey. We raise our glasses to you all! •

HOLY MOLY AND THE CRACKERS

(Conrad, Ruth, Rosie, Ash, Andy, Henry)

If THE RIVER wAs wHIsKEY

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Danby Village Hall, Saturday

20th April, 8pm! The venue, date

and time for another great night of music

and dancing with the fabulous ‘Jump,

Jive ‘n’ Wail’. Last time they came the

joint was really jumpin’! The band will

once again be playing music from the

1930s 40s and 50s, giving people the

chance to dance a variety of Ballroom

styles throughout the night.

Doors open at 7.30 pm, and for those

who want it, there will be an Easy Jive

Lesson at 8 pm with some Lindy Hop and

Jitter Bug steps thrown in! Why not come

along and enjoy a dance to this great band,

or if dancing isn’t your thing, sit back and

enjoy the music. 1940s dress is optional,

but encouraged, so if you want to add to

the mood why not hunt out something

appropriate? There will be a licensed bar

and the Friends of EVT will be providing

their famous ration bag supper.

Tickets cost £12 (including ration bag

supper) and are available from Danby

Shop, or by calling the EVT Box Office on

01947 897587.

Looking ahead, and keeping in the

1940s mood, we have the return of the

fabulous Pocket Panto Company, who

will be bringing their daft and hugely

entertaining show Bless ’Em All to the

Robinson Institute, Glaisdale, on

Saturday 11 May at 7.30 pm.

If you missed them last time, this is

your chance to catch their crazy show

with some great songs and comedy

routines. They may be small, but they

pack a punch!

Tickets cost £10 and are available from

the EVT Box Office on 01947 897587.

Please check the EVT website for

details of all forthcoming events

and shows. Go to www.eskvalley

theatre.co.uk.

You can also follow us on

Facebook.

fund Raising AuctionEsk Valley Theatre would like to thank

everyone who donated a promise and

supported their Auction of Promises on

Saturday 2 March. It was a huge success

and raised £2,290 for the theatre.◼

ESK VALLEY THEATRE NEWS

Esk Valley Theatre springDance

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The Robinson Institute was packed with a

crowd all keen to support Esk Valley Theatre

and to pick up one of the fantastic lots on

offer at the Auction of Promises. Once again

we were impressed by the generosity of

those who had pledged a wide range of lots.

We had our eye on a walking stick, made by

the stick man himself, Gordon Flintoft, and

won a hard fought battle for it. We also

admired beautiful patchwork, photographs

and hampers, and successfully bid on a meal

for two at the Postgate, Egton. Rob Smith

did not disappoint as auctioneer, providing a

one man show better than stand up at the

Edinburgh festival. Resplendent in his smart

attire and colourful tie, Rob used his

knowledge of local people to great

appreciation and comic effect. We were

painlessly relieved of our cash and had a very

enjoyable night out. Another successful

event for EVT! •Karen Ritson

OUR EVENINg AT THE AUCTION Of PROMIsEs

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we began meeting at Sleights Village

Hall in 1999 and now have a

flourishing membership of more than

twenty ladies. Through the years we have

taken part in various group projects, as

well as following our own interests. While

some people make large, bed-size quilts

others prefer to make smaller, quicker

projects such as baby-quilts, bags and

cushions. Different aspects of quilt-

making appeal to different people. For

some, the attraction lies in the design

process, others enjoy seeing their quilt

take shape as they stitch the pieces

together by hand or machine, or maybe it

is the intricate quilting that proves to be

‘the icing on the cake’.

We hold a Quilt Show every couple of

years, when we enjoy meeting visitors

and fellow-quilters over coffee and home-

made cakes. The money we raise at these

events is donated to local charities, which

helps to strengthen our bonds to the

community in which we live.

Our next Quilt Show will be held in

Sleights Village Hall on April 27. ◼

KATHRYN JONESFORTHCOMING EVENTS

Ammonite Quilters

AfTER A COlD, harsh winter, it is time to

forget the long, dark nights and come

along and enjoy a lively evening of music

and song as The Dalesmen Singers’ Male

Voice Choir shake off the cobwebs for their

first performance of the year on Saturday

13 April at 7 30 pm, held in a beautiful

part of the world at Chopgate Village Hall.

All proceeds are to go to St John’s and

St Hilda’s, Bilsdale.

For more information check the website

www.dalesmensingers.net or ring John

Haywood on 01947 605135. New members

for Dalesmen are always welcome. Pop

along to rehearsals at Danby Methodist

Chapel every Tuesday, 7.30 pm. •

THE DAlEsMEN sINgERs john watson

See photos page 35

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My name is Caroline Robson and I

am a ukulele addict. I’m not alone.

There are thousands of us. The little

instrument is growing in popularity all

the time but way back in the 1920s and

30s it was the instrument of choice. It

was only the rise of Rock and Roll and the

guitar that pushed it into

the shadows. Now it’s

back but there are many

who have been faithful

to the uke throughout

these dark years!

Unfortunately I am

not one of them. I am a

relative newcomer

having bought a nice

wooden uke in June

2011. I taught myself a

few chords and was

hooked. However, the

story doesn’t end there.

In November 2011, I happened to see a

BBC documentary called ‘Skinner on

Formby’. Frank Skinner, a keen uke

player, telling the story of one of the

biggest British stars of the twentieth

century – George Formby. I’d always had

a soft spot for George. I remember

watching his films as a child but I had

never really taken a lot of notice of his

music. In fact I’m not even sure I realised

that the thing he played that looked like

a banjo was in fact a ukulele. Frank

Skinner opened my eyes to the skill and

mastery of George Formby but better

still, he introduced me to The George

Formby Society. Here were some of those

people who had been playing the uke for

years. But they weren’t all old people.

There were kids and teenagers too.

After watching the programme I went

out the very next day

and bought myself a

banjo ukulele. The first

one I saw because, to be

honest, unless you know

where to look, you don’t

see many. That was my

first mistake. I got it

home and although it

was really heavy I

managed to get a tune

out of it and went onto

YouTube where I

discovered lots of tuition

videos by a young chap

called Peter Nixon. I taught myself the

split stroke. Now I was starting to sound

a bit like Formby. However I wasn’t

happy with the plastic head (the skin) on

the banjo uke so I took the whole thing to

pieces. I bought myself a calfskin vellum

and an instructional DVD from the

Formby Society shop and had a go at

putting it on. This was my second

mistake. I made a reasonable job of it but

I didn’t quite get it right and I couldn’t get

it tight enough. So with the March George

Formby Convention rapidly approaching

CAROLINE RObSONTHE GEORGE FORMbY SOCIETY

Confessions of a UkuleleAddict

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I sent it away to a banjo maker and he

sorted it all out for me. It arrived back

two days before my first pilgrimage to

Blackpool.

Off I went, to the Imperial Hotel. I

walked into the Lancastrian Suite in the

Imperial Hotel and was greeted by a

cacophony of noise. Talking, laughing . . .

but mostly people playing ukuleles.

Everywhere I looked there were people

smiling or giving each other a hug. I was

a bit overawed at first but after a shaky

start I started to enjoy myself. I went to

the beginners’ lesson and got some top

tips from the President, enjoyed the

concerts and the famous thrash where

everyone gets up and plays together. But

the weekend was over far too soon. I

made a few new friends and realised what

a bad move I’d made buying this modern

banjo uke. Although it sounded lots

better after the professional set up on it,

it was big and bulky and far too heavy for

me to hold. So I started to make enquiries

about what I should go for. The Formby

Society members are probably the most

friendly people I have ever met. It is a

cliché but it is very much like a big family

and they seek out newcomers and make

them feel so welcome. So I knew that

when I bought my next uke I would have

the benefit of their experience.

In the meantime I was still playing my

wooden ukes – yes, I had another one by

then. A tiny little pocket uke. It is a thing

of beauty bought especially for a trip to

the Algarve by rail. I couldn’t face a week

without a uke!

June soon came around and it was time

for Blackpool again – conventions are

held four times a year. I had agreed to

buy a 1928 Gibson UB2 from one of the

members and I got it just before the

convention. What a difference. The sound

was superb and the way it was built and

set up improved my playing instantly.

This time when I got to Blackpool I hit the

ground running! I went to the beginners’

lesson again but this time I also went to

the Up and Comers’ lesson with my new

Gibson and my little pocket uke. This is a

lesson for people who have never been on

stage before and the Chairman of the

Society gives advice on stature, how to set

the mike, where to look, etc. They have a

microphone set up and anyone who

wants to have a go can do so in front of

the others who have come for the lesson.

I did a song and it went down so well that

the Chairman suggested I go on the big

stage later that night. I was panic-stricken

but so wanted to do it. The time came and

I’m afraid to say that nerves did affect my

performance but I did it. I’ve been on

stage at every convention since and the

nerves do still get to me, particularly

when I attempt any Formby songs. That’s

another thing that surprises people – we

don’t just sing wall to wall Formby. Some

concerts are Formby only but we get a

whole range of music played on banjo

ukes and wooden ukes. So since June I

have acquired another Gibson ukulele

and an old banjo uke that I am restoring.

I got a lovely semi-acoustic concert for

Christmas and bought myself a cheap

little Vintage soprano uke which I just

have to hand at home. Someone once

asked Frank Skinner how many ukuleles

he needed. ‘Just one more’ was the reply.

I’ve just had another fantastic weekend

at Blackpool for the first convention of

2013. It was packed and an absolute

cracker. More new youngsters that make

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it look all so easy! I was on stage twice

and ended my final performance with a

rendition of ‘Whistle for the Choir’ by The

Fratellis that went really well.

So the ukulele and The George Formby

Society really have changed my life for the

better. I must also give a mention to the

other half, my (soon to be) Long Suffering

Husband who always accompanies me to

Blackpool even though he says he doesn’t

really enjoy it. I think he does though – all

that smiling is contagious!

As George would say ‘Turned out nice

again’. ◼

THE NExT Grosmont George Formby Day

will be held at the Grosmont Crossing Club

on Saturday 27 April. We will have a

meet and greet and a Free and Easy

concert in the afternoon starting at 3 pm

until about 6 pm. In the evening we shall

reconvene at 7.30 pm and have a Formby

based concert. The club will be open from

2.30 pm and will remain open throughout

the day for those who wish to stay. Food

can be pre-ordered – please contact

caroline.robson@rocketmail.com if you

would like to come along. •

gROsMONT gEORgE fORMbY DAY

▲ The first mistake. ▲ The Gibsons.

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MRs AlIsON wAlsH, a parent whoorganises Glaisdale Playgroup’s recyclingcollections with the recyclingorganisation TerraCycle, has arranged forWhitby Library to house a collection boxfor coffee packaging waste.

The majority of coffee packaging wasteends up in landfill as local councils don’thave the infrastructure to recycle mixedplastics. However, this waste is recyclable,prompting coffee brand Kenco to partnerwith TerraCycle to set up the CoffeePackaging Brigade with an initial 100location spaces available across the UK.The aim is to enable local communitiessuch as Whitby to save as much coffeepackaging waste from local landfill to berecycled, whilst raising money for goodcauses. The coffee packaging waste will berecycled into generic plastic products.

Mrs Walsh commented: ‘It is great thatthe people of Whitby will be one of thefirst communities in the UK to be able torecycle their coffee packaging waste. TwoTerraCycle points are earned for theweight of each coffee packaging unit thatis returned, with each point beingredeemable for a one pence contribution.

‘The money raised will be split equallybetween Glaisdale Playgroup and St Hedda’sRC Primary School who will use it for craftmaterials, play sand and playgroundequipment. The aim is not only to save asmuch coffee packaging waste from landfillas possible but also to raise as much aspossible for both Glaisdale Playgroup and St Hedda’s RC Primary School.

‘Please drop off your waste coffee refillbags, coffee bean bags, single servingcoffee sachets and coffee jar lids to thecollection box at Whitby Library, WindsorTerrace (9.30–5.00 Mon, Thur, Fri; 9.30–7.00 Tue; 10.00–1.00 Sat) and tell all yourfriends and family to do the same.’

Mrs Walsh has also said that forconvenience locals may prefer to bring theircoffee packaging to Glaisdale playgroup(Mon and Fri, 9 am–12 noon) or to theCommunity Library at St Hedda’s, EgtonBridge (Tue and Wed, 3.15–5.15 pm), fromwhere it will be taken to the Whitbycollection box. ◼For more information about the Coffee Packaging

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local News

Recycle Coffee Packaging and Raise local funds

▲ Alison Walsh (left) and Marion Young. 

◀ A recycledpark bench,watering can andwaste bin thatcan be madefrom coffeepackaging wastesaved fromlandfill. 

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women’s world Day of Prayer service

IT wAs THE TURN of Our Lady of the SacredHeart RC Church in Lealholm to host theannual Women’s World Day of Prayerservice, held on 1 March. This year theservice was devised by the Christianwomen of France and attended by peoplefrom the Upper Esk Valley and beyond,representing all the various denominations.The altar looked splendid, decorated withthe national flag of France and flowersrepresenting that country. The theme thisyear was about welcoming strangers intoour lives and the meditation was in theform of an excellent homily exploring thissubject by Thelma Hobday.

The weather was kind on the dayresulting in a good attendance. All presentenjoyed the stories, prayers and readingsinvolving many of the congregation and

joined in with the specially chosen musicand hymns led by Mary Smith on theorgan. After the service all were invited toshare friendship and light refreshmentsin the Ley Hall.

Thanks to Mary and her committee forensuring the success of another specialday in the Christian calendar.◼

Ann Bowes

lealholm shop

JUsT A QUICK NOTE to our friends andcustomers to thank them for the gifts andcards we received at our gathering tomark ten years at the shop. It was lovely

to see so many people having a goodtime. Thank you for your support. ◼

Gareth & Sally

Egton ladies’ group

Sheila Macdonald welcomed BrianNellist as guest speaker at our Marchmeeting. It was a fascinating afternoonwatching slides of the local countryside,animals and birds. He told his audienceabout their habits and character,demonstrating his vast depth ofknowledge and patience in photo-graphing them. Sheila Macdonald gavethe vote of thanks on behalf of an

appreciative audience. The Group wasvery pleased to welcome Julie Walker asa new member.

On 3 April Giles Heron will speak about‘Farming with Mary’ in Egton Village Hallat 2 pm. This will be an open meeting andany lady or gentleman who would like tocome along will be most welcome. If anylady would like to join the Group they willalso be most welcome. ◼

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Whitby Gazette

20th November 1875

sUNDAY wAs A DAY of almost continual

downpour and many cellars and houses

with low lying kitchens were flooded. The

wind was a regular gale across the bridge

at Whitby and many females attempting

to cross were blown violently against the

railings.

On the railway all up the valley of the

Esk, the bridges have been severely tried

with the floods, and many fields were

submerged. Grosmont bridge is seriously

damaged by the water rushing over the

road and washing away to the foundation

a dozen yards of walling. The retaining

walls of a bridge, three quarters of a mile

west of Castleton station, were washed

away, leaving the fish-jointed rails

suspended across the stream. Fortunately

it was seen before the train time and the

necessary precautions were taken to

prevent an accident. The trains could not

pass on Monday; the Stockton and

Whitby trains met at the broken bridge

and exchanged passengers who had to

walk over the gap caused by the

demolished bridge. A large staff of

workmen from York was promptly on the

spot, and the bridge was soon

temporarily repaired for the traffic of the

line to pass over.

Owing to the heavy rains, there has

been a gradual subsidence of many

thousand tons of earth at the top of

Henrietta Street. On Sunday evening

there was a large body of water standing

in the basin formed by previous landslips,

and for this water there was no visible

means of outlet to the ocean immediately

below. However the weight of the water

was too great to be long confined in that

position, and by the slipping of the land

it has found an outlet and disappeared

into the sea, carrying with it many tons of

earth.

On Wednesday morning the early

luggage train, which carries the mail bags

to Whitby, was followed from York by a

special train conveying men and material

for the repair of the bridge, which has

been washed away three-quarters of a

mile west of Castleton station. The

luggage train had stopped at Goathland

for water when the special train ran into

it, damaging and throwing off the line the

break van and two or three wagons, but

fortunately injuring no one in either

train.

The engine with the mail was able to

proceed after a brief detention, and on

information reaching Whitby, Mr. Edward

Laws, locomotive superintendent, proceeded

with a tool van and a staff of men to the

scene of the accident. He and Mr.

Ingham, Grosmont station master, then

made arrangements for working one line

so that there was no interruption of the

passenger traffic while the down line was

being cleared.

The storms and floods

SELECTED BY TAMSYN NAYLORpAST NEWS

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EsK VAllEY flOODINg 1930

These pictures were taken around

Glaisdale and Egton Bridge in 1930. If you

have any photographs or stories of floods

in the area to share with readers please

phone 01947 897945 or email:

valleynews@basementpress.com. Thank

you to Dorothy Pearl (née White) for

informing us that one of the photos of Limber

Hill shown last month may have been taken

by her grandfather Joseph Readman. •

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On 25 February 2013 Mrs Norma

Anker passed away at her home in

Moorsholm after a courageous fight

against a long and complicated illness.

Born Norma Liddell in 1942 she had

retired back to Moorsholm some years

ago with husband David at the end of his

distinguished career as a professional

huntsman which spanned 41 seasons,

serving at some of the most prominent

‘Hunts’ in the country from the Cleveland

to the Cheshire, then Sinnington and as

far south as South Nottingham and South

Wold. On 7 March St Mary’s Parish

Church was packed when close on 300

people came from far and wide to pay

their respects and say ‘goodbye’ to

Norma, a clear indication of the high

renown and popularity in which they

were held.

Norma is survived by husband David,

daughter Fay, son Kevin and

granddaughter Kelly and our thoughts

are with them.

In the early 1900s three brothers from

Moorsholm acquired an enviable

reputation as stonemasons and builders

of distinction across East Cleveland and

the Esk Valley. They not only constructed

a number of houses in this village and

surrounding neighbourhood but at the

pinnacle of their career they completed

the monumental construction of the

Church of St Michael and St George,

Castleton, in 1926. They were Bob, Jack

and Tom Liddell, sons of Frank Liddell, a

Pickering stonemason who migrated to

Moorsholm in the late nineteenth

century. Norma was the granddaughter

of Jack Liddell and John Liddell, now of

Castleton, was the son of the youngest of

that building trio, Tom. Small wonder

that John in his time has distinguished

himself as a local craftsman also.

On the Eve of Spring I journeyed across

the Castleton Moor to visit John and his

wife Audrey at their home in Castleton,

high above the beautiful Danby Dale, to

talk about Norma and her renowned

ancestors. As the many visitors to the

idyllic North Yorkshire Moors pass

through the Esk Valley, few will realise

that much of the architecture, like the

impressive Parish Church at Castleton,

was the work of local artisans, often self-

trained and from farming stock. This area

became the home of the Liddell family,

who originated from Pickering to the

south, when their father Mr Frank Liddell

migrated to Cleveland during the

ironstone mining boom of the nineteenth

century. Next time you pass the Parish

Church at Castleton you may think it well

worth pausing and marvelling at the

original work of local people, often

trained only through experience and

without the sophisticated tools and

equipment of modern times.

As I sat with John and Audrey that

afternoon of 19 March, there was a cold

KEN GILLANCEA MOORSHOLM DIARY

On the Eve of spring, winterPersists

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grey ‘winter’ sky overhead but on the

ground a stunning view south to the high

undulating ridge of Rosedale Moor

stretching west over Blakey Ridge and

beyond towards Farndale and

Westerdale. Another of the five parish

Churches of the Danby Benefice, that of

St Hilda, was visible in that distinctive

Yew Tree plantation close to Botton

Village. On the highland separating this

Dale from Fryup Dale the odd vehicle

could be seen creeping across from the

direction of the Millennium Stone near

the route to Rosedale. Those ancient

glaciers, well written about by Peter

Woods and vividly described in the final

chapter of ‘The Floating Egg’ (by Roger

Osborne), left a legacy of

enchanting beauty. This view

must be unsurpassed by any

in the North of England.

As we talked a Common

Buzzard appeared above the

northern edge of the valley

just in front of us. For over

an hour we had a spectacular

view of this hunting bird of

prey, the most common of

our larger raptors. Soaring

on the chill wind in a shallow

‘V’ then pausing and

hovering, supported on

vibrating wings with dark

head tucked in and an ever

watchful eye on the heath

below. This bird was driven

by hunger and the slightest

movement below would

register – no movement

would evade it. These birds

can spot a beetle from great

height. A clear sign of this

was its constant diving, perhaps towards

some creature frozen in fear of death –

we were unable to see as it plummeted

out of our view. The scene was

reminiscent of Gerald Manley Hopkins’

poetic description of ‘The Kestrel’ –

‘Elegant but deadly’.

All this framed against a wintry scene

with the snow-capped moors to the south

and a backdrop, beneath this graceful

bird, of copper toned bracken slopes

tinged with indigo in the late afternoon

light. What better place to be, what more

delightful view to see on this the eve

of Spring, despite the ‘sting in Winter’s

tail’?◼

20 March 2013

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Our Flight From Manchester was

delayed by one and a half hours

because of having to de-ice the aeroplane

wings. We arrived at Melbourne airport on

Tuesday morning, 15 January to warm

sun, then travelled three hours by train to

the town of Sale in an area called

Gippsland, where our daughter and

grandchildren greeted us and drove us to

their home, 15 minutes away in the small

town of Stratford on Avon.

The State of Victoria has had the

hottest and driest summer in living

memory – no rain of any significance

since October. Everywhere was sun burnt

dry and brown apart from land that had

been irrigated. There was a complete fire

ban. During all the time we were in

Australia we had five minutes of rain on

one night. Only the odd day was a bit

overcast, otherwise it was sunny with

temperatures of around 30 degrees

Centigrade or just above.

On our third day a big bush fire started

about 15 or 20 miles away with smoke

coming our way for several days. This fire

burnt over 40 thousand hectares of bush

and grassland, destroyed 22 homes and

caused one death. It was started by a

garden fire.

The first farming paper I bought had a

familiar ring to it: a photo of around 200

dairy farmers at a meeting protesting

over the price the supermarkets were

paying for milk. The troubles had begun

two years earlier, when we were also

visiting Australia. Coles supermarket had

dropped the shelf price of milk whilst

maintaining that the price to farmers

would remain unchanged, but by the time

we left the other supermarkets had

followed suit and lowered their shelf milk

prices but had also lowered their prices to

the farms.

Australia exports large quantities of

produce to India and China, including

dairy products, but because of the strong

Australian dollar against the weaker

currencies, the demand for these

products was reduced, adding to farmers’

woes.

The same was true of the livestock

market. This year the prices received for fat

and store cattle and lambs has fallen

because of the export markets, compared

to two years ago when every part of the

livestock market enjoyed record prices –

suckler cows and breeding stock, store

cattle to be grown on for beef, all sections

of sheep for breeding and for growing on

JEAN & TOMMY LISTER, GLAISDALETRAVEL JOuRNAL

Reflections on our Holidayin Australia, January/february 2013We left the UK on sunday evening, 13 January, the day it started tosnow.

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▲ Indian pacific train

for mutton. The low demand for livestock

this year is partly due to the shortage of

grass; the early summer has been good for

silage and hay but these reserves are now

needed to feed the existing animals.

Further north in New South Wales and

Queensland another reason for the lower

demand for cattle is the extensive

flooding. Buyers of cattle for the big feed

lots are currently unable to buy to keep up

their numbers because of conditions in

and around the feed lots. A friend of Karen

and Angus took me to a cattle market in

the town of Bairnsdale – which proved to

be a very interesting morning out. There

were about 300 store cattle and suckler

cows to sell; the animals were placed in

pens and the auctioneer sold from a gantry

above. Overall, the prices could have been

better but they reflected the poor

conditions already mentioned.

We also heard about recent changes to

the Australian health service – which

again sounded familiar! Hospital bed

closures, staff reductions in laboratories

and longer waiting times for test results.

All intended to save money.

Our first two weeks were mostly spent

looking after our three grandchildren

because it was their long summer school

holidays. After our time with the family we

travelled on the Indian Pacific train from

Adelaide to Perth for a once in a lifetime

experience. The journey took two nights

and one day, arriving in Perth at 9 am on

the Saturday morning. We left Adelaide in

darkness and awoke on the Friday

morning to see that we were travelling

through scrub and bush. Three or four

hours later we were travelling through

desert, and after another three or four

hours we were back to scrub and bush. We

saw the very occasional property and one

isolated landing strip. We awoke on the

Saturday morning to see farmland, mostly

with grown wheat or barley. As we

approached Perth the land became rugged

and we were back to trees and bush. We

enjoyed some very good meals on the train

and met some very interesting people,

most of whom had been to the UK.

Our five days in Perth were very warm

with 37 degrees Centigrade on our last

day. The time we spent in Perth was made

more interesting and enjoyable because

we were staying with Ella Coverdale’s

grandson who drove us around and

recommended places of interest.◼

Wikimed

ia Commons

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Agroup oF poets and poetry lovers

gathered in Glaisdale on 26

February and spent the evening reading

each other favourite poems from

published poets or work they had written.

That bald statement does not begin to

do credit to what was a stimulating, funny

and at times moving evening. It seems

unlikely that bringing together of a very

diverse group – some who had never met

before and with ages ranging from eight

to ninety – in front of a warm fire would

result in such a very special occasion. The

only explanation is that each had taken

considerable trouble to find a poem

which they loved and then introduced it

with a few words as to why it was

important to them, with the added joy of

original work read by the poets, really

worked in a surprising way. It created an

evening long to be remembered.

Those attending decided to repeat the

evening and would welcome any others

who feel they might like to join in,

whether they be poetry lovers or poets.

Another evening was fixed for 26 March

at The Cottage in Glaisdale. If you would

like to come to future evenings please let

Giles Heron (01947 897691) or Neil

Davidson (01947 897188) know so we

have some idea of numbers.

It was also decided that there would be

a separate writers’ group for the poets

who attended. This would be an occasion

when each poet would bring a poem for

the group to look at, discuss, and

hopefully make suggestions as to how the

poem could be improved. Poets meet in

this way throughout the country and,

given the quality of written work brought

to the Poetry Evening, it was felt that this

could be very helpful. It has the double

benefit that you can discuss poems in

detail with the writers and also have

others look at your own writing. If you

have written poetry (of whatever

standard) and feel this might be

enjoyable or valuable (hopefully both!) do

contact Neil at the above number and he

can give you details.◼

pOETRY / NEW WRITING

An Evening of Poetry

97 Audrey Foster £10137 Lyn Van Der Lee £1012 Daniel Trousdale £590 Michelle Watson £5

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ADVICE TO A gRANDsON

I see you, small, running alone across an empty beach,

jumping big breakers holding on my hands,

then finding treasure-pebbles in the wave wet sands,

knowing there is no lesson I could teach.

Soon you will be too big and I’ll be older,

nothing of this day will then remain –

my carrying you upon my shoulder

and you wanting to “jump the sea again” –

all beyond your grown memory’s reach

save this: save only this, that you will know

from the deep waters, something beyond speech,

when I am still, below, and you above,

that you were carried high and safe by love.

To Liam

Saltburn-on-Sea, 3rd August 2012

Neil Davidson

CROCUsEs

Have you been to Whitby lately

Via Mayfield Road

If so, were you adhering

To the highway code?

If you slackened down your speed

Those harbingers of Spring

That sea of purples, white and blue

Joy to your eyes would bring.

I think of those whose aching backs

Several years ago

Bent to plant each inert corm

Willing it to grow!

It is a marvellous miracle

That in that tiny corm

Lies all the dazzling beauty

Waiting to perform.

And so we gaze with wonder

At that bright array

And Whitby bids us “welcome –

Have a happy day”.

G.G.G,

Glaisdale

pOETS’ CORNER

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(SEE PAGE 14)AMMONITE QuILTERS

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▲ Colin bailey.

▲ Ian Hopley.

▲ Esk Valley Fell Club – Glaisdale Rigg.

(SEE PAGES 48–9)SpORT REpORTS

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(SEE PAGE 42)NATuRE NOTES

▲ Spring usher found near Crunkley Ghyll.

▲ An otter was spotted on the Esk by Graham Featherstone in March.

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▲ bupleureum rotundifolium ‘Griffithii’.

▲ Cerinthe major ‘purpurascens’.

▲ Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Sonata mixed’.

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Hardy annuals can be sown direct into

well prepared garden soil while half

hardy annuals should be sown indoors

and grown on before being planted out

after the last frosts; alternatively they can

be sown outdoors in May.

For some time these garden stalwarts

went out of fashion, but I am glad to say

they are now attracting ever increasing

attention as one of the most inexpensive

and easy ways to transform your garden.

Many of our most well known garden

plants are annuals: sweet peas, sunflowers,

cornflowers and marigolds to name but a

few, in fact there are so many wonderful

annuals that it can make choosing what to

sow a bit daunting. My current favourite is

the delightful dwarf Cosmos bipinnatus

‘Sonata mixed’. This is a half hardy annual

with fine feathery foliage and masses of large

three-inch daisy-like flowers in a variety of

pinks, reds and white. It grows to a height of

24 inches, making it ideal as an inexpensive

way to plant up borders that would normally

be filled with expensive summer bedding

such as geraniums or busy lizzies.

I like to give my Cosmos the best

possible start and sow them indoors this

month then, when they are large enough

to handle, I will pot them on into three-

inch pots and grow them on before

planting out once the last frosts have

passed (normally about the last week in

May). Cosmos also make long lasting cut

flowers and are much loved by bees and

butterflies. They will grow well in very

poor soil so if you have an area of dry,

shady soil where you have been

struggling to get anything to grow, give

them a try. Just make sure to keep them

watered until they are well established.

If you like to grow your own cut flowers

then it may be a good idea to set an area of

the garden aside as a cutting garden, and

as shrubs are the backbone of the main

garden so annuals are the backbone of the

cut flower garden. This is where you can

really let your imagination run wild. As

well as all those cut flower favourites like

sweet peas, larkspur and love in a mist,

you could try some of the more striking

and unusual varieties such as Mollucella

laevis, Cerinthe major ‘Purpurascens’,

Salvia horminum and Bupleurum

rotundifolium ‘Griffithii’. All respond well

to cutting and will produce an abundance

of flowers throughout the season.

Annuals really are the most versatile of

garden flowers and will provide you with

a season-long display of colour; they

require very little attention and are some

of the best food sources for bees and

butterflies, so not only will you have a

garden full of glorious colour, but full of

the sound of happy bees! ◼

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MARCH 2013

Members met at Ley Hall for what proved to be

a busy and interesting evening.

Annual subs were due and name badges

were given out. Ian Johnson had been a

member for more than a year but only knew a

few members’ names so he designed and made

the name badges, which were very colourful.

I’m sure many of us will benefit, especially new

members – of whom there were five that evening.

With warm drinks and Pauline’s delicious

chocolate cakes we all settled down to listen

to Brian Raw giving us the benefit of his

knowledge on growing veg.

Brian has a wealth of practical experience,

having worked for a commercial grower of

veg and a large private garden both in

Lincolnshire before coming to live in

Ainthorpe. Brian’s father and grandfather

grew veg so he was brought up with that

background of traditional growing. Brian

stressed that all his talk is informed by his

own experiences.

He has an allotment where he grows lots of

veg using traditional methods very

successfully on clay soil. Soil condition and

rotation of crops were greatly stressed. Brian

makes his own compost in three Dalek-style

compost bins, making successful compost by

adding kitchen and garden waste in the

correct proportions and adding paper/card

when necessary. He adds this to his beds with

well rotted farm manure in the winter.

Brian told us that even in a small garden it

is possible to manage a rotation system.

Brian talked very comprehensively about

each type of veg, giving growing, harvesting

and storage tips. Peas, broad beans and onion

sets need to be planted in March, weather

permitting. Brian also explained how he

avoids problems from garden pests.

The competition this month, for ‘a sprig of

Spring from the hedgerow’, was won by

Janice with some lovely catkins even in this

reluctant-to-leave winter.

We all left geared up for the growing

season and surely spring can’t be far away.

Next month we welcome back Ann Press

with a talk entitled ‘Weeds and how to love

them’. The competition will be a daffodil. •The garden club meets on the first

Monday in the month at Ley Hall, Lealholm,

except for outside visits. New members are

very welcome and for more information

telephone Pauline Elliot on 01287 660137 or

Heather Mather on 01287 669104.

fEbRUARY 2013

We confirmed that we would be decorating the

Church for Easter on Saturday 30 March, and

on 28 March we would make the Easter

Garden, for which we would need moss,

catkins, pussy willow, daffodils and primroses.

Paula offered to make some crosses.

Harrogate Flower Show runs from 25–28

April and we discussed booking a coach to go as

a group. Various ideas for talks and visits were

discussed, along with plans for the plant sale in

St Matthew’s Church on Sunday 12 May.

Lynne is our composting queen – using a

compost bin she explained it takes about a

year to make good compost. The idea is to

have two bins so as you use one the other is

already on the go for the following year. The

way of doing it is to layer cooked food, grass

and shredded paper, but not wood as that

takes too long.

Paula brought the wine out which had an

air block caused by the yeast and she showed

us how to clear it by rinsing out the tubes so

the liquid would carry on bubbling. The wine

is now starting to clear from the top – only

another 11 months to go before we can try it!

We have been approached to see if we are

interested in taking over the six hanging

baskets near the shops in Grosmont. The Co-

op would pay for the flowers and the

equipment. The cheapest option would be to

purchase plugs and keep them in a greenhouse

until ready to plant out. Does anyone have

space in their greenhouse? •

UPPER EsK VAllEY gARDEN ClUb heather mather

gROsMONT gARDENINg gROUP

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He wanted to buy some more silage

for his cows as he wasn’t going to get

them turned out this week. I said I didn’t

think he’d get them turned out this

month, and looking at the general state of

our valleys even April was looking

doubtful. At the moment the sheep are

causing a ‘paddle’. Does

anybody remember a

longer wetter winter? The

land is absolutely

saturated and really we

don’t know what will

happen next.

At the Spring Suckler

sale last week we hit the

worst day for snow we

could have. The phone

never stopped! Buyers

wondering if the sale was

still on and vendors letting

us know how difficult it was for them to

get their stock in – absolutely nothing

you can do when you get such a sudden

storm. However, the 268 cattle that did

come in sold well. No one took their stock

back home, which is always a good sign.

Overall there are less cattle being kept

in the UK, perhaps because there is no

‘headage’ subsidy payment. One cow

produces only one calf per year and with

the input costs of rearing the calf and

keeping the cow at an all-time high there

is an extremely small ‘profit’ margin to be

made. But in our area we have a high

percentage of livestock farms that are not

suitable for growing arable crops because

of the heavy soil, steep slopes, low

temperatures, wet weather, etc. So we are

dependent on the keeping of livestock

(which means regular

work, 365 days a year, as

the stock are always there

looking at you). Hence the

keen demand for all

classes of store cattle in

the area.

Sheep prices have

improved slightly over the

past month – quite a relief

as I hear that sheep cake is

now £250+ per ton. More

concentrates are needed

when the previous year’s

harvested crops are of poorer quality,

which adds further expense for farmers.

The Single Farm Payment application

forms have landed on the mat. While the

EU are busy hatching a plan to re-form the

scheme, they have announced that by 2015

all SFP forms will have to be submitted

online. Well they’ve done it with the VAT

and everyone managed so now they’re

trying it with SFP. I think I might be getting

a few phone calls! Isn’t life fun . . . ◼

19 March 2013

DApHNE JACKSONFARMING REpORT

Does Anybody Remember alonger wetter winter?i had a very interesting telephone conversation today with a farmer.

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s ix inches oF snow, temperatures down to

minus six, then damp, dull and

downright miserable. As I write this article,

in mid-March, we have only seen the

maximum temperature reach double

figures once this month. This time last year

we were basking in a sunny 17 degrees and

we only had two days in March last year when

the temperature didn’t reach double figures.

Unbelievably, the warmest day this year was

3 January, when the mercury climbed to a

dizzy 12 degrees. Cold, snowy conditions in

GRAHAM FEATHERSTONENATuRE NOTES

Otter on the Esk!

As another year began, our meetings

came to a halt due to snow. So our

first meeting this year was on 29 January

– we went swimming at Loftus. This was

followed by an evaluation night held at

Paul and Janet Houlston’s at Glaisdale on

5 February, which was well attended by

members. We split into teams and had 45

different kinds of machinery to evaluate,

including tractors, trailers, bailers, drills

and a wide range of other implements.

There was also a variety of household

goods to evaluate, including a loaf of

bread, a box of cornflakes and a tray of

eggs, and a few other things which the girls

were probably a lot more familiar with.

After a good hour or so evaluating we

went in to get warmed up and find out

how we had all done. We had an

enjoyable and interesting night so I

would like to take this opportunity to

thank Paul and Janet for hosting and

organising this meeting and putting on a

spread. Also thank you to Darren Coates

for evaluating the machinery.

Then our rally programme began with

our annual meeting held at Castleton

School at which we selected members to

take part in the various classes held on

the rally day. We now have a meeting

planned each week, based at different

farms around the area, for judging

practices, making items for Section 3 and

designing our club stand. The theme this

year is ‘Best of British’.

The rally this year will be held by Lythe

Young Farmers at Ferndale Farm, West

Barnby, on Saturday 11 May. ◼

JOANNE MuIRDANbY YOuNG FARMERS

Report for January–March

There seems to be no sign of an end to this dismal weather.

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See photos page 37

March are far from rare, but such relentless

cold miserable temperatures are!

The other topic of conversation at the

moment is Schmallenberg disease. The start

of the lambing season has been as

disappointing as the weather for some

farmers. A friend of mine who keeps a few

sheep has only had two healthy lambs from

eight ewes, the rest being still born. Without

an expensive vet’s bill he will never know if

Schmallenberg disease is to blame. I’m not

a farmer but I wonder if poor condition of

the expectant ewes could have been a factor

– the wettest year on record in England,

followed by a long cold winter must have

taken its toll on these normally very hardy

animals. By April most farmers will know if

this is going to be a disastrous lambing

season or whether Schmallenberg disease is

just another thing for us to moan about!

One morning in March, at approximately

7.30 am, a work colleague and I had the

pleasure of seeing a three-quarter grown

otter on the Esk. I spotted it in the river just

upstream of the iron road bridge at

Glaisdale, where it pulled itself out onto a

sandy bank and proceeded to chomp away

on a small fish. A disturbance in the water

nearby led me to believe that the young

otter was not alone, possibly the more wary

mother otter was there too. What a great

start to a working day.

Another highlight in March was a new

moth recorded in our garden. On one of the

warmer evenings I turned on the moth trap

hoping to see the odd early season moth or

two. I was rewarded with five moths of three

species, one of which was an aptly named

Spring Usher (Agriopis leucophaeria). This is

an uncommon moth in our area and is

usually found in ancient Oak woodland. It

had presumably wandered from Crunkley

Ghyll (Lealholm), a likely source for many of

the woodland moths that I see.◼

T here is an impressive display of wild

daffodils in Rosedale. The Authority is keen

to establish just how big the Rosedale daffodil

population is – and the size of any other well-

populated sites. The wild daffodil, the Narcissus

pseudonarcissus, is the only wild daffodil species

native to Britain. It is distinct from introduced

non-native species, including the naturalised

Tenby Daffodil. Garden daffodils are making

their way into the countryside and there is the

risk that they will hybridise with the wild

daffodils. True wild daffodils can be recognised

from the more showy garden varieties and

hybrids by their altogether smaller, but

perfectly formed, appearance.

Wild daffodils grow mainly in partial shade

in habitats such as woodlands, on riverbanks

or in fields and grassland with clay or loam

soils which are not too acidic.

Between March and June the leaves absorb

light energy in photosynthesis, which is stored in

the bulb throughout the winter, enabling the

plant to flower in early spring. Wild Daffodils

have two methods of regeneration, first by the

production of seed and second through the

development of bulblets around the parent bulb.

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In March–April the daffodils would ordinarily

be pollinated by insects. However if the spring

weather is cold, and there are few insects

around to pollinate the flowers, the daffodils

then have a second chance to regenerate by

growing bulblets.

By using photographs taken from the same key

areas each year, the National Park wants to look

at the success of the Rosedale daffodils. If you

are walking in Rosedale in the spring months,

are a keen photographer or a Rosedale

resident and you would like to get involved in

surveying the Rosedale daffodil population,

contact Alex Cripps, Conservation Graduate

Trainee, at a.cripps@northyorkmoors. org.uk or

telephone 01439 772700.◼

Gout is a form of arthritis as it causes jointpain, particularly in the fingers and toes. It iscaused by an accumulation of uric acid in theblood. Uric acid is found in all living tissuesand excess amounts are normally excreted inthe urine. When levels rise above a certainpoint, however, uric acid crystals form andcollect in the peripheral joints. Men are moresusceptible to gout than women andsymptoms include hot, painful, shiny andinflamed joints with restricted mobility. Aswollen big toe is common and the pain maybe excruciating.

There was traditionally a link between goutand affluence, with King Henry VIII a notablesufferer. It is suggested that gout may behereditary but may also be a result of poordiet, excess weight or the habit of smoking.Indeed, there is a direct correlation betweenan increase in weight and uric acid levels inthe blood. The following dietary suggestionsmay help to alleviate the symptoms of gout:• Increase fluid intake – water, nettle tea

and golden rod tea help to flush the uricacid crystals out of the body and dilute theconcentration of uric acid.

• Consume cherries – cherries containanthocyanosides that lower uric acid levels.Eat fresh or frozen cherries or drink purecherry juice. Avoid cherry drinks withadded sugars or pasteurised juice asanthocyanin is removed duringpasteurisation.

• Limit high-purine foods / high proteindiets – purine is a protein-relatedsubstance that the body turns to uric acid.If you suffer from frequent gout attacksyou may consider restricting your intake ofhigh-purine foods such as organ meats,

sardines, mackerel, anchovies, asparagus,mushrooms and beans.

• Limit acid forming foods and alcohol –refined carbohydrates (such as whiteflour), sugar, citrus fruits and processedfoods promote an acidic environmentwhilst alcohol (beer) stimulates theproduction of uric acid and inhibitssecretion by the kidneys.

• Apple cider vinegar – a tablespoon of applecider vinegar diluted in water taken eachmorning may help to prevent gout attacks.

• Follow a low fat, high fibre diet – adequateconsumption of non-citrus fruit andvegetables may be beneficial, especiallycherries, bananas, strawberries, pineapple,celery, carrots, alfalfa sprouts, kale andcabbage.

Potential supplementation (notrecommended as a replacement for ahealthy diet) is as follows:

• Urtica (Stinging Nettle) – has an alkalinereaction on the blood, is anti-rheumatic,anti-inflammatory and assists in theelimination of uric acid.

• Celery Seed – may increase the secretion ofuric acid.

• Solidago Complex – Solidago virgaurea(Golden Rod) has anti-inflammatory,antispasmodic and antiseptic propertiesand removes excess fluid from the body.

• Other Supplements – turmeric (curcumin),devil’s claw, vitamin E.

Note that this article is intended asinformation only. Always consult your doctorif you are concerned about your health.

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Abitterly cold day for riders and

observers – particularly observers –

at Northallerton DMC’s trial held high

above Osmotherly. Marvellous terrain for

trials riders as well as ramblers. Huge

climbs and rocky gullies make this a must

ride event.

A class entry on the day and Ian

Austermuhle’s experience duly won him

the Premier by six marks after young

Richmond rider, Richard Sadler, put in a

strong ride to finish runner up . . .

Danby’s ever consistent Ian Hopley

topped Intermediates, but nothing went

right for the usually unflappable Colin

Bailey from Egton. He suffered a day to

forget, finishing well down Clubman A

results. (‘Nuff’ said about that Col!)

Castleton’s Terry Raw fared better.

Terry, who runs his own business, was

firmly told by son Mark ‘Don’t forget, you

be careful at your age. You haven’t ridden

for eight month, I don’t want you coming

back whinging you’re injured because we

have a lot of work to get through!’ Advice

taken, Terry rode Clubman B – the

graveyard class – duly nicknamed

because there is nowhere else to go after

that. Cruel, but true. So, a steady ride saw

him finish runner up to Paul Sadler.

Fantastic ride in the first British

Women/Ladies’ Championship round at

the North Berkshire club for Nikita

Smith. Having gained permission from

the ACU, the young star from Fryup has

moved up into the top echelons of the

trials world to compete against the best

in the country, possibly in the World the

way Emma Bristow is riding. Never one

to be overawed, the fast improving

youngster gave a fired up performance to

finish third behind Emma Bristow and

Becky Cook. Although Nikita cannot gain

championship points with riding up a

class, experience gained competing

against World Class opposition will

certainly stand her in good stead for the

future. Well done Nikita. And dad Andy

tells me he doesn’t have to be back for

milking now the robots have arrived in

Fryup as they do it for him. (I hope he

wasn’t pulling my leg, now I’ve

committed it to print.)

By the time you read this the Cleveland,

starting from Castleton cricket field on

24 March, will have been won and lost.

Cracking line up of riders from all over

the country. World Championship

contender Michael Brown must start

favourite, but last year’s winner Ian

Austermuhle will be thereabouts, as will

Dan Thorpe and young bloods from

Richmond, Richard Sadler and Jonno

Richardson.

Local lads hoping to shine in front of a

home crowd will be Port Mulgrave’s Jack

Howell, now Ossa mounted, and

Whitby’s Andy Chilton in expert class.

Ian Hopley and Mark Raw will have a

great battle in Intermediate class

whatever the result, and come-back-kid

Glaisdale’s Ian Ford – keeping in trim

with Enduros now – will be hoping to

keep his aging frame in front of young

JOHN WATSONTRIALS & MOTOCROSS

Trials and Motocross

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March 2013 – drawn by Mr l. Revson

£20 115 Miss Ella France, Lealholm£10 150 Mr & Mrs A. Clark, Lealholm£10 163 Mr & Mrs Pellant, Houlsyke £5 202 Mr C. Harrison, Glaisdale£5 35 Mr & Mrs T. Page, Ruswarp £5 107 Mrs R. Featherstone, Glaisdale £5 73 Mrs G. F. C. Jackson, Castleton

lEAlHOlM CC 100 PlUs ClUb alan thompson

CRICKET

Mon 1 Apr Northallerton DMC Normandale Championship, Bilsdale

Sun 7 Apr Eboracum MC Trial, TBA / Pickering DMC M/X, Wrelton

Sat 13 Apr Middlesbrough DMC Trial, TBA

Sun 14 Apr Thirsk DMC Trial, Hambleton

Sat 20/Sun 21 Apr Eboracum MC Twinshock 2 Day, Ouseburn

Wed 24 Apr Scarborough DMC Trial, Harwood Dale

Sat 27 Apr Guisborough DMC Trial, Ellers Farm, Fryup

Sun 28 Apr Hull AC Trial, TBA / Pickering DMC M/X, TBA

COMINg EVENTs

guns Alistair Jackson, Mike Raw and

Andy Jackson. I notice Castleton’s

Howard Watson out for a comeback ride

as well. They could find it a long day, but

hopefully will enjoy a well earned pint at

the close.◼

See photos page 36

Held on 3 March, an overcast day, the

Esk Valley Fell Club ran the 8.5 mile

route starting at The Arncliffe, over

Glaisdale Rigg across the dale and back

via Snowdon Nab.

Male overall winner was Jayson Cavill

of Pickering (time 58.28 mins); female

overall winner was Carol Morgan from

Nidd Valley Club (time 73.06 mins).

The next fell race, the ‘Fox & Hounds

Chase’ (14.5 km off road), will be held on

Sunday 5 May, starting at The Fox &

Hounds, Ainthorpe. Organised by Esk

Valley Fell Club, registration will be from

9 am for a 10.30 start. All welcome.

Details on www.eskvalleyfellclub.org.◼

SpORT REpORT

Esk Valley fell Club –glaisdale Rigg

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A better month for Lealholm Football

Club has seen them win all three of

their games played so far in March.

The first of these saw Lealholm win 4-2 at

home to Ayton in the quarter-final of the

Scarborough & District Harbour Cup. In a

tightly fought game Sam Crooks put

Lealholm in front after 35 minutes, but

Ayton then equalised two minutes before

the break. Ben Crooks, though, restored

Lealholm’s lead on the stroke of half time

with a thumping free kick. Ayton then

equalised again, on the hour mark, before

Sam Crooks scored his second from the

edge of the penalty area, five minutes later.

Lealholm were fairly comfortable for the

remainder of the game, and sealed their win

three minutes from time, when Darren

Harland curled his shot round the

goalkeeper.

The following week saw Lealholm’s best

comeback of the season, winning 3-2 away

to Loftus Athletic in the semi-final of the

Scarborough & District Junior Cup. Being

outplayed for much of the first half, in

constant rain, Lealholm somehow managed

to keep the score to only 1-0 down at half

time. But ten minutes into the second half

Sam Crooks equalised for Lealholm, after

being put through by Duncan Marson,

before scoring a second in a similar fashion

a quarter of an hour later. Although Loftus

made it 2-2 after 75 minutes, substitute

Darren Harland completed the comeback

five minutes from the end of the game,

when he connected well with a Mark

Thompson free kick to the far post.

The following week saw an easier game

for Lealholm, against Great Ayton United,

but rearranged to Guisborough because of

the weather. Mike Thompson scored early

on for Lealholm, following a good move,

before Nathan Gibson added a second ten

minutes later. Ben Crooks made it 3-0 on

the half hour from the penalty spot, after

Mike Thompson was brought down in the

box. Although Great Ayton pulled one back

before half time, Sam Crooks confirmed the

victory mid-way through the second half,

scoring a hat-trick in just six minutes. The

first was a clever shot from 30 yards, with

the keeper out of his goal, the second

following a good passing move inside the

box, and the third a deflected shot that spun

over the keeper. Great Ayton scored a

consolation in the last minute to make the

final score 6-2.

JOHN GREENINGSpORT REpORT

lealholm football Club

MARCH fIxTUREs

Wed 3 Apr Goldsborough United at home in the league (6.15 kick off)

Sat 6 Apr Filey Town away in the Scarborough & District Harbour Cup semi-final

(2.00 kick off)

Wed 10 Apr Lingdale United at home in the Whitby Benevolent Cup quarter-final

(6.15 kick off)

All other fixtures in the month are either dependent on prior cup results, or otherwise still

to confirm.

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News from the schools

federation ofCastleton andglaisdale schools

After a year of collaboration between Castletonand Glaisdale primary schools, a formalconsultation and public meetings, the governorsof the two schools took the decision to federate inApril. The two schools will retain their ownbudgets and buildings and remain part of theirlocal communities, but they will share leadershipand a governing body. Already the two schoolsare benefitting from the teaching staff sharingtheir expertise and on Fridays the Key Stage twochildren work together in maths, French, musicand PE. (See photo on inside cover.)

Castleton school

‘Big Sing’ On 15 February our Juniors, togetherwith Glaisdale, travelled to Scarborough Spa totake part in the ‘Big Sing’. The end result was afabulous performance from over 1000 children!Many thanks to Miss Raw for helping ourchildren learn the songs.

‘Speak Out’ Competition Owen, Jordan andLivia were our team this year for the annualpublic speaking competition organised by theRotary Club. Unfortunately, they were unable totravel to the Saxonville Hotel, Whitby, for theevent due to the snow! However, they did attenda second event held at Seton School, Staithes,organised for the three teams who missed themain event. Many thanks to the parents for theirsupport and special thanks to Fiona Knowles.

Sport• Gymnastics Festivals at Eskdale School: our jointyears 3 and 4 team (with Glaisdale) came first outof ten teams, with Evie Findlay coming 3rd out of53 children. Well done to Mrs Thompson forworking with them. Mrs Barber also took some ofour KS1 children to their Festival another day.• Eight KS2 children have taken part in a TagRugby Festival at Whitby Rugby Club when theywon two, and drew one, out of their five games.

Trust4Learning Mathematicians from theseven Esk Valley Schools joined ourTrust4Learning partners in a budgetingworkshop led by Darlington Building Society atPrior Pursglove College on 28 February. Theywere joined by year 6 and year 7 pupils fromsome of our school partners in the Trust.

Fairtrade ‘Big Brew’ Mrs Shepherd’sFairtrade assembly on 1 March was followed by a‘Big Brew’ where she and helpers servedFairtrade tea, coffee and biscuits to the manyvisiting parents, friends and members of thecommunity. Fairtrade food and gifts were on saleand the children ran a tuck shop. Money raisedfrom the refreshments was £31.76 and the tuckshop sold £24.85 worth of Fairtrade Food – allmoney will go to the Traidcraft charity to helpsmallholder famers.

World Book Day All children supported WorldBook Day on 7 March by coming to schooldressed as a character from their favourite book.Thank you very much to parents for help inorganising costumes and props. A total of £25was raised for the WWF Adopt an ‘Amur’Leopard. A few weeks ago, they raised £39 forthis charity by bringing buns into school to sell.

Mothering Sunday Service There was a goodturnout of pupils and their families from bothCastleton and Danby Schools at the service held inDanby Church. Pupils played musical items – aduet from Lorna on the oboe and Maisie on theflute. Jordan played the guitar and Owen thedrums. Pupils from both schools took part in aPrayer and the service ended, as usual, with all thechildren singing together the ‘Mother’s Day Song’.Thank you to Mrs Barber for organising our pupils.

Eskdale Festival Our musicians again tookpart in the Eskdale Music Festival with entriesfrom soloists and ensembles.

The children really enjoyed taking part – theexperience alone was well worth the effort with somechildren performing on stage for the first time.

Thank you very much to all the staff andparents who supported the children in theEskdale Festival this year.

Jean Blacklock

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glaisdale school

Class 1 The children have been creating theirown version of Here Come the Aliens, which theywill perform at the school’s end of term spacepresentation. They have been designing andmaking flying saucers and writing partyinvitations and persuasive letters to attend analien party on Planet Zug.

In maths they have been looking at time. It hasbeen great to see so many children wearingwatches and practising telling the timethroughout the day. We have also been looking atmoney this month: recognising coin values,totalling amounts and exchanging coins.

Class 2 This month Class 2 have been busypreparing for their Space presentation. They havestarted work on the novel The War of the Worldsby H. G. Wells. They have been listening to themusical version, which has proved an interestingcomparison to the original. Our year 5 childrenhad an informative morning at GoathlandSchool, learning about using a remote telescope.

In maths we have been working on division andhave revisited addition and subtraction, whilemusic has focused on space themed ostinato. East Barnby The children who went to EastBarnby this month all had a very enjoyable andexciting experience. The first activity was a chillybeck scramble at West Beck. They tackled the lowropes course, visited Scugdale for a day’sclimbing and enjoyed a session of sledging, withthe final day spent building shelters in MulgraveWoods. The children should be congratulated ontheir their behaviour, which was exemplary.

Speak Out This month some of our Year 6children have been involved in the Speak OutCompetition, which took place at the SaxonvilleHotel during a virtual blizzard. The children hadto speak about ‘Animal rights are as important ashuman rights’ with a proposer, chair and speaker.Well done to James, Hamish and Anna for theirperformance on the night. We are very proud ofthe children and the hard work they put into this.

‘Big Sing’ On the Friday, before half term, theJuniors took part in ‘The Big Sing’ atScarborough Spa after practising songs and partsof songs together in school for several weeks. Theend result, after lots of hard work, was a fabulousperformance from over 1000 children. Thechildren had a very enjoyable experience

Sporting SuccessGymnastics – Our joint team with CastletonSchool came first out of ten teams at the Year 3&4gymnastics at Eskdale School this month. Welldone Lexus, Matthew and Niamh.

Rugby – Our Y5/Y6 children came a verycreditable 3rd in the tag rugby tournament held atWhitby Rugby Club this month. Well done toeveryone involved.

Netball – Glaisdale had a match at homeagainst Hawsker School this month and playedvery well for their first match of the season.Everyone had an enjoyable game and Glaisdalewon the match. Well done to our netball team.

lealholm schoolVisit On Friday 2 March the juniors went toSkinningrove Mining Museum for a projectinvolving writing, music and art. When wearrived at the museum we met the workers whoshowed us round. We sketched a drawing of thevillage and learnt about Skinningrove. Then wewent into a room that showed two men whodiscovered iron stone and went for a tour roundwith another person who led us down the mine.

Biodiversity Workshop Last Monday twopeople from the Moors Centre came to school fora ‘Brilliant Biodiversity’ workshop. The firstactivity was a quiz where we were split intogroups that included Mammals, Reptiles,Amphibians, Birds and Invertebrates. The nextactivity involved questions to help us decide whatspecies of bird was on the person’s back. The nextactivity involved making our own birds in ourgroup to suit the habitat we were given. Finally,we had to make food chains to show whatdifferent creatures would eat.

Sport On Thursday 7 March there was a TagRugby tournament at Whitby Rugby Club. Weplayed Sleights and beat them 5-1, then we playedStakesby B and beat them 7-1 and after that weplay St Hilda’s and won 6-1. Lastly we playedRuswarp and won 7-1, so our school came 1st

place out of all the schools in the group.On 13 February the year 3/4 went to a

Gymnastics festival at Caedmon School. IzzyKirby got first place out of around 80 children.There were lots of different activities andeveryone enjoyed the challenge. Two weeks laterthe Infants went to their own Gymnastics festivaland again everyone had an enjoyable time.

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Finally, this week we have been building asnow sculpture on the school field. It is a fort anda group of junior children built it.

st Hedda’s schoolEgton bridge

Topic Class 2 were shocked to receive a letterfrom a creature from outer space who asked themfor their help in finding out more about PlanetEarth. They have investigated a ‘mystery seed’,finding out about the conditions needed togerminate and grow. They researched thedifferent planets in our solar system to find outwhether this seed could germinate and grow onanother planet. To help their alien friend, Class 2designed and made their own torches andrecently investigated his landing on the schoolfield. They have been busy writing newspaperarticles about this extraordinary event!

Class 1 have enjoyed making planets androckets of their own design and investigating howto make the rockets move. They have danced to‘space’ music and written instructions andexplanations about travelling into space.

Sport Basketball – This term Class 2 took part ina Basketball afternoon at Whitby Leisure Centre.We were able to take part in a skill building sessionfollowed by a match and a variety of activities. Afun afternoon was had by all!

Hockey – Children from Years 2–6 have beenhaving hockey coaching from Mrs Brown on aTuesday lunchtime.

Music WOP’s – This year Class 2 are takingpart in a Wider Opportunities Music Programme.We are very lucky to have a music lesson everyFriday with Mr Cross, a specialist music teacher.Children are learning to play a variety ofinstruments, which include flutes, clarinets,trumpets and cornets. All children are able totake home their instruments which they areencouraged to practise with every week.‘Big Sing’ – On the last day of half term Class 2took part in the Big Sing at Scarborough Spa, alongwith many other schools, which was the opening tothe Coastival 2013 Festival. We enjoyed the day.We are very grateful to Mr Maltby who preparedthe children prior to this event.

Community Library The official opening ofthe Esk Valley Community Library took place onShrove Tuesday. Borough councillor Herbert

Tindall and Julie Blaisdale, assistant director forNYCC Library Services, were in attendance andthere were many new visitors to the library. Thelibrary will now be open 3.15–5.15 pm in theParish Rooms on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Egton CE VA schoolWorld Book Day We celebrated World bookDay in style wearing either our pyjamas orcoming as one of our favourite book characters.The Whitby Bookshop kindly arranged to hold amini book fair at school and all the children wereable to spend their World Book Day Voucher andget their special book.

Mothering Sunday Service We combined ourWorld Book Day with our Mothering SundayService during which the Juniors read outextracts from fiction books. The infants regaledthe congregation with the story ‘Mother knowsBest!’ Pippa, Rose and Emma played a musicalpiece on their Clarinet and flutes. ReverendChristine blessed handmade cards and gifts thatthe children then presented to their mums. Thechildren sang to their mums before we allreturned to school for coffee and biscuits.

Esk Valley Salmon Project A few weeks agoSue and Simon from the National Park came to seeus and set up a big tank in the junior classroom.The tank has a chiller attached to it so that we cankeep the salmon at the correct temperature. A fewdays later Simon then brought us some salmoneggs to look after. On 4 March we were excited tosee that the first eggs had hatched by the end ofthe afternoon into Alevins. They are orange andwiggly and hide a lot. When they have grown upinto fry we will releasing them into the River Eskwith Sue and Simon.

Red Nose Day Our teachers thought Red NoseDay was wonderful as our Year 6 children tookpart in a sponsored silence for the morning andthe junior classroom was very quiet! We all woresomething red or something funny to school andin the afternoon Year 6 had organised a range ofactivities including a mini disco. We raised lotsof money for Comic Relief.

Domino Drive Many thanks to The StationTavern, Grosmont, who raised £100 during arecent domino drive for school funds. Theirdonations to school are much appreciated.Thanks to Lisa Beesley for organising this.

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Reports from the wIs

Esk Moors wI Our president Anne Watson welcomed members atour March meeting. A list of candidates for thenational board was passed round for members toconsider voting. Volunteers were requested for boththe resolution discussion meeting at Easingwoldand the Spring Council Meeting at Scarborough.

President Anne demonstrated Easter flowerarrangements. In a large dish she placed a large stemof contorted willow in the centre, filled out with springflowers and greenery and hung with colourful eggs.In another Anne used a large red container andplaced a red metal spiral vertically, through which sheplaced stems of cornus, greenery and lovely red roses.A third was simply made by wrapping bark around acontainer and filling it with daffs and pussy willow.

Audrey, Marna and Joan were the luckywinners and took home an arrangement each.

The competition this month was for a handknitted article. Annie came first with some knittedegg cosies followed by Yvonne with a child’s hatand Emma third with a lovely toy squirrel.

Our next meeting is on 3 April and our speakeris Mrs Cundall talking about ‘Children ofChernobyl’.

Heather Mather

fryupdales wI

Fryupdales WI met at the Village Hall onWednesday 20 March. Teresa Dodsworth, JoyDowson, Claire Woolf, Cora Weir and Tina Allanweren’t able to attend and kindly sent apologies.Our President Mary Smith welcomed everybodyand congratulated our darts team who had wonthe group darts match on the previous Tuesday,playing a blinder of a game and winning the

On a dismal day in March the children andsome parents (grandparents) enjoyed avisit to the new fire station in Danby.

Our little Esklet recruits started theirvisit with a chat to fire sergeant Neil Byatt.He was helped throughout our visit by Fireman Des Jackson and Fire lady RebeccaJackson. They showed us how they aresummoned to attend by their pagerssounding. Then we had a wander roundthe brand new station with its celestialcloud colour scheme and lovely big rooms.

In the equipment room some of ourEsklet recruits had fun trying on helmets,jackets and gloves and looked very muchthe part. In the main garage there wasmuch excitement (and a few tears) whenthe fire man Jackson showed the littlerecruits what had to be worn when goinginto a smoky building; however the big,red fire engine next to him proved quite adistraction. All the children took turnsclimbing up into the cabin and seeing whatit would be like to go on a call. When the

blue lights started flashing all were excitedand thrilled to be there.

Demonstrations carried on outsidewhere the children were helped to practisetheir aim with the hoses: this was by far the most exciting bit for our little recruits, all having a few turns and ensuring theplants were watered and a few unluckymums too! Everyone then watched thedemonstrations with the metal cutters,thermal cameras and dry suits – all veryinteresting. After a refuelling stop in thewarm fire station our Esklet recruits gavetheir thanks and made their way back toEsklets, tired out from their fun morningat the fire station.

Many thanks go to the fire men, andlady at Danby Fire station for making thisvisit such a success and to all the parentsfor their support transporting andsupervising as without their help wecouldn’t engage in such fun andstimulating visits.

Kate Smith

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trophy for the first time in 21 years. Well done tothe team who were Carole Ridsdale (captain),Sandra Raw and Fay Gillanders.

Mary complimented Claire Woolf on anothersuper programme and it was brought to thenotice of the members that the picture Clairechose for the cover was a print from a painting ofGreat Fryupdale by our WI member, DotMacDonald.

We noted forthcoming Whitby Musical Theatreand Whitby Amateur Dramatic Society events anddetails of bursary applications for courses atDenman College. The Danby Show WI competitiontheme ‘A Summer Barbeque’ set inventive mindsracing. The Spring Council Meeting, Group dominodrive and Group summer lunch were alsodiscussed. For our summer outing everybody waskeen on the open gardens, about which Joy Dowsonas social secretary will make further enquiries. Thedate of the walk in May is Wednesday 8th andcurrently the plan is to drive to Danby, park at thestation and board the train bound for Commondale.Here the strollers will alight and walk back toDanby, via a hearty lunch at Castleton. The finaldetails will be arranged at our April meeting.

Our speaker for the evening was Barry, fromWiltshire Farm Foods, who gave his talk andremarkably delicious tasting session beforegenerously declining expenses suggesting they bedonated to a charity of our choice (the NeoNatalUnit at James Cook University Hospital). Thecompetition was won by Dorothy Dowson andhostesses for the evening were Sandra Raw andKath Winspear.

All welcome at our next meeting on 10 April at7.15 pm in Fryupdales Village Hall, weatherpermitting . . .

Fay Gillanders

lealholm wI

President Linda Elders welcomed everyone andthanked them for attending the March meetingin yet more snow. Our guest speaker was one ofthose who unfortunately couldn’t make it due tothe weather conditions.

The minutes were read, agreed and signed.New bursaries from Denman are available forthis year only – full details from the WI office.The photograph competition ‘Sports inYorkshire’ entries are to be taken to the SpringCouncil Meeting. Costume jewellery and scarves

are needed with proceeds towards coach fundsfor delegate travel. The bulb catalogue is nowavailable and Jenny Redway will be taking yourorders soon. WI raffle tickets are available £1each (purchase from Debbie). Names are beingtaken for the trip to The Sound of Music onThursday 9 May. A litter pick has been arrangedfor Monday 8 April: meet at the car park at 10am. Afterwards Janet Thomas has offeredrefreshments. All bring a name and details fornext year’s guest speakers.

This year’s theme for Danby Show is ‘ASummer Barbeque’. If you have any ideas pleasebring to the next meeting.

Rose Helm, who was a volunteer at the 2012Olympics, made a suggestion to encourage us allto do a little more exercise. The aim is to walk2,012 miles – not each person but collectively!Each time you walk somewhere (not around thehouse), keep a note of the miles and we will addthis to a chart at our WI meeting.

The raffle was won by Doreen Bainbridge.Rose Helm won the competition for a basket. Thenext meeting will be on 8 April. Guest speakerwill be Sachia Kouyioumtzi on ‘Driving Safely’;hostesses Jenny Redway and Helen Robshaw.

Annette Clarke

glaisdale wI

A short meeting was held at the Institute on 14 March. We hope to be able to go to BankHouse in September instead. We discussed thearrangements necessary for the upcomingFederation walk in May and congratulatedUgthorpe for their victory at the Federation darts.

Betty Hoggarth told us that the Open Gardenswill be held again this year on 29–30 June; theWI has been asked to coordinate refreshments. Avolunteer rota list will go out, with a leaflet dropin the village to ask for extra volunteers.

Instead of our usual talk we had an impromptudomino drive to enlighten those of us who had noidea how to play dominos competitively!

Our next meeting on 11 April will be RuthHutchinson on ‘My Life with Eggs’. Ruth is anexperienced egg decorator, Fabergé style. Thecompetition will be ‘A decorated Easter egg’(hard boiled) and the supper hostesses will beJulie Lake, Karen Doncaster and Rose Brown.

Hanneke Wood

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Coming Events

DIARY

Courses – see page 60

looking Ahead – see page 62

Regular Activities – see page 63

MON 1 ApR▶ Danby Antique &Collectors’ Fair, DanbyVillage Hall, 10 am–4 pm,admission 50p (donated tolocal charities), refreshmentsavailable.

▶ Table Top Sale, SleightsVillage Hall, 10 am–2 pm,tea, coffee and home-maderefreshments available.

▶ Easter Monday Dance(annual ‘Party Dance’) inEgton Village Hall, 7 pm,with Easter Hat, BonnetParade, 8 pm. Group musicand all proceeds to theParish Hall funds.

TuE 2 ApR▶ Egton Bridge OldGooseberry SocietyAnnual General Meetingat the Horseshoe Hotel,Egton Bridge, 7.30 pm.

WED 3 ApR▶ Wild Daffodil Walk,Farndale, NP guide, 3.5miles from Lowna car park(west of bridge) followingRiver Dove, passing Quakerburial ground, lunch stop atDale End bridge, Cost: freefor adults & children.Booking: 01439 772738. (A2nd Daffodil walk on Sun

7 Apr starting at Low Mill,Farndale – phone for details.)

▶ Egton Ladies’ GroupOpen Meeting: GilesHeron will speak about‘Farming with Mary’ inEgton Village Hall, 2 pm.Any lady or gentleman whowould like to come along willbe most welcome.

▶ Heather HopperConcert Trip, NorthernSinfonia at MiddlesbroughTown Hall, 7.45 pm:Beethoven, Grieg, Sibelius,Mendelssohn. Booking:07971 268676.

FRI 5 ApR▶ Sequence/Old TimeDancing, Egton VillageHall, 7 pm. Admission £2.50(inc. tea and biscuits). Raffleand Dance Group music. Allproceeds for Esk Valley LifeLine.

▶ Becky Arundel Singingat The Arncliffe Arms,Glaisdale, from 8 pm; currynight 6–8 pm; no entrancecharge.

▶ Egton ParishRecreation AssociationDraw at Horseshoe Hotel,Egton Bridge. All welcome towitness.

SAT 6 ApR▶ Cabaret performanceof Manhattan Voices, acollection of songs from thetheatre, classics and Gospel,at Briggswath & SleightsMethodist Chapel, 7.45 pm,followed by refreshments.Admission £6 from anychurch steward or 810088.

SuN 7 ApR▶ Gribdale’s Grime andGlory: NP guided walkthrough little-known valleyof Gribdale which has seenits share of mining in thenot-so-distant past, 3 milewalk, 10 am–12 noon. Meet:Gribdale Gate/ForestEnterprise car park (NZ592110). Cost: free (adultsand children). Booking:01439 772738.

▶ Marie Curie CancerCare Charity Quiz at TheArncliffe Arms, Glaisdale, 9 pm.

TuE 9 ApR▶ Beggar’s BridgePlayers AGM, in theChurch Rooms, Glaisdale, 7 pm. All welcome.

THu 11 ApR▶ Eye Witness Storiesfrom Israel – Palestine,talk by Tricia Griffin, 7.30 pm–9.00 pm, Nature’sLaboratory, 3B EnterpriseWay, Whitby YO22 4NH,01947 603456. Free,donations welcomed for EAPPI.

SAT 13 ApR▶ The Sandsend BeachClean, 10.30 am–12.30 pm,meeting near Sandside Café,Sandsend. Great to see youthere. Wear sturdy shoes,bring gloves, dress warmly.For more details pleaseemail info@sea-changers.org.uk.

▶ Concert at St Mary’sChurch, Lastingham(North York Moors Chamber

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Music Festival fundraiser), 7 pm: Jack Liebeck andVictoria Sayles (violins),Jamie Walton (cello), SashaZemstov (viola) and KatyaApekisheva (piano); worksby Elgar, Moszkowski,Mendelssohn and Brahms;tickets £10 (cheques payableto North York MoorsChamber Music Festival,send with SAE to: NYMCMF,The Granary, Appleton-le-Moors, York YO62 6TF).

▶ Dalesmen Singers’

Male Voice Choir atChopgate Village Hall, 7.30 pm.All proceeds to St John’s andSt Hilda’s, Bilsdale. Formore information check thewebsite www.dalesmensingers.net or ring JohnHaywood on 01947 605135.

▶ ‘TS Junction’ playing atThe Arncliffe Arms, Glaisdale.

MON 15 ApR▶ ‘MiddlesbroughTransporter Bridge’, anillustrated talk at St Matthew’s

Church, Grosmont, at 7 pm.Ticket £3 (inc. refreshments)from Jim (01947 606835) orVi (895425), or entry at thedoor (see notice page 13).

TuE 16 ApR▶ Meeting to discussGlaisdale Open Gardens2013, in the Church Rooms,Glaisdale, at 7 pm. Allwelcome.

THu 18 ApR▶ Grosmont and Esk

RYEDALE FOLKMuSEuM, HuTTON-LE-HOLE▶ Fun and games for all thefamily, Easter Weekend(until 1 Apr), 10 am–4 pm.

▶ Children’s Crafts &Activities each weekday Tue2–Fri 12 Apr, 11 am–4 pm.Further information: 01751417367.

FOSSIL WALKS –NORTH EASTYORKSHIRE GEOLOGYTRuSTHeld at Robin Hood’s Bay,these walks are anopportunity to see thefossils of hundreds ofJurassic sea creatures. Cost£2. Meet on the slipway,Robin Hood’s Bay (NZ 953048). More information:01947 881 000. Dates andtimes:Mon 1 Apr: 1.30–3.30 pmWed 3 Apr: 2.30–4.30 pmWed 10 Apr: 10 am–12 noonThu 11 Apr: 10.30 am–12.30 pm

HOLIDAY ADVENTuRE –EAST bARNAbYOuTDOOR CENTREHigh-octane holidayadventures (Apr 2, 4, 9, 11)for nine to 16-year-olds andfamilies. Activities(depending on weather):kayaking, surf sports,sailing, beck-scrambling,geocaching, orienteering,mountain biking, indoorclimbing, real rockadventures, skiing, seashoreexploration and bushcraft.Cost £30 per person. 9.30 am–4 pm. For moredetails/bookings: 01947893333.

NATIONAL pARKMOORS CENTRE,DANbY (info/booking01439 772738)Children to be accompanied(adults – no charge)

▶ Easter Trail: any timebetween 10 am and 5 pm,during Easter Weekend(until 1 Apr)

▶ Tue 2 Apr: Mud

Monsters: search forminibeasts and makemonsters from mud, 10.30am–12 noon, cost £3(child); GPS Treasure Hunt,1.30–3 pm, cost £3.50(child).

▶ Thu 11 Apr: CunningCompass Explorers: Learnhow to use a compass andtackle the compass course,10.30 am–12 noon, cost£3.50 (min. age 8).

▶ Thu 11 Apr: Introductionto Bushcraft, 1.30 pm–4pm, cost £7 (min. age 9).

▶ Thu 4 Apr: NatureThrough a MagnifyingGlass, 10.30 am–12 noon,cost £3.50.

▶ Thu 4 Apr: Hide Away inthe Woods, 1.30–4 pm, cost£5 (child)

▶ Mon 8 Apr: Teddy Bears’Picnic, 10.30 am–3.30 pmor 2.15–3.30 pm, cost £3(child)

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Valley Ramble with NPRangers, starting GrosmontRailway Station, 4.5-milewalk, 10 am–1 pm, cost free,booking 01439 772738.

FRI 19 ApR▶ Speaker’s Night:‘Writing: An IncurableAddiction’ by Bill Kitson(www.billkitson.com), at TheBradbury Centre, Castleton,7.30 pm. Author Bill Kitsontalks about his work as awriter of crime thrillers,historical fiction andcontemporary romance.Booking: 07967 538800 oremail: activities@eskmoorscaring.org.

▶ Eye Witness Storiesfrom Israel – Palestine,talk by Tricia Griffin, 7.30 pm–9 pm.Church Rooms, Glaisdale.Free, donations welcomedfor EAPPI.

FRI 19–SAT 20 ApR▶ The Malton & NortonFolk Festival. Forprogramme see: http://www.maltonfolk.co.uk

SAT 20 ApR ▶ Spring Fair, HayshedExperience CIC, FowlGreen Farm, Commondale,1.30–4 pm (see page 13).

▶ A Meeting withRemarkable Trees: A rareopportunity to see somespectacular ancient trees onthe Duncombe Park Estate, 2 pm–4 pm, cost: free(adults and children). Meetat National Park Offices,Bondgate, Helmsley (YO625BP). Booking: 01439772738.

▶ ‘Spring Dance’ with

the fabulous six-pieceswing band ‘Jump, Jive‘n’ Wail’ at Danby VillageHall, 8 pm. Tickets: £12(includes fun easy jive lessonat 8 pm for those who wantit, plus ration bag supper –40s’ dress optional). BoxOffice: 01947 897587 (www.eskvalleytheatre.co.uk).

SuN 21 ApR▶ VolunteerRecruitment Day, NorthYorkshire Moors Railway,Learning Centre Platform 2,Pickering, starting at 10 am.Before coming, please phone01751 473799, email:david.monksteel@nymr.co.uk, or write to 12Park Street, Pickering YO187AJ.

MON 22 ApR▶ Bike-it: GuisboroughWoods bike ride – see page60 for details.

WED 24 ApR▶ ‘History of Whitby andPickering Railwaythrough to moderntimes’, talk by Mark Sissons(Archivist NYMR), WhitbyMuseum Normanby Room,2.15 pm, £1 for Lit. & Phil.non-members.

FRI 26 ApR▶ Big Friday – FilmNight at the BradburyCentre – share a film andsupper (bring a contributionfor supper), tea and coffeeprovided. Cost: free.Phone/email for details.

FRI 26–SuN 28 ApR▶ Spring Whitby GothWeekend when Goths,

Punks, Steampunks, Emos,Bikers, Metallers . . .descend on Whitby. Moreinfo at: www.whitbygothweekend.com.

SAT 27 ApR▶ Ammonite Quilters’Quilt Show, SleightsVillage Hall, 10 am–4 pm,entry £2 (accompaniedchildren free), proceeds tolocal charities (more detailson page 14).

▶ Guided Walk, RobinHood’s Bay – with NEYGeology Trust and YorkshireWildlife Trust, 11 am–1 pm,cost £2, meet on the slipway,Robin Hood’s Bay (NZ 953048). More information:01947 881 000.

▶ George Formby Dayhosted by the GrosmontCrossing Club. Everyonewelcome to come along andlisten to performances bymembers of The GeorgeFormby Society. (See page 15.)

SuN 28 ApR▶ Spring is in the Air –NP Guided Walk withranger David Smith aroundLockton and Levisham, 6 miles, meet at Locktonopposite cemetery/cricketfield (SE 847 899), booking:01439 772738.

TuE 30 ApR ▶ Shared Tea andMatinee, Church Rooms,Glaisdale, 2.30 pm, £2.Please bring a contributionfor shared tea. Teas andcoffee provided free ofcharge. For film detailsphone 07967 538800 oremail: activites@eskmoorscaring.org.

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ExhibitionsNATIONAL pARKExHIbITIONS at DanbyMoors Centre ‘InspiredBy…’ gallery(Open daily, 10 am–5 pm.Free entry.)

uNTIL MON 22 ApR▶ ‘From What Has Been’,three distinctive artists, whoplace nature and landscape atthe heart of their work. AzadMohammed’s tree-rootsculptures represent birth,death and our own life’sjourney, while other personalexperiences emerge in thework of print-makerCatherine Sutcliffe-Fuller andphotographer Nicola Taylor.

uNTIL MON 22 ApR▶ ‘In Praise of Trees’,Carolyn Smith’s intricatedrawings are inspired byancient trees, which alsoinspire craftsman MickWaring – his natural-edgedbowls are formed fromrescued wood and roots:‘The shapes were always inthere, I just had to findthem.’

SAT 27 ApR–MON 13 MAY▶ ‘Inspirations, Moods &Life – Stories from theMoors’, Landscapephotographer Ian Burtonuses beautiful locations in theNP to make the viewer part of

the story. Meet the artist: Sat27 Apr, 12 noon–3 pm (withharpist Sarah Dean).

NATIONAL pARKExHIbITION at Sutton Bank NationalPark Centre (Open daily, 10.30 am–4.30pm. Free entry.)

uNTIL TuE 16 ApR▶ ‘Echoes of Striation’,Kimberli Werner’s first soloexhibition of mini works ofpaper art based on wildlifesilhouettes and her ‘Trench’series inspired by herexperiences as anarchaeological volunteer.

RYEDALE FOLKMuSEuM Hutton-le-Hole (Opening times until 30Mar: 10 am–4.30 pm (ordusk if earlier). Admissioncharges to the Museum. Freeentry to the GalleryExhibition, a contemporaryarts and crafts space. Moreinformation: 01751 417367.

THE GALLERY (free entry)

▶ Until Sun 28 Apr:Susan Gough: MarkingTime, A contemporaryartist living and working inRyedale. Sue’s new work isabout the passage of time,memory and loss.

MuSEuM ExHIbITION▶ Ongoing: ‘Highlightsof the HarrisonCollection’, forgottenessential artefacts, gadgetsand keepsakes spanning fivecenturies of history,everything from cookingpots to brain surgery tools.

WHITbY MuSEuM(Open Tue–Sun, 9.30am–4.30 pm, lastadmission 4 pm;admission charges apply.More information: 01947602908.)

uNTIL 15 ApR▶ Whitby CommunityCollege CentenaryExhibitionTue 23 Apr–Fri 14 Jun:Saxon Princess Exhibition

pANNETT ART GALLERY(at Whitby Museum, freeentry to Art Gallery)

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ACTINg ▶ Acting Classes forAdults with EVT DirectorMark Stratton at TheRobinson Institute,Glaisdale, Mondays at 7.30pm. For details phone Markon 07968 204218.

ARTs AND CRAfTs ▶ Art Class with JacquiBeaumont from absolutebeginners to seasoned artistswishing to ‘brush up ‘theirskills. Held at the BradburyCentre, Castleton, onThursdays, 9.30–11.30 am,the cost is £30 for six weeks,or £6 drop-in, and you canjoin any time (first class isfree!). More information:07967 538800 or email:activites@eskmoorscaring.org.

▶ Batik Course withHeather Gatt(www.heathergatt. co.uk) atDanby Village Hall, three-week course, starting Fri 19April, 10.30 am–3 pm. Cost:£60 including all materialsand refreshments. Minimum5, maximum 12 people.Course covers batiktechniques and how to useequipment and material,suppliers and usefulreference information.Expect to produce at leasttwo batiks per session.Booking: 07967 538800 oremail: activities@eskmoorscaring.org.

▶ ‘Heather Quilters’:Patchwork group who meetfortnightly in Glaisdale at the

Robinson Institute. Newmembers welcome. For moreinformation contact HannekeWood on 01947 897139(email: heatherquilter@gmail.com).

▶ ‘Knit and Knatter’: Joina group for knitting, sewing,embroidery, etc, onWednesday afternoons atThe Bradbury Centre, 1.30–3.30 pm. Cost: free.

▶ ‘Wensleydale WoolWorkshop’ at The HayshedExperience CIC, Fowl GreenFarm, every Thursday, 10am–3.30 pm. Work withwool straight from the sheepand have a go at washing,dyeing, spinning, felting, etc.All materials provided.Phone Lucy for moreinformation: 01287 669294.

COMPUTERs▶ Computing courses for‘Beginners’ and ‘NextSteps’, 10 am–12 noon and2–4 pm. Courses at BradburyCentre, Castleton, andGlaisdale. More information:07967 538800 or email:activites@eskmoorscaring.org.

CYClINg▶ Bike-It: Bike ride inGuisborough Woods suitablefor all levels and abilitieswith some undulatingterrain: Mon 22 Apr, meetingat visitor centre car park, 10am, cost £4. Transport andbikes are available butlimited. Lead by fullyqualified bike MIAS bikeleaders. Please contact

Emma/Taylor at theBradbury Centre on 07967538800 or email: activites@eskmoorscaring.org.

DANCE▶ Catherine HarlandWebster School of Danceat Castleton Village Hall onFridays and Glaisdale’sRobinson Institute onTuesdays, pre-schoolchildren upwards. ContactCath on 01947 897761.

▶ Tap with Sheila Carter atEgton Village Hall, NewBeginners’ Class, 6.30 pm;Advanced Class at 7.30 pm.Cost: £5. Open to men andwomen aged 16 years andover. For more informationphone Sheila on 07968185821.

gARDENs▶ Upper Esk ValleyGarden Club meets on thefirst Monday in the month atLey Hall, Lealholm, exceptfor outside visits. Newmembers are very welcomeand for more informationtelephone Pauline Elliot on01287 660137 or HeatherMather on 01287 669104.

gUITAR ▶ Phil Cochran teaches allages and abilities on Tuesdayevenings at The BradburyCentre, Castleton, between3.30 and 8.30 pm. He has 15years’ experience playing inlocal bands. Individuallessons are £10 for half anhour. Contact Phil on 07943

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gYM / KEEP fIT▶ Boot Camp, a new fitnessclass at the RobinsonInstitute, Glaisdale. A greatall-round cardio and strengthworkout that will improveyour fitness week on week.Please bring water, towel,gym mat and enthusiasm!Fridays, 6.30–7.30 pm.

▶ Glaisdale’s Own Gym(GOG), Robinson Institute,Thursdays 5.30–6.30 pm,cost £26 for 6 weeks. Groupsessions using steps, gymequipment for all fitnesslevels, ages and abilities.Limited to 14 places.Booking: 07967 538800 oremail: activites@eskmoorscaring.org.

▶ Keep Fit, CastletonVillage Hall, suitable for allabilities and ages, Fridays11–11.45 am, 5 weeks for £10.Call Taylor Scaife for details:07503 159842.

▶ Nordic Walking, withfully qualified instructor andequipment provided. ContactTaylor on 07503 159842 toregister your interest andarrange a mutual date forthose would like to take partin the next course.

▶ Slimdown Programme,on Tuesdays at the BradburyCentre, Castleton, 6.30–7.30pm, running from 23 Apr–16Jul. This programme focuseson improving your bodyshape and health through agreater knowledge of whatyou are eating and when.More information/booking:07967 538800 or email:activites@eskmoorscaring.org.

▶ Technogym, Bradbury

Centre, Castleton, Mondays4.15–5.15 pm; Wednesdays6.15–7.15 pm & 7.30–8.30pm; Tuesdays & Fridays9.15–10.15 am. £22.50/£20for 6 week course. Usingeasy-line range of equipment,class will improve fitness,balance, coordination andtoning. Booking: 07967538800 or email: activites@eskmoorscaring.org.

KARATE▶ Adult Karate Classes inDanby Village Hall from Tue16 Apr, 7–8 pm. All abilitieswelcome – beginners toadvanced.

lOCAl HIsTORY▶ History Group meetingsare held on the secondMonday of the month (fromMay–Nov 2013) atWesterdale Village Hall, 7pm, except for outside visits.For more details phone CarolWilson on 01287 660461.

PlAYREADINg▶ Join the BradburyCentre Playreaders onTuesday mornings, atBradbury Centre, Castleton,10.30 am–12 noon, for afriendly, good humouredreading. Mysteries andcomedies are our preferredchoice – something thatmakes us laugh! Newmembers always welcome.£2 per session. Moreinformation: 07967 538800or email: activites@eskmoorscaring.org.

PHOTOgRAPHY ▶ EskmoorsPhotography Club to beginat the Bradbury Centre,

Castleton. Please phone formore details (07967 538800)or email (activities@eskmoorscaring.org).

POETRY▶ Monthly readings for allthose who enjoy reading,hearing and talking aboutpoetry, held at The Cottage,Glaisdale. Please phone GilesHeron (01947 897691) orNeil Davidson (01947897188) for details.

swIMMINg▶ Keep Active with EskMoors Active (HeatherHopper) Swimmingtrips, Monday mornings atLoftus. Minibus leavesBradbury Centre 9.00,Castleton 9.05, Ainthorpe9.10, Danby 9.15. Cost £1fare + entry fee. Phone 07971268676 for details.

UKUlElE▶ Eskmoors UkuleleClub. All welcome, includingbeginners, meeting at TheFox and Hounds, Ainthorpe,on Wednesdays, 7–9 pm. Formore information phoneChris on 07891 520685.

If you would like your groupor workshop to be includedin this listing, please contactValley News on 01947897945 or email:valleynews@basementpress.com

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WED 1 MAY▶ ‘Pickering Station – itshistory and rebuilding’:talk, 7 pm, Learning Centre,Pickering Station, NYMRailway. Cost: £2.50 inc.refreshments.

FRI 3 MAY▶ Heather HopperConcert Trip to Sage,Booking: 07971 268676.

FRI 3–SuN 5 MAY ▶ Whitby SpringSession More details:www. moorandcoast.co.ukor phone 01947 820408.

FRI 3 MAY–SuN 12 MAY▶ North YorkshireMoors Railway 40th

Anniversary SpringSteam Gala

SAT 4 MAY▶ Friends of EgtonSchool Jumble Sale inEgton Village Hall at 11 am.

SAT 4 MAY▶ New Members’ CoffeeMorning, Whitby Lit. &Phil. Society, WhitbyMuseum, 10 am.

SAT 4–MON 6 MAY▶ ‘All Our Weddings: Acelebration of Weddingsand Marriage’ at StThomas’ Church, Glaisdale,11 am–4 pm (see page 13)

SuN 5 MAY▶ Fox & Hounds Chase,Fell race, starting at Fox &Hounds, Ainthorpe;registration from 9 am for10.30 start. Details on

www.eskvalleyfellclub.org.

TuE 7–SAT 11 MAY▶ ‘The Sound of Music’by Whitby Area MusicalTheatre Co at WhitbyPavilion Theatre, booking:01947 604855 orwww.whitbypavilion.co.uk.

SAT 11 MAY▶ Memorial concert forSister Gillian OHP at StHilda’s Priory, SneatonCastle, 7 pm; tickets £10 ▶ ‘Bless ‘em All’ inassociation with PocketPanto Company at TheRobinson Institute,Glaisdale. Box Office: 01947897587 (www.eskvalleytheatre.co.uk).

SuN 12 MAY▶ Spring Fair and PlantSale in St Matthew’sChurch, Grosmont, 11 am–3.30 pm. Anyone interestedin hiring a table, pleasecontact Hilary on 07929640891, before 29 April.

TuE 14 MAY▶ Lealholm ChapelAnniversary: LealholmChoir concert at 7.15 pmfollowed by supper.

WED 22 MAY▶ ‘A History of Quilting’,talk, Whitby MuseumNormanby Room, 2.15 pm.

MON 27 MAY▶ Lealholm ChapelCoffee Morning andProduce Stall, 10 am–12noon. All welcome.

SAT 8 JuN▶ Esk Moors LodgeSummer Fete, Castleton,2–4 pm.

SAT 15 JuN▶ Glaisdale SafariSupper, organised byGlaisdale School PTFA.More details to follow.

FRI 21 JuN▶ Midsummer SafariSupper – Parish ofGlaisdale with Lealholmand Fryup. Details later.

FRI 21–SAT 22 JuN▶ Whitby Naturalists’‘Bioblitz’ based at WhitbyMuseum.

SAT 29–SuN 30 JuN▶ Glaisdale OpenGardens 2013.

SuN 14 JuL▶ Safari Sunday Lunch,a circular route aroundGlaisdale Dale (walking isan option), sittings to startat 12 noon. In aid ofRobinson Institute funds.More information/to bookphone Sue on 01947897351.

SAT 14–SuN 15 SEpStaithes Arts andHeritage Festival.

FRI 18 OCTAutumn Auction ofPromises and Pie & PeaSupper at Fryup VillageHall, 7 pm, organised byParish of Glaisdale withLealholm and Fryup.Further details later.

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AINTHORpE▶Eskmoors UkuleleClub at the Fox andHounds, Ainthorpe, onWednesdays, 7–9 pm. Allwelcome, includingbeginners. Contact Chris on07891 520685 for details.

bOTTON VILLAGESTEINER SCHOOL▶WednesdaysParent and child group, aged0–4, from 2–4 pm. Seasonalactivities based aroundcrafts, songs and rhymes.Call Rachel Fitzpatrick on07962 985215 for moreinformation.

▶RSPB WildlifeExplorers Club (For age6+) Come along for amorning exploring andlearning about nature. Wemeet on a Saturdaymorning, once a month, 10–11.30 am, in the DiningRoom at Botton VillageSchool, £2 per session. TheClub dates are as follows:20 Apr, 11 May, 22 Jun.Ring Botton Village Schoolon 01287 661206 if youwould like to join.

CASTLETON –bRADbuRY CENTRE, Booking: 07967 538800 or email: activities@eskmoorscaring.org

▶Mondays• Yoga, 9.30–11 am, £30 for

5 weeks (rollingprogramme), beginners

and new participantsalways welcome.

• Armchair Exercise, 3.15–4pm, £10 for 5 weeks inc.tea/coffee.

• Technogym, 4.15–5.15 pm£22.50/£20 for 6 weeks.

• Games Night with RichardDingle, 7 pm, £1 persession.

▶Tuesdays• Technogym, 9.15–10.15

pm, £22.50/£20 for 6weeks.

• Play Reading with MaureenPayne, 10.30 am–12 noon,£2 per session.

• Bridge – Beginnerswelcome, 6.30 pm, £1 persession.

▶Wednesdays• Knitting Club, 1.30–

3.30 pm, free.• Technogym, 6.15–7.15 pm/

7.30–8.30 pm,£22.50/£20 for 6 weeks.

▶Thursdays• Art Class with Jacqui

Beaumont, 9.30–11.30am, £30 for 6 weeks, or £6drop-in, join any time.

• Thursday Get Together,1.30–3.30 pm, free.

▶Fridays• Technogym, 9.15–10.15 am,

£22.50/£20 for 6 weeks

CASTLETON – ESKMOORS CARING Esk Moors Caring LtdCommunity Outreach isnow offering the followingservices at a minimal cost:company in your own home,

including a cuppa and a chat,reminiscence sessions,games and activity;assistance with shopping;taking to visit friends; lunchout; respite for a loved one.If you are interested infinding out more pleasephone Carol or Karen(07582 295136).

Esk Moors Caring is nowoffering a respite flat at EskMoors Lodge, Castleton. Thisis a newly furnished fully self-contained respite flat,bookable by the week. Contactthe Bradbury Centre forfurther details and bookings.

CASTLETON VILLAGE HALL▶Mondays• Stay and Play for under fives,9.30–11.30 am. Free session.All under fives welcome.• Whist Drive, 1.45 pm,second Monday of themonth. A sociable game ofwhist, beginners welcome.Cost £2 inc. tea and biscuits.

▶TuesdaysSinging for Pleasure group,7.30–9 pm, cost £2/session(usually pay in a block of£10). For any ladies whoenjoy singing. We sing allsorts of music, includingshow songs, folk songs,religious music, pop songs . . .Run by Barbara Anderson(music teacher, EskdaleSchool, Whitby), email:barbaradanderson@hotmail.com or phone01287 660828.

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BUS TIMETABLESSH

Lealholm Side 0910 1110 1310 1510 –Lealholm School 0912 1112 1312 1512 –Glaisdale Post Office 0918 1118 1318 1518 –Glaisdale Station 0921 1121 1321 1521 –Egton Bridge 0927 1127 1327 1527 1647Egton Surgery 0930 1130 1330 1530 1650Grosmont Rail Station 0937 1137 1337 1537 1657Sleights Post Office 0947 1147 1347 1547 1707Whitby Westbourne Avenue 0952 1152 1352 1552 1712Whitby Bus station/Langbourne Road 1000 1200 1400 1600 1715

SSH

Whitby Bus station/Langbourne Road 1005 1205 1405 1605 1735Whitby Westbourne Avenue 1010 1210 1410 1610 1740Sleights Post Office 1016 1216 1416 1616 1746Grosmont Rail Station 1026 1226 1426 1626 1756Egton Surgery 1030 1230 1430 1630 1800Egton Bridge 1032 1232 1432 1632 1802Glaisdale Station 1039 1239 1439 – 1809Glaisdale Post Office 1042 1242 1442 – 1812Lealholm School 1048 1248 1448 – 1818Lealholm Side 1050 1250 1450 – 1820

Code SSH: Saturday and Monday to Friday during School Holidays. Please note: NO DOGS ALLOWED

MM && DDMINI-COACH HIRE, Egton16 Seater Coach for Hire • Telephone: 01947 895418

Mon to Sat M’brough dep 0704 1038 1416 1740Commondale 0748 1117 1455 1819Castleton Moor 0752 1120 1458 1822Danby 0755 1123 1501 1825Lealholm 0802 1130 1508 1832Glaisdale 0807 1134 1512 1836Egton 0813 1140 1518 1842Grosmont 0817 1144 1522 1846Sleights 0826 1153 1531 1855Whitby arr 0838 1205 1543 1907

Whitby dep 0850 1241 1600 1915Sleights 0859 1250 1609 1924Grosmont 0907 1258 1617 1932Egton 0910 1301 1621 1935Glaisdale 0914 1305 1625 1939Lealholm 0922 1313 1633 1947Danby 0928 1319 1640 1953Castleton Moor 0931 1322 1644 1956Commondale 0935 1326 1647 2000M’brough arr 1017 1407 1730 2041

Sundays (31 Mar–12 May 2013)M’brough dep 0845 1105 1343 1624Commondale 0924 1146 1425 1706Castleton 0928 1149 1428 1709Danby 0931 1152 1431 1712Lealholm 0937 1159 1438 1719Glaisdale 0942 1203 1442 1723Egton 0948 1209 1448 1729Grosmont 0952 1213 1452 1733Sleights 1001 1222 1501 1742Whitby arr 1012 1234 1513 1754

Whitby dep 1025 1244 1525 1805Sleights 1034 1253 1534 1814Grosmont 1042 1301 1542 1822Egton 1045 1304 1545 1825Glaisdale 1049 1308 1549 1829Lealholm 1057 1316 1557 1837Danby 1103 1322 1603 1843Castleton 1106 1325 1606 1846Commondale 1110 1329 1610 1850M’brough arr 1203 1413 1651 1930

TRAIN sERVICEs – EsK VAllEY RAIlwAY

Traveline Information, tel: 0871 200 22 33 (open daily 7 am to 9 pm); Esk Valley Railway Development

Company, tel: 01947 601987, www.eskvalleyrailway.co.uk (website gives live arrival/departure times)

New ! The Sunday service between Whitby and Middlesbrough will now be running from Sunday 31 March to

3 November inclusive with four return services each Sunday – nearly twice the number of Sundays than last year!

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▶WednesdaysWatercolour painting withKathryn Harrison, 10 am–12 noon. Booking: 01947897803.

▶ThursdaysZumba, 7–8 pm

▶Fridays • Keep Fit, suitable for all

abilities and ages, 11–11.45 am, weekly, 5weeks for £10. Call TaylorScaife for details: 07503159842.

• Catherine Harland WebsterSchool of Dance: pre-school children 3.30–4 pm; boys’ hip hop/streetdance 4–4.45 pm. ContactCath on 897761 or 07855932657 or email catherinewebsert11@hotmail.co.uk.

COMMONDALE – THEHAYSHED ExpERIENCE CICBooking: 01287 669294

▶ThursdaysWensleydale Wool Workshop at Fowl GreenFarm, 10 am–3.30 pm. Workwith wool straight from thesheep and have a go atwashing, dyeing, spinning,felting, etc. All materialsprovided. Phone Lucy for moreinformation: 01287 669294.

DANbY VILLAGE HALLBooking: Jill 01287 660265or Les 01287 660297

▶MondaysBadminton, 7.30 pm(coaching for youngerplayers 6.30 pm in termtime). Players of all abilitieswelcome. Turn up on theevening or contact Martinfor details on 01287 660715.

▶Tuesdays• Karate, 6–7 pm, children

(age 5 plus) £2, adults £3.For details ring SallyannSmith, 01287 660328.• Adult karate classes fromTue 16 Apr, 7–8 pm. Allabilities welcome –beginners to advanced.

▶WednesdaysZumba classes, 6.15–7.15 pm, £4 persession. Contact Jo Collieron 07988 681780 for details.

DANbY SpORTSASSOCIATIONChildren’s Sports Club at thesports field in associationwith Ultimate Soccer,Saturdays 10–11.30 am, £3per child. Details: phone Jo01287 669129.

DANbY SuRGERY▶ThursdaysFree baby play, fun playsessions for parents/carersand babies under one, 9.30–11.30 am. Contact Whitby &District Children’s Centre fordetails: 0845 0349596.

EGTON VILLAGEpLAYING FIELDFly the flag on the largeflagpole in the village on theplaying field for a specialoccasion or a special person.Contact David or SheilaNicolls on 895610. Alldonations for charity.

EGTON VILLAGE HALLBooking: Mrs J. Harrisonat 6 Ingham Close, Sleights,on 01947 811609.

▶Mondays• Social Sequence Dancing,

7–9 pm

▶Tuesdays• Short mat bowling, 7.30 pm

• Whist drive, 7.30 pm (firstTue in each month).

▶Wednesdays• Social Sequence Dancing,

2–4 pm (except first Wedin month)

• Beginners’ line dancing, 7 pm

• Line dancing, 8 pm• Ladies’ Fellowship, 2 pm

(first Wed in each month)

▶Thursdays• Adult Tap Classes,

beginners 6.30–7.25,advanced 7.35 to 8.30 pm,open to both men andwomen. Phone Sheila on07968 185821.

▶Fridays• Dancing to dance group

music, 7.30 pm, £2.50(first Fri in each month –weather permitting)

ESK VALLEYCOMMuNITY LIbRARY (hosted by St Hedda’sSchool, Egton Bridge)The library is open to allmembers of the community.There is a good range ofadult and children’sbooks (provided by NorthYorkshire library service)and it is held in the ParishRooms at the rear of StHedda’s School. Volunteersare always welcome to helprun the Library. Current opening times:Tuesdays and Wednesdays3.15–5.15 pm(throughout the year,weather permitting)Telephone St Hedda’s Schoolfor more information: 01947895361.

FRYup VILLAGE HALL Booking: Ann Ward 01947

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▶TuesdaysInfinite Tai Chi and ChiKung classes, 5.30 pm(moved from Mondays).Please phone 07967890969for booking or furtherinformation.

GLAISDALE – CHuRCHROOMSBooking: Penny Walker01947 897483

▶Glaisdale LuncheonClub first and thirdWednesday of each month.For only £3.50 you will get a very good meal andconvivial conversation! Ifinterested, please phoneBetty Hoggarth on 01947897338.

▶Tue 30 Apr: GlaisdaleShared Tea & Matinee, 2.30 pm, £2 inc. tea/coffee,please bring contributionfor shared tea. Phone oremail for details (07967538800, email: activities@eskmoorscaring.org).

GLAISDALE – RObINSONINSTITuTEBookings: Sue Thompson01947 897351, email:suethompson222@gmail.com, or online atwww.robinsoninstitute.orgHire of hall: £7.50 per hourKitchen hire: £11 per eventKitchen and the cooker: £15

per eventHire of hall for dances and

parties: £10 per hour

▶Mondays• Playgroup, 9 am–12 noon• Zumba fitness class, 6.15–

7.15 pm

▶TuesdaysBallet, 4–8 pm

▶Wednesdays• Patchwork (Heather

Quilters), 17 Apr, 1.30–4.30 pm; 1 May, 10.30 am–4 pm

▶Thursdays• Glaisdale’s Own Gym,

5.30–6.30 pm (bookings:07967 538800)

• Glaisdale WI, 7.30 pm, 11 Apr: Ruth Hutchinson‘My Life with Eggs’

• Parish Council, 7.30 pm, 18 Apr

▶Fridays• Playgroup, 9 am–12 noon • Dalesfolk, 2 pm on 5 & 19

Apr• Whitby Police Rural Safer

Neighbourhoods Teamlocal Police surgeryforthcoming meeting: 19 Apr (2.30 pm)

• Boot Camp, fitness class,6.30–7.30 pm

GROSMONT ▶Grosmont CommunityLibrary in the Old CoffeeShop, Grosmont. Open to allresidents and those fromsurrounding villages. Noobligation to buy coffee.10.30 am–4.30 pm. Phone01947 895754 or checkwww.oldschoolcoffeeshop.co.uk for moredetails.

▶Grosmont GardenGroup monthly meetingsare held on the thirdWednesday of every month,2 pm, at St Matthew’sChurch, Grosmont, exceptfor outside visits. For moredetails email Tamsyn(whin74@ yahoo.co.uk).

▶Grosmont Writers’

Group from 4 April willmeet alternate Thursdaynights in the Crossing Clubfrom 8.30 pm. The group isrun by Anthony Wooten(antony.wootten@gmail.com). Look us up on:grosmontwriters. blogspot.co.uk. New members welcome.

LEALHOLM LEY HALLBookings: Gareth & SallyGibbons, Lealholm VillageShop 01947 897310

▶First Monday in themonthUpper Esk Valley GardenClub meets in the Ley Hallexcept for outside visits. Newmembers are welcome. Formore information phonePauline Elliot on 01287660137 or Heather Matheron 01287 669104.

▶FridaysWatercolour painting withKathryn Harrison, 10 am–12 noon and 1–3 pm.Booking: 01947 897803.

LEALHOLM –SHEpHERD’S HALLTEAROOMS▶Knit and Natter . . .Craft and Chat: Every Thu2–4 pm and every Sat 10 am–12 noon. Friendly group tochat and help each otherwith crafts, knitting,embroidery, crochet,patchwork, etc, or just comefor a natter and company. Allages welcome.

RYEDALE FOLK MuSEuMHutton-le-Hole,booking:01751 417367www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk – learning@ryedalefolk museum. co.uk

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▶Running various craftcourses from Jun–Nov 2013.See www.ryedalefolkmuseum.co.uk for details.

SLEIGHTS CHuRCHHOuSEBookings: PeterMacDonald on 810275

▶Mondays• St John’s mums and

toddlers, 1.30–3 pm,children 0–5 withparent/carer,£1.50/session. For detailsphone Janet on 810275

▶Wednesdays• Whitby Model Railway

Club, 7.30 pm (for detailsphone Mr D. Griffiths on606050 or Mr P. Gallonon 840603)

▶Thursdays• Flower arranging classes, 2 pm• Sleights Singers, a friendly

mixed choir, newmembers welcome, 7.15–9 pm (for details contactErnie Marsden, conductoron 810707).

SLEIGHTS SCHOOL▶Wednesdays• Let’s Play – free play

sessions for under fives withparents/carers during term-time, 9.30–11 am. Phone01609 533819 for details.

▶Thursdays• Baby Play – free play

sessions for under 18months with parents/carers, during term-time,10–11.30 am. Phone 01609533819 for details.

SLEIGHTSSCHOOLROOM▶Tuesdays• Briggswath and Sleights

Methodist Church CraftGroup every Tuesdayafternoon, 2–4 pm.

SLEIGHTS VILLAGEHALLBookings: 07570 413748,email: sleightsvillage@aol.comwww.sleightsvillagehall.com

▶Mondays• Zumba, 6.45 pm• Sleights YCA meeting

(second Monday of themonth), 2 pm, speakers atall meetings. Newmembers and guestswelcome. For detailscontact JeanetteTomlinson on 811331.

▶Wednesdays• Zumba, 8–9 pm

▶Thursdays• Sleights Mums and

Toddlers meet, 1.30–3 pm,children 0–5 years withparent/carer,£1.50/session. For detailsphone Louise on 811937 orCharlotte on 07990907443.

▶Fridays • Dance for Pleasure with

John and Jane, ballroom,Latin and sequencedancing, 7.30–8.15 pm forbeginners; 8.15–10.30 pmfor social dancing for allabilities. Tea and coffeeavailable. Further details contact Jane on896679.

▶Other activities• Ballet (www.

sthildasstudios. com)• Badminton• Dance Classes (phone Jane

on 01947 896679)• Whitby Flower Club• North East Botany Club

(phone Eric Preston on01947 810332)

• Yorkshire Country WomenAssociation (phoneJeanette Tomlinson on01947 811331)

upDALE READINGROOM, ROSEDALE EAST▶Rosedale History Societyinformal monthly ‘Tea, Chat &History’ meetings held on thefirst Sunday of every month,2–4 pm. If weather bad, pleasecheck http://rosedale.ryedaleconnect.org. uk orphone the Secretary on 01751417071.

WESTERDALE VILLAGEHALL▶History Group meetingsare held on Mondays at 7 pm,once a month Spring toAutumn. First meeting thisyear: Monday 13 May –History quiz followed by pieand peas supper.

MObILE LIbRARYThe ‘Supermobile’ (largelibrary bus with Internetaccess) visits Danby andCastleton fortnightly:

▶Thursdays 14 & 28 Mar:• 10.30 am–12.30 pm

Danby Village Hall car park• 2–4 pm Castleton (adjacent

to Old Man’s Park)

HEATHER HOppER TRIpS(Esk Moors Active Ltd)Bookings & pickups in othervillages: 07971 268676email: enquiries@heatherhopper.org.ukwebsite: www.heatherhopper.org.uk

▶Mondays Loftus pool,

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▶Tue 9 Apr Farndaledaffodils & coffee. Pickups:Danby 9.50, Ainthorpe 9.55,Castleton 10.00. Fare £2.

▶Tue 16 Apr Lunch atRoots, East Rounton, plusWhitegates Nursery. Pickups:Glaisdale 10.00, Lealholm10.05, Houlsyke 10.10,Danby 10.15, Ainthorpe10.20, Castleton 10.25,Abbeyfield 10.30. Fare £3.

▶Fri 19 Apr Helmsleyshop and lunch. Pickups:Abbeyfield 9.45, Glaisdale10.00, Lealholm 10.05,Houlsyke 10.10, Danby10.15, Ainthorpe 10.20,Castleton 10.25. Fare £2.

▶Sat 20 Apr EVT SpringDance with ‘Jump, Jive ‘n’Wail, ration bag supper, 8pm–midnight. Pickups:Glaisdale 7.15, Lealholm7.20, Houlsyke 7.25,Ainthorpe 7.40, Castleton7.45. Tickets £12, Fare £1.

▶Tue 23 Apr Lunch atScaling, Pickups: Abbeyfield11.15, Castleton 11.20,Ainthorpe 11.25, Danby11.30, Glaisdale 11.45,Lealholm 11.50. Fare £1.

▶Thu 25 Apr Durham.Pickups: Abbeyfield 9.30,Castleton 9.35, Ainthorpe9.40, Danby 9.45, Lealholm9.55, Glaisdale 10.00. Fare £4.

▶Sat 27 Apr ‘Rutherford& Son’, Stephen JosephTheatre, 2.30 pm. Pickups:Abbeyfield 11.15, Castleton11.20, Ainthorpe 11.25,Danby 11.30, Lealholm11.45, Glaisdale 11.50.

Tickets £10.50, fare £3.

▶Mon 29 Apr CastletonTearooms lunch. Pickups:Glaisdale 12.15, Lealholm12.20, Danby 12.40,Ainthorpe 12.40, MoorlandsPk 12.50. Fare £1.

▶Tue 30 Apr Coffee atShepherd’s Hall, Lealholm.Pickups: Abbeyfield 9.55,Castleton 10.00, Ainthorpe10.05, Danby 10.10,Glaisdale 10.25. Fare £1.

HEATHER HOppERCOMMuNITY bOOKINGSBookings: 07971 268676 oremail: enquiries@heatherhopper org.uk

▶13-passenger seaterminibus available for use bylocal groups and individuals:50p/mile + £10 admin

▶More information:www.heatherhopper.org.uk

buS SERVICES▶M&D Daily WhitbyService – see p. 60.

▶Every Wednesday:Northallerton (Service 27)Times: Egton Memorial0912, Glaisdale Post Office0920, Lealholm PO 0923,Houlsyke 0928, Danby rail0933, Ainthorpe 0935,Castleton PO 0938,Westerdale 0946, Castletonrail 0953, Commondale1001, Great Ayton 1020,Stokesley 1033, arrivingNorthallerton 1058. Returnsfrom Northallerton 1325.

▶Alternate Thursdays: 11 & 25 AprGuisborough Market Day(Service 26) Guide pick-up times:Glaisdale Station (0945),Glaisdale PO (0950),

Lealholm (0953), Houlsyke(0958), Danby Station(1003), Ainthorpe FS (1005),Castleton Down Arms(1008), Westerdale (1016),Castleton Station (1023)

▶Alternate Thursdays: 4 & 18 Apr Whitby (Service 25) Guide pick-up times:Westerdale (0945),Castleton (0950), Ainthorpe,Danby (0955). Returningfrom Whitby 1345.Travel onthis bus must be pre-booked.Phone 01947 606440.

▶MoorsbusThe Moorsbus network runs from 24 March to 27 October, on Sundays andBank Holiday Mondays.Timetables at Danby MoorsCentre, online(www.northyorkmoors.org.uk/moorsbus) or phone01845 597000.

▶Farndale Shuttle Bus tosee Wild Daffodils. A frequentservice from Hutton le Holecar park, 10 am–5 pm, onSundays from 24 March to14 April, plus Good Friday,Easter Saturday and EasterMonday. All day travel £3.

STEAM RAILWAY▶Contact North YorkshireMoors Railway: 01751472508, www.nymr.co.ukServices resume for halfterm, 16–24 February 2013;weekend service in March;daily service 23 Mar–3 Nov

▶Volunteer RecruitmentDay Sun 21 April, LearningCentre Platform 2, Pickering,starting at 10 am.

▶40th AnniversarySpring Steam Gala 3–6May & 10–12 May

wEEKlY sERVICEs

▶ Sacred Heart of Mary RC, Lealholm:Saturday Mass, 6.30 pm Monday & Thursday Morning Mass, 9 am

▶ St Hedda’s RC, Egton Bridge:Sunday Mass, 9 am Wednesday Mass, 7 pm Friday Mass with St Hedda’s RC School, 9.15 am

▶ Danby Methodist Chapel, Sunday Services: 10.30 am

▶ Glaisdale Methodist Chapel, Dale Head, Sunday Services: 10.30 am

▶ Lealholm Methodist Chapel, Sunday Services: 10.30 am

OTHER sERVICEs

▶ Sun 7 Apr 9 am Grosmont, Parish Communion10.30 am Goathland, Parish Communion10.30 am Lealholm, Morning Prayer10.30 am Danby, Group Holy Communion 12 noon Glaisdale, Holy Baptism2.30 pm Westerdale Church, Methodist

Service6 pm Egton, Holy Communion BCP6.30 pm Danby, Evensong BCP

▶ Sun 14 Apr 8 am Commondale, Holy Communion9 am Moorsholm, Holy Communion10.30 am Westerdale, Holy Communion10.30 am Glaisdale, Benefice Holy

Communion 12.15 pm Goathland, Holy Baptism

▶ Sun 21 Apr 10.30 am Egton St Hilda, Confirmation**10.30 am Danby, Holy Communion 2.30 pm Westerdale, Methodist Service6.30 pm Commondale, Evensong BCP

▶ Sun 28 Apr, Rogation Sunday9 am Glaisdale, Parish Communion9 am Moorsholm, Holy Communion10.30 am Egton, Parish Communion 10.30 am Grosmont, Family Worship10.30 am Danby, Holy Communion6 pm Goathland, Parish Communion6.30 pm Commondale, Rogation Service

followed by Supper in the Village Hall

**Confirmation service and visit fromthe Archbishop of YorkOn 21 April at 10.30 am a Confirmation Servicewill take place at St Hilda’s church Egton,presided over by the Archbishop of York. Thiswill be the only service in the benefice that day.Confirmation is always an exciting event in thelife of our parishes and especially so when itinvolves a visit from such an important personas the Archbishop of York. We are hoping thatfour children will be confirmed: Rose, Jessica,David, all from Egton CE School, and Mia fromGlaisdale. Please remember them in yourprayers and come and support them on the dayitself. Light refreshments are being hostedafterwards by Egton School, next to the church,in the classrooms.

Revd Christine Haddon-Reece

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At Your service

CHuRCH DIARY

IMPORTANT EgTON sURgERY PATIENT

INfORMATION 

The Egton Surgery will be upgrading theircomputer software on Thursday 18 April.Although little disruption to the services givento patients is anticipated, it is expected that theservice may be slower than normal until all staffare proficient with the new system. This meansthat it may take longer to book appointmentsand to order and make up prescriptions. Yourappointment with the doctors or nurses mayalso ‘run over’ as they get used to the system.Your patience is asked for whilst the staff workthrough this transitional period. If there are anyconcerns regarding the ‘transition’, please speakto a member of the staff.

NOTICEbOARD

APPOINTMENT Of A

CHURCHwARDEN(s) fOR

sT THOMAs’s CHURCH, glAIsDAlE

From May this post will be available and will berequired to be filled as my term of office comesto its completion. As long as you are a regularCommunicant and attend Church WOULDYOU like to consider this ancient and historicalrole? It is varied, interesting, rewarding and isan important one to help preserve our Churchin our community. Is it doom and gloom?CERTAINLY NOT! We have fun and rewardingtimes. The PCC will welcome you, me too! Dogive me a ring.

Alan Palmer, Churchwarden, 01947897030 (mobile 07958 475483)

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Each horizontaland each verticalline, and eachblock of ninesquares must allcontain thenumbers 1–9only once.

March result

Crossword Compiled by Ann Bowes

Across1. They can be smoked 4. Scrooge was!7. Grows into a frog10. Interfere14. Bureau15. Deep water supply16. Anger18. Instructs not to22. Permit23. Bobbins

Down1. Moorland fuel2. To trudge3. Milk pudding4. Belonging to me5. Sailing vessel6. Red jewel8. Another poisonous snake9. Mail a letter 11. Annoyed13. Edge of pavement

16. A very small amount17. Wicked18. Blemish19. Lions do!20. Lazy21. Droops

MARCHCROsswORD ANswERs:

Across1. Viper 4. Mural 7. Descend10. Tee 14. Gift 15. Fete 16. Irk18. Sawdust 22. Angle 23. Reset

Down1. Void 2. Pips 3. Rice 4. Mend5. Rift 6. Lime 8. Eager 9. Cafe 11. Evens 13. Weed 16. Idea17. King 18. Side 19. Weir 20. Urns21. Tent

puZZLES & ENIGMAS

April crossword competion: £5 to correct solution drawn. Entries by 20 Apr to: The Old Parsonage, Glaisdale, Whitby, YO21 2PL.

Winner for March was Dot Schofield of Ugthorpe.

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UsEfUl NUMbERs

Medical Services▶ Danby Surgery: 01287660739

▶ Egton Surgery: 01947895356

▶ NHS Direct: 0845 46 47

▶ Ambulance: 999

▶ Brotton (East ClevelandHospital) Minor Injuries Unit: 01287 676205

▶ Guisborough MinorInjuries Unit: 01287 284100

▶ James Cook UniversityHospital (Middlesbrough):

01642 850850 (A&E: 01642 854252)

▶ Scarborough Hospital:01723 368111 (A&E 01723 342145)

▶ Whitby Hospital: 01947604851 (Minor Injuries Unit 824238)

▶ Samaritans, for emotionalcrisis support: 08457 909090

▶ Good Neighbours CoastalCar Scheme: 01947 602982

Government▶ North Yorkshire CountyCouncil: 01609 780780

▶ Scarborough BoroughCouncil: 01723 232323

▶ Whitby Town Council:01947 820227

▶ Glaisdale Parish Council:01947 897481; websitewww.glaisdalepc.org.uk

Law Enforcement▶Police Emergencies: 999

▶Non-Emergencies: 101

National park▶North York Moors NationalPark, Helmsley: 01439770657

▶The Moors National ParkCentre, Danby: 01439772737

▶Sutton Bank National ParkCentre: 01845 597426

local Directory

Architectural Services▶ Sarah Stead, MA, RCA, BSc

(Hons, UCL), RIBA, 0795

8033158

bookshop▶ Grosmont Bookshop, new and

second-hand books 01947 895170

building Work & Supplies▶ Pat Featherstone, Lealholm

01947 897626 (mobile 07790

667883)

▶ Stuart Houlston, Glaisdale

01947 897554 (mobile 07791

650925)

▶ Stuart Knaggs Haulage, Ready

Mix Concrete delivered 07545

992301

bus Services & Hire▶ Heather Hopper, 13 passenger

seat mini-bus 07971 268676

▶ M&D Mini-Coach Hire,

Egton, 16-seater for hire 01947

895418

Car & Vehicle▶ Champions, Central Garage,

High Street, Castleton 01287

660203

▶ N. & M. Fletcher Ltd Green

Garage 01947 897237; Honey

Bee Nest 01947 897444

▶ Lealholm Auto Services, John

Cook 01947 897573 (mobile

07889 108901)

▶ Lealholm Service Station

01947 897224

Chimney Sweep▶ Gordon Richardson, Chimney

Sweep 01947 810633

▶ Tony’s Professional Vacuum

Chimney Sweep Service 01947

604736

▶ Dave Williams, Chimney

Sweep 01287 669805

Computer Services▶ Neil Harland, CCT Ltd 01287

660321 (mobile 07929 955045)

Digger Hire▶ Mike Dowson Ltd 01287

669300 (mobile 07968 320524)

Drains

▶ Drain Clearing Services, Steve

Welford, 01947 841359 (mobile

07855 171963)

Driving Instruction▶ Martin Muir, Clearway School

of Motoring 01287 660886

(mobile 0796 9041174)

Education & Learning▶ Whitby U3A (Whitby Whaler),

www.u3asites.org.uk/whitby,

01947 605618 (curriculum) /

01947 810473 (publicity officer)

Eating Out▶ Beck View Tea Room,

Lealholm 01947 897310

▶ The Blacksmiths, Hartoft

01751 417331

▶ The Crown, Hutton-le-Hole

01751 417343

Directory listings £10/year (free to regular advertisers)

Items for Sale & to Give Away may be published free of charge.

Call 01947 897945 or email: valleynews@basementpress.com

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▶ Coach House Inn, Rosedale

Abbey 01751 417208

▶ Shepherd’s Hall, Lealholm,

Tea Rooms & Craft Gallery

01947 897746

▶ Old School Coffee Shop,

Grosmont 01947 895754

▶ Whites Bistro, Broom House,

Egton Bridge, Whitby 01947

895279

Electricians▶ S.I. Electrical, Whitby 01947

825755 (mobile 07582 985176)

Farrier▶ D.A. Elliott Farriers, Glaisdale

078131 28824

Financial Services

▶Family First Financial Services

Ltd 01287 660700/01642

278151 (mob. 07976 250339)

Funeral Directors▶ Robert Harrison & Son, 24-

hour service, ‘Carr End’,

Glaisdale 01947 897249

Galleries▶ The Moors National Park

Centre, Danby 01439 772737

▶ The Gallery, Ryedale Folk

Museum, Hutton-le-Hole 01751

417367

Garden/plants/Landscape▶ C. Ford Grass Cutting Services

Glaisdale 7947993852

▶ J.J. Harrison Landscape

Contractors Ltd, Lealholm

01947 897471

▶ R & B Trees and Gardens,

Glaisdale 01947 897363 (mobile

07967 011416)

▶ Poet’s Cottage Shrub Nursery,

Lealholm, open seven days a

week 01947 897424

Glass Design▶ Joanne Trousdale, Lealholm

01947 897457

Graphic Design▶ John Muir, 01287 660886

(mobile 07929 646999)

Health & Fitness▶ Chi Therapies, Tai Chi & Chi

Kung classes, Oriental Health

Consultations, Sandie Day

07967890969

▶ Danby Physiotherapy, Kieran

Horner, 01287 669815 (mobile

07854 590902),

www.danbyphysiotherapy.co.uk

▶ Sarah Bainbridge,

Bioresonance Practitioner, Life

Waves Practice, Whitby 07884

250430

Ironsmith▶ James Godbold, Wrought

Ironsmith, Egton 01947 895562

Marquee hire▶ Tentz, Ian & David Schofield,

Ugthorpe 01947 897448

(mobile 07890 353678)

Meat & Dairy▶ Botton Creamery, cheeses,

yoghurt and curd cheese, Botton

village 01287 661272

▶ R.H. Ford, Traditional Family

Butcher, Glaisdale High Street

01947 897235

painting classes▶ Kathryn Harrison,

Watercolour Classes and summer

workshops, 01947 897803

pet Services▶ Julie’s Dog Grooming, Julie

Schofield, 01947 897448 (mobile

07814 222473)

plumbing Services▶ Andrew Horton, Plumbing

Services, Castleton 01287

660148

▶ Pete Mesley Plumbing,

Grosmont 01947 841003

(mobile 07891 224718)

▶ Andrew Muir, Plumbing &

Tiling Services, Castleton 01287

660032 (mobile 07772 174331)

post Offices & VillageStores▶ Castleton Post Office

01287 660201

▶ Danby Health Shop

01287 669200

▶ Lealholm Post Office

01947 897224

▶ Lealholm Village Shop

01947 897310

▶ Glaisdale Village Store & Post

Office 01947 897244

▶ Grosmont Co-operative Stores

& Post Office 01947 895223

printing & publishingServices▶ Basement Press, Glaisdale,

www.basementpress.com 01947

897945

▶ Camphill Press, Botton

Village, www.camphillpress.

co.uk 01287 661347

▶ Fryup Press (& photographic

canvas pictures), www.

annbowes.co.uk 01947 897278

Theatre▶ Esk Valley Theatre Box Office

01947 897587

Woodland Management▶ Steffi Schaffler, woodland

management with horses,

bracken bashing, tree work

07851 390378,

steffi.schaffler@gmail.com

Subscriptions: 12 issues for £25 inc. postage/delivery, or reserved for collection at one of the shops listed above for £18.

Call 01947 897945 or email: valleynews@basementpress.com

Valley News is on sale every month at the following stores:

Castleton Post OfficeNo commission Foreign Currency, Car Tax, Banking and Insurance Services.

New, free-to-use Cash Machine. Euros available over the counter.

Visit us also for: Faxing and Photocopying, quality Greetings Cards, Stationery,

traditional Sweets, Jewellery, Maps and Guide Books, DVDs, Toys and Gifts.

Tel. 01287 660201

Danby Health shopOrganic Wholefoods & Vegetables, Local Produce, Speciality Teas & Coffees, Herbs &

Spices, Nutritional Supplements, Essential Oils, Natural Toiletries, Quality Ice Cream

& Beverages, Baking Ingredients, Chilled & Frozen Range, Wheat- & Gluten-free

products. The Collings Family, 1 Briar Hill, Danby, North Yorks YO21 2LZ

Tel. 01287 669200

glaisdale Village store & Post OfficeLottery, Newspapers, Groceries, Fresh Bread, Fruit & Vegetables, etc.

Friendly service for all your daily needs. Lynn Hall

Tel. 01947 897244

grosmont bookshopA good selection of new and second-hand books

Railways, Buses & Trams, Local Maps, Guides & History, Local fiction...

Open at least 10 till 5 daily till end of October

Tel. 01947 895170 – www.grosmontbookshop.co.uk

lealholm Village shopNewspapers, Fresh Bread, Fruit & Vegetables, Groceries, Specialities

Your friendly local shop where we are always happy to help.

Open Monday to Saturday, 8 am–6 pm. Sundays 10 am–5 pm (10 am–3 pm, Oct–Mar)

Tel. 01947 897310 – quercus@btinternet.com

sleights Post OfficeTel. 01947 810435

Subscriptions: 12 issues for £25 inc. postage/delivery, or reserved for collection at one of the shops listed above for £18.

Call 01947 897945 or email: valleynews@basementpress.com

Valley News is on sale every month at the following stores:

Castleton Post OfficeNo commission Foreign Currency, Car Tax, Banking and Insurance Services.

New, free-to-use Cash Machine. Euros available over the counter.

Visit us also for: Faxing and Photocopying, quality Greetings Cards, Stationery,

traditional Sweets, Jewellery, Maps and Guide Books, DVDs, Toys and Gifts.

Tel. 01287 660201

Danby Health shopOrganic Wholefoods & Vegetables, Local Produce, Speciality Teas & Coffees, Herbs &

Spices, Nutritional Supplements, Essential Oils, Natural Toiletries, Quality Ice Cream

& Beverages, Baking Ingredients, Chilled & Frozen Range, Wheat- & Gluten-free

products. The Collings Family, 1 Briar Hill, Danby, North Yorks YO21 2LZ

Tel. 01287 669200

glaisdale Village store & Post OfficeLottery, Newspapers, Groceries, Fresh Bread, Fruit & Vegetables, etc.

Friendly service for all your daily needs. Lynn Hall

Tel. 01947 897244

grosmont bookshopA good selection of new and second-hand books

Railways, Buses & Trams, Local Maps, Guides & History, Local fiction...

Open at least 10 till 5 daily till end of October

Tel. 01947 895170 – www.grosmontbookshop.co.uk

lealholm Village shopNewspapers, Fresh Bread, Fruit & Vegetables, Groceries, Specialities

Your friendly local shop where we are always happy to help.

Open Monday to Saturday, 8 am–6 pm. Sundays 10 am–5 pm (10 am–3 pm, Oct–Mar)

Tel. 01947 897310 – quercus@btinternet.com

sleights Post OfficeTel. 01947 810435