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Is Fracking Safe? Talk

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Tuesday 21 October 7.30pm Slingsby Village Hall

Ian R Crane, an ex-oil company executive with Schlumberger, is giving a series of ten talks on Fracking in North Yorkshire in October and will talk in Slingsby on 21 October. The talk is entitled Is Fracking Safe? and will cover the following topics:

What exactly is fracking?
Could it damage our health?
What impact could fracking have on our water supplies?
How might it affect village life?
Would it reduce our gas bills?
What could fracking mean for farmers and landowners?
Would fracking affect property prices?
What are people’s experiences of fracking in other countries?
What’s the current situation in Ryedale and North Yorkshire?

There will be a Q&A session at the end of each talk.

Refreshments will be available.

Entrance is free and everyone is welcome. Please come along and bring some friends.

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The full list of locations, dates and venues is as follows:

HELMSLEY – WEDNESDAY 8th OCTOBER
Methodist Church, Ashdale Rd, Helmsley, YO62 5DD

KIRBY MISPERTON – THURSDAY 9th OCTOBER
Village Hall, High Row, Kirby Misperton, YO17 6XN

KIRKBYMOORSIDE – FRIDAY 10th OCTOBER
Quaker Meeting House, 79 West End, Kirkbymoorside, YO62 6AD

YORK – SATURDAY 11th OCTOBER
Priory Street Centre, 15 Priory Street, York, YO1 6ET

MALTON – WEDNESDAY 15th OCTOBER
Milton Rooms, Market Place, Malton, YO17 7LX

GILLING EAST – THURSDAY 16th OCTOBER
Village Hall, Pottergate, Gilling East, YO62 4JJ

PICKERING – FRIDAY 17th OCTOBER
War Memorial Hall, Potter Hill, Pickering, YO18 1AA

THORNTON LE DALE – SATURDAY 18th OCTOBER
Village Hall, Pickering Road, Thornton le Dale, YO18 7LG

SLINGSBY – TUESDAY 21st OCTOBER
Village Hall, Church Lane, Slingsby, YO62 4AD

SHERIFF HUTTON – WEDNESDAY 22nd OCTOBER
Village Hall, Finkle Street, Sheriff Hutton, YO60 6RA

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Romans in Ryedale – Conference

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18 October 9.30am, Milton Rooms, Malton

ROMANS IN RYEDALE AND BEYOND

Joint conference by the Roman Antiquities Section (YAS), Malton Museum, Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies and the Friends of Malton Museum

The Milton Rooms, Market Square, Malton YO17 7LX

Saturday 18th October

 

9.30am      Coffee and Registration

10am       Dr Patrick Ottaway – The Roman period in the Yorkshire region:    what really matters in its archaeology?

10.30am   Professor Roger Ling – Wall-paintings in Roman Britain: Malton and beyond

11am         Dr Peter Halkon – Recent research on the Iron Age and Roman landscapes of the western Yorkshire Wolds

11.30am   Dr Pete Wilson – Roman Malton and Norton:   a fort and ‘small town’ and their context

12-1.30     Lunch

1.30pm      Paula Ware – Ryedale: An Explosion of Sites, a mine of information

2pm       Steve Roskams – Roman Wharram Percy: linking site assemblage with landscape change

2.30pm      Rachel Wood – The Crambeck Ware Industry and its Landscape Setting

3pm Coffee

3.30pm      Dr Rob Collins – Roman Ryedale: Patterns and interpretations from Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) data

4pm           Dr Peter Addyman – The Roman Malton Museum: A vision for the future

Discussion

5 – 6pm      Wine reception in Malton Museum rooms

Tea and coffee will be provided.

Contact: [email protected] or 01944 738282

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Tickets: £12,

Roman Antiquities Section members, Roman Society members & Friends of Malton Museum £10

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Please return this booking form (along with a self-addressed, stamped envelope or your email address to receive booking confirmation) to:

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Ryedale Book Festival 2014

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Ryedale Book Festival will be taking place next weekend (11th and 12th October). The first Festival was held in Malton in 2012 and continues to grow each year.

As the Ryedale Book Festival website states:-

‘After an amazing Festival in 2013, the theme of this year’s Ryedale Book Festival is Courage. You can look forward to two inspirational days of readings, discussions, performances, storytelling, workshops, book signings, an independent book fair, music, art, poetry and film.’

Tickets for ticketed events are on sale from The Milton Rooms, telephone 01653 696 240. Advance purchase is advised to avoid disappointment as there are a limited number of seats for these events.

For more details about the festival and the events, or to download a programme, go to the website at www.ryedalebookfestival.com

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Slingsby Mapping session – change of plan

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Saturday 4th October. The Local History Group will now meet in the Grapes at noon (not 10.45am) to look at maps and identify things to record. This change of plan is because of heavy rain forecast for the morning. If the weather situation improves the walk could possibly go ahead in the afternoon, but it may be better to postpone till following weekend.

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The Slingsby local history group will conduct a special village mapping session.

We aim to have a walk around the village with Peter Smithson to identify, photograph and map positions of some of the topographical features which have disappeared, mostly due to ploughing and building changes. The idea is to record our findings on a modern map for future reference.

Meet at the top of Railways Street outside The Grapes at10.45 a.m. Be prepared for rain!

For those who would like to, we aim to finish our tour with a sandwich and discussion in The Grapes afterwards.

We may have a follow-up session on Saturday 11th October if needed.