Ryedale Community Buildings Network Meeting

at Weaverthorpe Village Hall, Main Street, Weaverthorpe, YO17 9HA

on Wednesday 19 September 2018

You are invited to a next Ryedale Community Buildings Network Meeting

This is a free networking meeting at Weaverthorpe Village Hall, on Wednesday, 19 September, 2018, 10.00 am – 12 noon, jointly organised by the Weaverthorpe Village Hall Committee and Community First Yorkshire.  The address is Main Street, Weaverthorpe, YO17 9HA and the village hall is the last building on the left leaving the village towards Helperthorpe.  It is a wooden single storey building with some car parking.

Please follow this link: https://goo.gl/maps/1Yqjj9JYmfq

The hall will be open from 9.30 am for light refreshments and networking, followed by the meeting at 10.00 am and the meeting will close at 12 noon.

The Ryedale Community Building Network (open to all community run venues) is a great opportunity for those involved in running rural community buildings to get together, share their experiences and problems, hear about new resources and policy development, and explore topics of interest in more detail together.

Both Nicky Smith and I will be at the meeting and Nicky is going to talk about how village halls can become more of a hub, with lots of ideas to get you all thinking and funding advice should you wish to develop any of the ideas. Do let me know if you have a topic you would like to feature in the discussion. I will send out the agenda nearer the time.

Please RSVP, the host village hall very kindly donates the hall and provides the refreshments so if we know how many people intend to come that is a great help.

Kathryn Chapman

North Yorkshire Development Officer/Rural Community Buildings Advisor

Please check our website.

Our 2018/19 season is almost here, and the first lecture will be on Wednesday 19^th September, by:

Bob Gwynne 

Associate Curator at the National Railway Museum

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‘The Flying Scotsman’,

the train, the locomotive, the legend, or… why is Flying Scotsman so famous?’

Venue: The Library, Malton School, Middlecave Road, Malton, YO17 7NH at 7.30p.m.

As usual Visitors are very welcome, £3.00. 

We are advised that the mobile Post Office will return to scheduled visits next week, following this weeks absence due to routine maintenance. See more details here.

Music Night at Slingsby Sports Club , Saturday 11th August at 9pm.  Dec Huggate performing live with lots of songs you will all know. Everyone welcome. Admission free.

As usual there is no meeting in August, but we shall be particularly busy in September.

Date to be arranged: We are currently waiting for permission from Castle Howard to undertake a geophysical survey of the sports field by members of the University of York Geophysics team, led by Dr Helen Goodchild. We hope this will be a ‘hands-on’ session and that we will find traces of the old drainage systems. Further survey work on the castle is also planned and we hope to have final results to present at our regular December meeting at The Grapes. The date of this will be confirmed. – please watch the website for more information!

Tuesday 18^th September  – A talk on the History and symbolism of graveyard headstones by Professor Harold Mytum (University of Liverpool). Harold has written and lectured extensively on this subject. His lectures are both entertaining and very interesting and shed light on long forgotten facts about what was put on gravestones and the hidden social history that can be gleaned from them. 7.30 p.m. in Slingsby village Hall.  Entrance £3.

This ties in with a recording session programmed to take place on Saturday 22^nd September, when a team led by Dr Nicole Smith from the Centre for Digital Heritage (University of York) will carry out a survey of the gravestones in the churchyard and let them on a plan for identification. This is part of a current project promoted by Historic England to develop reliable methods of recording churchyards.  

The team will be using the Reflectance Transformation Imaging method of photography which enables small and hidden detail to be identified on surfaces, using any type of camera. Slingsby churchyard will be the first to be studied, and the work will be very useful to our developing project on the churchyard. Members of the team visited several years ago and demonstrated the technique. This is an opportunity to for an update for those who came to the workshop or for those who would like to understand the technique to look in and see how it is done. From 10 a.m. refreshments will be available.

Tuesday 16^th October. Influential Slingsby Vicars. An update from Chris Churches and David Thornley on research they have done respectively on the Ward Family and Arthur Sinclair Brooke. The Ward family were about in the 18^th century and owned Slingsby Hall. Chris has fascinating stories to tell about them, which also dispel some myths. Brooke was a very popular rector, who also wrote Slingsby and Slingsby Castle, accurately researched in the late Victorian period, but still very informative and relevant today. 7.30 p.m. Village Hall Committee Room.

Meetings are open to all. Unless otherwise stated, a minimum charge of £1 is made for each meeting to cover the cost, where necessary for room hire. If you wish to receive regular news of meetings by email, please sign-up to do so at any meeting.