Tuesday 25th November at 7.30 p.m. in Slingsby Village Hall Committee room
The next meeting of Slingsby’s Local History Group will be on Tuesday 25th November at 7.30 p.m. in the Village Hall Committee room when Chris Churches will talk about her continuing researches into the Ward family; on this occasion, Captain William Robert Ward.
This is just a reminder from the website team that those lovely people at the Village Hall are making Christmas easy for you again this year. Don’t forget to get your order in on time.
Slingsby Village Hall Home Baked Christmas Produce
Please note that orders must be in by
Saturday 22nd November
to Dave Calvert, Wheatland Farm, Railway Street, Slingsby.
All produce will be delivered on Saturday 13th December between 8.30am & 10am
An order form should have dropped though your letter box, but if you don’t have one to hand, read on:
Slingsby Village Hall Committee Members are now taking orders for the following home baked produce to be delivered to your home.
Quantity Total
1lb Spice Loaf £2.60
1lb Date & Walnut Loaf £2.60
7” Victoria Sponge filled with jam £3.10
7” Filled Chocolate Cake £3.50
Ginger Loaf £2.50
6 x Mince Pies £1.70
Beetroot Chutney £2.40
Apple Chutney £2.40
Apple & Date Chutney £2.40
Total Payable
Please return your completed forms to:
Dave Calvert, Wheatlands Farm, Railway Street, Slingsby
By Saturday 22nd November
Name………………………………………………………….
Address………………………………………………………..
……………………………………………………….
Produce will be delivered on Saturday 13th December between 8.30am & 10am
Monday 17 November, 7pm, Slingsby Village Hall (Committee room)
The Parish Council meets this evening, as previously scheduled. See below for the Agenda.
Slingsby, South Holme & Fryton Parish Council
Business to be transacted
(To consider and make comments on planning applications received.)
10. Reports (For information only)
Chairs Report.
Clerks Report.
11. Finance.
12. Agree date of next Parish Council Meeting.
Members of the public and press are invited to attend.
Date of next meeting: To be arranged.
Mr C M Adnitt – Clerk to the Parish Council
Margaret MacKinder reports on the latest activities of the Local History Group:
We have been out and about in October looking at lumps and bumps in the open spaces around Slingsby to try to identify what they are, and record them before memories fade. The first outing was thwarted by heavy rain so we worked on maps in The Grapes and marked on the features which Peter Smithson could remember or had heard talked about when he was a boy, but which have now disappeared. It was followed up a week later by a walk around the castle / sports field and moat with Peter and Stephen Prest. Many thanks to Stephen for letting us in to investigate the part of the moat which belongs to Castle Farm.
The heavy limestone walls are more visible on the west side of the moat. Are these the outer walls / ramparts of the original medieval castle? There are also the remains of other walls, now almost buried to the south west of the moat, which enclose another large area of land to the west. We intend to find out more about this and have a talk next spring from an expert in this field.
We walked along the northern part of the sports field and observed the very uneven land just south of the Wath Beck and tracked the line of the original gutter which took water to the moat and ran along the western side of the sports field and bowling green. This has now mainly disappeared. It is difficult now to imagine how this worked as at first glance the levels are misleading. The potential lower level of the ditch only becomes apparent as you walk westwards on the sports field along the edge of the beck.
Peter Smithson also showed us where the communal village sheep wash was. Years ago all the farmers washed their sheep in the stream near to the lawns bridge at a specially constructed platform which they had built. If you look westwards from The Lawns Bridge upstream towards Fryton, you will see a concrete platform on the banks which looks like the remnant of a bridge. The concrete blocks supported a temporary bridge under which the sheep had to be pushed to completely submerge them. A man stood on an alcove dug out of the north bank just beyond the concrete and pulled them round on to dry land on the north side of the beck. If you look carefully in the water you may just be able to see the worn pathway in the bed of the stream. The sheep were then collected up on the field where the Mowbray Oak tree is located.
Our visit to Malton Museum: The group made a special evening visit to Malton Museum in October to hear about their plans and learn about the outreach work they do, and to look at the small, but very informative permanent and temporary displays they have about Malton history. The work done by the volunteers to catalogue the museum’s extensive collections is now about complete and is truly impressive. We hope to be able to forge closer links with them and make use, if possible, of some of their collection in our own local history events. Very many thanks to Margaret Shaw for hosting a very interesting evening for us. The displays are open Tuesdays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The exhibitions change and there are also special events and workshops form time to time. The Friends of Malton Museum also run a series of interesting monthly evening talks on history subject relevant to the area.
Forthcoming Slingsby Local History Group meetings can be found here
Malton (and Helmsley) history lectures are here
Saturday 15 November, 2-4pm, Slingsby
On Saturday, 15th November the Friends of Slingsby School will be holding a jumble sale in the Methodist Chapel School Rooms (2pm – 4pm) and we are looking for donations of clothes, books, bric-a-brac etc to help raise funds for F.O.S.S. We are looking to raise around £5000 this year to continue providing equipment, educational visits/speakers and swimming lessons for the children at Slingsby School.
If you are able to donate anything please drop it at the Methodist Chapel School Rooms between 4pm & 5pm on Friday afternoon. If this time isn’t convenient please contact us and we can arrange an alternative date/time. Any clothing that is left unsold after the jumble sale will be placed into our Bags2School collection – Friday, 21st November – and money raised from that is, again, donated to FOSS.
Thanks very much,
Beki
