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Parish Council meeting in the Village Hall at 7pm on Monday 25th September. The agenda is HERE

Sunday September 24th – Slingsby Methodist Church Harvest Festival service at 10-30am. The  preacher is Rev. Mark Haynes.  Musical items by Slingsby Worship Group.
This will be followed by a Harvest Lunch in the Schoolroom.  Come and celebrate the gathering in of another harvest.  All are welcome .

Wednesday 20th September at 12 noon in Slingsby Methodist Chapel Schoolroom. Soupa lunch – Come along for soup, sandwiches, a pudding and good chat.There is no charge but donations are welcome.  No need to book, just come along, all are welcome.  Contacts are Stephen & Rachel Prest 628277.

Dav and Evan examine the time capsule finds

Tuesday 19th September in Slingsby Village Hall at 7.30 pm. Local History Group meeting.

Dr Dav Smith from the University of York Archaeology Department will show documents and material about Slingsby that he found while researching his PhD on the Victorian rebuilding of the Street churches. This is material LHG has not yet seen.

Also, a review of what LHG found in the Borthwick Institute in August, and discussion on projects for the coming year. All suggestions for things to follow up are welcome.

Anyone interested in joining LHG is welcome.

Friends of Malton Museum lecture on Wednesday 20th September 2017 at 7.30 pm in the Library, East Wing, Malton School, Middlecave Road, Malton

Dr Mary M. Brooks, a textile specialist, will give a talk called “Let them wear milk – mid 20th century fashion, fibres and fascism”.

Admission is free to Friends, others are welcome at a charge of £3.

With war looming, mid-twentieth century politicians in both Allied and Axis countries became anxious about the availability of wool for the military. New textiles made from milk, soya beans and peanuts were developed and promoted as fashionable fibres for the home market.

This lecture will explore the development and making of these fibres and their political and social implications. It will look at how their glossy image contrasted with the reality of mail-order purchasing as well as the problems of wearing and caring for ‘cheesy’ materials which shrank in the wash – and ask why they have slipped so quickly from memory. You will be able to handle samples and garments made from these extraordinary forgotten fibres.