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Malton museum has a number of talks and workshops taking place over July and August :-

• July 17th Andy Woods, Numismatist from Yorkshire Museum Trust “Emperors, Gods and Hoards” An introduction to Roman coinage. £15 per person, includes lunch.

• July 19th Dr Rick Jones from Leeds University will give a guided walk around the Roman fort site at Orchard Fields. Adults £5

Workshops for ALL- linked to the Terrific Trades Exhibition in the Subscription Rooms, Yorkersgate, Malton. To run between 10.30am and 4pm.. Entry is free, but children under 8 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.

• Thursday July 31st Lynn Murrell Malton Sewing Bee

“The farmer’s in his den” – creating in fabric and thread. The workshop will look at farming in Ryedale for inspirations, and is suitable for children aged 8 upwards.

•  Thursday August 7th Alison Williams

“Burning the midnight oil” – a pottery workshop looking at how people have created ways to light their workspace. Come and make your own Roman style clay oil lamp.

• Thursday August 14th Sarah Maultby & Michelle Petyt

“Making it fizz!” A practical look at the history of making sparkling soft drinks in Malton. Have a go too!

• Friday August 22nd Keith Matthews

“Shield walls and how to get round them!” Be a Roman soldier for a day. Join the Norman soldiers from France. Learn battle tactics and have a go at making chain mail.

• Friday August 29th Rachel Matthews

“Twisting Threads” creating decorative and usefulm braids, cords and plaits from medieval times. A hands on day.

More information for all of these events can be found at www.maltonmuseum.co.uk or phone 01653 697845

Ryedale’s cultural high point is upon us once again. Great houses, abbeys, historic churches, and beautiful landscapes will resound to music for over two weeks.

The 33^rd Ryedale Festival starts on Friday 11^th July at 8pm in Ampleforth Abbey. The Ampleforth monks and the 24 Choir sing Monteverdi’s magnificent Vespers.

Though many of this year’s concerts are near sell-out, there are still tickets available for this Ampleforth opener and the events listed below:

Saturday 12^th July 11am. Pickering Kirk Theatre, Alice in Wonderland by Box Tale Soup (family event).

Sunday 13 July, 3.30pm. Easingwold Galtres Centre, An Audience with Carol Ann Duffy (the Poet Laureate). Music from John Sampson.

Sunday 13 July, 8.00pm. Duncombe Park Saloon, Nicholas Daniel (“one the world’s finest oboists”) and Charles Owen (piano)

Monday 14 July 11am. Birdsall St Mary’s Church, Adam Walker (flute) and Morgan Szymanski (guitar).

Tuesday 15 July, 3.30pm. Malton St Michael’s Church, Clare Hammond (piano) playing Bach, Ravel etc.

Thursday 24 July 3pm and 7.30pm. Queen Margaret’s School, Escrick, Richard Rodgers Day. Two concerts with a picnic opportunity in a delightful setting.

Friday 25 July, 11am. St Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton, “Piano Postcards from Italy”.

Box Office 01751 475777  Email: [email protected] 

For full details of all concerts and how to book, visit the Ryedale Festival website: http://www.ryedalefestival.com/

The Tour de France may not have made its way through Slingsby but that didn’t stop the celebrations with the Triangle’s Keith Buck putting on a very nice TdF themed display. Keith also sent in this nice summary of the weekend’s events:-

Morning All, Having watched all 13 hours of the live TV broadcasts of the Yorkshire stages I am ready for a rest day myself!

What a marvellous job Gary Verity did. I don’t think anybody imagined that road side spectator numbers over the two days would top 3 million. The T de F goes out to 190 countries with viewing figures of 3.9 billion. Guess we might see a few more tourists.

I think you might be right there Keith.

Over the weekend, the Slingsby Twitter feed posted some photos and links (if you haven’t already, it’s always worth checking the village Twitter page for interesting local news, photos and links etc) from Le Tour but we will link them here just in case you missed them.

All the best shots from today's #TDF stage are in our gallery. Relive the day two action here: http://t.co/NIxEDAPdqb pic.twitter.com/TIWpRsCfPW

— INEOS Grenadiers (@INEOSGrenadiers) July 6, 2014

York racecourse was packed for the start of #TDF stage 2. Tour boss Christian Prudhomme: "Incredible, unbelievable." pic.twitter.com/52h6Q29V2x

— Cycling Weekly (@cyclingweekly) July 6, 2014

What a turn out by @York_Minster today. Such a fantastic atmosphere too. Well done those involved. #TDF pic.twitter.com/ugNQxza7DC

— Tour de Yorkshire 🚴 (@letouryorkshire) July 6, 2014

Check out the best photos from Stage 2 of the Tour de France in Yorkshire: http://t.co/oKmjIYaW7E #TDF pic.twitter.com/gcqhY8Ol1S

— ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 6, 2014

The Local History Group’s publication has now sold out, again! A further 50 were printed after the initial two print runs sold out but now these have all gone too. Tony Hodgson at the village shop has offered to keep an ‘order list’ if anyone still wants a copy but there will not be a reprint until there are about 25 on the list. Altogether 200 have been sold, raising a total of £1,350 for a village project.

This month’s photo of the month is slightly special. It’s a tintype image, or more accurately it’s a digital photo in the visual style of a hand coloured tintype photo. The photo was taken while on a walk along mucky lane.

The tintype photo process, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, dates back to the Victorian era, being at its most popular during the 1860’s and 1870’s. There are some photographers who use tintype today but it is a rather specialised process that needs a lot of practice and care to get good results.

The original Victorian process used several highly toxic ingredients including potassium cyanide as a fixer. Modern photo chemicals now, thankfully, make the work much easier and safer. Even more convenient, photography software enables photographers to create tintype style images, just like the one above, without the use of chemicals.

Do you have a great photograph you’d like to share with us?

If you’d like to submit an image for the photo of the month slot, you can send it to [email protected]

More details about how to submit photographs can be found HERE