Tuesday 19^th June. Steve Moorhouse, an expert in the interpretation of historic landscapes, will give an illustrated lecture on Slingsby Castle and its landscape. At 7 p.m. in the main hall of the Village Hall.  (Please note the earlier time). Entrance £3.

Tuesday 17^th July. NB. MEETING POSTPONED TO 16 OCTOBER  7:30pm in the Village Hall committee room. 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.

WEDNESDAY 18TH JULY at 6pm we have an opportunity to visit Shandy Hall, Coxwold, home of Lawrence Sterne, author of ‘Tristram Shandy’.

The building itself is a real gem and we will have the benefit of a private tour of the house and garden by Director, Patrick Wildgust. Patrick will also share one of the really creative activities inspired by Tristram Shandy with us…his moth trapping activity. He’ll set the traps the night before and we can hope to see some really interesting examples of the local varieties with his expert knowledge to guide us.

Cost will be £7.50 per person and we hope to lift share, leaving Slingsby at about 5.15pm.

Local History 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. We have a break in August.

Car Boot Sale on Sunday 10th June on Slingsby’s sportsfield, from 7 am to 2 pm.
Satnav – use YO62 4AW

For more information and all the car boot sale dates for this year, please go to the sportsfield page HERE

by Margaret Mackinder

Slingsby Local History group has, as planned, helped Malton Museum with its current Malton goes to Market exhibition. Maurag Carmichael and Margaret Mackinder have recorded interviews of peoples’ memories of shops and the market in Malton. These have now been edited and maybe heard at Malton Museum in Yorksersgate. Slingsby contributors are Maurice Woollons, Freda Ware and Stephen and David Prest.  They are great interviews and definitely worth a listen.  If you have memories you would like to contribute, please let us know.

The Museum is open at the moment from Thursdays to Saturdays, 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. up to mid-October. Entry is free, but donations are welcome. Please do go along and have a listen to the interviews! The Market project will end after this season and a completely new exhibition is planned for 2019, so don’t miss this one.

REGRETTABLY, THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED – AS EXPLAINED HERE: https://www.slingsbyvillage.co.uk/news/pet-service-cancellation-sunday-8th-july/

There will be a Pet Service at Slingsby Village Church on Sunday 8^th July 2018. You can bring along any pets or even your favourite Teddy! Refreshments will be served by the Chapel and Church volunteers from both Hovingham and Slingsby.

The next gardens of the season to open on behalf of the Arboretum, open this weekend in Westow (Paddock Cottage) and Wintringham (The Old Smythy), for more information on all open gardens click here

For the full June newsletter with details of a trip to the Palace, plant sales and gardening talks click here.

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Following requests, the Local History Group is reprinting the illustrated Village Trail which proved to be very popular last year. All 500 copies disappeared rapidly!

It will be available from the end of May, at the latest. As this year there is no grant to fund the printing this time, a £1 per copy will be charged. This will enable the group  to make a small profit towards the goal of buying a secure archive cabinet to store local history information in the church for current and future generations of local residents to use.

The trail will be available from the Village Shop and on the caravan sites. For mail orders, contact Margaret on 01653 697010, email [email protected] The post and packing charge is £1 (1-3 leaflets) or £2 (4-8 leaflets).