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.

Saturday 16th September in Coneysthorpe Village Hall, doors 7.15pm. The Lewis Hamilton Band.

Bar, raffle and snacks. All proceeds to the Hall and Chapel Restoration Fund.

Tickets £7.50. Please contact Sarah on 07967 159 630 or email [email protected]

Tuesday 12th September between 9 and 10 am in Railway Street, Slingsby. An opportunity to speak to local police officers PC Jane Jones and PCSO Nicki Pounder.

(This event is also planned for Tuesday 10th October and Tuesday 12th December, same place and time.)

Harvest Festival | Photo by Steve Allen

Slingsby South Holme and Fryton Produce and Pumpkin Show at Slingsby Village Hall on Saturday 16th September. Open to the public from 2 p.m.

Entry forms for the Show are available from Slingsby Village Shop, or from Trudy Carr at Mowbray Rise, Green Dyke Lane, Slingsby, and must be returned to Trudy before 8 p.m. on Wednesday 13th September.

There will be a raffle and teas. Admission is free, although donations will be gratefully accepted.

There will be some new classes including lemon drizzle loaf, 6 shortbread fingers, 8oz jar of bramble jelly, photograph of wildlife, photograph of scene/event in Slingsby, 4 coloured potatoes, decorated vegetables or fruit animal by children of any age.