Malton and Norton household waste recycling centre will be closed from Monday 6 March 2017 for essential concrete works. The site will reopen on Monday 20 March 2017.
(Nearest open one during this time will be Wombleton)
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Hovingham Market 4th March 2017
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Hovingham Village Market, with local food, rural crafts & community café, on Saturday 4th March 2017 from 10.30am to 1.30pm.
Archaeologists will be at the Market, interested in locally found pottery from fields or gardens – if you have any and want to know more please bring it for them to look at.
The Market website is HERE, it’s also on Facebook and Twitter
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Methodist Church Gift day 25th February 2017
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Saturday 25th February from 10 am to noon. Gift Day at Slingsby Methodist Chapel. The purpose is to raise funds towards the £8,000 needed to update the kitchen, to accommodate growing Community activities such as the monthly Soupa lunch, Sunday lunches, Slingsby Ladies Group, TeaSpot, School Assemblies and exams, May Day celebrations etc.
Please come along if you can to give a donation and have a cup of coffee and cake.
More details are in the Chapel’s appeal letter HERE– including how to give if you cannot come on the day.
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Talk by Melanie Giles on Iron Age Slingsby -21st February 2017
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21st February at 7.30 pm in the Village Hall. Dr Melanie Giles will give an illustrated talk on the Iron Age archaeology of Slingsby with its barrow cemetery, set in the wider context of East Yorkshire’s prehistoric past. She will also share news of some of her recent discoveries such as the Acklam warrior. Admission £3.
Melanie Giles, is a Senior Lecturer at Manchester University, author of ‘A Forged Glamour: Landscape, Identity and Material Culture in the Iron Age’, and a contributor to BBC History programmes A History of Ancient Britain and Meet the Ancestors, and to Channel 4’s Murder in the Iron Age.
If you have any objects or items that you may be interested in showing Mel, please do bring them along to the session.
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Slingsby from the air – snapshots in time
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Aerial view of Slingsby from NE | Photo provided by Geoff Brooks
Geoff Brooks has sent us these two aerial photographs of Slingsby and would be interested to know if anyone can date them.
There are quite a lot of clues here, as Geoff points out:
“These aerial photos emerged when we were clearing out some drawers. They seem to have been taken on the same day but there is no date on them. I think they are from the early nineties but it would be useful if anyone could narrow the year down by looking at any clues the pictures might hold. The ‘new’ houses in Church Lane had been built but those beside the Reading Room had not. Perry’s coaches still used the yard full time, the trees on the Green had just been pollarded, the swimming pool at the rear of Lindon House had not been covered in and Richardson’s yard was still being used for haulage. There is a distinct lack of cars, particularly noticeable in the Green Crescent compared with today.”
Aerial view of central Slingsby, early 1990s? | Photo provided by Geoff Brooks
Please let us know at [email protected] if you think you can date these photographs.
Geoff’s latest walks for February and March have just been published on our walks page. Thanks Geoff!
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Dark Skies Festival 18th to 26th February 2017
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Star Trail in Slingsby | Photo by Steve Allen
18th to 26th February at various places. National Parks Dark Skies Festival 2017. For events organised by North York Moors National Park see HERE.
Local events for us include:-
18th February – Have a go holidays (Sutton Bank)
18th February – Stargazing evening (Yorkshire Arboretum)
25th February – Dark Skies at Sutton Bank
4th March – Stargazing and night time nature walk (Rievaulx Terrace)