Tuesday 16th October 2012, 7.30 p.m. in the Village Hall.
Planning meeting for projects up to Easter 2013, and an opportunity to continue the study theme from the September meeting (old property documents).
More about this and the November meeting HERE
Looking along Railway Street circa 1890. In the background is The Grapes Pub
Towards the end of August, the website team received a very interesting email concerning a collection of old glass negatives featuring Slingsby. The images were from the late Victorian and early Edwardian period, were large and small glass negatives, and featured Slingsby street scenes and numerous portraits of possible residents of the parish from that era. In all the collection came to over 120 images and were found at an auction in Saltburn.
Fortunately for the website, we had been contacted by Mr Bob Noble who had purchased the collection, managed to identify the street scenes as Slingsby and has kindly sent a DVD with high quality digital scans of this fragile negative collection. While the Victorian street scenes remain familiar to residents, the portraits contained with the photo collection are more of a mystery. Who are these people? What happened to them?
The website aims to try and find out. Over the coming weeks and months, we will be adding these images to the Flickr feed with the hope that someone will be able put a name to a face. If you think you can help identify some of these people, keep an eye open for regular updates on the village Flickr feed.
Finally a massive thank you must go to Mr Noble for contacting the website about these images and sending us the DVD.
To see a larger version of the photo and check out the other street scenes, go to the new gallery page HERE
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
Saturday 29 September, 10am till noon, Worsley Arms, Hovingham
Hope you can come along and give us your support. We have a super raffle with many prizes donated by the Worsley Arms suppliers, including a round of golf, fruit basket, booze and much more!
Gwyn Green, [email [email protected]]
Helmsley Folk Weekend, described as ‘a long weekend of great music events in the beautiful North York Moors at Helmsley Arts Centre’, is on THIS weekend with plenty of artists lined up to play.
For the event schedule, details on the bands playing and ticket information go to the Helmsley Folk Weekend website at http://www.helmsleyfolkweekend.co.uk
Slingsby Badminton Club’s new season starts on Monday 15th October at 7.30pm in Slingsby Village Hall. We are a mixed age group with varying levels of skills. Our matches are played on Monday evenings from autumn to Easter. If you are interested please come along. There is no annual subscription and you only pay for each session you play. We are a friendly bunch and new members are very welcome.
More information from Janet on tel 628625 or Barbara on tel 628107.
On Sunday 30th September, a Harvest Festival Service led by Rev David Emison will take place at Slingsby Methodist Church at 10.30am
It will be followed by a bring and share lunch.
