Pip’s Patch

There’s just a few days to go to see the exhibition of cinema memorabilia at Leyburn’s The Old School House – like this cartoon of women cycling from Aysgarth to see a film back in the 1930s. For more about the exhibitions at TOSH see my post…

A farmer from Wharfedale, Colin Lister, provided one of the most memorable episodes at a YDNPA planning committee when he described why it was so much more difficult for hill farmers these days (see the YDNPA June report). At the July planning committee meeting permission was granted for him to construct a new shed so that his sheep do not have to be driven down from the high pastures and across the main road at Starbotton.  

The June  report also includes an update about Tim’s Barn at Gayle. In January residents in Wensleydale discussed on Facebook the possibility of organising a protest march to the YDNPA offices in Bainbridge because they were so angry about the way that barn had been converted. 

Concert – the concert by cellist Matthew Forbes at the Friends Meeting House, Bainbridge, on July 15, has unfortunately had to be cancelled. 

A&E unit at Darlington:  I had a couple of shouts as a community first responder in the past few months and those, yet again, underlined the importance of retaining a full A&E department at Darlington Memorial Hospital. Even that involves an hour long journey from Upper Wensleydale. But if everything is centred on the James Cook University hospital in Middlesbrough the journey time will be doubled.

I do like it when this website provides the means for old friends to reconnect with each other. This especially happened during 2016 for Graham and Mary Watts, and was the means by which Catherine Conrad could have flowers delivered to a grave at Aysgarth churchyard.  See Connections. 

For details of services in the Penhill Benefice in mid Wensleydale at St Andrew’s, Aysgarth;  St Bartholomew’s, West Witton; St Margaret’s, Preston under Scar; St Mary’s, Redmire;  and  St Oswald’s, Castle Bolton and the Mission Room at Thornton Rust see Penhill Benefice. The Remembrance Display at St Andrew’s church continues and for more about those from Wensleydale who were affected by the 1st World War see In Remembrance.

I also enjoy attending Quaker meetings with my partner, David. Those at Bainbridge Friends Meeting House are at 10.30am on Sundays, except for the last Sunday in the month when they are 10.45am at Countersett Friends Meeting House.

For more details see Quakers/Bainbridge. My interest in the Quakers began with my research about the pioneers of girls’ education (see The Quaker Inheritance )

For some of my albums on Flickr see: Tour de France in Wensleydale, Aysgarth church flower festival, NE Mercedes-Benz Club Aysgarth Run 2014, Queen’s Jubilee Celebrations in  Aysgarth 2012 , Olympic Torch at Aysgarth Falls and Anne Barlow – Aysgarth’s centenarian.  Also N E Mercedes-Benz Club at RAF Leeming