DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

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JUNE7-13 Holiday: Dubrovnik and Split 8 Short walk: Marton cum Grafton17 Full-day walk: Saltburn28 Visit: The Silk Museum & Paradise Mill in Macclesfield and Gawsworth Hall 28 Drop-in lunch, Walmgate Ale House & Bistro from 12 noon 30 Summer Fair at St Crux, The Shambles, York from 10 o’clock

JULY 11 Short-walk: Beningbrough woods and the River Ouse18 Visit: Belsay Hall, Castle & Gardens22 Full-day walk: Coverdale/Wensleydale26 Drop-in lunch, Walmgate Ale House & Bistro from 12 noon

AUGUST 8 Summer Garden Party, Goddards15 Short-walk: ‘Medieval Walk’ from Fountains Abbey16 Holiday: Dumfries & Galloway24 Visit: Kilburn and Ampleforth Abbey30 Drop-in lunch, Walmgate Ale House & Bistro from 12 noon

SEPTEMBER9 Full-day walk: North Stainley to Masham 13 Short walk: Hole of Horcum, Blakey Topping and Marlow Cross. 20 Visit: Patrington and Holmpton Bunker27 Drop-in lunch, Walmgate Ale House & Bistro from 12 noon

Please send contributions and photographs for the September Newsletter to Catherine Brophy newsletter@yant.org.uk by Wednesday 9th August. June 2017 Number 181

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and balconies, in a mixture of styles. We also visited the National Palace, in the centre of town. It started as a Moorish fort, but major parts date back to royal renovation projects from the 13th century onwards. Much of its decoration is spectacular, especially a room with 27 swans painted on the ceiling and another with 136 magpies, this latter thought to represent the king’s view of the gossiping women at court! We visited two other spectacular World Heritage Sites, the Mosteiros dos Jeronimos, in Lisbon, and the Mosteiro de Batalha. Both show off the Manueline style of decoration, with various fruits carved on columns as well as ropes and other features of naval architecture. Mosteiro de Batalha was built and re-decorated over a long period, hence the tributes to a king who reigned long after the building was started. From Lisbon we spent a day in the town of Evora, halfway to the Spanish border. There we viewed a well-preserved Roman temple with 14 granite Corinthian columns and a church with tiled interior walls showing scenes from the life of the founder of the religious order, which created the church. Near Evora, we visited a double Neolithic stone circle on a peaceful hillside, and then a menhir, a single standing stone. These structures were a reminder that the area was populated around seven thousand years ago. Farther north, we visited Citania de Briteiros, the site of a fortified hill town with settlement from the Iron Age onwards. On our way north from Lisbon to Porto we visited Coimbra and the historic campus of its university, where we saw the examination hall and the old library which is now a museum. The examination hall was interesting, with a decorated wooden ceiling and many portraits of royalty and former rectors of the university. However, the library was incredibly beautiful, with bookcases decorated with gold leaf and ceilings covered in frescoes. From Coimbra we visited the Roman site of Conimbriga and In Porto we visited Taylor’s port lodge, where we toured their excellent museum about the making of port and then sampled two kinds of port.

Sheila McKilligan

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Contents Page

Chairman’s Letter 3 St Crux Summer Fair 4 Presentation to NT 4 Membership 5 Drop-in lunches 5 Talks and reviews 6 Day trips 8 Social and Fundraising Events 12 Country walks 14 Holidays 18 Holiday review: Springtime in Portugal 19 Dates for your Diary Back cover

With this Newsletter you should find booking forms for the following:

• Summer Garden Party 8th August • 2017 day trips (2 sheets)

• 2017 full-day walks

Please contact the Secretary if any of these are missing.

Chairman: Roger King chair@yant.org.uk 01904 761274

Secretary: Jean Haywood secretary@yant.org.uk 01904 702402

Treasurer: Roger Mortimer treasurer@yant.org.uk 01757 268118

Membership: Elinor Bailey membership@yant.org.uk 01347 821262

Day Trips: Colin Sherwood trips@yant.org.uk 01904 640915

Walks: Alison Rutter walks@yant.org.uk 01904 703430

Holidays: Peter Drew holidays@yant.org.uk 01904 702285

Events: Christine Truman social@yant.org.uk 01937 541163

Website: Mike Morrow web@yant.org.uk 01904 654546

Talks: Roger Armistead talks@yant.org.uk 01904 622989

Newsletter: Catherine Brophy newsletter@yant.org.uk 01904 331273

Cover: Enjoying afternoon tea at Goddards ©National Trust Images/Chris Lacey

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New and old members are reminded that all this year’s holiday details are available on the YANT website, including booking forms. New: - Holiday reviews, itineraries and photos of past trips this year are also available to relive the wonderful times we had.

Peter Drew

Review: Springtime in Portugal from 2nd to 10th April 2017.

A longer version of this review is available on the YANT website Our holiday to Portugal was excellent. The weather was warm and sunny and the places we saw were widely diversified and very interesting. One unforgettable experience in Lisbon was our visit to the Gulbenkian Museum and the collection’s many beautiful artefacts, which were very well displayed in spacious surroundings. Both Lisbon and Porto have lots of hills but a particularly hilly place was the World Heritage Site of Sintra, where we visited the hilltop Pena Palace, a former monastery taken over and extended by the royal family in the 19th century. Its architecture was fantastic, with towers

Glasgow Christmas Special – 5-7 December 2017 We are pleased to confirm that our show on the pre-Christmas tour to Glasgow will be John Wilson and his Orchestra at the Royal Concert Hall, performing a selection of timeless classics from the golden days of the MGM film musicals. In order to include this performance we have changed the dates of the holiday to 5-7 December 2017. The price remains at £339 (£399 for singles) and includes:

Two nights’ dinner, bed and breakfast at the 3-star Pond Hotel, Glasgow

Lunch at the Garfield House Hotel on first day

Comfortable coaching throughout

Tour of Glasgow; tickets for John Wilson at the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow; tour of the Trossachs with a Christmas Lunch Services of a Brightwater Holidays Tour Manager

Porterage and gratuities Full Itinerary details available on the YANT Website, Holidays Section

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Chairman's Letter

The feedback from our second AGM at the Hilton Hotel, attended by 81 members, was again positive and a booking has already been made for the next AGM. Undoubtedly, the highlight was the superbly illustrated and entertaining talk by Dick Reid, embracing his life's work as a master carver and sculptor. We welcome Carole Wright, as a new valuable member of the main committee; Carole is already the Treasurer of the Projects Committee and has served that group for several years. I was personally disappointed that there are no new members on the Association Committee. Likewise, the role of Web Officer has been taken on by Mike Morrow, another long serving member of the Projects Committee. Any help you can offer for the sub committees i.e., the Projects, Programme and Walks Committees chaired respectively by Christine Truman, Colin Sherwood and Alison Rutter would be warmly welcomed. We also need a successor to Roger Armistead as Talks Organiser. This is not an onerous task since members suggest speakers. To encourage someone to consider taking on this position the bookings and programme for the 2017/2018 season has been finalised. Nominations of possible future speakers can be sent, for now, to Colin Sherwood or myself. Elsewhere you will read about the very enjoyable Tea Dance organised by the Projects Committee, which included a splendid traditional tea of sandwiches, scones and cakes, accompanied by music of a bygone age, meaning, for me (and I think, for many others) the ever popular and memorable songs of the 40s, 50s and 60s. As membership numbers have reduced this year please can you encourage family, friends, colleagues and neighbours to join YANT. Remember that you can now join YANT without being a member of the NT. Finally, in the hope of a summer of good weather I hope to see you on a trip and/or at the garden party. Roger King

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There will be a short lunch stop en route but refreshments can be bought at Fountains Abbey cafe at the end of the walk. Parking and toilets are available at Fountains Abbey. Leaders Alison and Nigel Rutter. Tel. 07523 944065 for further details. Wednesday, 13 September, Hole of Horcum, Blakey Topping and Marlow Cross The walk starts at Saltergate Brow car park , opposite the Hole of Horcum, at 10.30 am.Toilets and pre-booking of lunch at the Fox and Rabbit Pub on the Whitby /Pickering road at 10.15 am. The walk crosses Moor and farmland (in the opposite direction to the Hole of Horcum, and is easy apart from one optional steep climb. The heather is usually in flower in September. Walk leader Sally Mayo who can be contacted on 01904 490374 for further details. Please park with consideration where roadside/village parking is involved. NB. Walkers participate at their own risk and must be capable of completing the distance in open countryside, over uneven ground with some hill ascents, in a variety of weather conditions. Suitable clothing and footwear must be worn and light refreshments carried. If you would like a lift for any walk or can offer one to others, please contact Colin Sherwood (details on page 2) An administration charge of 50p. will be collected on each walk.

Holidays

There is a date change - see box on p. 18: Glasgow Christmas Special 2017.

To accommodate our visit to the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow to hear the wonderful John Wilson and Orchestra playing Classics from the golden days of the MGM film musicals, the dates have been changed to 5-7 Dec 2017 At the Tours Advisory Group Meeting 23 members discussed 18 holiday opportunities before deciding on the holidays below for 2018 Feb: Majorca; April: Wessex; June: Guernsey, Sark & Herm; Aug: Bulgaria; Oct: Classic Steam Break, Scotland Dec: Christmas Special, will be offered in June Newsletter each year to ensure that any Concert dates are confirmed before booking.

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ST. CRUX FUND SUMMER FAIR

Friday 30th June from 10am

All offers of help are greatly appreciated, during the day, to help our most important fundraising event of the year. All offers of help will be greatly appreciated. If you can help, even for an hour, with preparation and clearing up please ring Christine Truman on 01937 541163. Items are needed for the bric-a-brac, jewellery, scarves and books. If you would like items collected please ring: Bric-a-Brac: Peter Denton on 01904 647406 Books: Alison Rutter on 01904 703430 Scones and cakes can be delivered between 9am and 10am at St Crux on the day.

We look forward to seeing you on Friday June 30th.

Carole Wright presents the YANT donation to Clare Alton-Fletcher of the National Trust at the AGM in March

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To reach the start of the walk, take the A59 from York, then the B6265 towards Boroughbridge. Take the left turn, signed Grafton, opposite Grafton Lodge, about a mile beyond the junction with the road from Great Ouseburn. Park on the hill descending into the village; there is a display board and post box near the bottom of the hill. No public toilets nearby. Tuesday, 11 July, Beningbrough woods and the River Ouse, approx. 4 miles. Meet at the main car park at Beningbrough Hall for a 10am start. The walk commences along a path past the Farm Shop and through fields, before following the left bank of the Ouse to Newton-on-Ouse. Crossing the entrance drive to Beningbrough Hall it continues through woods and along field edges, circling Pike Pond, before arriving back at the car park. Throughout the walk there are distant views of the Hall, some of them to be seen through frames at intervals. Many birds should be seen and heard and there may be Mandarin ducks on the river. The walking is easy; there are no stiles and it should not be muddy unless there has been heavy rain. However, it will be necessary to tread carefully to avoid exposed tree roots along the river path. There are toilets available at Beningbrough Hall and snacks or full meals can be had at the Beningbrough Hall Cafe or at the smaller cafe at the Farm Shop. To reach Beningbrough Hall leave York on the A19, travelling northwards and turn left just before Shipton at a brown signpost indicating Beningbrough Hall. Follow the brown signs to the Hall, passing through Newton-on-Ouse, through the entrance arch and down the drive (there is a speed limit) to the car park at the Hall. Leaders Andy (07505 293781) and Keren (07796 572813) Burnard (01904 651218). Tuesday, 15 August. ‘A Medieval Walk’ from Fountains Abbey. 6 ½ miles. This walk links two important medieval sites – Fountains Abbey and Markenfield Hall. We start at the NT Visitor Centre at Fountains Abbey at 10 30am and walk past Fountains Hall, following the monastic boundary wall. Continuing on field paths and through woodland we arrive near Markenfield Hall, a 14th century fortified manor house with a moat (no entry). The path continues through Strait lane, an ancient holloway, before returning to Fountains Abbey. The paths may be muddy in wet weather and there are some stiles.

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MEMBERSHIP

We are very pleased to have welcomed the following new members to the Association in the last three months, bringing the total membership to 612. We look forward to meeting you all at some of the various events organised during the next few months. We will be arranging a coffee morning, sometime during September, for new members who have joined since October 2016. Lisbeth Wiberg-Dean Martin & Joan Conway Dianne Cox Carolyn Clarke & Harry Bell Keith & Eileen Davis Jenny Buck Anthony & Christine Phipps James & Kathryn Smith Celia Rowson David & Pamela Withey Jean Wilkinson Jennifer McNeil The recruitment leaflet is being re-printed at present, so please encourage your friends and family to join us. It is no longer necessary to be a member of the main National Trust in order to become a member of YANT. Thank you. Elinor Bailey, Membership Secretary

Drop-in Lunches

Drop-in lunches for members will continue on the last Wednesday of the month at the Walmgate Ale House & Bistro. The price remains at £7.50 for one course and £10.50 for two; both options include tea or coffee. Do come and join the friendly YANT group here. Dates are on the back cover of the Newsletter.

Save the Date! 3rd October Mystery Tour; Including lunch in an old coaching inn!

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travel, tea and all gratuities. Please return the relevant booking slip, with payment, by 15 July. Saturday, 9 September. CWP 2017/5. North Stainley to Masham, 8 miles. The walk, along the Ripon Rowel, starts at North Stainley and passes through Mickley, West Tanfield and Hackfall Woods to Masham, following the River Ure. The path undulates through the woods, with some gentle ascents. No stiles. Tea - ham salad and trifle/apple pie - provided by the WI at Masham. Standard moderate: stout footwear and walking poles are recommended. Leader Philip Mander. Stephenson's coach leaves the Memorial Gardens, Leeman Road, at 9am and Rawcliffe Bar Park and Ride at 9 15am. Cost per person is £21, which includes coach travel, tea and all gratuities. Please return the relevant booking slip, with payment, by 2 September. NB. Walkers participate at their own risk and must be capable of completing the distance in open countryside over uneven ground, with some ascents and descents in a variety of weather conditions. Suitable clothing and footwear must be worn and a packed lunch and drinks carried.

Circular half day walks using own transport.

Thursday, 8 June, Marton-cum-Grafton, 4 miles. The walk starts in Grafton at 10 am. We go up Thorney Hill Lane and turn right onto the Grafton Hills, which have dramatic views. We then enter Marton, past Ye Olde Punch Bowl Inn, then along Reas Lane and across recently ploughed fields, as far as Grassgills. We continue across more fields to Moor Lane and follow this until we turn right past Marton Cottage Farm then go along Legram Lane returning to Marton, past the church. A different return route takes us past the trig point, at 75 metres above sea level, again with wide views, before rejoining Thorney Hill Lane. Along the route we need to pass under an electrified fence and cross one ditch on reaching Moor Lane (this could be tricky if wet). Leaders Colin Sherwood and Celia Rutt.

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Talks Next talk at the Friends Meeting House. Saturday 21st October 'A Year at Sea' by Mererid Hunt The talk will begin at 2:30 pm as usual, with £4 entrance to cover expenses.

Roger Armistead

Talk Reviews

Kevin Trickett, “Wakefield”, 18th February

Kevin Trickett, President of Wakefield Civic Society, spoke about the history of the city, recent and proposed developments, and the work of the Civic Society, including their blue plaque scheme. An accomplished and enthusiastic speaker Kevin was brought up in Wakefield and has presided over Wakefield Civic Society for 15 years - rescuing it from near collapse. Wakefield in Anglo- Saxon means Waca's Field. However it was located at a wide and shallow crossing point of the River Calder in Roman times; and later became a Wapentake – an area within the Viking Danelaw. The first written record of Wakefield is in the Domesday Book when the manor was given to the De Warren family, based at Sandal Castle. Richard of York was lured out of Sandal castle and lost the battle of Wakefield on 30 December 1460. Sandal castle was royalist in the civil war, and was subsequently demolished by Cromwell. The ruins are currently in the care of Wakefield council, which cannot afford to maintain them. Wakefield Mystery Plays were re-enacted in Wakefield cathedral in 2016. This stands in the centre of the four main streets - Kirkgate, Northgate, Westgate and Warrengate. A street layout of long narrow burgage plots can still be seen - plots are two perches wide (1 perch is 16 ft. 6 inches). Wakefield's Elizabethan grammar school still stands and is one large hall - different age groups sat on different forms in the room - hence the term. The Theatre Royal seats 500 and is still well used, the street outside was renamed Drury Lane. Wakefield is West Yorkshire's third oldest city (1888) after Leeds and Sheffield, and the city holds both County Hall and City Hall. A key industry and source of wealth was the clothing trade, before the rise of Leeds and Bradford, with many river and canal warehouses still remaining. (Titus Salt was apprenticed to a wool-stapler here). Wakefield remains a major

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Country Walks

Walks Group Social Evening and Quiz Night. Again this was a very enjoyable occasion. Thanks are due to Alison and Roger who thought up the ‘brainteasers’, the Bowls Club who provided the welcome buffet halfway through the evening and the donors of the raffle prizes. The premises have been booked with the Bowls Club for next year’s event on Friday, 23 March 2018

Full-day walks with coach transport and afternoon tea

Saturday, 17 June. CWP 2017/3. Coastal walk to Saltburn, 8 miles. This coastal walk starts near Boulby Cliffs, @ 666 feet the highest cliffs in England, and passes the Industrial Heritage sites of Loftus Alum Quarries (NT) and Skinningrove ‘Valley of Steel’ before arriving at the Victorian seaside resort of Saltburn. The path follows the cliff top, with excellent views along the coast and, although fairly flat for the most part, has some steepish flights of steps in places and is considered moderate in difficulty. Saltburn WI will provide the tea. Standard moderate. Leaders Irene Watson (01904 489466) and Alison and Nigel Rutter (01904 703430 or 07523 944065). Stephenson’s coach leaves the Memorial Gardens, Leeman Road, at 8 30am and Rawcliffe Bar Park and Ride at 8.45 am. Cost £21 per person which includes travel, tea and all gratuities. Please return the relevant booking slip, with payment, by 10 June. Saturday, 22 July. CWP 2017/4. Coverdale/Wensleydale, 8 miles. A walk in the Coverdale/Wensleydale area starting on Middleham Upper Gallops just below Penhill, then via the River Cover, Cover Bridge and alongside the Ure, ending at Jervaulx. A mixture of country and riverside tracks, mainly downhill and level, covering 8 miles. Tea at East Witton WI. Standard moderate. Leader Tony Brook. Stephenson’s coach leaves the Memorial Gardens, Leeman Road, at 8 45am and Rawcliffe Bar Park and Ride at 9 am. Cost per head £21, includes coach

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distribution centre, close to both railways and the motorway network. Kirkgate station was built in 1854 and was sadly neglected until recently. The main station, Westgate is at the end of a 99 arch viaduct across the city and was much modernised in 2015. There are plenty of new buildings, including Wakefield College and Pinderfields Hospital, and of course the well-known Hepworth Gallery. Some of the Victorian buildings have been successfully converted to new uses. Kevin concluded by explaining how the previous development agency, Yorkshire Forward, had helped to fund new buildings, Wakefield being an area of deprivation. He finds that the profile of the city has been raised by the Hepworth gallery, and hopes that Wakefield College can be made into a university, to further support new development, and to the overall benefit of the city.

Colin Sherwood

Victoria Hall, City of York Archivist, “York City Archives: Building a gateway to history” 8th April Victoria Hoyle explained that The City of York Archive is the caretaker of 800 years of documentary history in the city. The oldest document is the charter of Henry II of c.1155 which is older than most of York Minster and the city walls. York has the most complete civic records outside London and one of the most important civic records dating from 1272 to the present day. The only missing years are a few during the Civil War. There are some famous documents in the collection including the letter from the city on the death of Richard III in 1485. Funding from the Welcome Trust has enabled the “Past Caring” project running from 2016-18 to conserve and catalogue York’s health and poverty records. There is more information about this project on the blog at https://citymakinghistory.wordpress.com The Archives are the legal repository for local records including council archives and the records of schools and education in the city. As well as school magazines, they hold photographs and registers from local schools including Nunthorpe Grammar School. There are records, including photographs, of small businesses and social and cultural material from the eighteenth century to the present.

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Dancing at The Palm Court Tea, St Andrews, Bishopthorpe in April Friday June 30th from 10am Summer Fair at St Crux Please remember us when you are doing your spring-cleaning. All saleable items will be gratefully accepted including books, bric-a-brac and jewellery. We are also grateful for offers of help with serving refreshments during the day; please let me know if you can help. Tuesday August 8th at 2.30pm “Summer Garden Party” at Goddards Join us to enjoy the house and gardens, with a full afternoon tea. Tickets are limited to 50 places due to new health & safety rules at Goddards. NOTE CHANGE OF DATE TO 8th AUGUST! Booking form with this newsletter. Thursday October 12th Presentation by “The History Wardrobe” the theme is an “Agatha Christie Mystery”. The evening will be held at The Community Hall, St Edward the Confessor Church, Dringhouses, with wine and soft drinks served during the interval. Booking form in the September newsletter. We do hope to see many of you at these events.

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The city records had been housed in flood prone buildings or other unsuitable places until the new home for the City Archives in York Explore was added to the building. The store is kept at a constant temperature of 16 degrees centigrade and with 45 to 50% humidity. Some records are now housed in the “DeepStore” facility in Cheshire. Items can be easily retrieved with a weekly delivery service. The National Archives and other local authorities also have their own secure areas in this store. There is a planned “Friends of the Archives Group” which YANT members were invited to join; more details from “York Explore”.

Catherine Brophy

Day Trips

Tuesday 18th July 2017: Visit to Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens Our July trip will be to the North East with a visit to Belsay Hall, Castle and Gardens. Belsay Castle was the home of the Middleton family for seven centuries. The great-fortified tower still dominates the castle and was built as a statement of family pride and in response to the constant unrest and conflict, which beset the border regions. Built in the C14th, it is an outstanding example of a Pele tower – a fortification constructed to defend the family, servants and animals from the Border Reivers. In 1603, during the reign of James I, a mansion wing was added to the west side of the castle converting it into a gentleman’s residence. The Middleton family lived in the castle until 1817 when a new mansion, Belsay Hall, was built. The Hall was designed by Sir Charles Monck and was inspired by what Sir Charles had seen on his honeymoon in Greece. The building has a plain façade with an interior arranged around an imposing central 2-storey Pillar Hall. The Hall passed into State ownership in 1980 and is now displayed without furnishings. The jewel in the crown is the magnificent Quarry Garden with ravines, pinnacles and sheer rock faces inspired by Sicilian Quarries. Created by Sir Charles Monck, the garden is a wonderful example of the Picturesque Style with its own microclimate which allows for the growth of various plants not normally seen in the north of England. Sir Charles’s grandson, Arthur, who was a pioneering plants man, added the Winter Garden, Yew Garden and Magnolia Terrace.

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Patrick’s Church where welcome refreshments will be dispensed. The party will then be divided into groups for a guided tour of the church. The tour will be about 1-1.5 hours. We will then transfer to Dunedin Country House for lunch – a short walk of around 10 minutes. Lunch will consist of a selection of sandwiches, quiches, salads, cakes, tea and coffee. After lunch, there is a short drive to our second visit of the day to Holmpton where we will have exclusive access to the Bunker. Two of the staff are veterans who served when the Bunker was active and they will be on hand to answer questions and explain about the role the site played during the Cold War. Tea, coffee and homemade cakes will be available to buy on an individual basis. All donations will go towards “Help the Heroes”. Please note that access to the Bunker is via a well- lit tunnel. However, in order to get the most out of your visit, there are several levels, which are served by three sets of staircases with handrails. There is no lift. Ingleby’s coach will pick up at Memorial Gardens, Leeman Road, York, at 9.00am and Middlethorpe Drive, Dringhouses, at 9.15am. The journey time will be about 1.5 hours. The coach will depart from Holmpton at 4.30pm and estimated arrival time back in York is at 6.00pm. The cost of the trip is £36, which includes the coach hire, morning refreshments and guided tour of St Patrick’s church, lunch, entrance to the Bunker and driver’s gratuity. The day trip leader will carry mobile phone no. 07960 710975. Please call this number on the day if you are delayed or cannot attend. We have tight schedules and we try not to delay our departures.

Social and Fundraising Events

The first event of 2017, organised by the Projects’ Group, was the Palm Court Afternoon tea in April, which proved to be a great success. Everyone enjoyed a delicious afternoon tea set out in true Palm Court style and the Musical Duet persuaded people to get up and dance.

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On arrival at Belsay, there will be an introductory talk about the family and estate whilst tea, coffee and biscuits are served. This will be followed by a guided tour of Belsay Hall, which will last about an hour. The Head Gardener will then give an introduction to the gardens on the formal terrace with a short question and answer session. A light lunch of sandwiches, cakes, tea and coffee will follow after which there will be free time to explore the gardens and Belsay Castle. Please note that there will be steps to negotiate in both Belsay Hall and Castle. The Quarry Garden, by its nature, will involve some inclines and rough ground so sensible footwear is recommended. Any afternoon refreshments will be on an individual basis. Ingleby’s coach will pick up at Memorial Gardens, Leeman Road, York, at 8.30am. The journey time will be around 2.5 hours with a coffee and comfort stop at a motorway service station. The coach will depart Belsay at 4.30pm. There will be a short comfort stop on the way back and the estimated arrival time in York will be around 7.00-7.30pm. The cost of the trip is £36 which includes the coach hire, admission fee to Belsay, morning refreshments with introductory talk, guided tour of Belsay Hall, introductory talk about the gardens, lunch and driver’s gratuity. The day trip leader will carry mobile phone no. 07960 710975. Please call this number on the day if you are delayed or cannot attend. We have tight schedules and we try not to delay our departures. Thursday 24th August 2017: Visit to Kilburn and Ampleforth Abbey This month our trip will explore two lovely locations in God’s own county. Our first stop will be the pretty village of Kilburn where we will visit the home and workshop of Robert Thompson, famously referred to as “The Mouseman”. Born in the village in 1876, Thompson dedicated his life to the craft of carving and joinery in English Oak. The famous mouse symbol on all items carved by his workshop relates back to a remark, which Thompson heard, made by one of his craftsmen: “We are all as poor as church mice”. From then on Thompson adopted the mouse as his logo. He became known throughout the country for his magnificent church furniture, some of which might be seen later in the church at Ampleforth Abbey. Thompson’s business

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Ingleby’s coach will pick up at Memorial Gardens, Leeman Road, York, at 9.00am and in Long Street, Easingwold (outside the Co-op) at 9.30am. The journey time will be around 1-1.5 hours. The coach will leave Ampleforth Abbey at 5.00pm and arrive in Easingwold around 6.00pm and in York around 6.30pm. The cost of the trip is £36 which includes the coach hire, guided tour of the museum at Kilburn, lunch at Ampleforth Abbey, tour of the Abbey Orchards and Cider Mill, afternoon refreshments and coach driver’s gratuity. The day trip leader will carry mobile phone no. 07960 710975. Please call this number on the day if you are delayed or cannot attend. We have tight schedules and we try not to delay our departure. Wednesday 20th September 2017: Visit to Patrington and Holmpton Bunker Our autumn trip takes us into the East Riding of Yorkshire to visit the beautiful church of St Patrick, Patrington, and the historic RAF Command Centre and Cold War Bunker at Holmpton. In Simon Jenkins’ book “England’s Thousand Best Churches” he quotes “Patrington church calls itself the ‘Queen of Holderness’ and rightly so. It is the queen, too, of what I regard as the finest era of English Gothic, the final flowering of the Decorated Style in the early C14th before the Black Death”. This beautiful church, with its glorious spire, can be seen for miles across the flat Holderness countryside. However, it is the interior of the church which lives up to its 5* rating. There is a riot of carving from the tops of the pillars and capitals to the myriad of faces depicting people, animals and grotesques. In complete contrast to this piece of ecclesiastical history, our second visit of the day is to the Bunker at RAF Holmpton. Hidden under a modest brick bungalow in rural East Yorkshire is a Cold War Bunker complete with a half megaton nuclear warhead. The Bunker started life in the 1950s as an RAF Early Warning Radar Station operating until 1974. The site was refurbished in the 1980s to form a new Emergency HQ for RAF Support Command. When the Cold War ended in 1991, the Bunker was converted into an experimental HQ for the new UK Air CCIS System. In 2014 the complex was sold by the MOD into private ownership and now continues as an exhibition space showing its 60 years of service with the RAF. Our first stop will be at St

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still flourishes today with the main emphasis now on the carving of domestic furniture. Our second visit of the day will be to Ampleforth Abbey, home since 1802 to an Order of Benedictine Monks. The Abbey was founded in a house given to Father Anselm Bolton by Anne Fairfax of Gilling Castle (also Fairfax House, York). The community established a school for boys, which still flourishes today as a co-educational independent boarding school. The Abbey Church is a major work by the distinguished C20th church architect, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. It contains some beautiful choir stalls carved by Robert Thompson. For more than 200 years the monks have grown apples in the Abbey Orchards. These orchards grow over 40 different varieties of apples from 2,000 trees on a 7-acre site. Now the monks have turned their hands to making cider, which is produced on-site, in the Abbey Cider Mill. Their award-winning North Yorkshire Cider can be tasted and bought on the premises. Our first stop of the day will be in Kilburn. Here we will divide into two groups. Whilst one group enjoys a guided tour of the museum (about 45 minutes), the other group will be free to explore the gift shop, showroom and workshop. Please note that the museum is on two floors with no lift. Refreshments in the café will be on an individual basis. The local parish church may also be of interest as it contains some pews carved by Robert Thompson. The groups will then change over and at the end of the morning there will be a short drive of 20-30 minutes to Ampleforth Abbey. On arrival at Ampleforth Abbey, lunch will be served at “The Windmill”, a private venue. This will consist of soup, sandwiches, Ampleforth Apple Cake, tea and coffee. There will then be a guided tour of the Abbey Orchard and Cider Mill with a chance to taste some of the local produce. The tour will last about 1.5 hours. Please note that the tour will be outside for some of the time and that the ground could be slippery and uneven. Sensible footwear and appropriate outerwear is recommended. The Cider Mill is a working space and caution is advised around machinery, uneven floors and possible slippery surfaces. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be dispensed at the end of the `tour. There will then be some free time to explore the Abbey Church and Visitors’ Centre.