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Archive for the ‘Exhibitions’ Category

Rosedale Local History Weekend – 22 to 23 April 2017

Ghost Miners at Bank Top

 A weekend event highlighting This Exploited Land of Iron project and  Rosedale’s Social History at Updale Reading Room, 11.00 – 4.30p.m.  Refreshments available.  Wheelchair friendly.   FREE ENTRY!

 Archive photographs, maps, plans and artefacts and much more.  Local artwork and crafts for sale.

Guided Walks both days. –  Mining and Railway walks 2.0p.m. from Updale Reading Room.  Bring walking boots and waterproofs!

A talk by Malcolm Bisby giving an overview of Rosedale’s Mines and Railway at Rosedale Abbey church at 6.00p.m. Saturday 22nd.  Free admission with a collection for church funds.

Information:  http://rosedale.ryedaleconnect.org.uk/history-contacts/news-and-events/

email. rosedalehistory@hotmail.co.uk 

Rosedale History Society Coffee Morning – 1 October 2016

The Rosedale History Society sponsored a most successful coffee morning in the Coach House Inn on Saturday 1 October. There was a great turnout, including several visitors who wandered in by accident and then stayed to look around and take part in the raffle! A total of £305.80 was raised through donations, cake sales and the raffle.

Bernard Glass reporting on progress of the This Exploited Land project

Bernard Glass reporting on the progress of the This Exploited Land project

Thanks to all who donated cakes and prizes for the raffle and to Dave Oakey and the team at the Coach House for their customary smooth and efficient running of the event.

 

The next coffee morning will be on Saturday 5 November in aid of the Rosedale WI.

 

Rosedale Show 2016

In spite of a couple of sharp showers in mid-afternoon, the Rosedale Show 2016 passed off well. Numbers were thought to be down on last year. mainly because of the adverse weather forecasts, but those who did come to show enjoyed the day. Some photos:

The Show Field 2016

The Show Field 2016

All Blinged Up

All Blinged Up

Show 2016 - Sheep Talk

Sheep Talk

Under Starter's Orders

Under Starter’s Orders

Spider Kids

Spider Kids

Hound Trail

Hound Trail

Infant Athlete

Infant Athletes

Chips with Everything

Chips with Everything

Power Trotting

Power Trotting

Fancy Pony Winner - Cheer Up!

Fancy Pony Winner – Cheer Up!

The updated attendance figures will be published here shortly. In the meantime the Show Committee would like to thank all who helped set up the showground and who acted as gate stewards, traffic controllers and the like and who helped make the day another success for Rosedale.

Heritage Open Days – Rosedale And Grosmont, 11 – 12 September

An invitation from the This Exploited Land Project Officer:
Come and see us on one of the upcoming Heritage Open Days, part of a European and National programme which this year has ‘industrial heritage’ as a key theme. We’ll be up at the kilns in Rosedale East on Friday 11th September from 10.00 – 4.00.

East Mines, Rosedale

East Mines, Rosedale

The following day, you’ll find us at the Grosmont Ironworks site (the National Park car park!), again between about 10 and 4. On both days there will be short guided walks plus a wealth of information about each place. We will be supported by Rosedale History Society and Grosmont Heritage Group, so you are all very welcome.

Rosedale Show 2015

Well, it turned out nice in the end! A bright if breezy day brought in the crowds to the Milburn Field today, Saturday 15 August, for Rosedale’s annual show, the ‘best little show’ in the county. Numbers of visitors is thought to be slightly up on last year’s attendance at around 3,750. However, there were fewer trade stands, but there were plenty of the ones that mattered!

A few souvenirs of the day:

Charlotte's back, and a prize winner too!

Charlotte’s back, and a prize winner too!

Mini masons at work

Mini masons at work

Magic Mal working his spells

Magic Mal working his spells

Beuholme Britannia proving to be a handful for Mr Richardson

Beuholme Britannia proving to be a handful for Mr Richardson

'I can't bear to watch'! Judging in the Fur and Feather section

‘I can’t bear to watch’! Judging in the Fur and Feather section

They're Off! The trail hounds on their way

They’re Off! The trail hounds on their way

 

WW1 History Exhibition – 13 to 14 September 2014

Both days of the Local Villages WW1 history exhibition were well attended at the Updale Reading Room, Rosedale. Between 50 to 60 people on Saturday and rather more on Sunday visited from all over the country, not just locally and viewed a fascinating and varied set of photographs, memorabilia and documentation on the roles played by by local people in the Great War both at home and at the front from Rosedale and Hartoft, Appleton le Moors, Sinnington, Lockton and Levisham and Thornton le Dale.

Exhibits in the Reading Room

Exhibits in the Reading Room

History Walkers at East Mines

History Walkers at East Mines – 13 September

History Walkers and Dogs - East Mines Stone Kilns -14 September

History Walkers and More  Dogs – East Mines Stone Kilns -14 September

A tremendous amount of hard work was put in to stage the exhibition by volunteers from all the villages involved. The organisers would also like to thank all those who helped out on both days with running the reception desk, guiding and advising our visitors, those who provided and served all the delicious cakes, rolls and other refreshments that are such a feature of these events in the Updale Reading Room and, finally, the generous donors of excellent raffle prizes on both days – you know who you are so thanks again!

 

World War I Exhibition – 13-14 September

 

ROSEDALE HISTORY WEEKEND 

Rosedale History Society with Ryedale Villages Heritage Group
(Lockton & Levisham, Thornton Dale, Appleton le Moors & Sinnington)

World War One project
13 &14 September

11.00a.m.-5.00p.m.
PLUS Rosedale Archives,
New Social History
Photographs & Memorabilia
Walks to East Mines at
2.00 p.m.
UPDALE READING ROOM,
ROSEDALE EAST.
Further details email:
rosedalehistory@hotmail.co.uk

DELICIOUS
REFRESHMENTS
& RAFFLE

 

The Great War 1914 – 1918

On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War on 4 August 1914, we should pause to remember those from Rosedale who gave their lives in that horrific conflict.

The memorial the Updale Reading Room

The memorial at the Updale Reading Room

A number of local history societies, including Rosedale History Society, are staging a Great War exhibition at the NYM Railway station at Pickering for the next week, after which the Rosdale displays will be shown at Rosedale Show on 16 August.

Finally, there is a planned ‘Lights Out’ throughout the nation on Monday night, 4 August, between 10 and 11pm, when all public buildings will turn off all lights except one per building. Private householders are being encouraged to do the same, with perhaps just one candle or similar small light in a window during the dark hour.

The fragile beauty of luxury glass craft… Yorkshire style

Kate with one of the landscape bowls

Kate with one of the landscape bowls – picture by Tony Bartholomew

Kate Jones of Gillies Jones Glass, with landscape bowls which will be seen in the Crafted: Makers of the Exceptional exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts.
Work by Yorkshire glassmakers Gillies Jones will be seen in a showcase celebrating the work of the UK’s leading craftmakers.
Rosedale glassmakers, Stephen Gillies and Kate Jones, are appearing in the exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, as alumni of the Crafted mentoring programme run by Walpole, a not-for-profit organisation that aims to further the interests of the British luxury industry. They are showing five large pieces of glass, each decorated with a landscape inspired by their surroundings in the North York Moors National Park.
The showcase, which runs from Thursday to Saturday, is free of charge to visit and open to all.
Ms Jones said: “We’re delighted to be selected as part of this prestigious showcase of contemporary craft, showing our work alongside 30 makers across the disciplines in a unique cultural organisation: a place where art is made, exhibited and debated.”
The Crafted programme was founded four years ago to
protect and promote traditional skills that are often forgotten
and overlooked in an era of digital design and mass production.

Christmas At The Campsite

Vanessa, John and Graham Atkinson of the Flower of May campsite hosted a large crowd of locals to generous helpings of delicious mulled wine and mince pies on Saturday night 14 December with seasonal music provided by a superb mechanical organ from the Scarborough Fair collection.

The 'Accordion Castle' computer controlled mechanical organ.

The ‘Accordion Castle’ computer controlled mechanical organ.

The organ is part of the Scarborough Fair Collection of fairground rides, mechanical organs, steam engines and vintage and miniature vehicles. The Collection is currently closed for the winter but will be opening again at Easter  2014.