Welcome to the Rosedale blog. This is where we share news and information about events in Rosedale and the wider community throughout the year. You’ll also find news about the village timetable, our micro enterprises, school events, clubs, and lively socials.
Image: Rosedale Show By Patrick Chambers
Although we had no riders in the Tour de France, Rosedale was represented by Maggie Barraclough, Mike Hutton and Shirley Tyrell who added to the sparkle and success of the Le Grand Depart by acting as Tour Makers over both Yorkshire stages.
Did anyone spot them? Hard to miss in all that lovely bright kit!
Someone or perhaps more than one person has heeded the plea in the last Guerilla Gardening post and the two remaining empty tubs have been planted up.
Thanks to whoever took the trouble to sort these two tubs out, And thanks to all who have taken on the challenge of the empty flower tubs, as the centre of the village is now looking a lot better than it it did a few short weeks ago.
The 2014 Walking Festival in Rosedale was blessed with reasonable weather this year so that around 40 hikers took part in the wide variety of walks over Saturday and Sunday 14 to 15 June.
More plants have mysteriously appeared in one of the empty tubs around the village.
There are a couple of empty tubs still on the green, so feel free to dig in and get planting – some herbs, perhaps?
Kestrels are our commonest falcon and widespread throughout the UK in both urban and rural areas. They are easily identified by their ability to hover while hunting for prey, with fluttering wings and fanned tail, keeping the head perfectly still. Up on the moor these four nestlings are well grown and starting to acquire their true plumage. They are coming out in to the open in anticipation of food from the adult birds. Until now they have been well hidden in a crevice. Incubation takes about four weeks and at least another four weeks feeding at the nest until fledging which is not too far away for these. Interestingly, the males fledge up to two days earlier than the females, presumably as the females are the larger of the two and take longer to mature. Updale Natural History Recorder
The History Society would like to thank Howard and Daphne Hebron for their continued generosity in hosting the RHS Coffee Morning this Saturday 7 June in the Coach House Inn.
Thanks also to Margaret Truran and Carol Cockerill for organising the raffle and to all who helped out and contributed towards raising £111.21 during an successful and enjoyable morning.
Thanks to the covert cultivator!
Yep, our Chimney Bank gets a very good mention in this excellent article by Kevin Rushby : The Yorkshire hills the Tour de France dare not tackle
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/apr/18/yorkshire-tour-de-france-cycling-hill-climbs
Lucy and Kallum, two of the bar staff at the Milburn Arms, pulling some of the first pints during the official reopening of the Milburn Arms on Tuesday evening, 15 April 2014.
The Milburn, now under the management of Carolyn and Duncan Bavister of Danby Castle, will be open for full bar service from 10.00am to 11.00pm and restaurant service from 12.00am to 9.30pm from Wednesday 16 April. Good Luck to all at the Milburn Arms!
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.