‘Summer Spark’ celebrated its 5th year at King Street Workshops, Pateley Bridge on 10-19 June and was a chance to view work by North Yorkshire’s finest designer-makers. This year, painter Maureen Little exhibited as part of the North Yorkshire Open Studios and resident designer-makers showed sculpture, glass, paintings and prints, textiles, jewellery and millinery, all [...]
Rural Arts Summer 2011 programme at the Courthouse in Thirsk is underway featuring workshops and exhibitions. Get online Free internet classes continue to run every Monday, 10.00am – 12 noon. If you want to learn how to email, shop, or do research online then this course is for you. Gain confidence and open up a [...]
Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby – a new special exhibition What did sailors eat on long voyages? How was food prepared in rough weather when the stove could not be lit, and was it all as horrible as popular legend suggests? Sailors certainly had to eat salt beef, ships biscuits (and weevils too!) but there [...]
Hudswell is a village bordering on Richmond in North Yorkshire. In August 2008 the village pub, the George and Dragon, which was the only public facility in the village was closed and repossessed by the bank. With no prospective buyer in sight some villagers got together in May 2009 to consider whether to mount a [...]
A celebration of local produce The Dales Festival of Food and Drink has taken place every year over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend since 2002 and was conceived to help the area recover from the impact of foot and mouth disease in 2001. It is now celebrating its 10th year. The event showcases Yorkshire [...]
Listen with Knaresborough Renaissance Knaresborough wanted to illustrate the rich heritage of Knaresborough with an audio tour that could be downloaded from the internet. The project was a great opportunity to involve the local secondary school, King James’s School through its extra-curriculum Enterprise Group. The pupils, aged between 13 and 16, worked on the project [...]
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