Snippets
A section for selected news snippets (such as events organised by other groups and societies) which might be of interest but, due to timescales, might not be published in our Newsheet.
Farming Life and Farmsteads in the Forest of Bowland
An exhibition at the Museum of North Craven Life at The Folly, Settle. The exhibition is designed by the Heritage Trust for the North West and features the work of Slaidburn Village Archive and the YVBSG who have visited and recorded the history of a number of farm buildings in the vicinity of the Hodder Valley. The exhibition also contains fascinating illustrations of some of the historic farmsteads further afield, around Settle and Bentham, together with old farm implements from the collections of North Craven Building Preservation Trust and Heritage Trust for the North West. Normally open 10.30am to 4.30pm on Tuesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays, until 28 October 2008. For enquiries on opening arrangements, please ring 015242 51388 or 01729 822361 or see the Museum's web site.
May 2008
The Earl of Derby's Courthouse at Burton-in-Lonsdale
A new and enlarged edition of this publication by YVBSG member C.T.J. Dodson has been published. The book traces the history of the building and its environment from medieval times. Further details are available on the North Craven Historical Research Group website.
March 2008
Launch of consultation on Yorkshire's historic pubs
In the first-ever project of its kind for Yorkshire and Humber, CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale) is consulting widely to identify what public house interiors of genuine historic value are left in the Region today. Few pubs have survived the tidal wave of modernising change of the past three decades and CAMRA's initial surveys suggest that, of the 6,000 or so in this Region, the proportion could be as depressingly low as two percent.
In a field which has been largely ignored by mainstream conservationists, the first draft of CAMRA's Yorkshire Regional Inventory, listing pub interiors of special historic interest, is an honest attempt to promote some debate and shared vision, among a diversity of professionals, about this dwindling heritage. Launched last month, the aim is to identify and boost recognition for the pub interiors that most deserve to be spared from insensitive change.
The consultation documents have gone out to all the Region's local planning authorities, to civic and amenity societies, to English Heritage, relevant regional organisations and to many others with a professional interest in the historic built environment or the licensed trade.
The hope is that professionals and other interested parties across Yorkshire and Humber will be willing to share their opinions and knowledge, and help put the Inventory into a final shape that will have widespread support. The documents can all be found on
and comment and feedback from across the Region is very genuinely and warmly invited.
Please write to David Gamston, 9 Fulfordgate, York YO10 4LY, or email yorkshire.pubheritage@camra.org.uk.
December 2007