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Newsletters

The Group publishes a Newsletter four times a year, with details of current and future events, courses and publications. Back issues can be viewed by clicking on the links below.

Over the years the Newsletter (previously called the Newsheet) has grown in size, and recent issues have included some substantive items. The list below highlights some of the items which might be of longer-term interest, including reports on events and articles on particular buildings or features. Notices, updates and other items of an ephemeral nature are not included in the list. More detailed accounts of many of our events can be found in our journal, Yorkshire Buildings.

2024

Newsletter No 116 - August 2024
— Meet the new faces on the committee
— Some thoughts about the future
— Mining the archive
— A walk around Easingwold Market Place
— From the archive: Easingwold
— Encounters with old buildings: Castle Terrace, Husthwaite
— Stacking up the evidence
— A recording challenge?

Newsletter No 115 - May 2024
— Leaving no stone unturned - Ryedale Vernacular Building Materials Research Group
— A note from the new Chair
— A note from the retiring Chair
— A visit to Shandy Hall and a walk around Coxwold village
— The lamentable loss of gin-gangs
— Datestones and doorheads: some more diverse drawings
— Encounters with old buildings: Bank Top Farm, Sowerby-under-Cotcliffe
— From the archive: Knaresborough
— Some vernacular community owned pubs

Newsheet No 114 - February 2024
— YVBSG interactive map of buildings recorded - latest update including Village Profiles
— Buildings and people (Hollin Hey, near Mytholmroyd)
— Alison Armstrong - obituary
— From the archive: buildings with thatched roofs
— Early staircases: a Yorkshire example

2023

Newsheet No 113 - December 2023
— Alison Armstrong slide collection now online
— Visit to the Yorkshire/Lancashire Borderlands on Saturday 21 October 2023
— Datestones and doorheads: diverse drawings
— But what was the cruck exhibit?
— The giant-sized sundials of Seaton Ross
— From the archive: Thornton Dale
— Word search

Newsheet No 112 - August 2023
— Beverley project update: the Zurich connection
— Vernacular Buildings of the Todmorden Countryside part three
— A new study of Yorkshire's medieval aisled houses
— From the archive: an assortment of barns
— Coast to Coast with a sketchbook

Newsheet No 111 - June 2023
— Vernacular houses for workers near Berlin
— How times have changed: getting access to vernacular houses
— From the archive: Romaldkirk
— Futtocks! Genuine ships' timbers discovered in Yorkshire ...

Newsheet No 110 - March 2023
— The hole at the foot of a cruck blade
— From the archive: chalk buildings
— The farm that moved (Hollin Hey, near Mytholmroyd)
— The Black Swan at 6-8 Silver Street, Wakefield
— Diamonds are forever ... more East Riding brickwork
— A curious inscription - can you help? (Lower Hirst Farm, Longwood)

2022

Newsheet No 109 - December 2022
— YVBSG Annual Conference 2022 in the Doncaster area
— YVBSG 50th Anniversary Celebration
— Yorkshire Buildings - past, present and future
— From the archive: Dent
— New Hall, Elland - a well-documented house
— Ever had the feeling you're being watched? (Wild Slack Farm, Lealholm)
— Old Cumbria Gazetteer
— Going to a wedding? Don't forget your pencils!

Newsheet No 108 - August 2022
— Documents and buildings - and an invitation!
— Vernacular Buildings of the Todmorden Countryside part two
— Discovery of rare decorative wall plaster (Swinnow Hall, Wetherby)
— From the archive: Grassington
— The demolition of 216 High Street, Northallerton
— Some East Riding brick oddities

Newsheet No 107 - June 2022
— Beverley's Timber-Framed Buildings - published!
— From the archive: Scarborough
— Images of the South Pennines: Yorkshire and Lancashire 1930s-1970s
— High Hirst - a lost house above Hebden Bridge
— The classic three-cell lobby entry house
— Fire-damaged buildings
— A Latin inscription at Stakes Farm, Bowland Forest Low

Newsheet No 106 - March 2022
— YVBSG Research Strategy: priorities and adding value
— The first ever YVBSG report!
— From the archives: Newbiggin in Bishopdale
— Mystery structure - the answer!
— My current favourite bit of vernacular wall ... (Bartindale Farm, Hunmanby)

2021

Newsheet No 105 - December 2021
— Vernacular Buildings of the Todmorden countryside: Cross Stone and Eastwood
— Sell Gill farm, Horton in Ribblesdale: an archaeological assessment
— A dry summer (Dry Summer Farm, Heptonstall Moor)
— A mystery structure ...
— From the archive: Snape
— Gainsborough Old Hall - well worth a visit
— A Yorkshire/Lancashire doorhead in Madeira?

Newsheet No 104 - September 2021
— Stone-arched barns in Calderdale
— From the archive: Scriven
— Visiting gardens and artists' studios open to the public
— The travels of a chimneypiece (Bishops' House, Sheffield)

Newsheet No 103 - May 2021
— Interactive map of YVBSG reports now live
— Historic graffiti at the Mill of the Black Monks, Monk Bretton
— A recently discovered datestone at the Cross Inn, Heptonstall
— An early timber-framed building in Holmfirth
— From the archive: Old Malton
— Firewalls to the fore? (Halifax)
— The smallest window in England? (George Hotel, Hull)
— Spot the odd one out! (timber-framed buildings)

Newsheet No 102 - March 2021
— An attempt to reduce window tax at Flail Croft, Todmorden
— Is this the smallest mullion window in Yorkshire? (Lower Strines Barn, Blackshaw)
— Ripon walking tour

2020

Newsheet No 101 - December 2020
— YVBSG Reports Digital Archive Project update
— A relocated doorhead? (Abbotside Cottage, Poulton-le-Fylde)
— Was it a chapel? (Kilnsey Old Hall)
— North Yorkshire's most bizarre listed building?
— Some unusual carpenters' marks (Brampton Hall, Brampton Bierlow)
— Developments at Calverley Old Hall

Newsheet No 100 - September 2020
— Such handsome houses ... (Brampton-en-le-Morthen)
— The buildings at Crag Farm, Cookridge
— Manor House for sale!
— Great Lear Ings, Faugh Lane, Heptonstall

Newsheet No 99 - March 2020
— Dated to the day (Alston, Cumbria)

2019

Newsheet No 98 - December 2019
— Reports on recent events (A walk around Bedale)
— Dated to the day (The Nookin, Oulton)

Newsheet No 97 - August 2019
— Reports on recent events (A visit to Horton-in-Ribblesdale)

Newsheet No 96 - June 2019
— Reports on recent events (A Sheffield Taster)

Newsheet No 95 - March 2019
— A 3D Photogrammetry Workshop held at Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority

2018

Newsheet No 94 - December 2018
— A new survey of Broadbottom, a Pennine aisled house

Newsheet No 93 - September 2018
— Report on recent events (Walks in the Dunsop Bridge area)

Newsheet No 92 - May 2018
— Report on recent events (A Rotherham Taster)
— Report on recent events (Annual Recording Conference in Rotherham)
— Crow-stepped gables

Newsheet No 91 - March 2018
— More datestones: dated to the day

2017

Newsheet No 90 - December 2017
— Report on recent events (Northallerton Walkabout ... or Sir Isaac Newton lives!)
— Datestones: dated to the day

Newsheet No 89 - August 2017
— Report on recent events (Walks in and around Bolton by Bowland)
— Report on recent events (Wardley Hall and Worsley Old Hall)
— A curious lintel in Bolton by Bowland

Newsheet No 88 - May 2017
— Report on recent events (A Barnsley Taster)
— Birthwaite Hall Farm

Newsheet No 87 - March 2017
— Vernacular Buildings of South Yorkshire: setting the scene, geology, Barnsley

2016

Newsheet No 86 - December 2016

Newsheet No 85 - August 2016
— Report on recent events (Visit to Stephen Park Farmhouse and barns, Forest of Bowland)
— Report on recent events (Walkabout in Brompton and Romanby, near Northallerton)

Newsheet No 84 - May 2016

Newsheet No 83 - March 2016
— Early Fabric of Beverley - project update

2015

Newsheet No 82 - December 2015
— Barbara Hutton, 1920-2015

Newsheet No 81 - August 2015
— Early Fabric of Beverley - project update
— Report on recent events (Wilsden and Six Days Only)

Newsheet No 80 - May 2015
— Report on recent events (Introduction to Recording Urban Buildings)
— Octagon Mill, Arkengarthdale - seeking info on roof timbers
— Galleting - the need for research

Newsheet No 79 - February 2015
— 'Baltic' timber markings in Yorkshire

2014

Newsheet No 78 - December 2014
— Report on recent events (Osmotherley and Mount Grace Priory)
— Historic Farm Buildings Group conference 2014 in Lancashire

Newsheet No 77 - August 2014
— Report on recent events (Barningham Walkabout)
— Report on recent events (Heptonstall and the Colden Valley)

Newsheet No 76 - May 2014
— King-post roofs
— Historic Graffiti

Newsheet No 75 - February 2014

2013

Newsheet No 74 - November 2013
— Recent YVBSG events (Visit to Causeway Farm, and the Brindle area near Chorley)

Newsheet No 73 - August 2013
— Recent YVBSG events (Visit to Austwick Hall and village)
— Recent YVBSG events (A Walk around Whitby)

Newsheet No 72 - May 2013

Newsheet No 71 - February 2013

2012

Newsheet No 70 - November 2012
— Round-up of recent YVBSG events (YVBSG 40th Anniversary Celebration)
— Round-up of recent YVBSG events (Workshop on Drawing Techniques)

Newsheet No 69 - August 2012
— Recent YVBSG events (Visit to the villages of Winewall and Worsthorne)
— Recent YVBSG events (Visit to Lawkland Hall and the village of Clapham)

Newsheet No 68 - May 2012
— Research into galleting - an update

Newsheet No 67 - February 2012
— The largest flagstone in Yorkshire?

2011

Newsheet No 66 - November 2011
— Research into galleting
— Rare 18th century wall paintings at restored farmhouse (Cowside)

Newsheet No 65 - August 2011
— Recent YVBSG events (The Borough of Knaresborough and its early buildings)
— Recent YVBSG events (Visit to Bashall Hall and Browsholme Hall)

Newsheet No 64 - May 2011

Newsheet No 63 - February 2011
— The Wadsworth mystery object - a solution!
— Current research into markings on buildings

2010

Newsheet No 62 - November 2010
— Recent YVBSG events (More early vernacular buildings in the Thirsk area)
— A mystery object in the upper Calder Valley

Newsheet No 61 - August 2010
— Recent YVBSG events (Visit to Birthwaite Hall and other buildings in the Barnsley area)
— Recent YVBSG events (Timber-framed buildings in the Thirsk area)
— Recent visit by CVHBG to the Fylde

Newsheet No 60 - May 2010
— Recent YVBSG events (Walkabout around the Howcans Potteries, near Halifax)

Newsheet No 59 - February 2010

2009

Newsheet No 58 - December 2009

Newsheet No 57 - August 2009
— The Medieval house: living with smoke

Newsheet No 56 - May 2009
— Where is ... the largest flagstone in northern England?

Newsheet No 55 - February 2009

2008

Newsheet No 54 - November 2008
— Weather walls, wrestler slates and stone jettied porches
— Grimwith High Laithe, Appletreewick
— Some thoughts on the Review Day (Burnsall and Thorpe)

Newsheet No 53 - August 2008
— Weather walls

Newsheet No 52 - May 2008
— YVBSG visit to Midgley and Luddenden

Newsheet No 51 - February 2008