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Alastair Simms: Cooper

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Helen Johnson
Alastair Simms is a cooper

Alastair the Cooper makes casks    Alastair Simms is a cooper: he makes wooden casks, most commonly seen as beer barrels.  He began, he  recalls, “When I had a school Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Crafts, Dalesman, Heritage, Yorkshire

Resurrection Bikes

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Helen Johnson
Bikes awaiting restoration and new homes

Winning formula Everyone loves to win, and at Resurrection Bikes in Harrogate, they have a winning formula.  By recycling bikes they win on every front:  they save old bikes from Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged cycling, Dalesman, recycling, Yorkshire

Appleton Wiske Post Office

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Helen Johnson
The first customer at Appleton Wiske's newly opened Post Office

Celebrations!  Appleton Wiske Post Office re-opened today.   When our former Postmaster retired, I feared that we would lose our shop and Post Office.  Indeed, the Post Office closed last Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Appleton Wiske, Business, Rural Life, Yorkshire

Appleton Wiske Christmas Pantomime

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Helen Johnson
The Pied Piper of Appleton Wiske, with pantomine chairperson Michelle Street

Pantomime season It’s Christmas, so it’s pantomime season.  And in Appleton Wiske, as in many other villages, it’s a home-grown, home-produced Christmas pantomime.  But in an age of TV, with Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Appleton Wiske, Christmas, Dalesman, Heritage, traditions, Yorkshire

Christmas crafts with ArtisON

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Helen Johnson
Tutor Josie Besant with Christmas Angel

Christmas preparations There is much joy to be had in the anticipation of Christmas – a joy captured by children as they make their Christmas preparations.  For Dalesman Magazine  this Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Christmas, Crafts, Dalesman, Yorkshire

Christmas Poinsettias at Ravensworth in Yorkshire

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Helen Johnson
Fiona Dean with Ravensworth poinsettias, grown in Yorkshire

Christmas in Yorkshire can be dark, dull and cold.  But at Ravensworth Nurseries in Yorkshire, Christmas heralds a munificence of glowing scarlet poinsettias filling acres of cosy, heated glass houses. Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Christmas, Dalesman, Yorkshire

Landscape archaeology of ancient woodlands with Tim Laurie

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Helen Johnson
Rowan and yew cling to a limestone outcrop

Tim Laurie is a landscape archaeologist who has devoted years to studying ancient woodlands and trees in three Pennine Dales.  After years of dedictated study, Tim gave me an interview Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged archaeology, Countryman Magazine, Heritage, Nature Conservation and Environment, Yorkshire

Battle of Hastings 1066 – 2016

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Helen Johnson
The Saxon Shield Wall at the Battle of Hastings re-enactment

This year sees 950 years since England was conquered by Duke William of Normandy, afterwards known as William the Conqueror. The losses to England were on a par with the Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1066, Heritage

Golden Clippings Anthology

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Helen Johnson
Golden Clippings by Thirsk Write Now

My first ever piece of fiction is released today in Golden Clippings, an anthology by Thirsk Write Now, a creative writing group that meets in the Golden Fleece, Thirsk. I only Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Fiction

1066 in Yorkshire

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Helen Johnson
The Shield Wall, battle formation in 1066

  1066: a year indelibly stamped in English consciousness.  We all know that England was invaded in 1066, that William of Normandy conquered England. But there was an other invasion Continue Reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1066, Dalesman, Heritage, Uncategorized, Yorkshire

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