Christmas in Yorkshire
Helen Johnson reflects on Yorkshire Christmas traditions. Continue Reading →
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Dance for Christmas at Ryedale Folk Museum
Christmas is a time for fun and celebrations of every kind, and at the Ryedale Folk Museum, they’re celebrating dance. Victorian Christmas The Museum specialises in bringing a Victorian Christmas Continue Reading →
West Tanfield’s Christmas Play
Each Christmas in West Tanfield, North Yorkshire, people come together to put on their own Christmas play. They prefer classic stories. They’ve done the Nativity, St Nicholas, and Babushka. Continue Reading →
Appleton Wiske Scarecrow Festival 2017
Appleton Wiske Scarecrow festival is here again, running 1 and 2 July 2017 With games, crafts, plant stalls and plenty to eat and drink, as well as the scarecrows, there’s Continue Reading →
Resurrection Bikes
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 →
Appleton Wiske Christmas Pantomime
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 →
Beltane at Thornborough
Beltane: Pre Christian May Festival It’s no wonder that our ancestors celebrated the onset of May – the pre-Christian May festival of Beltane. In the May countryside, it’s Continue Reading →
Dalesman Magazine January 2015: Meccano
For Dalesman this month, I visited Meccano modellers at their meeting at Bedale. Many people have fond memories of playing with Meccano as a child, but some people continue with it Continue Reading →
How Yorkshire folk made le Tour de Yorkshire the Grandest
For the Tour de Yorkshire, people in Masham painted a giant sheep cycling across the market place. Continue Reading →
Mountain Unicycling (MUni) in Yorkshire
Helen Johnson met Mountain Unicylists to learn about the sport for Dalesman Magazine, July 2014 Continue Reading →