Dales Life and Tradition - a Celebration in 2018

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1 Yorkshire Archaeological & Historical Society with the Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes Dales Life and Tradition - a Celebration in 2018 Marking 50 years since the important book by Marie Hartley & Joan Ingilby was published PROGRAMME = Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes YDNPA = Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority Event, date & time Life and tradition in the Yorkshire Dales: Exhibition opens 1 April APRIL 2018 Venue Provider Event type Focus Booking YDNPA exhibition EXHIBITION OPENS AT THE Open daily from 1 April to 3 July (except April) 3 April In the kitchen 6 April April Mrs H demonstration Life and work in a dales farmhouse kitchen.

2 Stick making 15 April Stuart Lawrence demonstration Making a traditional shepherd s crook with a sheep horn. Vernacular buildings 18 April 7.30 Long Preston Village Hall North Craven Heritage Trust talk Vernacular buildings of Craven and adjacent areas of Bowland. Admission 2 MAY May Hartley & Ingilby s Swaledale 9 May, Reeth Museum Helen Clifford talk A little country in itself Admission 5 Booking essential via Reeth Museum or Woodblock printing 6 May Gill Kirk demonstration & workshop Learn how to do it. Cost 50 including materials and lunch 8 May Rag rug making 13 May YDNPA demo How to build a wall using the traditional Heather Ritchie workshop Learn the basics of rug making. Cost 50 including materials and lunch

3 Keld May, Reeth Museum Duncan Bythell talk The decline of an upland community. Admission 5 Booking essential via Reeth Museum or In the kitchen washdays 1 June Traditional Knitting 3 June JUNE 2018 Mrs H demo See how wash days were done in the past. Kate Trusson demo Demonstration of traditional Dales knitting Museum admission charge) Social history around Reeth 5 June Reeth village green Peter Denison- Edson walk/talk An easy walk in the village looking at life in a Dales village Charge: 7 per person via Swaledale Festival Cheese, cows & dairies 7 June Broadrake, Chapel-le- Dale Alison Armstrong workshop Cheese, cows and dairies. Talk and short walk investigating traditional farm buildings Charge: 5 per person Traditional Dales farm 14 June Mar Farm Cray, (behind the pub) Upper Wharfedale Heritage Group & Chris Akrigg visit/walk A walk around a sheep farm with the farmer to learn about sheep management and environmental schemes. Admission Free

4 Historical quarrying in the Pennine Dales 15 June David Johnson talk Quarrying in the Pennine Dales. Admission Free Life and tradition in Leyburn 16 and 17 June St Matthew s Church, Leyburn Middleham & D ales History Group exhibition Words, photos and floral arrangements depicting lifes & trades in Leyburn. Admission Free Historical quarrying in the Pennine Dales 17 June Abbotside Common David Johnson walk A 4-mile walk investigating flagstone quarries, lime kilns and millstone workings. Charge: 5 per person Garths of Crackpot 20 June, Reeth Museum Christine Hallas talk A Swaledale yeoman family. Admission 5 Booking essential via Reeth Museum or Barns and hay meadows 21 June Muker Alison Armstrong walk, 5 miles Barns, booses and boskins. A walk through hay meadows looking at barns and landscape. Charge: 5 per person A hayrake-making business at West Mill, Askrigg 24 June Shaun Richardson of EDAS Ltd Talk The history of a hay rake making industry at Askrigg.

5 Learn to scythe 26 June Scything improvers 27 June Broadrake, Chapel-le- Dale Broadrake, Chapel-le- Dale Broadrake farm workshop Learn how to use a scythe with a leading expert Charge 40 per person, incl. lunch Broadrake farm workshop Learn advanced techniques Charge: 40 per person, incl. lunch via Broadrake via Broadrake Traditional Sheep washing 28 June Colt Park, Ribblehead Natural England & Rodney Beresford demonstration Driving sheep and stream-washing them; plus a talk by the farmer on how sheep husbandry has changed over the past 50 years. Free but donations welcome via Colt Park Life and tradition in the Yorkshire Dales FINAL DAY 3 JULY YDNPA exhibition Last chance to see the exhibition at the Dales Museum at Hawes Life and tradition in the Yorkshire Dales: FIRST DAY 10 July The Folly, Settle JULY 2018 YDNPA exhibition The exhibition celebrating the work of Hartley and Ingilby opens at the Folly, Settle, on 3 July (Folly admission price) Swaledale lime kilns 18 July, Reeth Museum David Johnson talk Lime kilns in Swaledale: the where, the when and the what for. Admission 5 Booking essential via Reeth Museum or

6 24 July Taste in time: farmhouse food 27 July, workshop & demo See how cheese, butter & oatcakes were made. Haymaking, turning, rowing and handbaling 28 and 29 July Broadrake, Chapel-le- Dale Broadrake farm workshop Come and join in and learn how hay was made by hand Admisssion free Phone Broadrake in the morning Wills & inventories in the 17 th -century Dales 28 July Ingleborough Archaeology Group members costume drama & two talks on wills and inventories A dramatic re-enactment using 17 th - century probate records. Rag rug making 29 July July Heather Ritchie workshop How rag rugs were made In the kitchen: dairying 3 August AUGUST 2018 Mrs H workshop & demonstration Dairying processes in the past.

7 Besom making 4 August Lorna Singleman demonstration See how brooms were made using birch tops. Traditional textiles 5 August Carole Bowman demonstration Traditional textile techniques spinning & weaving. 7 August, Taste in time farmhouse food 10 August Mrs H demonstration Drop in & taste old-fashioned food; hear how cheese, butter & oatcakes were made. Boots & clogs 12 August Daniel Nelson talk & demonstration See how boots and clogs are made in the traditional way. 14 August Rag rug making 19 Aug Heather Ritchie workshop Learn how to make a traditional rag rug.

8 In the kitchen preserves 24 August Mrs H demonstration See how foods were preserved in the past. Traditional rug making 26 August Jane Cook & Elaine Foster demonstration See traditional methods of making proddy & hooked rugs. 28 August, Blacksmithing 2 Sept, SEPTEMBER 2018 Stuart Lawrence demonstration Traditional methods demonstrated. Quilting 9 Sept Kate Trusson demonstration See traditionally-made quilts and how they were made. Words and meanings 22 September The Folly, Settle Alexandra Medcalf Project Archivist, The Borthwick Institute, York University talk Words and meanings: the Yorkshire Historic Dictionary Project Admission 7 via The Folly

9 Artisan cheese making 23 September Local history research methods 20 October to The Courtyard Dairy Andy Swinscoe workshop Producing Wensleydale cheese using pre- 1930s recipes. Charge: 50 per person North Yorkshire County Record Office via The Courtyard Dairy OCTOBER 2018 Workshop Exploring local & village history From tin to treasure 28 October Michelle Pilkinton workshop & demonstration Jewellery making using wire, beads & recycled metal Charge: 55 including materials & lunch Yorkshire Christmas Carols 15 December The Folly, Settle DECEMBER 2018 Rebecca Deniff workshop An opportunity to learn traditional Yorkshire carols Charge: 10 via The Folly Life & Tradition in the Yorkshire Dales FINAL DAY: 22 Dec The Folly, Settle The Folly exhibition Last chance to see the exhibition celebrating the work of Hartley & Ingilby (The Folly admission charge) Further details and booking information: or

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