Flying start for Great Yorkshire Showground as new events welcomed in 2023

Tensof thousands of visitors are set to flock to the Harrogate district in 2023 thanks to the Yorkshire Event Centre securing a series of exciting new events.

From a model rail showcase to an epic comic convention, electric vehicle extravaganza to the biggest outdoor holiday home show, the YEC is proud to announce a host of fantastic new events lined up throughout the year.

Heather Parry, Managing Director of the Yorkshire Event Centre said: “We are excited to be heading into 2023 with a number of new, high profile shows to be held here for the first time. All of these have strong national profiles, guaranteed to attract thousands of visitors into the region and we are proud to host them here.”

Harrogate Model Engineering Exhibition and Model Rail 2023 will be held on Friday 10th and Saturday 11th March. Harrogate Model Engineering Exhibition will have large scale traction engines, model boats, military, earth moving display, live steam, model trucks, aero modelling, railway locomotives and over 40 club and society displays. Model Rail 2023 will feature ‘Heaton Lodge Junction’ the largest model railway in the UK. This masterpiece has a 200ft x 50ft floorplan and took over seven years to build. A fantastic day out for families and the serious model railway enthusiast. www. theeventsoffice.com

Fully Charged LIVE North 2023, the World’s no.1 Electric Vehicle and Clean Energy Show, is expected to attract 10,000 – 15,000 visitors when it’s held at the Yorkshire Event Centre on Friday 19th to Sunday 21st May. The show will complement a series of other Fully Charged LIVE shows which are held in Europe, America, Canada and Australia as well as Fully Charged

LIVE South which is held in Hampshire.

Founded by actor, author and presenter Robert Llewellyn, the hugely popular YouTube channel which has163,785,718 views and 983k subscribers, covers electric vehicles of all shapes and sizes, from electric bikes to electric boats as well as covering the clean, sustainable energy sources that these technologies can run on.https:// fullycharged.show/

Comic-Con will be at the Yorkshire Event Centre on Saturday 3rdJune 3 and Sunday 4thJune as part of a national tour.Expect big guests, amazing set and prop builds, major attractions, cosplay, anime, traders, gaming and more. Organisers picked the YEC as the ideal location thanks to its potential for growth.https:// www.comicconventionyorkshire.co.uk/

And organisers of the UK’s biggest outdoor holiday home show HERCMA, recently

Tudor Croft Gardens

By Mike Heagney

Tudor Croft Gardens, Guisborough, will soon be open again for you to enjoy our collection of rare and beautiful snowdrops.

At present the season is running a little early due to spells of warm weather and some are already starting to show through the ground, but they last in flower for many weeks. However our collection now numbers about three hundred different snowdrops, all beautiful in their various ways, so there will be plenty to see including, of course, the whole garden itself.

Our February opening dates will be on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th and again on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th from 11 to 3. As usual there will be free parking, weather permitting, plus home-made hot soup, refreshments and, of course, snowdrops and spring bulbs and plants to buy.

Many of you kindly wrote in to Redcar and Cleveland Council objecting to yet another application to build houses close to Tudor Croft on land which is a habitat for a wide range of wildlife. Eventually 435 objections were submitted. This is an extraordinarily high number and helped in a major way to influence the result.

The chief planning officer recommended approval but in a two and a half hour meeting and after the councillors had listened to us present our case, a vote was taken. One councillor abstained, and all others voted to reject the application!