Edition 119 October 2016

October 2016

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Letter From The Editor

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Welcome to our October issue Editor Mick Scott Telephone 01439 788008 Email enquiries info@yo62go.co.uk Web: www.yo62go.co.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/GoLocalMag Address The Forge, Cawton Road, Gilling East, N. Yorks YO62 4JG November copy deadline :

10th October Go Local! is delivered free every month to homes in: Helmsley - Kirkbymoorside Appleton-le-Moors - Fadmoor - Gillamoor Ampleforth - Hovingham - Slingsby - Fryton Nawton - Beadlam - Wombleton Gilling - Grimston Cawton - Stonegrave Oswaldkirk - Sproxton - Harome - Nunnington Coulton - Scackleton - Keldholme - Kirkby Mills

Go Local is an independent publication.

Whilst every care has been taken to ensure that the contents of this magazine are accurate we cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions; neither do we endorse companies, products or services that appear in this magazine. Reproduction of the contents of this magazine is not permitted without the prior written consent of the publisher.

Dear Neighbours, The one thing I’ll never get used to in producing Go Local is that I’m always a month ahead of most other people around here and that’s more obvious to me every September.

Here I am on the 12th sitting in my shorts, tapping out this Welcome page the day before I go to print, while outside the sun is shining in anticipation of two or three days of fine, hot weather to come. Meanwhile, I’ve been putting Christmas adverts together! It’s a well-known fact that the early bird gets a good breakfast and all the inns and hotels around here know that they need to start now to get their Christmas party bookings in, so who am I to argue. At least I’m not the first. While shopping in Sainsbury’s last week I noticed they’d already started to introduce their Christmas offerings.

In this month’s issue, with half a mind on Halloween to come, Nicholas Rhea introduces the subject of witch posts.

Never heard of them? No, me neither, so increase your local knowledge by reading all about them on page 8. Also this month, a contribution from Rob Thompson of Hovingham regarding the Orkney Chapel, created by Italian POWs and the reason it’s included here is because there is going to be a talk about it at Hovingham Hall.

Due to a last minute influx of ads I’ve had to drop Pippa Greenwood’s gardening article this month but there’s still a nice (vegetarian) recipe to be found, along with the usual cryptic crossword and sudoku. On the subject of the crossword, I have to own up that I inadvertently repeated the answers to the July crossword in last month’s issue. If you need to know the correct answers please email me - as quite a few people have already done!

Best Wishes, Mick

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A Local View!

by Nicholas Rhea

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ver recent years, many folklore writers, including me, have written about witch posts. It was believed they were made from rowan wood (timber from the mountain ash tree) and that they formed part of an inglenook hearth in what was known as a long house.

Those particular long houses date from c.1630-40. Others appeared earlier.

The function of that post was to support the bressumer, ie the large cross-beam above the hearth - but also to act as part of the heck partition in a short passage leading from the hearth into the threshold.

The threshold, sometimes called the cross passage, spanned the width of the house behind the hearth and had a door at each end. Corn was threshed here with flails, the doors open to blow away the waste chaff.

The posts (all made from oak, not mountain ash) have a large X-mark carved on the face near the top. Examples can be viewed in Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole near Kirkbymoorside, the Pannett Museum at Whitby and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. They also feature in several private houses around the North York Moors.

In addition, there is a small collection of identical posts at Rawtenstall in Lancashire but others were not thought to exist until I learned of A witch post at Ryedale Folk Museum fifty or so near Cornwall displays decorative the town of imitations but no genuine Enschede in Eastern Holland. posts; these are not I have no reports from other representative of real articles. parts of Britain or overseas.

Brought up since childhood with these well-established ideas, my research into the life of the martyr, Father Nicholas Postgate, has revealed that the published material did not state the truth. Indeed, I had unwittingly repeated earlier errors!

After long research, I believe the posts were NOT installed to ward off witches, most certainly they are NOT made of rowan wood and they do NOT exist solely within the North York Moors and Rawtenstall. In Holland, they are known as stiepeltekens and the link is their origin as symbols of the Catholic faith.

Before I proceed, I should stress that The Museum of Witchcraft at Boscastle in

While attempting to unravel their true purpose in and around the North York Moors, I found in my own library a book called “Some Reminiscences and Folk Lore of Danby Parish and District”

by Joseph Ford, published

by Horne and Son, Whitby, in 1953.

Joseph Ford was born in 1870 and died in 1944, aged 74.

He spent a lifetime studying customs and beliefs of the North Yorkshire moorland people and upon his death ordered that his book be printed without changing a word. And so it was, but not until 1953 – I obtained my copy from my grandfather, Thomas Rhea, upon his death. continued on page 12

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As Ford was a devout Methodist, and in his forefather’s time Catholicism would be practiced in secret, the supposed “witch laying” may really have been a Catholic house blessing or

exorcism in Latin with holy water, candles, incense and so forth. All quite baffling to him!

He does not clarify or name the mysterious ceremony, but his book provides valuable evidence that the X-marks on those oak posts beside the hearths were in fact the work of a Catholic priest. As most of the posts are within the North York Moors, it is highly likely that the priest was the Egton martyr, Father Nicholas Postgate. His moorland mission coincides with the dates of the long houses.

In the North York Moors houses, the X-mark, known to Catholics as the symbol of the Five Wounds Of Christ, is at the entrance to the threshold.

The Lancashire posts, in a

former strongly Catholic locality, emulate them and the Dutch X-marks are at the entrance to the threshold. In this instance, the threshold is approached from outside the farmhouse.

Nonethless, its purpose was to identify a Catholic household.

Backing onto the heck partition from beside the hearth there is usually a small seat which forms a cosy corner (a neuk). This was a considerable luxury when these fashionable hearths appeared around the mid-1600s. Examples remain in daily use both in private houses and some inns around the North York Moors . But are they a legacy of our local martyr?

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Cryptic Crossword - October

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1. Shocked initiate went first (8) 2. Greatest amulet? It broke (8) 3. One track may end indifference (6) 5. Reject against toe treatment (4) 6. Disloyal Frenchman aged badly (8) 7. Poems written after the Queen deteriorates (6) 8. Vegetable mostly raw – lovely! (6) 11. Trouble one forgets having (7) 14. Leo hits out, being aggressive (7) 17. Dine out on a small sum, but it’s not proper (8) 18. Low prices an obstacle to profits (8) 19. Shrink initially remaining in touch (8) 22. Fate of a fool hangs on openings (6) 23. Ship behind fuming buccaneer (6) 24. Writer pronouncing ‘awe’ properly (6) 27. Leader astir beaten without me (4)

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History!

Orkney’s amazing Italian Chapel From the tragic and avoidable sinking of HMS Royal Oak . . . . . . to today’s icon of reconciliation, created

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efore World War Two, the Royal Navy was certain that Scapa Flow, the historic northern base of the British Home Fleet, was impregnable. A junior officer’s detailed report proved otherwise but this was ignored by his superiors as fanciful and a brilliant U-Boat commander struck in an incredible feat of seamanship. The battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk, with the loss of 833 lives, including over 100 boys. Coming within just weeks of the outbreak of war, this was a devastating early blow to the national morale.

A swift response was needed but the manpower to implement it was just not available, leaving the Royal Navy’s northern fleet without its strategically vital base from which to oppose Germany in the North Atlantic. Cunningly circumventing the Geneva Convention, Churchill organised a massive defence project, involving the drafting in of thousands of Italian POWs. From the hot Libyan desert in North Africa, they found themselves transferred to the cold of the

most bleak, storm-swept, and shelterless parts of the Orkney Islands. They lived in corrugated iron huts, freezing in winter, baking in summer and deafening in heavy rain.

The Italians, largely reluctant combatants with families at home, felt their captivity very keenly - especially when they lost all contact with Italy after it capitulated and the vengeful Nazis imposed a savage rule of martial law in their country.

They built up a strong relationship with local Orcadian families, who have a long tradition of Highland hospitality and who welcomed the prisoners into their homes after the capitulation. The encouragement of both a sympathetic new British camp commander and Balfour Beatty, an extremely enlightened civilian contractor, supported the POWs in their ingenious efforts to provide themselves with a focus for spiritual comfort at a time when their morale was at its lowest.

An inspiration in both war and peace Their sufferings inspired one of the 20th century’s most beautiful and inspiring ad-hoc

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Working with just paint, plasterboard and scrap metal from rotting block ships, Italian craftsmen used their civilian skills to create a “micro-cathedral in a Nissen hut”.

From the darkest days of the war and continuing into the 21st century, it is an active, ecumenical focus of peace, reconciliation and friendship.

Today, as a class A listed building and a world tourist site, it attracts over 100,000 visitors to one the most remote corners of the United Kingdom. Just Google the words Italian Chapel and, while you might expect thousands of world-wide options to come up, it is the POWs’ creation in Orkney that heads the list.

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Gilling Castle Gift Fair Saturday 29th October 2016 10am to 4pm Gilling East, York, YO62 4HP

Join us for our annual Gift Fair in the historic Gilling Castle.

Browse more than 20 exciting stalls featuring local crafts, gifts and produce, and sample some delicious treats from the pop-up Ampleforth Abbey Tea Room. Free admission and parking, as well as a treasure hunt for children.

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Recipe!

A quick and easy vegetarian dish full of Indian flavour. If you don’t have all the spices just use 1-2 tbsp medium curry paste. Serve with boiled basmati rice or warmed naan breads, if liked.

Sweet Potato & Chick Pea Curry

Serves 4 Ready in 45 minutes

Ingredients: • 1 - 2 tbsp vegetable oil • 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed • 3cm piece fresh root ginger, peeled and grated • 1 large onion, peeled and chopped • 1 aubergine, cubed • 2 tsp ground cumin • 1 tsp ground turmeric • 2 tsp ground coriander • 1/2 tsp hot chilli powder • 3 medium-sized sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed • 500g carton passata (sieved tomatoes) • 400g can chick peas, drained and rinsed

Heat the oil in a large deep frying pan and fry the garlic, ginger and onion over a medium heat for about 5 minutes until light golden.

Stir in the aubergine and fry for a further 2 minutes.

Add all the spices to the pan and cook, stirring, for 1 minute until fragrant. Stir in the sweet potatoes, the passata and 150ml water and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook, uncovered, for 15-20 minutes or until the sweet potato is tender and the sauce has thickened.

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Local Talk!

FREE space available for local charities, non-profit making organisations and items of interest.

To contribute call Mick on 01439 788008 or email info@yo62go.co.uk Ryedale Stroke Group. We offer friendship and support to anyone who has been affected by stroke. We meet at St Leonard’s Church Hall, Church Hill, Malton on the last Thursday of each month, for talks and outings. For more details contact Pat Thompson on 01653 628620.

part. We are very grateful to all those who take part, and in particular to all our helpers - stewards, clerks, caterers and collectors who give so much of their time to make it such a success. Next year will be our 15th anniversary and we are hoping to reach the £100,000 mark”

The Kirkbymoorside History Group has been supporting John Creighton with a biography on the life of his father Lewis. Lewis is best known for his moorland oil paintings but there is a great deal more to him than just art. The book - called The Brush The Lathe and The Double Bass - will be launched in Kirkbymoorside at The Moorside Room on Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th October from 10 - 4 pm where John will be on hand to sign copies or answer questions about his father. The book will be on sale for a special launch price of £25. There will also be a collection of Lewis’ work on view along with some more interesting items. The project has only been possible through the grant of S106 monies from local housing developments in Kirkbymoorside.

Helmsley Branch R.N.L.I. Fish & Chip Supper with a presentation by Captain J. Stanley from the Humberside Coastguard Search and Rescue. To be held at The Feathers Hotel, Helmsley on Thursday 20th October, 2016. 7.30pm start. Tickets - £10.00.There will also be a Raffle and Christmas Souvenirs will be on sale. Contact No. 01439 770678

Ampleforth And District Gardening Club meet at Ampleforth Village Hall on Wednesday October 5th, featuring Gardens at Swinton Castle, a talk by Susan Cunliffe-Lister. If you want any information about us, or you would like to join, contact Sheila on 01439 788 279, or Dela Jenkins 01439 787148, email dela.jenkins@ yahoo.com. All Welcome.

Ryedale Family History Group. Research Room open each Thursday 10am-3pm at Hovingham Village Hall. A team of volunteers are ready to help you with your family history wherever they may be, we also have monthly meetings with a speaker. Meeting on Wednesday 19 October at 7.30pm at the Royal Volunteer Services Centre, Hungate, Pickering, the speakers are Eileen Brereton & Anne Wall, ‘Women in the First World War’. Check our website for details www. ryedalefamilyhistory.org.

Kirkbymoorside Fundraising Group for Marie Curie Care and support through terminal illness, are holding the Annual Coffee Morning by kind invitation of Ryedale Garages Kirkbymoorside, on Friday 14th October, 9-30am to 12-30pm. Coffee and biscuits, Cake Stall, Raffle, Tombola, Christmas cards and a very warm welcome awaits. Come and join the fun, meet old friends and make new ones, while supporting the charity.

Tractor run raises £92,000 for Air Ambulance.

Representatives of the Beadlam Charity Tractor Run held in May this year recently presented a cheque for over £8,000 to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance bringing the amount raised over the last 14 years to a staggering £92,686. Organiser Bernard Simpson said “When we held the first run in 2002 we were hoping to have 100 entries and to raise £3,000 for the Air Ambulance, but the event has grown in popularity over the years, and we now regularly have over 200 tractors coming to take

Ampleforth Historical Society on Wednesday 12th October in Ampleforth Village Hall at 7.30. John and Helen Dean present a researched account of Sir Herbert Read, English Art Historian, Poet, Literary critic and Philosopher. He was a local chap from Stonegrave and died at the age of 74 in 1968. All welcome - charge £3.00 plus refreshments.

The Stamford Bridge Singers present a unique concert to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 16th October at 7.30pm in All Saints Church, Pocklington. Together they will perform ‘The Battle Cantata’, a new work by Choir Director, Stuart Nettleship. Tickets, priced at £12, £10 concessions and £5 for children, will be available from 1st August on the Eventbrite website and from ‘Take a Leaf’ florists in Stamford Bridge. Also from Rosemary on 01904 787181.

We expect this concert to be very popular so book your ticket early to avoid disappointment.

The Kitora Karate Club meets at Gilling East Village Hall on Wednesdays during term time, from 4 to 5pm. This small friendly club is looking for new members, age 6 years upwards (adults welcome too). For further details please contact Jane on 01439 788644

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