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New Causeway Ad Manager Found! Remembering WW1 When I Met a Bake Off Winner
Advertising Index Accountants Gillbeck Assoc Peter Howard
Contact: Emma Shellard, 07903 632590 emmashellard@outlook.com Convenience stores Costcutter
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Hardware Douglas Yeadon
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Curtains, Furnishing Lou’s Threads
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Holiday Cottages Priory Cottages
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Decorators Mark Hatfield Oliver Willard The Decorating Centre
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Kitchens Aberford Interiors Granite Transformations
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Elderly Support WiSE
Newsagents Supershop
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Bed & Breakfast Four Gables
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Electrical services PC Collier Edmunds Electrical
Opticians Andrew Morgan Cameron Beaumont
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Butchers Sykes House Farm
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Pilates Kate Sellars
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Building Materials Kirbys
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Physiotherapy Tadcaster Physio
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Alarms TI Security Animal Care Clifford Moor Farm Fosters Dog Grooming Architects McNicholas Architects
Carpet Cleaning Wetherby Carpet Cars/MOT Boston Spa Garage Westmoreland Cars Chimney Sweep Mooring Brothers Chiropody Boston Spa Chiropody Computers The MAC Service The PC Crew
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Estate Agents Beadnall & Copley Flooring Services Thorner Flooring Floor Design Wetherby
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Funerals Tony Barker
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Restaurants Ali’s Kitchen Fox and Hounds Pax Inn, Thorp Arch
Furniture Hue Interiors
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Retail Parks Thorp Arch Retail Park
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Gardening Harris Landscapes Lawn Keeper MK Landscaping
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Roofing Trelfa Roofing Ltd
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Solicitors Steel Switalskis
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Tree Services Bardsey Tree Services
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Hairdressing Ian Blakey
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Front Cover - Arboretum Main Avenue in Autumn ©Thorp Perrow Causeway - Chair Ian Hall | Editor Rachel Bentley | Designer John Pendleton | Advertising Emma Shellard (YAY!!!) Distribution (Thorp Arch) Nicola Midgley and Susie Seldon (Walton) Gay Childe. And big thanks to the entire distribution team. Please refer to the Contacts Page for contact details. The Editor and Management Committee do not endorse any content of articles or advertisements in this magazine nor shall they be liable directly or indirectly for any damages which may arise from information or views contained in these pages.
Emails please to causeway.editor@gmail.com
Hello to all our readers,
And hello (plus a huge thank you) to our new Advertising Manager, Emma Shellard. Emma stepped forward in the 11th hour to Save our Community Magazine. As I write, we are about to hold the meeting planned at the end of September as we still need to highlight the tenuous nature of Causeway - and to encourage ‘volunteers in waiting’ for when post holders move on or bring fresh ideas and energy. We will return to this in a future issue as well as find out a little more about Emma and her family. Next, a correction! My usually SHARP and SMART proof reading was lacking in the September issue. Did you spot the ‘deliberate mistake’ when I mentioned Stephen Sharp in our September issue article about Walton Playground, but renamed him as Stephen Smart? Many apologies to Stephen. We are just a few weeks off the WW1 Centenary and this issue looks at more stories and events from our locality and our locals as we remember WW1. Please let me have anything similar for November’s Memorial Issue by no later than 14 October. Thank you.
Advertisers’ Index Editor’s Letter The Birds in Your Garden News from our Churches Letter from the Clergy Sunday Services Thorp Arch Parish Council Thorp Arch News
I am currently looking at ways of making Causeway more accessible. If you, your family or neighbours would appreciate a large and plain print version please contact causeway.editor@ gmail.com and I will send the word file we use to create the magazine, or do give the online version a try via issuu.com/causewaymag and click on a front cover which then gives you access to a zoom button. As always please let our advertisers know that you saw them within our pages - this helps give them feedback about how well their support of Causeway is noted within the community and encourages them to rebook their advertising with us, therefore keeping the magazine alive.
Your Causeway Editor PLEASE NOTE: Causeway is published 10 times a year monthly, except January and August. Deadline is 14th of the month prior to publication. Causeway is prepared and distributed entirely by volunteers at the beginning of each month of publication.
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Walton News Remembering WW1 - Thorp Arch Village Diary and Notice Board Boston Spa News Poppy Knitters & Wighill Remembers Happy Hollowe'en? When I Met a GBBO Winner Village Contacts 3
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Birds in your Garden – Long Tailed Tits This is an update on progress in finding out why cuckoo numbers are declining. Much of what is being discovered applies equally to many other long-range migrant birds whose numbers are also falling, a subject I find fascinating. The Cuckoo’s breeding behaviour has been wellstudied, but until recently, little was known of its migratory and wintering behaviour. In 2011, a BTO team, set out to change this using satellite-tags to track the migration routes of male Cuckoos breeding in East Anglia. The study was successful and was extended to track birds from several other sites across Britain.
migrate via Italy. The fact that the western route is still used despite the apparent disadvantages implies that these changes occurred recently. Unlike the smaller migrants, Cuckoos don’t generally stop over in Egypt, Cyprus and Malta where bird hunting is so devastating, with estimates of 20 million plus birds killed or captured annually. This study not only demonstrates how conditions during migration can influence the population of longdistance migrants through effects on survival, but also underlines the need to take into account the birds’ whole lifecycle when considering their conservation needs. Much more information is needed on these topics to help us understand migratory animal declines in general. Studies of this sort will be vital for the conservation of Afro-Palaearctic migrants, and will be needed to identify key areas where stopover site quality has declined and conservation work might be of benefit.
Between 2011 and 2014 forty-two male Cuckoos were tagged at nine different UK locations. To everyone’s surprise, two routes were discovered. One is via Spain and Morocco (the ‘western route’) and the other via Italy or the Balkans (the ‘eastern route’). They converged in the Congo basin in central Africa. Not only that, but on average birds taking the western route left eight days later than those taking the eastern route. Significantly, birds using the western route were more likely to die before completing the Sahara crossing, even though it was shorter, demonstrating route-specific costs of migration for the first time. There was no difference in survival during the rest of their migration, or during their return northward journeys. The differences in survival correlated with regional breeding population changes, providing the first direct evidence that conditions encountered during migration can have an impact on numbers.
If you find the lives of our garden birds to be of interest and would like to join in and count the feathered occupants of your garden please contact me or visit the BTO Garden BirdWatch website (www.bto.org/gbw). If you know of an organisation not a million miles from York which would like a talk on garden birds call: Mike Gray on 07596 366342 or gbwmike@gmail.com.
Despite the obvious barrier of the Sahara, most of the deaths on the western route occurred in Europe, suggesting that conditions at stop over sites are responsible. In recent years, Spain has suffered droughts and wildfires, which might have affected the Cuckoos, although other factors such as large-scale habitat change might also have played a role. Declines in the Cuckoos’ main food source here on their breeding grounds (caterpillars of large moths), were also particularly severe in the areas where birds migrating on the western route were tagged. This might have added to the difficulties encountered further south, especially given their later departure dates from the UK but similar arrival time south of the Sahara, suggesting they may undertake more fattening in the UK than birds that
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News from our Churches Team Builders Holiday Club at St Mary’s
In Squad Huddles, with their Squad Leaders, the children were encouraged to explore the day’s bible story in more detail, and also had some time for prayer.
This year our Holiday Club had a sporting theme!
Match Practice allowed time for some boisterous games to let off some steam!
With around 60 children enrolled and another 20 young helpers too, we had a great time, looking at some awesome stories from the Bible (including Joseph, Moses, Esther, Jesus and Paul). Each story gave children the opportunity to see what life is like on God’s team and invited them to join for themselves!
And the daily drama, Corinth Rovers, put on by our teenage helpers was hugely popular with everyone! The week was a big success and it was all down to the fantastic teamwork of so many helpers. We were delighted to work with the Kings Church and the Methodist Church again too.
We transformed the church for the week with scenery and with decorations of football shirts.
Thanks to everyone involved – in whatever way big or small – a great team effort. This is one of our biggest mission outreach activities of the year, and also a great service to local young families.
Each day the children had the choice of creating a craft which ranged from crowns, to decorated tealight holders, badges to Joseph’s multi-coloured coat and boat pencil holders.
KATE KENNEDY
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Letter from the Clergy Perhaps the prospect of time on our own has stirred us into combining our congregations for gregarious worship!
In the Space Between Everything
In this space in our benefice’s history we need to examine our faith and the way we can keep it alive amongst ourselves. We have to take the opportunity to welcome our visiting clergy, that you will all see at least once each month, and delight in the different personalities and ways of delivering our services. We also have an even greater opportunity to join together in lay led services where your voice can be heard and your creativity in worship can be explored.
Well here we are! In that space between everything. I am writing after Jane’s last service at All Saints’ Church, Bramham and thinking of her moving to a new house and setting out in her new parish. At the same time, I am thinking of someone else who will be thinking about their move to here, even if at the time of writing we know nothing! We are going to be in limbo for a while longer- in that space between people and things we know and people and things we are yet to know!
This is the now in our lives of faith, not merely a blank space between clergy leaders. I spoke of the people and things we knew and the things to come, but if we wait without doing we are going to be in a sorry state to greet the next chapter of our benefice life of faith and worship.
Faith is a bit like that. We have all the books of the Bible that tell of things that have happened; people who have written other books to tell of their life in Christ and then our own lives and all the memories that go with that history. We are all on a journey, on a pathway with Christ and the future is ahead of each of us, full of the unknown.
For those who think that all will be miraculously bright and shiny as soon as a new vicar appears in our midst need to realise that we are the Church (capital C)! Our Christian community needs each and every one of us to flourish; leaders and members.
These parishes in our benefice have survived many changes and seen many adaptions to modern ways of doing Church. At one time we were all individual churches with congregation who had no idea what was going on in the other places of worship -individual and insular! As we prepare for a new vicar we can show ourselves as a combined group of churches who meet together and now recognise each other. We have met this summer for benefice services each Sunday and the numbers were much higher than last year.
Our future as a benefice is in the unknown part of our story but we are the authors of our journey with Christ and we can travel together in faithful harmony or we can be lost in that space in-between that can seem empty and lacking without others to share. We must walk together and make the next chapter a stirring story. REV TRISH
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Services Time
Date
Sunday Service, All Saints’, Thorp Arch
Coffee
9.30am 7th Oct
Holy Communion
Y Etherington
8am
Group Holy Communion
14th Oct
9.30am 14th Oct
Holy Communion Joint @ Walton
9.30am 21st Oct
Lay Led
J Bentley
9.30am 28th Oct
Holy Communion
J Leonard
9.30am 4th Nov
Patronal Service with HC Joint
J Gawthorpe
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Sunday Service, St Peter’s, Walton
Date
9.30am 7th Oct
Harvest Festival Lay led
8am
Group Holy Communion @ Thorp Arch
14th Oct
9.30am 14th Oct
Holy Communion Joint@ Walton
9.30am 21st Oct
Holy Communion
9.30am 28th Oct
Lay Led
9.30am 4th Nov
Patronal Service with HC Joint
Occasional Offices All Saints’ Thorp Arch and St Peter’s Walton BAPTISMS Marley Arthur Preston 12th August 2018 (St Peter's) WEDDINGS No Weddings FUNERALS No Funerals 9
Speed Indication Devices (SIDs) Two SIDs will shortly be installed in Thorp Arch, one on Church Causeway and one at the top of Walton Road. The PC hope this will help to slow traffic down and increase road safety for the village.
Thorp Arch Parish Council Summer News Bulletin
Website A reminder that PC has recently updated their website. Please visit at www.thorp-arch.org.uk.
The following is a summary of some of the work the Parish Council (PC) has undertaken over the last few weeks. Please see our website for more information about the Parish Council, including minutes from meetings and agendas: www.thorp-arch.org.uk
Date of Next Parish Council Meetings The next meeting will be held at 7pm on Monday 15 October at All Saints’ Church, Thorp Arch.
Police Report One burglary was recorded for the month of August from a business premises on Church Causeway. Security advice – theft from motor vehicles: • All valuable items should be removed from vehicles. Sat Navs should also be removed. • Check that your vehicle is locked by trying the door handle. Don’t leave vehicles unlocked when you nip into the shop or to pay for petrol.
Autumn Term at LEH
• Don’t leave vehicle keys next to a door or window as thieves sometimes break into houses to steal car keys. Registration plates might also be attractive to an offender, consider having tamper proof plates or screws fitted.
After a long, hot Summer, the children have returned to school brimming with their customary enthusiasm and energy. We are all delighted to return to a brand new academic year at LEH. During the holidays, we have had some additions and improvements to our school premises. We have installed 90 brand new lockers to ensure that the older children’s belongings are kept safe and tidy. We have also added a new early years’ canopy for our younger pupils so they can enjoy their outdoor play opportunities in all weathers.
• When parking your vehicle in a public place try to look for a car park that has ‘Park Mark’ accreditation. These car parks offer higher levels of security for your vehicle. Homes England (HE) Planning Application The application for 23 dwellings remains undetermined and current. The application for 119 dwellings was not included on the agenda for the North and East Plans Panel Meeting on the 6 September. The PC are advised that LCC Planning need more time to consider the range of objections submitted and policies.
Additionally, we have adapted the main corridor of the school by adding some additional doors to secure the building premises further so that we can accommodate some school lettings more easily. Hopefully, we will trial a few selective lettings in the Autumn Term to ensure that it is fit for purpose.
Parish Heritage Map The map will be installed on the Upper Green over the next few weeks.
On Sunday 16 September, our Y2 pupils joined the Harvest Service at All Saints’ Church in Thorp Arch. We also looked forward to introducing the congregation to our new Year 2 teacher, Mr. Dominic Smith, who has joined us this term.
War Memorial An application for work to the War memorial has been submitted.
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change the whole thing? We have no reason to expect that, but we can’t be certain. So your TAG team remain ready to swing into action again on TATE if necessary - we hope that it won’t be.
TAG report - winding up TATE activities
Unless the situation changes, TAG will no longer be updating the ‘original mandate’ email group, who only asked to be informed about TATE activities. The updates to the ‘new mandate’ group from the renamed Thorp Arch Group will continue. If anyone not currently in the ‘new mandate’ group wishes to be kept informed about HCA and other activities, then please just email to tagactiongroup@gmail.com and ask to be added to the email list.
1. TATE (Thorp Arch Trading Estate) Your TAG team are optimistic that there is no more need for activities related to the housing application on the Trading Estate. So we have contacted all our ‘original mandate’ supporters to say ‘goodbye’ and to thank them for their support and encouragement over the last 5 years. As usual in life, very few things are certain. There are a couple of ‘known-unknowns’. It is just possible that a Judicial Review (JR) has been requested before the deadline expired on August. There does not seem to be any formal system that would let us know if it had been requested, or if that request had been granted. We have made enquiries, and no-one thinks that a JR is underway. The second ‘known-unknown’ is the twin-track planning application. You may remember that this was submitted when the applicant appealed for non-determination of the original application. It is identical to the original. It remains ‘live’, although we are advised that it really has no utility now the appeal has been rejected. Despite that LCC have not yet chosen to get rid of it by ‘finally disposing’ of it. We don’t understand why not.
2. The HCA (Homes England) site north of Wealstun. This application, for 119 further houses, was not taken to Panel for a decision on 6 September, as we had been led to expect. The explanation given by LCC planners was, “We feel we need more time to look in detail at the range of objections and policy situation with regard to this site”. The TAG team suspect that there is internal disagreement amongst LCC planners. The ‘strategic team’ who put the site into the SAP are probably trying to preserve their support for the site. However, we hope that the strength, validity and quantity of the objections lodged by TAG and its Supporters have convinced the planning officers dealing with the case that the site is not suitable. Time will tell.
Then there are the ‘unknown-unknowns’. What may Rockspring be hatching up? Might the SAP (Site Allocations Plan) examination by the Inspectors
PETER LOCKE, CHAIRMAN - TAG
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The Little Lifeboat Stall
We welcome the opportunity to educate, especially aimed at schools. People who live near the sea have a much better understanding of the related dangers - spring tides, rip currents, etc. It is the holidaymakers who visit the coast occasionally who often get into trouble.
The Little Lifeboat Stall (on the green opposite LEH School, Thorp Arch) goes from strength to strength. The glorious summer weather meant that our garden produce has been bountiful - I know a lot of you have enjoyed the plum harvest, not to mention our courgette and bean mountain. I have found time to experiment with some new chutney recipes and we now have about eight different types on the stall including Gooseberry & Ginger and delicious Caramelised Pear.
We have education officers who try hard to get invitations into schools to do an assembly or speak to individual classes in an age-appropriate way. Primrose Lane pupils loved our presentation and had fun trying on all the crew’s gear. Our local guild also does an education day in the Horsefair Centre outside Morrison’s each year at the end of June, (just before the school exam season starts). Our message there is called Respect the Water and is aimed at young adolescents to try to teach them never to swim when they have been drinking but, if they do fall into cold water to float on their backs and try to relax before trying to summon help. If they flail about and try to swim they will probably gulp down water.
We have diversified - the Little Lifeboat Library has been well received. The idea is that books cost £1 each or you can help yourself to a book if you replace it with two nice newish up-to-date paperback novels. If you have really enjoyed a particular book it would be interesting if you could attach a little review or comments. A couple of weeks ago when Richard was packing up for the day he said: “If we keep on going like this we’re going to have to get a bigger tin.” Sometimes we only take 80p a day, sometimes - on really exciting days - we have notes, but it all adds up.
When I go to the next cluster meeting in Whitby I will try to identify a specific appeal at one of our Yorkshire Lifeboat stations where we could send the money raised on our produce stall. Training lifeguards for our local beaches or buying new kit for the crews on Yorkshire boats would make a real difference to saving lives right here on our doorstep.
I do hope you have been watching Saving Lives at Sea, the BBC 2 documentary about the work of the RNLI. There was supposed to be just one short series, but it is now back in its third year. There is no scriptwriter or stuntmen or special effects - it’s the real deal. Richard and I have done a bit of sailing and we have such respect for these men and women who often drop their knives and forks in the middle of dinner and hare off to launch the boat in tumultuous seas.
If you have any surplus from your own garden or any other item which we could sell on the stall please let us know. Thank you, again, to all of you who have supported this project, for your generosity, support and your words of encouragement. PAULA AND RICHARD LETTS (01937 843888)
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Walton Village Newsletter
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September saw the first Walton Village Newsletter which aims to keep villagers informed of Church, Village Hall and Parish Council events and will be emailed every two months. To contribute to Walton’s publication, please contact alison.candia.crawford@gmail.com.
Why not pop along to the exhibition to meet us? For further information about the exhibition or group please contact clare@clarescreations.co.uk. CLARE DEAN, EVENTS ORGANISER, WALTON GROUP OF ARTISTS
Here are some extracts from the first issue: It’s great to see the construction of the children’s play area at the Village Hall continuing, creating a new focal point for the village, especially those with young families. Hopefully the addition of an outdoor seating and eating area will make it attractive to many others as well. We’re looking forward to it being open to our village in the next few months. Following on from several enjoyable and beneficial “Village Action Mornings” over the past year, two more will be taking place (Sat 29 Sept and Sat 20 Oct). These events involve a morning of tasks aimed at maintaining the village (litter picking, railing repair etc.) preceded and followed by refreshments. Although the agenda for these two dates is not fixed we do need to plant a hedge around the new play area and complete painting the railings on School Lane. If you would like to help on either or both of these mornings please contact Richard Prudhoe on richard. prudhoe@gmail.com
Walton Group of Artists Walton Group of Artists are holding their annual art exhibition on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 November in Walton Village Hall from 10 to 4 pm each day. Work by the group’s 22 artists will be on display, using a mixed variety of mediums and subject matter. There will be original paintings, prints, cards and ceramics many of which will be available to purchase. All are very welcome to have a look round and there will be refreshments in return for a donation to support the further phases of development of the playground at the Village Hall. We are keen to encourage artists of all levels of experience to find out more about joining our group which holds weekly meetings on Tuesday evenings at Walton Village Hall. We also arrange regular demonstrations and workshops which are open to all 13
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REMEMBERING WW1 The Prancing Horse of the Skies
emblem of a revered and respected WW1 Italian fighter pilot.
While on holiday in Northern Italy in 2015, we visited the small town of Lugo near Ravenna. I was fascinated to find a large bronze statue in the square adjacent to a monolith in the shape of a wing 27 metres high.
LIZ RICHARDSON
2018 Poppy Appeal This year we commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War to remember and thank the generation of men and women who fought in battle and on the home front.
The statue was of a WW1 celebra sted aviation pilot Francesco Baracca and on the sides of the wings were two mythological symbols, one half lion half eagle, a symbol of his squadron, and the other that of a prancing horse.
It was because of the First World War that the poppy emerged as a symbol of Remembrance and hope and, in 1921, The Royal British Legion was formed to care for all who were affected by the war. It is also the Nation’s Custodian of Remembrance, ensuring their sacrifice is never forgotten.
I discovered Baracca was born in Lugo in 1888 the son of a wealthy landowning family. Due to his love of horse riding he joined the Italian Cavalry but after two years and need of a new challenge made his way to Reims in France to learn to fly.
The RBL continues to provide practical advice, help and support to the entire Armed Forces community and this support is just as critical today as it was 100 years ago.
By the summer of 1912 he was a fully-fledged pilot and joined the Military Aviation Corps at the start of WW1. Around this time Baracca adopted a black prancing horse (a symbol of courage and temerity) on his Nieuport 17 plane in tribute to his former cavalry regiment.
A Centenary Paper Poppy with ‘1918-2018’ printed on the leaf is available this year as well as the Centenary Enamel Pin, similarly dated.
He went on to record 9 victories and transferred to the Squadron of Aces becoming nationally famous. He had raised his score to 34 confirmed victories before failing to return from a mission. In 1918 his remains were found and a monument in his memory built on the site at Montello Hill.
The Poppy Appeal begins on Saturday 27 October. There will be house-to-house collections in Thorp Arch and Walton and poppies will also be available at The Pax Inn and The Fox and Hounds. The Royal British Legion is observing this centenary by saying Thank You to the generation who served, sacrificed and changed our world. Please give your support to this worthwhile cause.
In 1923 a young racing car driver met a pair of spectators after a successful race in Ravenna. Enzo Ferrari learned that they were the parents of Francesco Baracca.
JENNY BENTLEY
Countess Paolina Baracca seeing similar attitude and enthusiasm to that of her son suggested he may consider using the prancing horse which once adorned her son's fighter planes as a logo for his cars to bring him good luck. Ferrari made it the logo in 1929 and the prancing horse once again became legendary. The logo today is famous because of it's high performance cars but once upon a time it was the 17
Living Ravenna
NOVEMBER
Ongoing until 4 November Seeds of Hope event at Harewood House.
OCTOBER Friday 5 Oct Harvest Supper in Walton Village Hall, 7 for 7.30pm tickets £10 from Gay 845519 or Doreen 842344. Tickets selling fast! Sunday 7 Oct Food Bank Harvest Service at St Peter’s Walton, 9.30am please bring any donations on the morning.
Sunday 7 Oct Martin House Open Day 11am-3pm refreshments and stalls, family friendly activities, Hospice tour, meet the care team and hear inspiring stories from families who have used the facilities.
Saturday 3 Nov Traditional Bonfire at Walton Village Hall with refreshments. Saturday 10 Nov Thorp Arch WW1 Commemorative Fireworks Bonfire Night has been moved this year to reflect this momentous anniversary. Details to follow Sunday 11 Nov Thorp Arch Village Society lunch to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Armistice Details TBC. www.thorparch.org.uk/about-thorp-arch. Wednesday/Thursday 17-18 Nov Walton Group of Artists Annual Exhibition at Walton Village Hall A chance to view and purchase work from the WGA Members at this popular event and find out more about joining the group as a member or as a visitor at the regular demos and workshops. Refreshments sold in aid of Walton Village Playground.
Sunday 14 Oct Thorp Arch Village Society Bulb Planting Save the date, details TBC. Wednesday 17 Oct Fashion Show In aid of St George's Crypt by Life and Soul, to be held at St Peter’s Church, Walton, tickets £5 from Doreen 842344. This is being organised by Harriet and Georgie from Tadcaster Grammar School who have modelled at the previous shows, and with other friends are raising funds for the Crypt.
DECEMBER Tuesday 4 Dec A concert by Wetherby Light Music Singers at All Saint's Church Thorp Arch Contact Kathleen Sanderson for more information.
Saturday 20 Oct Walton Village Action Morning meet at 9.30am Holly Cottage for coffee, bacon sandwiches and job allocation. A few hours of 'team activity' followed by refreshments at the Fox & Hounds about 12.30. Register interest with richard.prudhoe@gmail. com please.
Friday 7 Dec A concert by Wetherby Light Music Singers at All Saint's Church Thorp Arch Contact Kathleen Sanderson for more information.
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Thorp Arch Tennis Club Draw September Winner
Leeming Bar.
The September winner of the TATC Draw is Richard Hughes with number 167.
With 100 acres of stunning woodland there is something for all ages. Thorp Perrow Arboretum boasts one of the largest collections of shrubs and trees in the North of England, including 5 national collections, and many champion trees.
Important Notice: All Saints’ Thorp Arch Harvest Supper
With spectacular autumn colours now is a great time to visit.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, All Saints’ Thorp Arch Harvest Supper on 19 October has been cancelled. Another event will hopefully be arranged later in the autumn. (Just to be clear, the Walton Harvest Supper on 5 October is not affected.)
If you can’t make it this month, there’s something to enjoy all year round - the Arboretum houses a Bird of Prey and Mammal Centre with daily flying demonstrations and hands-on experiences and offers a plant shop, tearoom as well as the adventure play area, and a year-round programme of events including guided walks, outdoor concerts and family days & themed trails.
Do you recognise our front cover? This year many of Causeway’s front covers have been taken from a professional image supplied free of charge by a local place of interest. In return it is nice to be able to tell our readers a bit about the organisation so that you might think about a visit yourselves.
Check opening times before setting out. www.thorpperrow.com or 01677 425323.
This month’s cover photo is provided by the team at Thorp Perrow, which is a few minutes off the A1 at
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Please remember to ring at 8am or 12 noon if you need an urgent same-day appointment. The receptionists will do their utmost to accommodate you.
GP Trainees are fully qualified doctors who are undertaking specialist training in General Practice. Dr McVey has been with us since May and will move on in December. Dr Edstam joined us in August and will be with us for a year. We also have a Physician’s Assistant in training at the practice available on Fridays.
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As the year draws to a close and we begin to prepare for the festivities of Christmas, for many of us it is a time to remember loved ones who are no longer with us. Martin House Hospice Care for Children and Young People gives people a chance to commemorate and celebrate the lives of those important to us, by making a special dedication.
MRS NICOLA RICHARDSON RGN, HEALTHCARE ASSISTANT MRS SAMANTHA BATTYE.
For a donation to Martin House, you can dedicate a tree light in memory of your loved one and receive a personalised keepsake card and a listing in our commemorative books. You can also make your dedication online on our Light up a Life memory page, with a virtual star on our tree, where you can include a personal message alongside your dedication, which can be seen around the world.
New Services Telephone appointments are available in the evenings with a pharmacist covering medication reviews/queries, a mental health practitioner covering anxiety, bereavement and sadness and a physiotherapist covering new musculoskeletal problems. Limited access is also available for GP, Nurse and Healthcare assistant appointments on Saturday mornings at Wetherby Health Centre. These bookings are to be made through Boston Spa Surgery.
We are also holding our annual Light up a Life service at St Mary’s Church in Boston Spa, on Tuesday 4 December. This multi-faith service will include carols, readings and time for remembering, as well as the lighting of memory candles. Our commemorative books will be on display at St Mary’s, as well as at Holy Trinity Church, Skipton, Bradford Cathedral, St Mary’s Church, Whitby and Beverley Minster from early December until Twelfth Night. We can accept dedications until 5 January.
Telephone System A new telephone system to benefit patients with quicker responses to calls should now be in place. Incoming calls for administration departments will pass straight to them freeing up reception staff to deal with patient calls.
You can make your dedication online at www. martinhouse.org.uk/lightupalife, in one of our shops or by calling 01937 844569.
Hopefully, patients are now more comfortable in explaining the background need for an appointment so that the most appropriate clinician can be identified. Please remember that any information you pass on to a receptionist is treated with the same
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REMEMBERING WW1 Imperial War Museum Exhibition at All Saints’ Church, Wighill At the end of August, a WW1 remembrance event took place at the historic C. 12th Wighill Church, just a few minutes drive from our Parishes. It took the form of an Art Installation with copies of contemporary artwork courtesy the Imperial War Museum (IWM) with subjects from both the Western and the Home Fronts. The IWM’s art collection is one of the largest most important representations of C. 20th British Art in the world. WW1 Soldiers Pte Utley and Sgt Young who were killed in action were commemorated - there were Soldier Silhouettes poignantly sat in pews, symbolic of Wighill’s sons who were killed in action. A Sea of Red Poppies created by parishioners were festooned around the ancient interior of the Church. The artwork gave a glimpse into WW1 seen through the eyes of the War Artists who broke with tradition to bring us the truth, depth and horror of war through paint. More events commemorating the First World War Centenary can be found via 1914.org and see our pages for local events and activities too.
Calling all Knitters! To commemorate the centenary of the end of the Great War Boston Spa plans to create walls of poppies by the War Memorial.
RACHEL BENTLEY
The difference is they will all be made of yarn! So the organisers are looking for volunteers. The project is well underway with at least one large panel completed already, but another one would be ideal. Can you help by knitting or crocheting poppies? A pattern can be downloaded via Boston Spa Parish Council’s website www.bostonspapc. org.uk. The final date for submitting your poppy is 19 October (though if you’d like to leave with WISE Café at Boston Spa Village Hall they would like you to drop your poppies by 18 October please). Contact Jill (01937) 844972 or Barbara (01937) 841205.
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HAPPY HALLOWE'EN?
either to frighten people or to ward the spirits off. These became known as jack-o’-lanterns.
With the nights drawing in and Halloween approaching, every supermarket will be awash with a ghostly and ghoulish range of plastic novelty items and sugary foods!
Immigration to America (many from Ireland escaping the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s) meant that pumpkins were a perfect replacement for the turnip jack-o’-lanterns. The old traditions of Halloween spread across the USA and modern day trick-ortreating became established.
So what about a traditional Halloween? Let’s go back a couple of millennia to the Celtic festival known as Samhain (Sow-in) which was celebrated on 1 November. Many of the customs of that time have reached down over the generations.
Tricks outdid treats to start, and sugar rationing in WW2 held back the treats aspect subsequently, and the current child-centred form became established in the 50s.
Samhain, or ‘summer’s end’, marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter when it seemed that life in the natural world was going to sleep or dying off and the boundary between this world and the next was at its thinnest.
Love it or hate it, Halloween is now unsurprisingly the UK’s third biggest retail event after Christmas and Easter! Family groups of Trick or Treaters are generally polite and will tend to go to homes which embrace Halloween, have a well lit clear entrance, display lit pumpkin lanterns and other spooky decorations ideally - these are the houses which are most likely to have a basket of goodies for those dressed to impress for the event. So that means if you don’t want to encourage Trick or Treaters, keep your outdoor lights off, draw your curtains and don’t decorate.
October 31 was the night before Samhain and souls known as the Aos Sí (Ees shee) were free to roam the earth once again. A giant bonfire was lit and sacrifices of crops and animals made for the Aos Si and people would also leave food and drink outside their homes to appease them. It was custom to dress up in costume as a way of both honouring the good spirits and hiding from the malevolent ones. Christianisation of old Celtic festivals (to help ease conversion) saw the Church officially bring All Saints’ Day (or All Hallows’ Day) from 13 May to 1 November to overlay Samhain. Ultimately, the night before became All Hallows’ Eve, shortened to Halloween.
RACHEL BENTLEY
The original traditions behind trick-or-treating were introduced in Medieval Britain. On All Souls Day (November 2), the poor, often groups of children, would go ‘souling’ and ‘guising’ around the wealthy houses begging for money, apples, ale or special cakes known as ‘soul cakes’ (encouraged by the church as a way of replacing the ancient practice of leaving food and wine for roaming spirits). In return the children promised to pray for the souls of dead relatives of the givers. Do you recall making turnip lanterns (made from what now is known as a swede?) They were extraordinarily hard to scoop out. So how did pumpkins become the mainstay of Halloween? In the C.19th a guiser used a hollowed out turnip with a candle to light their way. carved with grotesque faces and were said to represent the spirits, being used THANKS TO WWW.HISTORY.CO.UK FOR SOME EXCERPTS.
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When I met a Bake Off Winner
Photoshoot completed, lucky me, I am literally the only one in the room with Ms Quinn as the dailies went to share their stories. I managed to keep a lid on the fact that I am a super fan of the show (internal fist bump only, dear reader, and super cool exterior) in which Frances Quinn beat off tough competition to triumph.
Millions will be glued to the screen for the latest series of the Great British Bake Off (GBBO) this autumn. It has become a family favourite in the Bentley Household, and I’ve been a fan for many years! So, when I had the chance to meet a GBBO winner, wild horses (and the wild weather!) wouldn’t keep me away.
We simply had a good chat as we wandered around the Hepworth together. Knowing how hard the show is on competitors, I asked her how she kept it all together? She shares, “It was stressful – the judges’ comments can hit you hard.” Frances had been told to be aware of ’style over substance’ by the judges at the time, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.
An incredibly stormy day in December 2013 saw the 1 millionth visitor at the Hepworth, Wakefield and the Gallery held an event to mark the momentous occasion. As a member of the ‘local press’ (I owned and edited my own family magazine) I was invited!
This is a lady with a lot of style AND substance, I discovered. Frances developed her love of baking combined with design over many years. A trained designer she worked for top clothing brand, Joules, but since her win she has crafted a career pursuing baking-oriented challenges.
In spite of high winds making the road a slalom course between fallen branches, and the train service across the UK being rocky to say the least, the celebration got underway with the latest winner of the Great British Bake Off, Frances Quinn, on her way, though a few hours late! Through the tumultuous weather, she’d carefully transported a bake based on the iconic Barbara Hepworth sculptures in the main hall - suitably made with Millionaires Shortbread.
At Joules each of the designs she developed had colours referenced to food! She’d take bakes to work to test out themed cake designs on colleagues and Joules asked her to include her bakes on its blog. She is often asked if she had to, would she pursue baking OR clothing design. She told me, “I don’t want to choose, I think they mesh together. I don’t want to be boxed in and hope to keep on creating in both spheres. It has all been incredible.” The youngest of 5, the kitchen played a big part in family life and from a young age she would go and make a batch of flapjack – there was always a lunch box to be filled. Many parents are concerned over sugar and additives in children’s food and in the show Frances used ingredients which are lower sugar, with natural colourings and few additives. “I use ginger or chocolate for colouring, perhaps with a bit of gold leaf, like my owl-shaped shortbread with almonds.” After, I headed straight home to our family kitchen to hide the candycoated-chocolate-bean cake decorations to the back of the cupboard - and to rethink baking for the kids! See www.francesquinn.co.uk for bake ideas. RACHEL BENTLEY
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