4:50pm Saturday 31st July 2010
The baths committee of Skipton Urban District Council deserved a word of congratulation for their work at the Moor View Pleasure Grounds, which were fast becoming a popular public resort. The walks had been widened, the grounds extended and the place laid out with taste and judgement. There was also a bandstand for the musicians who occasionally played there.
Skipton could now boast three bowling clubs. The Herald reported that the sport had never been as popular as it was now and as far as the premier clubs were concerned, new life had been infused by the formation of the Bradford and District Amateur Bowling Association. The shield for the first year was in the keeping of the Skipton Club, who vanquished their neighbours, the Craven Club, at Bingley Glen.
A delegation of working men was sent to Germany to investigate the social and industrial conditions there under tariffs.
Further information on the vexed question of the Addingham bypass came up at a meeting of Skipton Rural District Council. The Ministry of Transport said although the need for a bypass was appreciated and the improvement of the trunk road south-east of the village did not in any way diminish the importance of the scheme, it had not yet been possible to include the bypass in any schedule of work.
There were 86 road accidents in Craven in the first quarter of the year. There were no fatalities, although six of the accidents were serious. Seventeen involved slight injury, 53 were non-injury and 10 involved dogs. Main factors were failing to keep to the proper traffic lane and failing to overtake properly.
At a meeting of the Skipton Old People’s welfare committee it was decided that now the chiropody service had been passed to the county health department, the committee should provide bags of coal for old people who needed it at the beginning of the winter.
Dancing inside Gaping Gill Cave, near Ingleton, was what the Burnsall Morris Team was hoping to do on Bank Holiday Monday. If successful, they would earn themselves a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the deepest subterranean dancers. ITV’s Game for a Laugh and BBC’s Record Breakers programmes hoped to film the team’s progress.
A 90-year-old Skipton dentist retired after more than 70 years in the profession. Thomas Preston, of Cavendish Street, began his career in 1911 and could remember the days when an extraction cost 6d and a set of dentures a little more than £2. He recalled: “If the patient was in enough pain I told them it would cost as much as they had in their pockets to take out the tooth and I would give them 1d back.”
The clock was turned back to the 1930s on Barden Moor when Yorkshire TV cameras filmed an episode of In Loving Memory, a comedy series about a firm of undertakers.
Television chef Brian Turner returned to his roots when he visited Upper Wharfedale to film for his new cookery programme based around traditional Yorkshire recipes. Mr Turner was the guest of Yockenthwaite farmer Stuart Hird and cooked lamb stew based on the recipe of the chef’s mother. The programme makers also went to the Angel Inn at Hetton to meet chef proprietor Denis Watkins to find out why Yorkshire lamb was such a speciality.
A café marooned in the early 1990s when a village bypass was built was facing demolition. Plans to bulldoze the Wayside café at Draughton and replace it with an office were approved by Craven District Council. The black and white wooden building, with panoramic views, was built in the 1920s as a hut selling ice cream.
A long-forgotten fair last held in the early 1900s was to be revived. Appletreewick Onion Fair could be traced back to 1311 when the Lord of the Manor was granted a charter to hold a three-day annual event. The name of the fair could be attributed to the fact that vast quantities of onions were strung together down the lane where the fair was held. Onions were known as “winter beef” and were sold at the fair in enormous quantities.
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