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My name is Maurice Wray and I was born in Chapel Allerton, Leeds in 1934.

My mother however, Dorothy Vivien Wray (Ne Breaks) was born in Hampsthwaite in 1908 and was largely brought up there by her grandparents, William and Sarah Anne Busfield, who lived on Church Lane where Lamb Cottage is now.

The photo is taken around 1939 and they are sitting on the 'Bink' or stone seat which was then outside the front of his house (now Lamb Cottage, on Church Street, Hampsthwaite).

All materials provided by Ian Wray - October 2013  (Click on photos to enlarge)

Hampsthwaite Feast and Show 2014 was held on 19th and 20th July

Theme : 'A World of Sport"

(click photo to return to full article on the Parish Church)

(click photo to return to full article on Lamb Cottage)

The first priority is to ensure your computer is kept up to date and is well protected with regularly updated anti-virus software. Also don’t store your banking passwords on your computer and change passwords regularly - just in case

Beyond that, staying safe online is largely a matter of being careful what you click on and what you plug into your computer or connect it to. Malware (a general term for all kinds of ‘malicious software’) can only enter a computer via:

• an email attachment,
• by being downloaded from a website
• via connection with an infected device or system - e.g. a USB stick or a compromised network such as in a public cyber cafe.

There are two types of email - web-based (like GMail) which can be accessed on any computer with internet and client-based (like Outlook or Thunderbird) which rely on software stored on your computer.

The advantage of client-based is that emails can be managed off-line but it is possible to arrange for web-based emails to do that also.

The advent of digital photogaphy has liberated the taking, storage, sharing and usage of images. Photographs can be edited or even distorted to create special effects.

The final image can simply be viewed on screen, emailed to others, used in documents and publications, printed off or sent to a specialist to have professional prints produced. Similarly, the final image can be used as surface decoration to a wide range of everyday products.