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[Photos by Tim Hardy Photography
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Hampsthwaite Community Shed provides a friendly, welcoming and safe environment in which members of the local community can meet, share skills, learn from one another and take part in practical, creative and social activities.The Shed aims to:
reduce social isolation and encourage friendship and companionship;
promote well-being through purposeful practical activity;
provide opportunities to learn, practice and share skills;
encourage repair, reuse and responsible use of materials;
enable members to undertake individual and community projects;
provide opportunities to use both traditional craft skills and modern technologies;
encourage people of different backgrounds, ages and abilities to participate.
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Kids Can Do It
a crafting in cardboard and stripwood practical actvity day.
'standard' materials provided or bring your own.
pre-printed designs and patterns available to prepare at home first.
adults and teens welcome if accompanied by Under Year 7's they're helping
cafe open for teas, coffee and biscuits
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From a website comment by Mr Derek Barker:""My father Jim Walker formerly a gas meter reader was born in a cottage adjacent to the church gates. Unfortunately I do not know which one of the pair he was born in. As a child he used the chair shown in the photographs. My father who passed away in 2004 told me that it was made from oak taken from Hampsthwaite Church. I make no claims as to its provenance but there is just a chance that it was made by Peter. The Teddy which gives scale to the chair is over 100 years old and belonged to my father in law Arthur Myers of Stubhouse Farm (Emmerdale site) in Harewood Park."
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THIS COMING WEEKEND 21st and 22nd JUNE!I am delighted to announce that 38 young soldiers from22 Platoon at the Army Foundation College will be hosted here todo 'good works' around the village towards their Duke of Edinburgh Award.Please welcome them, thank them, and if you wish, join them!They will be working 1030hrs - 1530hrs around Feast Field on Saturday,followed by Memorial Hall then Village Centreand ending at the churchyard on Sunday.Our Community PayBack Team have kindly loaned several gardening tools,we have sourced others, but if you are able to loan any, especially clippers,trimmers, shears, forks or half moons etc. that would be very helpful.Please label them bring along to leave in the Memorial Hall Foyer
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Local planning authorities need to regularly identify and update their supply of sites for housing development as part of their adopted local plan. North Yorkshire Council is currently drawing up a new county wide local plan and a new consultation (Issues and Options) is about to begin.
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Our Memorial Hall was built to honour the fallen in two world wars and give thanks to those who returned. It is appropriate therefore that we play our full part in the national celebrations and village activities are planned for May 8th VE-Day and Saturday May 10th 2025
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Remembering Hampsthwaite’s Blind Joiner - an article by Shaun WilsonLike the market town of Knaresborough, who had ‘Blind Jack’ – John Metcalf, the road builder of Yorkshire in the eighteenth century, the small rural village of Hampsthwaite had it’s blind hero also, almost a century later – Peter Barker who became known as ‘The Blind Joiner of Hampsthwaite.’ Though there are some similarities between John Metcalf and Peter Barker’s lives, these are purely co-incidental and each fulfilled a life, character and career in their own right.
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Arsenic Poisoning in Hampsthwaite - The Execution of Hannah Whitley
In 1789, Hannah Whitley of Hampsthwaite used a pie as the delivery medium for a fatal dose of arsenic, with the poison concentrated in the crust. She claimed She had been coerced into the act of poisoning by her employer, a local linen weaver named Horseman, who was involved in an on-going feud with the intended victim.
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JANE RIDSDALEAged 33 years, born at Hampsthwaite, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, her height is 31 ½ inches.She is remarkably chearfull & enjoys very good health.Published July 1st 1807 by Jane Ridstale, at Harrogate where purchasers of this Print will have the opportunity of seeing and conversing with her
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| In Memoriam - F W Barker
  Born in Hampsthwaite in 1892, "Willie" was the second son of Frederick and Margaret Barker of Barton House, Ripley. The 1911 census shows him living there with his widower father and four of his siblings. Like his father, he became a stone mason.
Having apparently emigrated to Canada some time after the taking of the 1911 census, he enlisted, as a Private, in the Royal Canadian Regiment with a service number of 477038. At enlistment on 23rd August 1915 (in Halifax, Nova Scotia) he gave his occupation as a miner and said he had previously served with the Calgary Rifles. He was killed in France nearly a year after his younger brother Harold and died on the 9th December 1917. Both he and Harold were cousins of Arthur Barker and Wilfred Stanley Barker. He is recorded as having been buried at XXX1.C.17A. at Etaples Military Cemetery, France. As a soldier in the Royal Canadian Regiment, "Willie"'s medal record may be held in Canada but it is assumed he would be entitled to receive both the British War and Victory Medals in addition to any Canadian decoration
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In Memoriam - F W Barker
Born in Hampsthwaite in 1892, "Willie" was the second son of Frederick and Margaret Barker of Barton House, Ripley. The 1911 census shows him living there with his widower father and four of his siblings. Like his father, he became a stone mason.
Having apparently emigrated to Canada some time after the taking of the 1911 census, he enlisted, as a Private, in the Royal Canadian Regiment with a service number of 477038. At enlistment on 23rd August 1915 (in Halifax, Nova Scotia) he gave his occupation as a miner and said he had previously served with the Calgary Rifles. He was killed in France nearly a year after his younger brother Harold and died on the 9th December 1917. Both he and Harold were cousins of Arthur Barker and Wilfred Stanley Barker. He is recorded as having been buried at XXX1.C.17A. at Etaples Military Cemetery, France. As a soldier in the Royal Canadian Regiment, "Willie"'s medal record may be held in Canada but it is assumed he would be entitled to receive both the British War and Victory Medals in addition to any Canadian decoration
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Medal | Victory
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