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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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(click on photo to enlarge) This is the most recent property to be constructed in Hampsthwaite and stands on land which in 1919 formed part of agricultural land sold that year to Frederick McCulloch Jowitt of Hollins Hall. Mr Jowitt was a Wool merchant and Top maker and a substantial landowner, living in what was until recent years the most notable residence in Hampsthwaite. The land he acquired appears to have been farmed in conjunction with his property at nearby Hollins Farm. Mr Jowitt died in 1921 and his estate passed to his widow Helen Dorothea who held it until her own demise in 1952. On the 18th May 1956 her executors sold Hollins Farm to George Ripley Pinkney who was in fact already in possession as its tenant farmer. The purchase price for the farmhouse with over 61 acres of land and further land at Killinghall was £3000! In recent years the site has been occupied as a builder’s storage yard
Here are views of the undeveloped site in December 2009 . . .   By March 2009 work on the construction of the new house had begun and within two weeks the structure of the new building was already rising from the ground . . . This is how the site appeared on the 11th April . . . . . . and by the 25th April the appearance of the new house could already be envisaged . . . By mid-May progress on the exterior structure was well advanced . . . . . . and in mid-June it appeared thus. Dovetail House (click on photo to enlarge)
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