Filey yesterday

Lunch at the White Lodge Hotel and a sunny walk through the gardens, along the sea front, and around the town.

Tall Ships

Scarborough citizens travel north by road, rail, and sea....

Even Bigger Crowds for Tall Ships Spectacle Even Bigger Crowds for Tall Ships Spectacle THE Tall Ships Races 2010 in Hartlepool hit new heights yesterday (Sunday August 8) as an estimated 350,000 visitors flocked to the site. The figure, up 100,000 on Saturday’s 250,000 total, took visitor numbers for the first two days of the event beyond the half a million mark. The highlight of the day was the impressive Crew Parade, a vibrant pageant of music and costume. Mayor Stuart Drummond said: “We have had some fabulous feedback from people. The highlight of Sunday was undoubtedly the Crew Parade, a fabulous display involving all of the crews which was enjoyed by everyone. “We are delighted with the way the whole event is going, and the question I am already being asked is when can we have the Tall Ships Races again!” There are 57 vessels in port and the event is well on course to attract up to one million visitors over the course of four days. As well as the Tall Ships, there is a busy programme of live music throughout the four days of the event. Tonight (Monday) will see Echo and the Bunnymen and Doves take to the main stage. Other highlights include a World Market, celebrity chefs, street theatre, a folk festival and the BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory. The last of three fireworks displays will take place this evening at 9.45pm. Hartlepool is the only UK host port for the Tall Ships Races 2010, with the vessels having sailed from Kristiansand in Norway in the second and final race.

Open Air Theatre

A spectacular opening concert starring two of the world's biggest opera stars, José Carreras and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, with music by the Opera North Orchestra. Hosted by Brian Blessed and includes the acclaimed Huddersfield Choral Society. Not to be missed the gala will be one of only two concert dates in the UK for José Carreras this year.

A spectacular firework display will end the evening.

Book now! Call ticketline on 0844 888 9991 or on site at the Scarborough Open Air Theatre ticket office, Burniston Road, Scarborough, YO12 6PF (10am-6pm).

Tickets £55, £45 and £35, VIP waterside from £65

Pilgrimage Retreat

DAY THREE

After mass of first Roman martyrs and coffee I return to persue aspects of the convent heritage trail.

Unlike yesterday there are just six of us for lunch after which two sisters depart for a London funeral and with Jenny off home before supper we are just three of us then. In between a visit to the Birmingham Oratory with Jenny Smith and convent media (ex BBC) volunteer Maureen Healy. Jenny is single and from Malvern. This is her visit job after training at Liverpool University. She is Anglican. Maureen is recovering from a car accident which meant finishing work and lives locally.

We are welcomed at the Oratory by Fr Richard Duffield, Provost and Actor of Cardinal Newman’cause, who is in contact with the convent because of their Newman links and to tap their experience of their Heritage Trail in order to create something similar at The Oratory for the pilgrims expected to increase following Newman’s beatification in September(19^th). We are privileged to be given an extended tour of the Newman rooms with much inspiring, and revealing, commentary – especially in relation to the visit of His Holiness the Pope. The study, chapel, bedroom, library are full of fascinating artefacts. In the process I am introduced to Father Gregory Winterton who , like me, was once a student at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield. Fr Richard grew up in York and became good friend with Fr William Massie, parish priest in Scarborough. What is more in prominent position near to Newman’s altar is a portrait of a Canon Walker who founded the Catholic Mission in Scarborough and was a good friend.

Ann Widdecombe, preparing for a TV programme, was signed in as the most recent visitor in Newman’s study before us. We were shown Newman’s unusual rosary likely to be given to the pope when he visits(only 3 decades and St Benedict medallion instead of a crucifix), his vestments, cardinal hat, coffin plaque, ‘Apologia’ writing desk, Elgar’s gift of original manuscript for ‘Dream of Gerontius’ etc.

A lot to mull over this evening.

Sun, Sand, and Sea at Scarborough

Lovely sunny day today here in Scarborough. Pity daughter and husband didn't make it. They turned round and went back to Bradford after long traffic delays near York. Of course, number of half term trippers to the sea and sun probably also would be involved.

Crash causes delays near York

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MOTORISTS endured rush hour chaos on the A64 on the outskirts of York today, after two vehicles collided.

The accident happened at about 8.20am outside the Tanglewood Restaurant, between Towthorpe Moor Lane and Hopgrove roundabout on the York Outer Ring Road. It involved a blue Ford Galaxy and a blue Renault Megane. One went into the back of the other. Neither woman driver was reported to be seriously injured.

The crash led to long queues building up on the York Outer Ring Road between Hopgrove and Grimston Bar roundabouts and the A64 heading into York from Malton

In Her Majesty's Footsteps

The Queen came to Scarborough last Thursday and opened the new Yorkshire Welcome Open Air Theatre. Today we went to take a look on a birthday eve visit.

Royals in Scarborough

Queen Elizabeth II arrives in Scarborough where she opened the newly-restored Open Air Theatre in Northstead Manor Gardens, which is the largest outdoor theatre in Europe.

THE Queen joined an audience of more than 6,500 people this morning to enjoy an open-air theatre performance in Scarborough.

Accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen officially opened the resort's Open Air Theatre in front of a cheering crowd gathered in the sun.

Wearing a floral dress, with a matching turquoise coat and hat, adorned with a magenta flower, the Queen watched as local theatre groups performed song and dance routines and a specially written play about Scarborough's history.

The royal party arrived in the North Yorkshire town this morning by train before being driven to the new theatre in Northstead Manor Gardens.

The Queen met local dignitaries and was handed a posy of flowers by six-year-old Sophie Bellringer, whose father Tom is a sewage treatment engineer for event sponsors Yorkshire Water.

Speaking afterwards, Sophie said: "I was a bit nervous but she was very nice. All my friends at school are jealous.

"When I gave her the flowers, she said, 'Are those for me? How beautiful'."

Sophie's mother, Michelle, said her daughter had been "bursting with excitement" at the prospect of meeting the Queen.

The performance was hosted by comedy entertainer Tony Peers and featured violinist Victoria Yellop, a dance routine by youngsters from the Hatton School of Performing Arts and a song duet by Linda Newport and Alex Weatherhill.

The main performance was a play called Grains Of Sand involving 223 performers aged from four to 72 years old.

Performer Vee Shrimpton, 72, described the experience as "a dream come true", while Dan Hendley, who played the lead role, said: "It's an amazing opportunity to perform in front of The Queen and the people of Scarborough."

The Queen sat on a lakeside platform as she watched the acts perform and laughed when Mr Peers made a joke about the dancers' turquoise catsuits clashing with her outfit.

After officially opening the picturesque theatre by unveiling a plaque, the Queen smiled and waved at the audience as they held aloft Union flags and gave three cheers.

The royal party left the theatre to visit the new Hares Leap farm shop before travelling to Cloughton, where they will have lunch at the Blacksmith's Arms, one of the Queen's Duchy properties.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of Scarborough to greet the royal couple this morning.

Bunting and Union flags were displayed outside homes and businesses and one children's nursery hung a banner welcoming the Queen to the town.

A large security operation was set up prior to the historic royal visit, the first to the resort since July 1975.

Jim Dillon, chief executive of Scarborough Borough Council, said: "This truly is an historic event of the highest magnitude for a borough that has a tradition of entertainment and attracting many generations of visitors and I am sure it will be a very memorable day for everyone involved.

"The theatre will enhance the area's reputation as one of the best places to live or visit in the country and as an international destination for high quality entertainment."

Sentamu Surprise

Scarborough Futurist Theatre Summer Shows Brochure arrived today and who will be appearing alongside the likes of Billy Pearce, the Chuckle Brothers, Ken Dodd, Chubby Brown, Basil Brush and the music of Abba, Joe Longthorne, Elvis, Queen, Jane McDonald and Robbie Williams ? Our own Archbishop in 'Sentamu by the Sea'.

Arcbishop Sentamu will lead this evening telling his extraordinary story. A retiring collection will be taken. "Any excess of income over expenditure will be donated to a current 'world emergency'. Tickets from the Futurist Box Office in person or send a self addressed stamped envelope. Max 2 per person. Groups contact box office. Admission by ticket only.

‘DOMINIC SCARBOROUGH’

Who is dominic scarborough? Any connection with Scarborough, North Yorkshire?

"The Catholic Church is no longer the primary, secondary or even tertiary means by which most younger people learn about the world or form their identities and cultural views. Consequently, for the Church to try to compete with the secular world in promoting modern music, climate change awareness, fair trade or gender equality is merely playing someone else’s tune badly. If today’s young Catholics want to know about climate change they inform themselves by going directly to the sources, not by listening to what Father says about it in his homily. By branching out into areas that are not its province religion soon loses its footing and ends up appearing ill-informed, struggling to catch up with the very secular society it is meant to be guiding – particularly if it falls in with the latest fad only for that fad to disappear or be exposed as misconceived …

The Church must turn back to prayer and place God, and not itself, at the centre of this prayer. At the same time it should re-emphasise that suffering and pain are not best papered over with folksy communal singing and hand-shaking any more than they are by narcotics or recreational sex."

Five Days

This BBC drama is particularly absorbing because of local filming.

FIVE DAYS SERIES II

FIVE DAYS (BBC) returns for a second series in 2010, and filmed in Leeds, Wakefield and Dewsbury in summer 2009, with Screen Yorkshire providing crew and locations support.Suranne Jones and David Morrissey head up the ensemble cast, both returning to Yorkshire after filming Unforgiven and Red Riding respectively here in 2008.

Starring in this gripping new drama serial written by Gwyneth Hughes (Miss Austen Regrets, Cherished), Suranne Jones returned to the region after starring in ITV's hit drama UNFORGIVEN (pictured above) in 2009, and David Morrissey is returning after the critically acclaimed RED RIDING trilogy hit our screens on Channel 4 back in March 2009.

The second series of FIVE DAYS filmed at the following Yorkshire locations:
- Kirkgate Station, Wakefield
- Ridings Centre, Wakefield
- Scarborough Beach, South bay and promenade
- Seacroft and Cookridge hospitals, Leeds
- Leeds University
- Leeds Metropolitan University
- Burley Streets
- Dewsbury town hall
- Dewsbury market
- Yorkshire Building Society, Kirklees
- Batley
- Pontefract town square

Andy Morgan, Location Manager, says of his experience shooting in the region: ''The joy of filming in Yorkshire is the sheer wealth of locations available to you. With Leeds, Bradford & Wakefield so close in proximity you have triple the amount of options for urban locations, yet on your doorstep you have some of (if not THE) most beautiful countryside in England. 'Five Days 2' was set in an anonymous West Yorkshire town which meant we could explore all these areas finding incredible locations to piece together our perfect town. The local authorities, ie. Police, Council & Highways, are very helpful towards filming as they feel it's good PR for the area and always makes for positive local interest stories in the press.

Screen Yorkshire played a huge part in the production of FD2 as we engaged their help on many occasion. They appear to know everyone and even when we suggested the most random and bizarre location, they somehow managed to find a contact and get us in. Wherever we filmed it felt like the red carpet had been laid out for us upon our arrival. Their approach to creating a film-friendly region is second to none and their constant support throughout FD2 was very helpful, particularly to the Locations Team.''

SYNOPSIS
A tiny newborn baby is abandoned in the toilets of a Yorkshire hospital. At the same time, the Trans-Pennine commuter train is halted by a suicidal jumper. Are they connected?

From this moment on, the lives of those onboard the train and in the hospital will be changed irrevocably, not least for DC Laurie Franklin (Suranne Jones), off-duty that day but travelling on the train with her mum (Anne Reid), who is recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's.

Laurie likes tying up loose ends. And if she can prove a connection between the body and the baby she will be happy. But things never turn out quite the way we expect. Who is the baby's mother? And who is the jumper? And was it just a simple case of suicide - or was it really a murder?

FIVE DAYS is an atmospheric ensemble drama; a mystery which unfolds over the five most significant days of the police investigation into these two mysteries. It is set in the heart of urban Yorkshire - a melting pot of tensions and relationships within a multicultural landscape. The first series of Five Days received BAFTA, RTS and Golden Globe nominations.

The ensemble cast includes: Suranne Jones (Unforgiven, Coronation Street), David Morrissey (Red Riding, Is Anybody There?), Anne Reid (In Love With Barbara, Hot Fuzz), Bernard Hill (Valkyrie, Titanic), Hugo Speer (Bleak House, The Full Monty), Derek Riddell (Ugly Betty, No Angels), Nina Sosanya (Casanova, Teachers), Steve Evets(Looking For Eric), Ashley Walters (Small Island, Bullet Boy), Shaun Dooley (Married, Single, Other; The Mark of Cain), Matthew McNulty (Cranford, The Shooting Of Thomas Hurndall), Navin Chowdhry (Sinchronicity, Teachers),Shivani Ghai (House Of Saddam), Sacha Dharwan (The History Boys, State Of Play), Cornell John (Kidulthood, Adulthood), Aaron Neil (White Girl), Philip Arditti (House Of Saddam), Kerry Condon (Rome), Chris Fountain(Hollyoaks).

A BBC Drama Production for BBC One, FIVE DAYS is due for transmission in Spring 2010.

A Christmas Carol

Cynthia and friend braved the elements to get to the final performance at the SJT today and were handed a humbug each on leaving the theatre:

30 November - 9 January

The Stephen Joseph Theatre Company in

A Christmas Carol

By Charles Dickens
Adapted and directed by Chris Monks

'Bah! Humbug!'

Ebenezer Scrooge cares for nothing and nobody. His only love is money. Then, one Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by three ghostly spirits, and he begins a life changing journey of redemption.

Our specially adapted version of this classic and much-loved story will feature sixteen young performers drawn from across the Borough of Scarborough, working alongside a professional cast.

Dickens spent time in Malton, and based Scrooge's Counting House on a friend's offices in Chancery Lane. What if Scrooge grew up in Ryedale? Was the penny-pinching old miser a Yorkshire man after all?

Top Town Again

SCARBOROUGH beat competition from 11 other British and Irish towns and cities and three from continental Europe to win the Urbanism Award.

All 360 members of the Academy of Urbanism were asked to pick the winner based on assessment visits to each location last summer.

In the Scarborough report produced ahead of voting the town was Renaissance Towns and Cities programme

- A growing economy

- Encouraging investment, including the restoration of Scarborough's Trafalgar Square

- Local people uniting in action groups to work on themed regeneration topics, including tourism, the arts and culture and urban space

- Having an "exceptional" urban renaissance manager lead. for:

Architect John Thompson, chairman of The Academy of Urbanism, said the awards were created to "recognise places and people that have helped transform local quality of life through good design and planning – Scarborough is an inspirational, community-led example of this".

Nick Taylor, Scarborough's urban renaissance manager said: "It's a fantastic feeling to have our work recognised in this way. I am particularly pleased for all those people involved in our town's renaissance.

"I'm very grateful for the support demonstrated by the former chairman of our group, Tom Pindar, and the continued leadership and vision of our current chairman Tony Peers."

Penny Bazaar at M&S

(Here in Scarborough I joined in and came home with a tie, a key ring, a box of chocolates, a souvenir mug , a happy families pack of cards plus a shopping bag, anniversary/christmas literature, and an orange. The money went in a charity bucket so I dropped in a 50 pence instead of 5 pence!)

Shoppers snapped up more than half a million bargains in the first hour of Marks & Spencer's Christmas Penny Bazaar, the retailer said today.

M&S said more than one million customers had visited the stores by noon to take advantage of the 1p products, with some shoppers having queued since 6am to secure the Christmas stocking gifts.

The retailer launched its Penny Bazaar earlier this year to mark its 125th anniversary celebrations - going back to its roots, as the chain started life as a Penny Bazaar in 1884.

Its last Penny Bazaar ran for three days in May and saw many stores running out of stock each day due to demand.

The group charged a penny for each product, as a suggested minimum donation, with all money going towards local charities nominated by each M&S store.

Today's morning rush saw more than double the average number of shoppers for a Friday morning, while it also marked an increased turn-out on the Penny Bazaar in May, which saw about 900,000 shoppers rush to buy goods by 12pm.

M&S sold about 138 one penny items a second in the first few hours of today's sale, which was running across 350 stores.

The group's busiest outlets included those at the Warrington Gemini shopping centre, Marble Arch, Liverpool and Birmingham, with hundreds of people waiting outside.

Sir Stuart Rose, M&S chairman, said: "We've had a great start to our
Christmas Penny Bazaar.

"Thanks to M&S, millions of people will be getting a little something extra in their Christmas stockings this year - and all the profits are going to local charities." (Yorkshire Post)

Book Recommendation 3

(Leslie loan - friend of SJT - Ayckbourn enthusiast)

New Ayckbourn book exclusively at the SJT Shop

23 September 2009

Sight Unseen: The Unseen Ayckbourn Guide is a new book by Alan Ayckbourn’s archivist, Simon Murgatroyd. It looks at concepts and ideas for plays, unpublished and unproduced plays, alternative versions and titles, screenplay concepts, early writing and rarely seen Ayckbourn plays such as his very first play The Square Cat.

The book has more than 100 entries ranging from Alan’s first play written at school to his latest play My Wonderful Day, with practically every subject accompanied with quotes from Alan Ayckbourn as well as extracts from a number of the plays.

Although available on the internet, Sight Unseen is being sold exclusively offline at the Stephen Joseph Theatre Shop. It costs £7 with all proceeds from the book going towards the theatre

Sight Unseen

The Unseen Ayckbourn Guide

by Simon Murgatroyd

Format: Free download or paid for softcover edition (£4.00)

Pages: 120 pages

Click here for the Free Download or click here for details of the paid-for published edition

(Note: There is no difference in content between the free download or paid-for edition)

A preview of Sight Unseen can also be found at lulu.com here.

Entries discussed include Alan Ayckbourn's work on:

> Unpublished canon plays such as The Square Cat, Love After All, Dad's Tale, Christmas V Mastermind, Standing Room Only, The Sparrow, Jeeves, Making Tracks & Virtual Reality.

> Unacknowledged, unproduced and unpublished plays such as Bedside Manners, Board Game,The Party Game, Relative Values, The Season.

> Early alternative versions of Absurd Person Singular, A Chorus Of Disapproval, FlatSpin,Henceforward..., The Jollies & Life & Beth.

> Screenplays and TV concepts such as the movie Cluedo, Bedroom Farce spin-off Ernest & Delia, Hark At Barker & Mind Over Murder.

> Alternative titles such as Am I Famous Yet, I To I, Meeting Like This, Sight Unseen, The Silver Collection, Take It Or Leave It & Taken For Granted & Winnie's Wonderful Day.

> The 'Grey' plays - produced but never published and now withdrawn.

> Concepts for various unwritten plays.

> Previously unacknowledged ephemera such as Cinderella's Star Night, The Ghost Of 'Enry Albert, Scarborough's Millennium attraction and a West End version of The Wizard Of Oz.

> Early writing during his school and teenage years

> Also includes a definitive & up-to-date official play list, a guide to who's who and all entries are fully referenced.

And more...

The entries are discussed in historical context and include quotes by Alan Ayckbourn himself as well as rarely, if ever, seen extracts from many of the plays.

Book Recommendation 2

(Leslie loan - Scarborough born author - 'Woman in Black' seen at West End theatre)

Reviewed by Sarah Vine of The Times

In a world full of gruesome, graphic and all too often sadistic literary violence, Susan Hill's old-fashioned ghost story is a welcome reminder of the more noble origins of the horror genre.

Like her earlier novel, The Woman in Black, it harks back to a time when terror was as much a product of the reader's imagination, expertly planted there by the author, as it was spelt out on the page. In cinematic terms, it is The Shining versus Saw III; Don't Look Now v I Know What You Did Last Summer; The Omen v Scream. It has class, it has style and it has pedigree.

In many respects The Man in the Picture owes a considerable debt to the father of the fireside chiller, M.R. James, probably best known for his 1925 collection A Warning to the Curious and Other Stories.

James was a master of understated horror and dramatic tension. The fear and foreboding in his stories is palpable, the doom-laden action no less exciting for being so darn obvious. That sense of inviting disaster which characterises some of the greatest Gothic horror — why must the hero venture into the cellar when he knows it contains a foul fiend; why does the heroine leave her window open when she knows a “vampyre” is on the loose? — is ever present in his work. Yet his protagonists, and the reader, are glued to a narrative that is devilishly, hypnotically elegant.

James had certain themes, and they are present in The Man in the Picture. Here is the eminent academic, nearing the end of his life, living out his days in comfortable penury. Here is the naive pupil, in awe of his mentor's intellect but unaware of the true depths of the dark secret that he harbours. Here is the bright promise of happiness, a romantic idyll, doomed to destruction.

At the centre of everything is a supernatural black hole, an object of extreme malevolence (in this case, a painting) that, while not necessarily intrinsically terrifying, is tenaciously successful in its evil purpose. And there is no happy ending, no redemption — the only escape for its unfortunate victims is the grave, or worse.

But The Man in the Picture is no mere carbon copy. It has real, defining qualities of its own. Hill brings her unique take to a somewhat careworn framework and produces a tale brimming with excitement, mystery and vitality.

Her language is crisp, concise and elegant, and, although she makes concessions to a more old-fashioned style, she does so knowingly and with verve. The story unfolds at a thriller's pace, and the setting is reassuringly contemporary.

Thanks to this, Hill can lure the modern reader in with a sense of the brightly familiar. Not until it is too late – both for the hero and for the hooked reader – does the realisation dawn that everything, even a plate of piping hot buttered crumpets, has been contaminated by an intangible, insatiable evil. In the capable hands of Hill, the Gothic novel, that venerable but undeniably pensionable genre, finds a new lease of life.

The Man in the Picture by Susan Hill
Profile, £9.99; 160pp

Freemasons and Icecream

Two further heritage visits today:

Inside the Freemasons Lodge

Published Date: 16 September 2008

PEOPLE visiting Scarborough's ST NICHOLAS LODGE OF FREEMASONS may have felt somewhat disappointed.

Because secret handshakes and passwords there were not – instead the Freemasons warmly welcomed the many curious visitors at their door.

Freemason Karl Ward said: "Some say we are a charitable organisation, a gentlemen's club and a dining club. We are all of these, but none of these.

"The Freemasons is actually based around the old stonemason industry from building temples. It was about learning the trade, and that was what the handshakes originated from."

The handshakes, which the Freemasons still use today, are actually a form of "certificate" a stonemason would only know should he have reached a certain level in the profession.

It is believed there was some kind of Freemasons lodge in Scarborough in 1605, although there is still controversy surrounding this belief. Scarborough Freemasons support a number of local charities including St Catherine's Hospice, the Yorkshire Air Ambulance and the hospital.

Mr Ward said: "As a national organisation we are second only to the National Lottery in donating money to charity."

The Scarborough Freemason lodge is open for viewing to the public at any time. The Freemasons ask that requests be sent by letter to the lodge in St Nicholas Cliff and they would only be happy to accommodate individuals, groups or parties.

Harbour Bar, Scarborough

Posted by MoragR 1 April 2007

The Alonzi family’s Harbour Bar (opened 1945) is a gleaming, glamorous time capsule from post-war America mislaid among the Victorian boarding houses of North Yorkshire.

Mirrored walls feature neon ice-cream cones and signs with the dubious advice: “Keep fit by eating ice cream every day.”

Patrons sit on red leather banquettes or on high stools at the half-moon, chrome-edged counter. Ice creams are mainly traditional – vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, banana, and lemon and blackcurrant sorbets – made from natural ingredients including Scottish seaweed instead of gelatine.

The café is a meeting place for everyone from local fishermen to playwright Alan Ayckbourne and Michael Winner, a big fan since filming scenes for A Chorus of Disapproval there.

1-2 Sandside, Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Tel: 01723 373662. Open: 7.30am - 6pm, daily.

Scarborough University Campus

This afternoon I have enjoyed a group visit to the university campus just up the road from where we live.

Scarborough Campus, The University of Hull, Filey Road, Scarborough YO11 3AZ, 01723 362392

Scarborough Campus provides an exciting intermate study environment, bringing together 20th and 21st century architecture with all the resources you would expect from a larger campus. The campus has a wide variety of teaching spaces, ranging from rooms which can accept 100+ students to rooms for much smaller groups.

We also have state of the art digital media labs, and recording studios, along with science labs, performance studios and a theatre workshop. We also have all the facilities you would find on a larger campus, a comprehensive library, open access ITareas, onsite accommodation and both a dining hall and cafe bar. Not only that but we also have a Student Union shop and games area.

Scarborough Campus provides a fully wireless campus, so you can access your email and the web anywhere on campus. In the cafe, library or lectures you will always be able to connect your laptop to the network, either for study, or to keep in touch with your lecturers and other students.

To get a true feel for the campus, you can either visit us on an open day, or visit ourvideo microsite. Here you'll be able to see staff and students from the different subject areas living 'the Scarborough experience'.

Across the road is a centre which brings much publicity to Scarborough.

Welcome to the School of Arts and New Media (SANM) based at the Scarborough Campus of the University of Hull.

Our range of undergraduate and postgraduate opportunities encourage students to explore and contribute to the future of music, theatre, performance, english, computingand digital media.

The programmes offered in the school are designed to respond to contemporary art and media in the world today. Studying in SANM offers artistic and intellectual skills and experience that will enable you to work in traditional arts and new media industries. Together staff and students continue to explore what it means to be a musician, composer, performance artist, web designer, games developer, digital arts maker, theatre practitioner, actor, dancer, writer.

Scarborough School of Arts and New Media is home to an innovative team of subject specialists working together to offer a range of degree courses in the following subject areas:

• Interdisciplinary Degrees
• Creative Music Technology
• Digital Media
• English
• Theatre and Performance

Throughout your years in the School of Arts and New Media, you are taught by lecturers who are practising artists, scientists, choreographers, directors, software developers, actors, designers, musicians, performers and composers. They collaborate to share their enthusiasm for their arts with you as the future artists and audiences.

Whichever degree you choose you will be able to study, experience, experiment and explore your art in professional facilities. You will also have opportunities to see professional companies both on campus and in trips to theatres and other performance venues in centres such as London, Leeds and York.

Interregnum Ponderings

(from this month's parish magazine)

By his resignation Fr Tony has created a vacancy in benefice. We are without a priest incumbent until such time as a new appointment is announced.

The Archbishop has power to license a priest in charge but this is not usually considered necessary for the comparatively short interval between the vacation by one incumbent and the admission of the next. Churchwardens, together with the Rural Dean, become sequestrators until a new incumbent is instituted. They are “to use their best endeavours to encourage parishioners in the practice of the true religion”. It is their responsibility to ensure that visiting clergy are available for church services. The Churchwardens are generally appointed as PCC representatives in connection with the selection of the new incumbent.

What qualities should we hope for in a new parish priest? I have no authority to speak for anyone other than myself in this matter but my prayer will be for another ‘holy priest’.

On the 23^rd of this month we keep the feast of St Pio of Pietrelcina . As part of the inaugural observances of this Year of the Priest, Pope Benedict made a pilgrimage to and celebrated mass at the San Giovanni Rotondo, the resting place of Saint Padre Pio who died in 1968. Along with St Jean Vianney, Cure of Ars, he was pointing to Padre Pio as a good example of a holy priest.

The Additional Curates Society puts it well for Anglicans:

Almighty God, give us priests:
to establish the honour of your holy name;
to offer the holy sacrifice of the altar;
to give us Jesus in the holy sacrament;
to proclaim the faith of Jesus;
to baptise and to teach the young;
to tend your sheep;
to seek the lost;
to give pardon to the penitent sinner;
to bless our homes;
to pray for the afflicted;
to comfort mourners;
to strengthen us in our last hour;
to commend our souls;
Almighty God, give us priests!
Holy Father, you gave us Christ as the shepherd of our souls;
may your people always have priests
who care for them with his great love.
We make our prayer,
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.

On the move

Churches Together in Scarborough are holding another 'On the move' mission in the town centre this week.

In 1997, we stumbled on doing free barbecues – with groups of churches of all denominations, to bring the love of Jesus to the streets! It worked so wonderfully that this is what we have been doing ever since.

This is what happens. People in the main street see a worship band (guitars, other instruments, maybe half a dozen singers); soon, they see another one; then another – creating a carnival atmosphere. Team members go up to passers-by and say ‘Can I invite you to a free barbecue?’

Nearby, there are chairs and tables, a queue for food and a worship band – a relaxed party, but with a strong sense of the presence of God. With the help of the Holy Spirit, guests open up and we serve them by praying for their needs. Some give their lives to Christ. Many are touched and impacted.

The local church is mobilised, with something like 100-200 Christians taking part – anyone can cook, sing or invite! Typically, 100+ non-Christians are there at any one time, but over 2 hours, an average of 600 come, and about 2,000 come over three or four days. The Holy Spirit is free to move. And he does!

Scarborough Fishing Families

(Mick, our handyman, draws my attention to this interesting web site)

The Harwood and Bullamore fishing family history in Scarborough

This family history features the Harwood and Bullamore fishing families and was typed up by Ian Hollingsworth who had a keen interest in family history. He worked at the Scarborough Evening News and died in 2008. The full history has been contributed to the library and can be read complete with photos in the Vernon Road Library Scarborough room.

Mathew Bullamore was born 10 October,1828 at Trimingham, Norfolk. He appears to have made the journey to Scarborough some time after 1852, and was followed by his brothers
- Jeremiah Bullamore(born September 1836 - died January 1865)
- John Bullamore (born 3 October 1838 , married Jane Pack 25th November 1860)
- James Bullamore (born 1841 who married Hannah Barker 8th Spetmber 1861)

The emigrants from down south were not always welcomed with open arms.

The 1861 census showed that 24 year old Mathew Bullamore was lodging at 2 East Sandgate along with his brother Jeremiah Bullamore. They were both listed as fishermen.

Death of Jeremiah Bullamore A report in the Scarborough Gazette 19th January, 1865. The late gale - all hope has been given up respecting their fishing vessel 'Spirit of the Age' belonging to this port. She is believed to have foundered when off Flamborough Head or the Dogger Bank in the storm of Friday the 6th. The 'Spirit of the Ages' was the property of Mr H Wyrill, and was manned by the following crew:
- David Collison,master
- Park Cowling
- Jeremiah Bullamore (Mathew Bullamores brother) who left a widow and baby daughter Rowena.
- Mathew Wood
- George Cowling, a boy

The children of Mathew Bullamore(born 28th Oct 1828 - died January 1915) and Jane Harwood (1836-1888)
- Mary Ann Bullamore (born 1857 she married Henry Walker)
- George Bullamore (1858-59) died a baby.
- George William Bullamore born 1862 - died when 15 years old
- James Bullamore (1865-1951). He married Sarah Jane Crawford
- Jeremiah (1865-1952) married Selina Truman
- Sarah Ann born 1868.

George William Bullamore was lost at sea, age 10 years old. The report in the Scarborough gazette, 4th November 1869 states "it is to be regretted that the lull in the weather has brought no tidings of the vessel belonging to this port, now missing, the 'John Wesley'. The crew consisted of 11 men, 3 from Boston, the rest from Scarborough. Her sole owner, Mr Jefferson Ward, announced that he had given up hope of the boat. A very singular fatality appears to be conected with the loss of the master of this vessel, Mr William Harwood. His mother was buried yesterday (she died on the 27th October). He has two sisters whose recovery from serious illness is no longer looked for, while by the loss of the vessel his own life and the lives of his son(sic) and father,who sailed with him, are sacrificed". The son was his nephew George William Bullamore age 10 - the son of his sister Jane Harwood. She lost her mother,father,brother, and son all in one tragic episode. The loss of the "John Wesley" with all her crew was witnessed by Richard Haxby,Senior, the Filey Skipper of the Yawl 'Unity' who was powerless to help. The day the ship was lost - 28th October - was by coincidence Mathew Bullamores birthday.

A gravestone in Dean Road cemetry reads "William Bowering Harwood, master of the 'John Wesley' of Scarborough, lost with all hands 28th October 1869; also John Harwood,father of the above age 64; George William Bullamore grandson of the skipper age 10"

In a nearby gravestone is buried Thomas Eves 50 who was also a crew member of the John Wesley

The John Wesley was a 30 ton yawl built in Whitby in 1845. Her rig was foremast, mizzers and jib. She was a drift netter. Her length of keel was 50foot. She normally had a crew of 7 men and two boys.

Children of John Harwood 1805-28 October 1869 and Ann Bowering(1806- 27th October) They had 9 children the first five of which were girls.
- Elizabeth Harwood
- Sarah Ann Harwood
- Mary Harwood
- Jane Harwood who married Mathew Bullamore
- Matilda who married John Ward
- John Harwood
- William Bowring Harwood
- Ann Harwood
- Henry Mark Harwood

In 1851 the census reveals that they lived at 8 Long Greece Steps with three daughters and 3 sons.

Another Scarborough Smack lost : in October 1869 was the smack the 'Rambler' owned by Mr Sellers. She set out for the fishing grounds on tuesday 12 October and was last seen by Scarborough boat the 'Mary Ann' skippered by J Harrison. The crew was
- John Godbolt,master
- James Colman
- William Leach
- Robert Godbolt
- Richard Blogg
- John Bullamore(single)
- James Camp
- John Fraser - a young man of colour who was well known in the town; and a man known as Sunderland John.

A report illustrating the vagaries of life on a yawl is illustrated by an item in the Scarborough Gazette, 16th February 1871: The loss is reported of a young man called Duncan(Frederick William) from Mr Sellers Smack 'Yorkshire Lass'. He was sitting on a tiller singing the sunday school hymn "shall we meet beyond the river" and was suddenly missed by his comrades on board. It is presumed that a wave had struck the tiller and thrown Duncan from his seat. He was the son of David Duncan of 15 Batty Place according to the 1861 census.

Mathew Bullarmore died March 1878, aged 15. The Scarborough mercury of 15th March 1878 reports "FATAL ACCIDENT : On friday night a youth named Mathew Bullamore, 15 years of age, son of Mathew Bullamore, of Quay Street, a fisherman, employed on the smack 'Temperance Pledge' belonging to Mr Richard Sellers, died from the effects of a crush he receieved on the previous wednesday. It appears that the young fellow was stepping from a boat onto the piles of the pier in order to pass a rope to the harbour master, when through the lurching of the vessel, he was caught between the bowsprit and the pier, sustaining broken ribs and severe internal injuries. On the melancholy event being known most of the smack owners testified their sorrow by hoisting their flags half-mast high. An inquest was held on the body before Mr Collinson, the Borough Coroner, at the British Workmens public house on saturday evening. Dr Wright was desired to make a post mortem examination of the body, which he did, and stated that death resulted from eruption of the bladder and left kidney. A verdict of accidental death was returned. The British Workmens Public House was situated on Sandside, a coffee house and reading room."

In 1869 the master of the 'Temperance Pledge' was Richard Donkin. The yawl had a weight of 40 tons and keel of 56 feet. Her rig was fore,jib and mizzen. Carrying a crew of seven men and two boys,she was engaged in trawling and drift lining. She ceased fishing on 6th September 1899.

The 'Temperance Pledge'A year previous in February 1877 there was a report in the Scarborough Post mentioning the 'temperance Pledge'. The storm of 30th of January 1877 caused big tides to completely submerge the west pier, and cover Sandside, flooding cellars, and Foreshore Road with water which reached the bottom of Eastborough. One of the boats returning after the storm was the 'Temperance Pledge' owned by Mr J sellers. She had sustained heavy damage, having lost her mizzen, her bowsprit, lost her gear, and part of the bulwarks were damaged. William Truman, husband of Elizabeth Allen, was lost in this storm.

The Yawl CapernumAnother tragedy with a Bullamore in the crew occured on 26th May 1894, when the yawl 'Capernum' was run down by the steamship 'Polynesian' off Flamborough Head and went down with all hands. Amongst the crew were.
- George Blogg master 57 leaves a widow
- Gardiner Warman, middle aged, a widow and 3 children
- Robert Appleby 30
- James Appleby 18

The chief officer of the 'Polynesian' said that just before the collision he saw an old man and a young boy on the tiller, the only persons on deck.

Mathew Bullamore : In an article in the local paper in 1914, Mathew Bullamore is described as Scarboroughs oldest working boatman at the age of 86 and that he had been on the beach working at Easter and was looking forward to welcoing patrons during the summer.

Mathew died January 1915. The Scarborough Mercury wrote "DEATH OF MR MATHEW BULLAMORE. Well known Scarborough Boatman. The death has taken place of Mathew Bullamore, a well known figure in the east ward. Mr Bullamore who was for many years a fisherman, was a skipper of the yawls of messrs Sellers adn Wyrill at different times for a period of 30 years. Latterly he was a pleasurebaotman, accompanying his son Jeremiah on the coble 'Queen of the Bay'. He was a typical old salt, and was much in sought after as an artists subject. He was a member of the seamans mission and also the Liberal Club. He was a temperance man for 50 years but smoked up to a few hours of his death. He is survived by two sons and 3 daughters. One of his grandsons and a nephew are at the front. The internment took place today at the new cemetry. Mr Bullamore was in his 87th year and won respect of all who knew him. He had weathered more than one gale, and remained vigorous until a short tie before his death."

Arthur Bullamore : The grandson was Arthur Bullamore, son of Sara Ann Bullamore, he died in the Dardenelles in 1919, after the war had ended. The Scarborough Mercury, 7th March 1919 wrote "SCARBOROUGH MAN DROWNED OFF TURKISH COAST. Deckhand on Government drifter. News has been received by his mother, who lives at Whitehead Hill, that Arthur Bullamore, deckhand in the RNR and one of the crew of the drifter 'Lively' has been drowned. All the information that has been officially supplied is that Bullamore has lost his life, but a sister at the Weston Home , Portsmouth, has informed the relatives that the fatality occurred on the Turkish coast. Bullamore, who attended Friarage School, commenced his seafaring career with Samuel Normandale on a local trawler. The news of his death after hostilities have ceased has created a painful impression. He was aged 24 and had served 4 years."

James 'Rimmy' Bullamore : son of Mathew Bullamore, was interviewed just after the Second World War, when at 85 he was also the oldest working boatman, he told the reporter "I go to bed about dusk and am on the south shore by dawn every morning". And on the conditions at the time he said "You get twice as much money today as you did in my fathers time, it is only worth half as much, and it will only buy you half the stuff" but tempered it with a typical "but whats the use of grumbling".

Censuses
- 1841 Mathew Bullamore lived in Trimingham, Norfolk with his mother and father (George and Rebecca Bullamore)
- 1851 Mathew Bullamore is still living in Trimingham with his parents aged 22
- 1861 Mathew Bullamore has moved to Scarborough and is living at 9 Tuthill with his wife Jane and two children. There is a child servant living with them aged 14.
- 1871 Mathew is still living at Tuthill with his wife Jane and 6 children
- 1881 Mathew is living in Quay Street with his wife and four children aged between 10-17 years at the bottom of Salmon Steps.
- 1891 Mathew has remarried and living with Maria Marshal who in the 1881 census is living at Salmon Steps with her husband Thomas Marshall. They live at 4 Spread Eagle Lane with two of Mathews grown up children Jeremiah (27) and Sarah Ann(24).
- Mathew and Maria still live at 4 Spread eagle Lane along with Jeremiah 32, Sarah Ann (30) and the grandson Arthur aged 6.

The children of Jeremiah Bullamore(1865-1952) and Selina Truman (1875-1965)
- John William 1905-1907. Died a baby
- Walter 1907-1980. Worked for Bobby Gray in the butchers on Princess Square and later at Boyes.
- Isabella 1909-2000 Married Lesley Hollingsworth.
- Alice 1914. Married Stanley Cooper
- George 1917-1941

Jeremiah 'Miah' Bullamore fished out of yawls and cobles with his father Mathew Bullamore in his younger days, and around the turn of the century was employed as a pilot by the rich owners of the steam yachts which visited the coast in the season. In later years he operated his coble ' Alice' as a pleasure boat, taking fishing parties, and ferrying holiday makers between the West Pier and Lighthouse pier. I can remember him taking me round the passenger vessel 'Royal lady' just before the Second World war, and also been told to hide under the front of his coble when I went out fishing with him until we were clear of the lighthouse at the beginning of the Second World war, because of wartime restrictions on taking anyone out of the harbour. He was what you would call taciturn, he never said a lot, although I spent a lot of time in his company. He used to send me for a half ounce of twist, cost 9d, which he used to chew as well as smoke. 'Miah' and his brother 'Rimmy' were both regular attenders in later life at the Bethel Mission where they enjoyed their singing. When He was well over 70 he still took fishing parties out the back of the wall(East Pier) in the 'Alice' , I could not have rowed the coble that distance when I was half his age.

Potters Lane bombing : On 14th October, 1940, at about 8-40pm a German parachute mine exploded in Potter lane causing extensive damage, killing 4 people and injuring 31 . The casualty toll could have been higher but for the fact that quite a few residents were at a dance at the Olympia. A lot of houses were so badly damaged that they had to be demolished, and so Potter Lane, Andersons Terrace, Shorts Gardens, Potter Terrace(ie Hong Kong) and the first four houses in Castle Terrace disappeared. Jeremiah and Selina Bullamore were sheltering under the kitchen table; but they did not get a scratch. They moved up to Lyell Street whilst the houses were being repaired. We came down ( all the gang of urchins from Fieldside) to look at the devastation and a huge crater were the corner shop had been.

A second land mine fell on the castle Dykes later in the war. We watched the bomber one Saturday morning circling at a very high altitude before it dropped its cargo. The long scar it left down the Dykes , devoid of vegetation, was where the display was laid out for the Coronation of Elizabeth II.

Jeremiah Bullamores last years : Jeremiah continued working on his coble until virtually the end, even though he was ill, he just did not want to give up. I think the Harbour Master took his license away at the end. So he had to sell the coble. He died 24th October 1952, the last of the ferry boatmen, and one could say the last of a breed. His coble 'Alice' was moored in the outer harbour in the great storm of 1953, and was totally wrecked,, the name plates were salvaged and are in the possession of my cousin, Valerie, whose mother Alice Bullamore, the boat was named after.

Selina Bullamore : Selina Bullamore was a real Yorkshire lady, she had a wealth of songs and dialect poems, which sadly have gone with her. She died 28th November 1965. When we were married in 1959 she was well over 80, and she sent a card and a note with the following lines -

Just a little verse for you(the bride), and may you happy live,
Much joy I wish thee bonny bride, sweet consolations give.
For think not all your pleasures flown, because you've signed your hand
Some brighter hours than ere you've known, may pass in wedlock band.
[from Dear Grandma Lena]

Mickey Thumb : A poem by Selina Harwood

As I wus gannin ta treacle shop for alf a pund a treacle, who do ya think ah met,
But me sweetheart Mickey thumb. He asked me if I'd gan and see his works,
So I thawt a bit, and I thawt a bit, and I thawt ah shouldn't mind
Ee, and it wur' a works.

A'd no sooner got aime and tak mi bonnet off then a knock kem at door,
It wur Mickey Thumb's brother, he asked me if I'd gan and see Mickey Thumb, he wur ill,
So I thawt a bit, and I thawt a bit, and I thawt ah shouldn't mind
Ee and he wur ill.

Ah just gets aime agen, when another cums ta door. It wur Mickey Thumbs mutha,
She asked me if a'd gan and see Mickey Thumb he war dead.
So I thawt a bit, and I thawt a bit, and I thawt ah shouldn't mind
Ee and he wur dead.

Ah just gets aime agen, when another knock cums t'a door, It wur Mickey Thumbs Fatha,
He asked me if a'd come to Mickey Thumb's funeral.
So I thawt a bit, and I thawt a bit, and I thawt ah shouldn't mind
Ee and he wur a funeral.

Sum laughed,sum cried, and I fair attishoed over his grave, in luvin memory of me old sweetheart Mickey Thumb



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