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New Website
Here in Helperby we have hosted a great Hidden Gardens every July. And this year it will be even better.
Last year was great , the weather hot and the strawberrys were very tasty.
But we wanted to share more of Helperby with everyone. so we made a village website, for the people who live there. They can add what they want. Talk in the forums and post events in the calendar.
Please have a look, as currently we are building a gallery of photos taken by the people who live there.
www.helperby.org.uk
I Need Help
I have just moved in with my fiance at Woodland's House on Main Street in Helperby. His birthday is coming up and I was looking for a unique gift. I thought some old photos or building plans would be interesting for both of us. I know the house has been a pub, a bicycle shop, a general store, and also had a petrol pump out front. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Lisa
My Grandad
I don't have a memory, but I am researching the Lamberts' family tree and my dad Alfred Horace came from Helperby and his father was the village bobby, his name was David Lambert and he married a Mary Elizabeth Hicks, all I know is he lived in the main street in Helperby, his birth was 1851. I think he also worked in the village pub. He had quite a large family,13 or 14 children. I would love to know if anybody has any information about this family, I am his grandaughter.
Topcliffe Fair
I lived on Long Street in Topcliffe 1958-1972 - opposite the old school, which is now a post office, and therefore on the other side of the road from this photo. I was excited by the fair, horses trotting along the road, smells, sights and sounds different from usual, lots of people, including photographers who wanted to take pictures from our upstairs windows and the occasional visitor who would ask to use our loo. Gypsy children attended Topcliffe school in the period before the fair, one family came for several years running, the boys wore orangey-brown boots. Village people and the gypsies didn't seem to mix, although I've been told that a generation earlier, gypsies came to give condolences on the death of my grandfather who had been a butcher in the village, so there must have been some channels of communication. And for the generation before my grandfather, I believe that the fair lasted three days or more, including fairground rides??? In 1969 or early 1970, I spotted a... Read more
The Old Fox And Goose
We moved to the old Fox and Goose (next to the tiny shop and just up the road from the Blue Bell pub) in 1962. I was 8 and my brother 3. We stayed for around 2 years. My Dad worked for Alne Brick Co. My Mum cleaned houses. Our long narrow back garden was knee deep in daffodils - I have loved them ever since. There was a cellar beneath the old pub that was now our home and an air raid shelter out the back. I went to the tiny village school at the end of the road, all ages in one class together. My best friend was Ruth who lived at the vicarage and she taught me to ride a bike. My brother and I spent many, many happy hours tadpoling in the stream behind the school with our friends. It was a magical time and I carry the tranquility and beauty of that time with me always.
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