Arkengarthdale
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Harrogate Town Walk Guide
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Arkengarthdale memories
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All Creatures Great and Small
This is the inn that was used in the popular BBC TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small', which was based on the books by the vet James Heriot. (From information sent in to the Frith Memory Archivist.)
Contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
eloped with david
Sometime in 1961/1962 I was courting David who was a chef in Newcastle upon Tyne. I was a student nurse aged 16 he was I think 17. He left his apprenticeship to work in a Wimpy bar to earn money to buy a ring. He did buy me a ring and gave it to me on the seat at Greys monument. We decided to elope but made the mistake of going to his parents pub The Red Lion at Arkengarthdale. Unbeknown to us they rang my parents who turned up and took me home to Wallsend. I wasn't allowed to see David again and even though I have been happily married for 43 years often wonder what happened to him and ...read more here
Contributed by Anne Bruce
grouse beating
As a student I spent 3 seasons working as a beater on Lord Sopwiths estate.
I first worked a few days during a holiday with family friends called Rita and Albert Sparks who had holidayed in Arkengarthdale for many years. The following seasons I camped with a friend getting washed out one year and spending the rest of our stay in a loaned bed set up in an out building of a cottage.
Mr Mare was the head gamekeeper and Ramsey was the assistant. He had a beautiful dog. Many many happy memories even though it was hard work. Planning a visit soon. Avril Carter whose parents ran the post office I remember. Marilyn Mare (daughter of the gamekeeper)
Twins (boys) ...read more here
Contributed by ROY LOUDON
North Yorkshire memories
All Creatures Great and Small
This is the inn that was used in the popular BBC TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small', which was based on the books by the vet James Heriot. (From information sent in to the Frith Memory Archivist.)
A memory of Arkengarthdale contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Extracts From Arkengarthdale & North Yorkshire books
The white-painted CB Hotel in remote Arkengarthdale recalls the initials of Charles Bathurst, the 19th-century lead mining master who owned the circular powder house of the CB Smelt Mill nearby. Further up the Arkle Beck is the pub-less hamlet which glories in the entirely-inappropriate name of Booze.
An extract from from"Yorkshire Living Memories".
Arkengarthdale is a little-visited but very beautiful dale which runs into Swaledale from the north-west at Reeth. It was formed by the Arkle Beck, which rises high on Sleightholme Moor and passes through some lovely hamlets such as Arkle Town, Whaw and Langthwaite, where The Red Lion (centre) is a welcome hostelry in typical Dales countryside.
An extract from from"North Yorkshire Living Memories".
The welcoming though deserted bar inside The Red Lion shows a typical pub interior, decorated with brass tankards, hunting horns and pewter plates.
An extract from from"North Yorkshire Living Memories".
Some women artists paint the view of Richmond from across the River Swale. In the left distance
can be seen smoke rising from the gasworks beside the falls. Richmond had one of the earliest
gasworks in Europe, built in 1820 to provide street lighting for the fashionable Georgian town.
An extract from from"Richmond Photographic Memories".
The Terrace,
another Georgian
promenade, offers
a spectacular
panorama of the
town. On the right
is St Mary’s parish
church, in the
centre the Grammar
School, and to the
left Church Mill,
demolished in
1969, the last of
many Richmond
watermills once
powered by the
River Swale.
An extract from from"Richmond Photographic Memories".