Flaxby Matters social newsletter: autumn 2012

In this issue

• Net gains from our growing village website
• Flaxby’s rich history 
• Events for this year
• New members wanted for social committee
• Neighbourhood Watch

Village website
Thank you for the kind comments about the website.

We are pleased that many residents see it as a useful means of communicating news and information about events, and local services.

Some villagers have been making use of the recommended trades people section. This list has expanded so much that we have had to move it from our newsletters to the website.

If you can recommend any other trades people that you have used, please get in touch with Buck White.

The website is found at www.flaxbyvillage.blogspot.com.

We’re weaving a web of history
Flaxby is a small village but has a fascinating past as our website’s history section shows, thanks to contributions from residents.

Since our last newsletter, we have received a contribution from Pat Procter, who, with
her husband David, has lived in Flaxby since the 1960s.

In her account, Pat talks about Neolithic artefacts, free and fee-paying scholars, a former Wesleyan chapel and a pub.

And, thanks to Sally Carr, we have ten photographs taken between the 1950s and 1980s. These include images of the original farm buildings on The Grange as well as pictures of when a hunt passed through the village.

We have also received background information from Charlie Proctor and will be drawing upon this shortly to help gain a fuller appreciation of Flaxby life in days gone by.

Please keep those anecdotes and photographs coming.

Events
Our social calendar is proving popular. Earlier this year, we enjoyed a wine and cheese party at Mervin and Jacqui Straughan’s, a summer garden party at Darren and Caroline Greenhalgh’s and, last month, a dozen villagers put their best foot forward for the annual walk to and from Knaresborough.

The social committee aims to hold at least one event per season which means we’ve something lined up for autumn and winter as well.

Next events
AUTUMN: due to popular demand, we’ll be staging our third village quiz night at the Tiger Inn on Tuesday 23 October. Once again, we’ll be looking for teams of four though we can help form teams on the night. Cost per member is £1 which goes towards prizes.

WINTER: we’ll be getting people in the festive mood as we hold our carol singing and Christmas auction on Sunday 16 December. The auction will be hosted by Buck and Kath White.

Flyers reminding residents of these events will be dropping through doors a little nearer the time with further details.

The social committee will be getting together shortly to plan the programme of activities for 2013. This will be announced in the new year.

New committee members wanted
We’d like to boost our six-strong committee to eight to bring some added inspiration and help us plan and stage our events. Please get in touch with a committee member if you’d like to get involved. Contact details can be found at the end of this newsletter.

Neighbourhood Watch
Neighbourhood Watch is a long established voluntary organisation where neighbours get together to reduce crime and make their area a safer and better place to live, work and play.

Effective schemes work in partnership with police and other agencies. Sharing information about crime, bogus callers, anti-social behaviour or vandalism and details on personal and property security and local initiatives help members take precautions.

Your Neighbourhood Watch representatives for Flaxby are:

Bob Hearld (864524) and Buck White (860353) responsible for: York Road from Station  House up to  Herons Keep, and from South Edge up to Malham (19 in all)

Trevor Cook (869538) responsible for: The Grange, plus numbers 1 - 9 The  Grange (10 in all)

Tony Nicholson (866815) responsible for: Shortsill Lane from 2 to 10 inclusive plus Hillside Cottage, Lilliel Cottage, Rivendell and Coneyway. Woodmans Cottages 1 & 2 (facing the green) and Flaxby Grange Cottage (15)

When the old school room is occupied it will be added to this patch.

Would residents kindly phone their patch rep with their email address so that information, police notices etc can be passed on.

Any untoward or suspicious activity should be reported to your patch rep, and to the police as appropriate. The number for non-urgent calls is 101, and for urgent calls 999.

Social committee contacts
This newsletter is brought to you by the social committee:  Buck and Kath White, Herons’ Keep,  Caroline and Darren Greenhalgh, Byways and Mervin and Jacqui Straughan, 7 The Grange.