Hornsea & District Community News - December 2022

Community pull together to facilitate warm spaces six days of the week

six days of each week from November 28 to the end of March.

Warm Spaces are places where people can gather for free in a warm, safe, welcoming place and maybe enjoy a hot drink and some company. A network of these are popping up across the UK.

It’s hoped the warm spaces in Hornsea will help bring the community together with the heating on to help ease the pressure of the winter from issues including soaring energy bills to loneliness.

Hornsea Floral Hall will cover every Monday and Tuesday from 1.30pm to 4pm on both days. Hornsea Methodist Church will run the warm space on a Wednesday 2pm to 4pm and a Saturday 10am to 12 noon, The United Reformed Church on a Thursday 9.30am to 3pm and the St Nicholas Parish Hall on a Friday 1.30pm to 4pm.

At the warm spaces there will be refreshments including hot drinks and soup for the end of the day sessions. There will also be areas to chill with newspapers to read and games available. It is also hoped to add a warm clothes bank for adults and

children with more information on when this will be available to follow.

This is a joint collaboration between lots of groups in the town including Hornsea Floral Hall headed by director and volunteer coordinator Nadia, Hornsea Urban Gardeners, Cameo bereavement support, local churches and Hornsea Foundation who are all providing volunteers or support. The Hornsea Pantry will also be able to signpost the people they support to the warm spaces. Anyone

from the community are welcome to turn up at them for social mixing or just to relax alone with a warm drink.

The group have applied for a grant to help fund the project for the community which will allow the project to support more people.

The warm spaces will close on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and the bank holiday on December 27, New Year’s Day and bank holiday Monday, January 2 aside from these dates it will remain open between Christmas

and New Year.

The days for the warm spaces are also noted on our weekly events schedule on page 31 to cut out and keep handy.

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Some of the many groups and volunteers pulling together to support the community warm spaces this winter

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THE

GRANT FUNDING SECURES EXTRA FESTIVE LIGHTING FOR HORNSEA

JUST as we go to press, some exciting news has reached us. The annual Christmas lights night in Hornsea has received a big boost with the news that the Hornsea and District Chamber of Trade who put up the lights and host the evening have received a grant from the Yorkshire Coast BID. This has helped to replace lots of the old style festoon lighting with new LED icicle lights that will really bring the town to life. Simon Tudor Chair of the Chamber of Trade commented: “Look out for the new lights that we have used to light up areas that have never had Christmas lights before and several that have not been illuminated for a few years. The grant coupled with money from Hornsea Town Council and Hornsea Lions will mean we will have nearly replaced all the Christmas lights in Hornsea over the last two years.

“Once again, the team of trusty volunteers have been working hard to put up the lights in all weathers. Thanks go to several local companies for their help including Woods of Hornsea, Jamie from S B Services, Andy from Mick Bateman roofing. Signs and Graphics, Warner

Electrical Services, Alan Cusworth and Nigel Hampson. I would also like to personally thank the team from Hornsea Freeport and several of my many nephews and nieces for their help.

“An extra special thank you goes to the family of the much-missed local Hornsea character Beatrice Parker, who devoted many years of service to the town both as a town councillor and town mayor and a member of many (too many to mention) of the local organisations. Very generously, the money raised at Beatrice’s funeral was kindly donated to the Hornsea Christmas lights appeal. This has helped us to provide extra lighting to support the local retailers at this difficult time.

So, thank you Sarah, Howard, Jonathan and family, our thoughts will be with you all as we switch the lights on this year.”

The lights will be switched on by the current Mayor and consort Councillor Stephen Prescott and Jo Hancox and they will accompanied by Harriet Topliss and Charlie Wilkes who have spent many hours volunteering to help with the lights. Once again the switch on will be

hosted by John Harding from local radio station Seaside FM.

The lights will go on at 6.30pm, there will be stalls up and down the length of Newbegin, Hornsea Collective will be hosting a Christmas late night opening, local churches will all be open with individual events in each. Look out for new lights down near the Lions shop and visit Father Christmas while you are there. Simon added: “Fingers crossed for good weather and thank you to everyone that gives up their time in all the different ways to help with this event and all the other events that make Hornsea such a fantastic place to live.”

ON NEW Year’s Day 2023

Hornsea Inshore Rescue will be holding their annual New Year’s Day fun swim.

The last New Year’s Day swim saw a record breaking 276 brave souls face the waters of the chilly North Sea watched by over 2,500 people, all enjoying the spectacle and fun as the swimmers were escorted to the sea’s edge by a Scottish piper. Swimmers were dressed in a variety of fancy costumes including, minions, a cuddly dog, lots of Father Christmases, Superman and people in a variety of night attire and party frocks. Fortunately, no Mankinis last time but who knows!

Refreshments will be available for hardy swimmers and spectators

alike and as in previous years the whole event should prove great fun for all.

The swimmers will be led down to the beach from the Hornsea Inshore Rescue Boathouse at 12 noon to the skirl of the pipes from an authentic Scottish Piper All participants must register prior to the event and sponsorship forms are available from Robinson’s Newsagents, Paul’s Barbers and Hampson’s Electric on Newbegin, 10 in the Market Place and all Hornsea pubs as well as on line at www.hornsearescue.org.uk or from hicko04@aol.com

We are looking forward to a super day and a fantastic turn out to beat last year’s record.

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NEW: Some of the new lighting in Hornsea Market Place

Hornsea writer goes back 100 years in time

HORNSEA-based writer Marvin Close is celebrating the release of his latest book, ‘1923:Life in Football One Hundred Years Ago’ – a deep dive into the experiences of footballers and fans alike back in the days when players used to take the local buses to matches.

Released by multi-award winning publishing company Pitch, the book explores everything from the opening of Wembley Stadium and the only ever murder of a football league player, Tommy Ball, to tiny Nelson F.C’s 4-2 friendly win over the mighty Real Madrid and why so many ex-miners went on to play professional football. In between, it looks in depth at how players lived, trained and overcame the legacy of World War One, suffering as many of them did from war injuries and shell shock.

“The book is based on an exhaustive amount of archive material and scores of newspaper reports and articles from the time”, commented Marvin. “It was a joy to research as it threw up so many shocks and surprises, all of which feature in the

book’.

“1923 proved to be a memorable year with Liverpool winning the League and of course, the chaos that was the White Horse FA Cup Final. But the book also looks at how football pools began, the popularity of cigarette cards, the matches, personalities and events that lit up the game; and how the media covered the sport way back then.

“It also explores how life was lived in 1923 – the food people ate; the type of houses they lived in; what they wore and did for entertainment.’

“If you have family or friends who are into football, it’s the perfect Christmas present and it’s out there on Amazon and in all good book shops”.

Though Marvin is best known for scripting and story lining top television shows like Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Tracey Beaker and Doctors, plus many theatre and radio dramas, his love and passion for football has led to him writing a number of highly-acclaimed books about the sport. For Harper Collins, he wrote ‘More Than Just A Game; Football v Apartheid’, co-written with leading sports historian Professor Chuck Korr, which was a globally critically acclaimed exploration of how prisoners on Robben Island formed a football league of teams to help fight against the brutality of life within the gaol, and was translated into nine different language versions worldwide. With pioneering former

England women’s team manager and player Hope Powell, he wrote her life story, ‘Hope’ for Bloomsbury Press; and for Pitch, Marvin wrote an explosive undercover look at life in non-league football, ‘Hope You Die of Cancer’, which came out late last year. He is now working on a new book based around the 1953 Stanley Matthews Final and England’s humiliating 6-3 loss to Hungary, and what both meant to the future of English football.

“But similar to the 1923 book, the next one will also paint a picture of what it was like to live in Britain 70 years ago; the changes that were going on in society and how once again, the nation was trying to recover from a World War.

“All my football books are about much more than just the game itself and tell the story of a lot of different social histories both here and abroad.”

Marvin attended Hornsea School and Language College and after doing an English and Educational Studies degree at Lancaster University followed by postgraduate history research at Leeds University, he spent many years living in Manchester before returning to live in Hornsea and becoming Chair of Governors at his old school Hornsea School and Language College. Marvin’s wife Sheila is well-known throughout the town as a teacher at Hornsea Community Primary. Their four children Holly, Jacob, Edward and Matilda all attended the school and then HSLC.

For further information: Contact Marvin on 01964 534472 or by e-mail marvinjohn@btinternet.com

Whiteheads Fish & Chips shortlisted in Top 10 Takeaway of the Year at National Awards

FOUR Yorkshire-based fish and chip shops including Whiteheads Fish and Chips in Hornsea have been named as finalists in the top ten, for Takeaway of the Year, at the National Fish and Chip Awards 2023. Whiteheads Fish and Chips in Hornsea, The Bearded Sailor in Pudsey, The Fish Bank in Sherburn in Elmet and Auckley Friery in Doncaster, have all been shortlisted from the top twenty to the top ten, following a rigorous judging process, making Yorkshire the front-runner to take the 2023 trophy. The top ten takeaways from across the UK will be attending the awards and the final judging panel will decide on their Top three for announcing on the day. Hosted by The National Federation of Fish Friers (NFFF), the ceremony will take place on February 28 at the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge.

The Takeaway of the Year category is sponsored by Pukka Pies, McWhinneys, Smales, VA Whitley, Friars Pride, Henry Colbecks and B D Signs.

Andrew Crook, President at the NFFF, comments: “It was a tricky job whittling down the top twenty to the top ten, but the chosen takeaways have demonstrated a clear reason as to why they are deserving of this accolade. All finalists should be extremely proud and our judges are looking forward to getting stuck into the next set of judging!”

EDITOR’S COLUMN

Hello! A short one this month –lack of time and space! Sorry if I have missed anything in this edition it’s been crazy busy with a record number of adverts which is fantastic and brilliant feedback from advertisers so thanks to those customers supporting them all too!

It’s been a sad month in our household as we had to say goodbye to our eldest dog – she was a typical Golden Retriever keeping us on our toes until the end almost and I know many pet lovers will know the pain it leaves behind when they’re gone. We can still be spotted with our other two (including puppy Nancy aka terror tot!!!) Massive thank you to Peels vets for their kindness and support at the end they couldn’t have done more for us. We have also had so many lovely caring messages and flowers to thank you it helps us remember everyone who knows us knows how much we love our girls!

I have had the pleasure of attending The Full Monty at Hull New Theatre this month on a more cheerful note – great to spot some local faces starring in it! Hornsea’s own amateur theatrical group have launched their January panto tickets they put on a fab show and the tickets would make a lovely gift to cheer up January too! There are so many events going on on the run up to Christmas we have tried to feature as many as possible –the next edition is out from December 15th so one last edition until the end of January for articles / adverts please get in touch if we can help promote for you.

I have been asking for a small favour from those that enjoy reading the paper each month or those who have benefitted from telling their stories. Just 50p-£1 each month would really be appreciated– not bad for 40 pages of local news and events delivered through your door (we hope you agree). We have created a QR code (below) that allows you to donate quickly and easily or you can bank transfer if preferred the details are: Hornsea Community News, Sort Code: 40-25-15

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Thank you for your support as always

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Post boxes in Hornsea having a face lift

COUNCILLOR Barbara Jefferson has contacted Royal Mail to enquire about when the Hornsea post boxes will next be painted. Cllr Jefferson commented:” I was very pleased to hear from Royal Mail that they would be repainting all of the post boxes in Hornsea before the end of the financial year in March 2023. Post boxes are usually painted every five years here. I contacted them for an update as they were becoming unsightly and are so important to the street scene. They are iconic as well as useful to the residents and we need to ensure we keep them.”

PLANS SUBMITTED FOR 182 NEW HOMES IN HORNSEA

A PLANNING application to build 182 homes on Rolston Road in Hornsea has been submitted to East Riding Council.

Keepmoat Homes have requested planning permission to build the 182 homes which include a mix of detached, semi-detached and terraced units, with a mix of 2, 3 and 4 beds.

So far when going to print there have been 83 objections received from local residents to the proposal.

The objections include concerns regarding traffic, drainage, lack of local services to support the extra homes. Hornsea Town Council strongly objected to the development stating the reasons:

i) Lack of existing infrastructure in the town ' medical services, banking services, schools

ii) Poor relationship with adjoining properties

iii) Conflict with the character of the area ' lack of architectural merit within the proposed scheme

iv) Road system is

inadequate v) Loss of historic street pattern ' out of context with the area and general disregard for other properties in the area

vi) Failure to meet housing needs ' lack of affordable housing/bungalows

The town council added: “Hornsea Town Council feels strongly about this application and asks that, should the officer be recommending a different decision, it be referred to the Planning Committee for further consideration.”

The application is on land set out in the local plan for housing and follows the recent approval of 195 new homes off Hornsea Burton Road. The education consultee has estimated once fully built and based upon 182 dwellings the potentially extra demand would be for 29 mainstream primary school places and 21 mainstream secondary school places. As such they noted: “As there are expected to be no surplus mainstream primary and 47

surplus mainstream secondary school places in these relevant areas, there is only the requirement for a developer contribution for 29 mainstream primary school places. There is no requirement for a developer contribution for mainstream secondary school places.” This contribution is £10,000 per pupil for primary school places so based on 29 pupils this would be £290,000.

Keepmoat Homes in their application have said that their scheme will provide an attractive residential

environment which is inkeeping with the character of the local area as well as providing economic, social and environmental benefits. Anyone wanting to view the plans in more detail or to comment on the application in support or to object can do so on East Riding Council’s planning portal with the planning reference 22/02891/STPLF.

LOCAL RESIDENTS:

Local residents are objecting to a further large development within the town

Create your own bit of magic for a loved one, friend or colleague and make it a December to remember. At Silver Moon we have a vast range of quality gifts with that something special to suit all budgets. We stock crystal goods, jewellery, books, tarot and oracle decks, aroma lamps, exquisite purses and wallets, leather journals, dragons, fairies and mythical figurines. We also sell clothing and have low flying Pendle witches! We have crystal infused candles, incense and back burners, clocks and bedspreads and much, much more for

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By the Hornsea branch of the Royal British Legion

At 11am on Armistice Day Friday, November 11 around 50 people joined members of the Hornsea Branch of the Royal British Legion in a short service. This included two minutes of silence to honour the fallen, in the Memorial Gardens on New Road.

On Remembrance Sunday, November 13, St. Nicholas Church in Hornsea was the venue for the Civic Service followed by the first parade for two years to the Memorial Gardens where the drum corps of the Hornsea Air Cadets greeted an estimated 400 people. At 11am there was the period of silence and also the laying of wreaths in another Service of Remembrance conducted by the Reverend Tina Minett Stevens.

It was quite inspiring to see so many people there to honour the Fallen including the representative of His Majesty King Charles, Deputy Lord Lieutenant Patricia Dalby. Also present were the Mayor and Deputy Mayoress of Hornsea Stephen Prescott and Laura Embleton and members of so many local groups. It was wonderful to witness the presence of so many young people and children. It was also the pleasure of the local branch of the Royal

British Legion to welcome many serving military personnel, veterans and families.

After the Service in the Memorial Gardens many attendees met at the Ex Servicemen’s Club for light refreshments provided courtesy of Hornsea Town Council and the RBL Committee and members of the Ex Servicemen’s Club.

The Branch would like to thank all involved in the organisation and management of the services and parade. There really are too numerous to mention but they know who they are and they played their part in ensuring that the Fallen were honoured and remembered in Hornsea.

The Hornsea Branch of the RBL is becoming increasingly concerned about the fall in active membership in Hornsea and is having an informal get together at The Floral Hall cafe at 11.30am on Tuesday, December 13. You don’t need to be serving or former military to be a member of the RBL and we are a friendly bunch. Please come along for a cuppa and a chat. Our formal meetings are no more than one a month in the evening in Hornsea. For further details call Keith on 01964 536995 or 07414987641 or Email: keithcobble2371@msn.com

Four generations of Hornsea family attend Remembrance Sunday services and parade

DERRICK Lyles of Tansley Lane in Hornsea is a retired Sergeant Major of 34 years in the British Army, 22 with the Coldstream Guards. Derrick paraded on Remembrance Sunday in Hornsea, joining civic dignitaries and members of local organisations in a service at St Nicholas Church at 9.30am followed by the parade to the Memorial Gardens.

Derrick wore his Great Uncle Harold’s Medals of the Great War. Harold was killed in action and is buried alongside 163 of his comrades in Moriches Military Cemetery in France.

Derrick saw service in the Falkland Islands, Hong Kong, Germany, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Canada and in the Gulf War and in 1997 was awarded the General Officer Commanding’s Commendation for service in Northern Ireland.

Derrick’s son Jack Lyles is a former member of the Army Cadets in Hornsea and a few years ago he had the privilege of giving a reading at the Hornsea Memorial. Jack went on to join the Yorkshire Regiment and completed his 42 weeks training at the Army Apprentice College in Harrogate during Covid and along with over 800 Junior Soldiers completed his Basic training in November 2021, before joining his regiment in Catterick in January 2022.

Now Private Lyles, Jack was once again being given the

honour and privilege of attending the Service at the Memorial Gardens where he took part in the laying of a wreath on behalf of the Yorkshire Regiment with Warrant Officer Mark Weatherill of the 4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.

Also attending the parade with Derrick and Jack was Derrick’s nephew Lieutenant Sam Cole of the Royal Signals, who completed his training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2020. Lieutenant Cole is the Grandson of Major Patrick Cole, Royal Signals and of Pickering Avenue Hornsea who sadly passed away a few years ago. His widow Valerie Cole, daughter Lorraine Lyles, great granddaughter Isla 13 years and seven year old great grandson Jude were also in attendance.

Lieutenant Cole is currently attached to the Officer Training

Corps in Newcastle and paraded this year at Hornsea in remembrance of his grandfather and in honour of the Fallen.

Derrick’s younger son Harry Lyles who is 17 years old also joined the British Army and is at present in his basic training at the Army Apprentice College Harrogate keeping the tradition within the family. Harry hopes to join his brother within the Yorkshire Regiment in Catterick September 2023

Four generations of Derrick’s family on parade for the first time with over 104 years service from 1914 to the present day.

FAMILY: Lorraine and Derrick Lyles, Sam and Valerie Cole and Jack Lyles and his fiance Maisie Smith

(Photograph by Steve Mason)

POPPY APPEAL 2022

By Rob Andrew

WELL that's it for another year, the poppy appeal is over all the money banked, thank you messages have gone out and the paperwork completed.

We really do appreciate the help everyone has given Kev and myself over the past few weeks. Tesco were, as always, very helpful and efficient taking over the banking, after our brilliant team of helpers finished their shifts. In all the Tesco takings came to around £10,240.77. The best ever, we think. Setting up on the first day was a real eye opener for me with large donations being obvious from

the start.

Remembrance Sunday thankfully passed without any hitches. We couldn’t breath a sigh of relief until everyone had collected their wreathes and none were missed out.

Finally to the retailers, schools and everyone in the general public who gave so generously throughout the whole community news area with other donations including the wreaths coming in at around £8,000. The total being in the region of £19,000. I will provide exact numbers in next month’s edition.

A sterling effort by all. Thank you!

Pilates With Ro

1. PARADE: Start of parade with Parade marshall Gary Sweeney.

2. WREATHS: Laying of wreaths with Major of Hornsea Stephen Prescott, Deputy Lord Lieutenant Patricia Dalby and Deputy Mayor Laura Embleton. (Photographs courtesy of Steve Mason)

Small

tax planning

By Emma Jayne Saunt from Trains Hair & Beauty

IT IS almost the end of the year & time to plan, we face higher taxes.

Year end tax planning is an amazing way to increase your small business net profits!

While some of you may still need to file your 2021 taxes, the 2023 tax season (filing your 2022 taxes) is just a few months away. New Year's Eve will be here before you know it, and with the stroke of midnight, many tax-saving strategy deadlines will have passed.

The fourth quarter each year is the time for some proactive tax planning to lower the tax liabilities of your small business (hopefully with a high income). For successful business owners, tax planning should not be an annual exercise when filing your taxes. With extensions, you may be able to delay filing your 2022 taxes until late 2023. However smart tax planning moves can help lower your tax owed, these may need to be made before the end of the current year.

Review the company’s estimated income

Has your income increased substantially? Has soaring inflation reduced the profitability of your business? Changes in your income, either up or down can significantly change your tax planning for the year. With a higher income, you may want to be more productive in looking for tax deductions. On the flip side when your income drops, you may become eligible for other tax breaks that you have not considered in the past, for example establishing a fully funded retirement plan, perhaps it is time to speak the experts!

Trains Hair and Beauty support Macmillan Cancer Support

By Emma Jayne Saunt

ON TUESDAY, November 8,

Trains Hair and Beauty helped to raise funds for the Macmillan Cancer Support charity at Southburn Christmas Fayre.

We had a stall at the fair held at Driffield showground in the Rix pavilion selling hair care products and accessories together with donated Christmas flower arrangements and homemade crafted gifts.

Due to the pandemic we have been prevented from participating in this fantastic fundraising annual event for the last couple of years. The event was a challenging task for the organisation team relying on the support of the stall holders and general public

to raise funds for a much needed cause. Collectively almost £18,000 was raised on the day. The stalls were made up of largely local business owners, refreshments were available and enjoyed by the stall holders together with the general public.

We have some remaining stock, this will be on sale at Trains Hair & Beauty, donations will be made to Macmillan. Charlotte Eldred is visiting Trains and will be turning our front window into something spectacular, providing a platform for Christmas shopping at the same time as supporting a local business and donating to Macmillian.

MaINS

sauce & cream

trio of fish cod, salmon, seabass served with pea puree & a lemon saffron sauce (gf)

Mediterranean medley aubergine, courgettes, sundried tomatoes, artichokes, peppers with napoli sauce (gf & v)

Pollo alla crème -butterfly chicken breast cooked with onion, garlic & mushrooms in a white wine & crème sauce

The above mains are served with a choice of one of the following sides: fries, sauteed potatoes or rice

DESSErtS

Chocolate fudge cake, lemon cheesecake, carrot cake (gf), Salted caramel truffle (gf), tiramisu

Please inform us of any food allergies when pre ordering your food

Dizzybirds Crafts

A warm "hello" from Dizzybirds Crafts here in Hornsea Market Place.

It's a hectic time of the year for us all, we are busy preparing for the Hornsea Collective Christmas Fair at the Town Hall, running from 10am to 4.30pm on Saturday 26th November. We do hope you will pop in and see us!?

There will be so much on offer. Hopefully you will be able to get some fantastic handcrafted gifts from the fabulous selection of local small businesses and independents.

We will also be open for a few of the late nights, 2nd, 8th, and 16th December until 8.30pm. We have almost filled all of the spaces for the classes on those evenings.

Don't despair though, call in and find out about our huge range of classes on offer. There's needle felting, wet felting, basic sewing, papercraft and mixed media to name a few.

Plus, we offer the best crafting brands like Sizzix, Tim Holtz, and Stamperia. Oh! I nearly forgot we do gift vouchers too, perfect for the crafter in the family. (P.s. you can also bring in your used inkjet cartridges for recycling, all proceeds go to The Lucky Hedgehog Rescue charity.)

Finally, the gang would like to thank everyone for the continued support throughout the past year. We would like to wish all of our customers, old and new, a very merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year.

Christmas Draw 2022

Spend £25 in store from November 1st and get a free entry into our draw to win a £100 voucher to spend in store. Draw takes place on December 16th at 10am in time for that

Children in Need at Hornsea Community Primary School

FOR CHILDREN In Need 2022

Hornsea Community Primary School children came into school in Pudsey outfits, yellow, spotty or non-uniform. Everyone enjoyed the day and helped to raise money for the appeal.

DRESSED UP: Some of the students dressed in their Children in Need themed outfits

Hooked funds for Children in Need

KIRSTY Kirk and her daughter Sammi have raised £116 for Children In Need selling handmade crocheted Pudsey badges and fingerless Pudsey and Blush gloves.

This is in addition to £45.05 raised for The Royal British Legion selling handmade crocheted poppies.

They will next be at Far Grange Christmas Fair on Saturday, December 10 from 11am until 3pm selling their handmade crocheted Christmas badges, tree decorations, Gonks, Christmas crackers and more in aid of The Teenage Cancer Unit Castle Hill Hospital.

FUNDRAISING: Sammi Kirk on the stall outside Robinson’s newsagents on Newbegin

New handrails at Hornsea HUB pool

DURING a recent Forum Meeting at the Hornsea HUB discussion took place regarding the possibility of installing handrails for when people who use the pool are leaving to return to the changing rooms and the side of the pool is wet.

Councillor Barbara Jefferson had a meeting with Directors and officers to draw this to their attention for health and safety reasons. It was agreed that the work should take place as soon as possible.

Councillor Jefferson commented: “Unfortunately it

has taken longer than expected which was down to contractors availability and the right handrails for the wet but busy area, but I would like to assure everyone that they are now in use and feedback is that they are proving to be a success.”

SITUATIONS VACANT –VOLUNTEER MAINTENANCE TEAM LEADER HORNSEA MUSEUM

Hornsea museum is seeking a team leader to oversee our maintenance team volunteers and co-ordinate ongoing maintenance projects on the buildings and grounds.

The successful candidate will be expected to attend monthly team leaders’ meetings - to give short reports on the activities of the maintenance teamand attend weekly, on a Tuesday morning, as a maintenance team member.

Please note that this a volunteer role. A background in and understanding of buildings maintenance and general repairs, good communication skills (written and verbal), and the ability to lead a team is required. An understanding of historic buildings would be an asset

To apply, or for further details, email Nial.Adam@eastriding.gov.uk

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Mr & Mrs R, Hornsea

Cameo bereavement support group update

CAMEO bereavement support group who meet on the first Friday every month are holding their informal Christmas session on Friday, December 2. This will take place at the normal time of 1pm to 3pm at Hornsea Methodist Church (Cinema Street entrance).

There will be nibbles and non alcoholic drinks and the group welcome anyone who has been bereaved in any way and would like to mix informally with others who understand this loss.

There will be no meeting in January so the next meeting will be Friday, February 3.

The group have also been supported by Hornsea’s Churches Without Walls who have donated books those who are bereaved have found useful – these are not religious and are a general support to the grief journey. The support of the church group has been encouraged by local resident Pat Fletcher who is a

member of both Cameo and Churches Without Walls who suggested the book which had helped her. She bought a copy for Cameo founder Glynis who can also recommend it.

The group are a none judging, no counselling, warm friendly group all having experienced the same kind of experience.

Pat Fletcher has shared her story to help others to have the confidence to seek support from the group. Pat explains: “A few months ago I lost my husband of 44yrs to Multiple Myeloma after a long illness. I had no idea how this would impact my life despite having experienced bereavement over the years.

Although being a fairly independent and pretty resilient individual, nothing had prepared me for the impact of such a loss. So how do you begin to readjust and grieve? Well there are no easy answers as members of the Cameo group will no doubt agree. It

is a difficult and challenging time with many ups and downs as you come to terms with your loss. There are practical things to deal with and an emotional roller coaster to ride as you struggle to find your new normal. Friends and family do their best and do make a real difference, but are sometimes dealing with their own grief. People have busy lives.

“Spending time over coffee with a group of people experiencing the same issues and understanding the grief journey is what Cameo is about. We laugh together; share our experiences and our sense of loss while, supporting each other. It is a group of individuals who have faced different challenges but we all share a common link. We are people who grieve.

“Cameo has made a real

CRUSE Bereavement Support exists to promote the well-being of young people and adults and to help you to understand your grief and cope with your loss.

The Bridlington Branch is part of the Yorkshire and Humber Hub of Cruse. We cover Bridlington, Driffield, Hornsea, Filey, the Wolds and all surrounding villages.

difference in my own bereavement journey, providing a warm welcome, understanding and friendship. Thank you to everyone who has made this possible.”

By Jean Goad, Branch Chair

On December 17 we are holding an event in Bridlington Morrisons Foyer between 9.30am and 6pm to raise much needed funds for our charity. For a donation, of any

amount you choose, you can write a card in memory of your loved one and either hang it on our Christmas tree or take it home and hang it on your own tree.

Please come along and support us, we would love to see you there.

If you would like some more information or to arrange some bereavement support, please contact us on our new number 01482 966000.

Pure Aesthetics welcome new team members

PURE Aesthetics are pleased two welcome two new members to their team.

Jenny has joined as a full-time beautician carrying out a wide range of treatments including brow lamination, professional make up, lash lifts and gel nails.

18-year-old Amelia has also joined the team as an apprentice. Amelia is available on Fridays and Saturdays for makeup and beauty treatments.

Pure Aesthetics are taking appointments for this Christmas period including on Christmas Eve. Lauren will also be available for hair and make up for the festive season. Although walk ins will be catered for if possible it is advisable to book for treatments and hair appointments up to the New Year to ensure an appointment.

They will also be open on lights switch on evening, November 25 between 6pm and 8.30pm and look forward to meeting anyone who would like to drop in and say hello or find out more about the services on offer.

The sunbed studio will be closed on December 24 and will reopen on December 27.

Jenny and Amelia

DONATED: The books that Churches Without Walls have donated to the Cameo Bereavement Support group

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Local donations make a real difference to children on St Vincent’s

SINCE his retirement as a tourist operator in Hornsea specialising in the Cape Verde Islands off the western coast of Africa, Ron Hughes continues to visit the islands two or three times a year. He keeps up his relationship with children’s services on St Vincent’s Island which is historically known to the English. Ron is particularly involved here with a children’s centre (Centro de Recuperação Nutricional) in Mindelo, São Vicente run by Dra Maria Adelaide Fortes

Delgado, which deals with under nourished children. The main purpose of the centre is to support parents and offer childcare, wellbeing and help to provide food whilst children referred to the centre from the local hospital are also looked after. Ron did an appeal earlier in the year for donations to their fund and on his recent visit took £600 in donations from local residents. Ron visited the children and staff of the Nutritional Centre on St Vincent’s which caters for children at risk, supporting their parents and responsibility for observation and assessment. Ron said: “Two jolly good nourishing

meals are served to the children each day along with TLC. Doctor Aledia Head of unit offered sincere thanks for the £600 given by individuals in Hornsea. Receipts and banking slips were made out for each person with a promise that the food fund is well topped up.

“One morning travelling home on the little bus a couple of weeks ago I was given £25 by a senior saying, ‘Ron this is for the Children's Centre I saw in the Community Newspaper couple of months ago’. There are many amazing people in Hornsea who have empathy and are full of care. From all at the Centre and myself, thank you.”

THANK YOU: Ron’s recent visit to the Centre on St Vincent’s

Tanton Cup Competition donation to Hornsea First Aid Centre

A CHEQUE for £300 has been presented to Hornsea First Aid Centre from the Tanton Cup committee.

Following their recent successful quiz fundraising night at Hornsea Indoor Bowls Club there will also be a donation to Yorkshire Air Ambulance of £300. Stuart Kemp Chairman of the Tanton Cup Football Competition Committee said: “Thanks to everyone

who attended this successful evening. A special thank you to Geoff Whitehead and his team for providing a brilliant super before the quiz.

Congratulations to the winning team Neil Gabriel, Eamon MacNally, Mike Hainstock and Jim Whitchurch. Thanks also to the Bowls Club staff Tracey and Bridget for doing a wonderful job behind the

bar. We will be back next year!”

Next year will mark the competition’s 100th anniversary and plans are in hand to have some special events in and around the final. More information will be in forthcoming editions of the Hornsea Community News.

DONATION: Glynis and Michelle from Hornsea First Aid Centre receive the donation from Tanton Cup Competition Chairman Stuart Kemp

Laughing Gull Comedy Club

All profit from the comedy club goes back into Hornsea Floral Hall

There is no Comedy Club in December.

The last chance to see a live comedy show this year will be the Laughing Gull Comedy Club night on Friday 25th November featuring three stand-ups with very differing styles.

Martin Mor is a charming and chatty communicator: formerly a circus performer in Northern Ireland, he is now a popular

headliner over here, and set a world record by compering a comedy show at basecamp Mount Everest.

Lovdev Barpaga is one of the daftest comics you will ever see and was crowned ‘UK pun champion’ in 2017.

Phil Chapman writes cutting-edge topical scenarios and always brings something new to the stage.

Tickets are £10 each and are on sale in Floral Hall Café daily from 9am until 4pm.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Keep Fit: 9.30- 10.30am £4.50

Chair Aerobics: 11am-noon £3.50

These classes take place on Monday and Thursday Mandy 01964 533469 Lindsey 01964 536462

Line Dancing Classes are each Thursday from 2pm-4pm and cost £5

For further details, or to book a place please ring Denise on 07880 686848

Seaside Soul- Friday, December 2nd 7pm- midnight £3 on the door

Antiques Fair- Sunday December 4th Admission £1. For information about hiring tables, please contact the organiser on 07946352793

Craft Fair- Saturday, December 10th Free admission. For information about hiring tables, please contact the organiser on 07946352793

Hornsea Lion`s Carol Concert- Sunday December 11th at 2pm

Tickets are available from the Lion`s shop Cinema @ Floral Hall- 3pm/7.30pm on Wednesday, December 21st

Phantom of the Open

CAFÉ OPENING HOURS FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR

From Boxing Day and on the Bank holidays when we have reduced opening hours, we will be serving only hot sandwiches, hot drinks, and cakes so we can give our staff a well-earned break too. A merry Christmas and a happy 2023 from us all at Floral Hall. Advance notice - The café will be closed on January 9th, 10th, and 11th due to our annual maintenance programme.

CAFÉ MENU UPDATE

The menu has been tweaked to include a few different items. However, we have daily special boards to provide a variety of choices and offers. Come and have a look!

FLORAL HALL CINEMA

BOOKS

Thank you for your generous donations of books.

Book sales raise around £400 each month and all the money goes to the upkeep of Floral Hall.

Tickets £4.00, Carers go Free! Tickets available from the Floral Hall café. Also pay on the door if there are seats available. Visit our facebook page: ‘Hornsea Cinema At Floral Hall’ and please leave your feedback.

Furness (played by the brilliant Mark Rylance) who managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifiers in 1976, despite having never playing a round of golf before!

He drew the ire of the golfing elite, but became a folk hero in the process and, more importantly, showed his family the importance of pursuing your dreams. Populated with eccentric characters, and regardless of whether you love golf, are indifferent to it, or even hate it, ‘The Phantom of the Open’ is a wonderful stranger-than-fiction true story and perfect run-up to Christmas entertainment. Also starring Sally Hawkins and Rhys Ifans.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN

The endearing true story about a lovable oddball, Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist from Barrow-in-

Rating: PG-13 (Some Strong Language|Smoking)

Genre: Comedy drama

Runtime: 1hr 46mins

TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM THE FLORAL HALL CAFÉ ALSO PAY ON THE DOOR IF THERE ARE SEATS AVAILABLE. VISIT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE: HORNSEA CINEMA AT FLORAL HALL AND PLEASE LEAVE YOUR FEEDBACK

CHRISTMAS LUNCH

We are taking bookings for Christmas lunch. It will be available on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from December 6th at 12 noon onwards. Places are limited and must be booked in advance in the café.

There is a choice of a two or three course meal with a hot drink and a mince pie to finish.

Desserts

Lovdev Barpaga Martin Mor Phil Chapman

MADE IN HORNSEA

EXHIBITION

By Phil Hargreaves from Hornsea Art Society

THE “Made in Hornsea” exhibition started on November 1 and runs right through to the Christmas break at the Seagull Gallery in the Hornsea Indoor bowls club on Atwick Road. This annual exhibition features work that has been produced at the Festival workshops or as a direct result of them. Entries from the November workshops will be added on November 28 and on the same day, we are delighted to welcome our judge, renowned local artist Heather Burton who will be selecting the Best in Show.

The winning artist will be presented with a glass bowl made by Hornsea artist Jude Howe. In the evening, as well as the presentation, there will be a preview evening and an auction of artwork donated by Hornsea Art Society to raise funds for the society. An ideal opportunity to pick up a Christmas present! Everybody welcome. The bar will be open for refreshments.

HUG’s

HORNSEA Urban Gardeners (HUG) are asking the residents of Hornsea to plant daffodil bulbs into their gardens, around trees, under street signs or place a planter at the end of the drive or either side of the front door to turn Hornsea yellow next Spring.

Cllr June Greensmith, Founder and Chair of HUG explained: “Since formally founding HUG in 2018 it has been a personal ambition of mine to make Hornsea the most gardened town in East Yorkshire and to create a ‘Daffodil Town Walk’. It is my belief that through gardening we can raise community spiritedness, reduce littering and dog fouling. This project will also bring footfall to the town from February and therefore extend the normal tourist season by several weeks at the beginning of the season.

“It all began back in 2016 when I was inspired by Christine Sumner of Hornsea in Bloom to plant Daffodil Bulbs into Morrow Avenue sunken garden and then following on from a visit to the Farndale Daffodil Walk in 2018 where I learned the daffodils attract up to 50,000 visitors from February each year. I shared my thoughts with Simon Tudor of Hornsea

Project to turn Hornsea yellow in spring

Freeport, next thing a 25 kilo sack of daffodils were delivered to my house. I decided to start by planting the bulbs into a section of verge along Hull Rd Hornsea. When I saw how fantastic the daffodils looked in the spring of 2019, plus how many residents said thank you, I decided to carry on and plant 50 kilos every autumn thereafter.”

Hornsea’s North Promenade was next on the list and then Morrow Avenue to Hornsea Floral Hall was planted in Autumn 2020 along with the entrance to Elim Gardens, the Southgate entrance to the Trans Pennine Trail and Parva Road corner was planted up in 2021. Also approximately 30 Street signs have been underplanted with the bulbs between 2019 and 2021.

Cllr Greensmith added: “This year 50 kilos were planted by HUG Volunteers Elaine and Geoff Finch into borders of the new Hornsea Burton Road carpark plus 10 kilos to Hull Bridge and 15 Kilos to other areas of Hornsea. HUG is also donating bulbs to Men in Sheds to plant on the green area infront of their building on Cliff Road.”

In addition to the daffodil project HUG planted 2000

snowdrop bulbs into the Southgate entrance of the Trans Pennine Trail to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s Jubilee.

“Not only does the planting of the bulbs make Hornsea look amazing, it supports HUG’s mission to reduce weed spraying around street signs, trees and street furniture. Glysophate should only be used on hard surface areas, in my humble opinion.” said Cllr Greensmith

If Hornsea residents join in with the Daffodil planting it is believed Hornsea will be transformed into a sea of yellow in the spring of 2023 and help in the creation of a Daffodil Town Walk.

The ideal time for bulb planting is Autumn if you want a good show the following spring. You can plant bulbs up to January but these bulbs may not produce quite as many flowers the following spring but will catch up in years to follow.

You can keep up with what HUG is doing in Hornsea by visiting the Hornsea Urban Gardeners Facebook page.

TURNING HORNSEA YELLOW: Some of the planting of daffodil bulbs (Photos from HUG)

The Food Shop are preparing for a busy Christmas

THE FOOD Shop have been able to extend their range of produce since expanding into the adjacent premises.

The larger stock range includes a fresh meat counter, cooked meats counter, chutneys, pies, cakes and a fresh sandwich counter.

Owner Ben took over the running of the business from his parents in 2012 having worked alongside them building up the successful business since he left university.

They are now busy taking orders for Christmas from pork pies to bacon wrapped turkey breast joints, mince pies and many more Christmas essentials. Early booking of Christmas orders is advised. There are also weekly specials from stuffed and marinated chicken breasts to special meat packs and full cooked chickens. They also stock jams, marmalades and chutneys as well as Pureety seasonings for all meats.

Ben and his team look forward to welcoming new and existing customers this Christmas.

THE CHRISTMAS Fayre was a great success. It was amazing to see just how much stock we had accumulated since the beginning of the year. A big thank you goes out to Men in Sheds who not only stored a lot of the stock, but also delivered it to the Floral Hall at 7am on the Saturday.

As usual, there was a great team of Lions and Shop Volunteers hard at work selling as much as they could in the time available.

Once again, we were able to support and raise money for Children in Need (CIN)

Because CIN merchandise is not available on sale in Hornsea we purchased a large amount of stock for resale. We are grateful to TESCO for allowing us to set up our stall/collection point inside the store.

Lights switch on night may well have come and gone by the time some people read this, however as in the past, Father Christmas will have been giving out gifts to the children and the Lions will have been serving free hot chocolate and soup to everyone.

Christmas is not far off now, so everything is in place for our annual Christmas Carol Concert for our Senior Citizens (see poster).

Lion President Joan was delighted to induct a new

member into the club at a recent meeting. Welcome to Lion Chas Henderson.

The club have purchased five defibrillators for schools in the area Lion John Briggs will fit them in place in the near future.

It is hoped that we will be able to get some photographs of the recipients once this has been done.

Donations have also been made to: Hornsea School and Language College £500 for new tools, Hornsea Youth Club £3000 to help cover the cost of rent and heating.

RESULTS OF THE 200 CLUB DRAW:

(60) Sandra Rowe

(30) Pam Jones

(131) Sandra Welford

(154) Val Robinson 1-3 CHRISTMAS FAYRE: The Christmas Fayre was a huge success

NEW LION: Lion Chas Henderson was inducted into the club (L to R): Lions Peter Taylor, Chas Henderson, Ken Thorpe and Lions President Joan Gales

CHILDREN IN NEED: On the Children in Need stall in Hornsea Tesco

Your guide to local Christmas events 2022

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Hornsea Collective launch a Christmas Marketplace event and late night shopping to help support small businesses

THE HORNSEA Collective Marketplace is taking place on November 26 from 10am to 4.30pm at the Town Hall.

There will be over 25 traders selling a wide range of products from textiles, plants, prints, gin, skincare, craft beers, original artwork, accessories, home decor, greeting cards and much more. Hopfrog will be providing festive cheer through their bar service and Bemora will be providing fusion food and cakes.

In addition Hornsea Collective are working with independent Hornsea businesses to provide a series of late night shopping dates from the Lights Switch On Night on November 25 through

to Christmas. These are being organised to ensure all customers can get their Christmas gifts from a range of Hornsea independent businesses.

The work of the Hornsea Collective is self funded through the selling of Hornsea Collective merchandise available from both Botany Boutique on Southgate and Leafy Seadragon Refill on Newbegin. It would be appreciated if you can show your support by purchasing a tote bag, postcard, coaster or mug to enable the collective to continue supporting the local independent businesses of Hornsea and its surrounding areas.

Businesses confirmed for the late night opening so far include:

• Botany Boutique (69 Southgate) Nov 25, Dec 2, 8, 16 (6pm – 8.30pm)

• Leafy Seadragon Refill Co. (30 Newbegin) Nov 25, Dec 2, 8, 16

• Dizzybirds Crafts (37 Market Place) Dec 2, 8, 16 (6pm – 8.30pm)

• The Townhouse (3 Newbegin) Nov 25, Dec 2, 16 (6pm – 8.30pm)

• Bemora Wellbeing Hub (26 Newbegin) Nov 25 (5pm – 8.30pm), Dec 8 (6pm – 8.30pm)

• East Coast Tackle (1b Willows Drive) – Dec 2, 8, 16 (6pm – 8.30pm)

• Silver Moon (64 Southgate) Nov 25, Dec 2, 8, 16, 23 (6pm – 8.30pm)

• Sister Boutique (1 Southgate) Nov 25, Dec 2, 8, 16 (6pm – 8.30pm)

• Pure Aesthetics & Harmony Treatments (71 Newbegin) Nov 25, Dec 2, 8, 16 (6pm –8.30pm)

If there are any other businesses who wish to take part please contact the Hornsea Collective so they can promote your involvement.

The display of Hornsea Collective merchandise in Botany Boutique (products also available in Leafy Seadragon in Hornsea)

Events in Beverley this festive season

A HOST of Christmas themed events and activities are set to begin in Beverley from November as preparations commence ahead of the festive period. Activities include:

Beverley Reindeer Rampage

Can you help to round up the herd for Father Christmas? Take part in this year’s free Reindeer Rampage Christmas Trail around Beverley town centre. Pick up a trail map and reindeer mask from Beverley Tourist Information Centre with a chance to win a fantastic toy reindeer. The trail runs until Saturday, December 31.

Visit beverleyfestivalofchristmas.co.uk for more information.

Beverley Minster’s Christmas Tree Festival

A 10-day festival between Friday, December 2 to Sunday, December 11, Monday to Saturday 10am to 4pm and Sunday 12.30pm to 4pm.

More than 100 Christmas trees on display in Beverley Minster. Admission for adults £5, accompanied children (under 18) free. Cash or contactless payment is accepted at the door.

Visit beverleyminster.org.uk for more information.

St Mary’s Church – Festival of Angels

The magnificent Festival of Angels will be held at St Mary’s Church, Beverley between 10am and 6pm throughout December. The angels form a beautiful display as lights around them bring them to life.

Come and enjoy warming refreshments, children’s activities and the awe and wonder of the angelic hosts.

For more information and opening times please visit stmarysbeverley.org or visiteastyorkshire.co.uk

Festival of Christmas / Made in East Yorkshire Christmas Market

The ever-popular Festival of Christmas returns to Saturday Market on Sunday, December 11 between 10am and 4pm. This follows the reappearance of the Made in East Yorkshire Christmas Market for a second successive year which runs between Wednesday, December 7 and Friday, December 9 between 10am and 6pm in Saturday Market. The Yorkshire Oompah Band will play on the Friday 4pm – 6pm and the market will also feature a number of local school choirs, carol singers and a few surprises. There will also be a free Park and Ride service from Beverley Racecourse which will begin at 9.45am each day. The last bus from Beverley back to Beverley Racecourse will be at 6.30pm. It is expected buses will run every 20 minutes.

Visit beverleyfestivalofchristmas.co.uk for more information.

East Riding Treasure House and Beverley Guildhall

Drop in for free festive children’s craft at the Treasure House on Sunday, December 11. Open from 10am to 3pm.

The Guildhall will also be open to provide relaxation and a chance to get away from the bustling streets in the calm surroundings of this beautiful Georgian building. Teas and coffees will once again be available in the parlour, and this year there will be a paperchain challenge for children. The aim is for the paperchain to extend round the whole courtroom by the end of the day. Anyone who contributes five or more links will get a sweet reward!

Flemingate’s Festive Weekend

Running on December 10 and 11, Flemingate will be in the festive spirit with alpacas, funfair rides, festive ice skating on a synthetic ice rink, food and drink complementing the ever-popular Tipi for a festive refreshment. Visitors to the shopping centre will also notice Star Wars characters wandering the complex.

Toll Gavel United Church

Open from 11am - 3pm for Christmas music and entertainment on Sunday, December 11. A full schedule can be found at tollgavelchurch.org.uk.

East Riding Theatre

The cafe and box office on Lord Roberts Road will open on Sunday, December 11 from 10am to 2pm; serving drinks including mulled wine and mince pies.

Cllr Jane Evison, portfolio holder for economic growth, investment and tourism at East Riding of Yorkshire Council, said: “There is going to be so much to do this year for visitors coming into Beverley during the festive period. There really is something for all age groups from the ‘Reindeer Rampage’ to the Christmas Tree Festival at the Minster and the Festival of Angels at St. Mary’s Church.

“I am also delighted to see the Made in East Yorkshire Christmas Market return where we will be supporting local traders and offering a range of fabulous street entertainment for all ages. “All these additional community activities will add to the extremely popular Festival of Christmas event at such a joyful time of year.”

Advent and Christmas in the churches

CHRISTIANS Together in Hornsea are coming together through Advent with a series of events for all ages. The list of events and venues are listed below:

Sunday 27th Nov - 5pm Traditional Advent Carol Service at St Nicholas' Church.

Sunday 4th Dec - 4pm Christingle Service at the URC Sunday 11th Dec - 4pm Muddy Church (family focused activities) at the URC

Sunday 18th Dec - 4pm Traditional Christmas Carol Service at Hornsea Methodist Church.

Hornsea Methodist Church

Sunday 18th Dec 10.30am - Carol Service Christmas Day 10.00am - Christmas Celebration Service

Sunday 1st Jan 10.30am - Service for New Year’s Day

Hornsea URC

All services in Church or live on Zoom/Youtube Sunday 4th Dec - 10.30am - Carol Service

Sunday 11th Dec - 10.30am - Christingle Service Sunday 18th Dec - 10.30am - Nativity Service Christmas Day - 10.00am - Christmas Morning Service Sunday 1st Jan - 10.30am - New Year’s Day Service

Hornsea Benefice

Sunday 4th Dec 4pm Carol Service at All Saints Skipsea Tuesday 13th Dec 3:30pm Carol Service at St Lawrence Atwick

Saturday 24th Dec at St Nicholas Hornsea 4pm Crib Service, 10pm Bethlehem Midnight Holy Communion Sunday 25th December 9am Family Communion with Carols at St Lawrence Atwick, 10:30am Family Communion with Carols at All Saints Skipsea Sunday 1st January 10:30am Holy Communion at All Saints Skipsea

Leven Lites light up Christmas!

JOIN Leven Lites on Friday 2, Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 December for their Christmas show packed with festive and non-festive songs and carols plus a special Christmas performance by the Juniors. The shows take place at the Leven Sports Hall at 7.30pm on Friday, December 2 and 2pm and 7.30pm on Saturday, December 3. Tickets are priced are £7 and £6 for under 12s and are available from Costcutter in Leven and on the door. The show is also going on tour and is on at Seaton Village Hall on Sunday, December 4 at 2pm with tickets for this performance available from The Swan Inn in Seaton or by contacting Judith Slingsby on 01964 524467.

Get into the Christmas mood with Hornsea choir

By Sarah Perkins

WHY not come along to Hornsea United Reformed Church on Saturday, December 3 at 7.30pm and get your Christmas season off to a good start with Hornsea Choir? They are planning an evening of seasonal words and music to brighten a winter’s evening with traditional items and a few surprises.

The long established choir started rehearsing again in the summer. Not only is this the first post covid concert for the choir, but it is their first performance in Hornsea with their new conductor, Stan Kell. Secretary Georgina Chamberlain said “It is good to get back together again to sing, especially with several new members. Anyone who fancies joining in can turn up at the United Reformed Church when rehearsals start again after Christmas on Monday January 9 at 7.30.” If you do come along, you will find a friendly group of singers. All the music you need is provided, and no audition is required. Don’t worry if you can’t read music: some members can, but some just pick it all up by listening. You will be surprised how quickly you settle into it. If you are not sure whether it is for you, why not come to the concert and talk to some of the choir about it? Admission to the concert is £5, and tickets are available from choir members, or you can pay on the door. School aged children get in free, if they are accompanied by an adult.

Refreshments are included in the price, and there will be a chance for the audience to join in with some of the old favourite carols.

ATWICK FESTIVE AFTERNOON

IN ATWICK a Christmas Fair will take place in St Lawrence Church on Sunday. November 27 from 12 noon to 4pm followed by the switching on of the Christmas lights. At the lights switch on there will be carols, mulled wine and mince pies.

CHRISTMAS PARKING CONCESSION

EAST Riding Council have once again agreed that to help the local businesses they are suspending parking charges in its pay and display car parks for four weekends on the run up to Christmas this year. Councillor Barbara Jefferson said: “I was delighted as this will give residents and visitors from the surrounding areas a free facility to enjoy shopping locally.” Publicity notices will be displayed in each car park and the ticket machines will be clearly marked to give this information.

Cllr Jefferson added: “The four weekends will be 3rd-4th December, 10th-11th December, 17th-18th December and 24th-25th December. Please use the free car parks for your enjoyment of our town and of course our wonderful seafront.”

Hornsea Dayspring Christian Fellowship Christmas services

Christmas Carol Service: Sunday 18th December 10.30am at the Lion room, Hornsea Inshore Rescue, Hornsea Burton Road. Park in free car park.

Christmas Day Service: Sunday 25th December 10am at the Lion room, Hornsea Inshore Rescue, Hornsea Burton Road. Park in free car park.

SANTA SLEIGH ON ITS WAY!

HORNSEA Carnival Committee have confirmed Santa’s sleigh will be doing the rounds around Hornsea again this year. The routes will be announced on their Facebook page.

Santa’s Sleigh will run from December 12 to December 16 with each day’s route published on their Facebook page.

Hornsea and District u3a update

By Chairman, Jane Hardman

Hello again from Hornsea & District u3a.

I know that last month I mentioned the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness in my last report on the activities of Hornsea & District u3a, but it certainly is with us now with a series of rather dull dreary days. It is November though, amazingly enough. Where has this year gone?

November is a time for remembrance for all those who have gone before us and in particular those who lost their lives in the service of our country. It seems particularly poignant this year as we lost the only commander-in-chief that most of us have known. I refer, of course to our late Queen.

Along with Ted Gray, our president, I attended the Remembrance Day service at St. Nicholas on Sunday 13th November. It was, as always, very moving, not least because we sang the national anthem and had to remember to sing “God save our gracious King”. After the service we processed to the Memorial Gardens for another short service and the organisations of Hornsea laid their wreaths in front of the war memorial. It is always an honour to represent our u3a on such occasions.

Our November meeting included our AGM which we successful completed in what I believe was a record time! Just as well because we had a very interesting and popular speaker, Mr Paul Schofield. Many of you with an interest in local history, in particular that of Hull and Beverley, will know of him and may have accompanied him on guided walks round those towns. Paul is a fully qualified English Heritage Accredited guide and has been doing tours of Hull and Beverley since 1988. I think I can safely say he knows his stuff! Paul gives talks on numerous aspects of local history and recently co-authored a book on Hull Kingston Rovers (The Robins), which, apparently is the world’s greatest rugby team (I am not getting involved, that is a whole different ball game), Paul spoke to us about the history of Whitefriargate and it was most fascinating. Some of the buildings on there are really splendid, particularly if you look up to see above the door ways and on the roofs. The old Burton’s building on the corner and the Marks and Spencer’s building were both custom built for those shops in the art deco style. Many of the original buildings were banks and there were also many pubs. Of course, the Beverley Gate is at one end of the street which is where the citizens of Hull refused entry to King Charles 1st, leading eventually to the start of the English Civil War. There are some interesting little side streets off Whitefriargate that are worth looking at. The area is undergoing regeneration at the moment and many original features are being brought back to life by sympathetic restorers. I shall certainly look at Whitefriargate in a different light next time I am in Hull. If you go, don’t forget to look up to the tops of the buildings. Hull has a few blue plaques marking important people or buildings, such as the one for the headmaster of Trinity House School which was originally on Whitefriargate, but it has also produced its own, such as the tongue-in-cheek one about Hull Daily Mail. Spot any errors?

Our next meeting is on Tuesday December 6th in the Floral Hall, doors open at 10am for a 10.30 start. We will have some musical entertainment including some Christmas songs and carols. Refreshments of tea or coffee and biscuits are available for a nominal fee and we will also have mince pies this time. What more could you need? Good fun, good company and good fellowship.

Every glass filled with a story

By John Rodgers for Fairtrade Hornsea

THIS WAS the promise seen on flyers around Hornsea in October. They were produced to advertise a Fairtrade wine tasting evening, promoted jointly by Fairtrade Hornsea and the Co-op. The event was held in Hornsea Town Hall during the evening of Saturday, October 22. A total of 56 participants responded and, together with a willing team of helpers, filled the Hall Garth Room to enjoy a varied selection of 8 easily obtainable wines and hear the stories behind them.

Much of the credit must go to Gillian Perry from the Co-op's Community and Shared Value Team who, with the help of colleagues, came up with the wine selection and accompanying samples of cheeses and dark chocolate, each carefully matched with a particular wine. She also produced individual tasting notes and gave a presentation focusing on the benefits Fairtrade has brought to the producers of these wines. We heard about community centres in South Africa built thanks to the Fairtrade Premium, and from Argentina stories of a secondary school for 650 students and a GP/Health Centre made possible in the same way.

Of the eight wines, three were red, three white, and two sparkling, and each table was invited to score them out of 10, to give us an idea of which most tickled our guests' taste buds! From the scoring

sheets we have the clear winner is a Stormhoek Fairtrade Moscato Rose, described in the tasting notes as “A lively sparkling Moscato Rose with strawberry and cherry aromas, it is delicious served as an aperitif or with fresh strawberries or a fruit tart”. It is from South Africa, and both Fairtrade and vegan. It was the evening's aperitif.

In the interval we played a game of ‘Heads and Tails’ organised by Fairtrade Hornsea Chairperson Margaret Knapton. This was great fun and raised £52, which has gone to Transform Trade (the new name for Traidcraft Exchange) for use on one of their projects.

After the event came lots of positive comments, including “Very enjoyable”, “I learned a lot”, and “When can we do it again?” (!)

Christmas is coming, why not put a bit more fairness into this year's festivities by making your wine, chocolate, and gifts Fairtrade? Here is a website that may help: www.coop.co.uk/products/fairtradefood and www.traidcraftshop.co.uk

Spooky frights and movie nights at Hornsea Youth Club

By Allan Iles

OCTOBER saw the club celebrate Halloween with its spooky themed parties. Fun and games were enjoyed by all the members with some of them getting very messy! We have also enjoyed our annual movie night where the members got to enjoy a film with free popcorn in the comfort of the club. The club laid a wreath during the service on Remembrance Sunday and it was lovely to see so many of our members there paying their respects and representing many other groups that they attend. We have started to create

Christmas decorations for our tree that will be able to be seen at the festival of trees in St Nicholas Church on lights night. We are also looking forward to our annual Christmas parties and lots of festive fun throughout December which we will report on in the next issue. The club continues to provide two free sessions a week for its members and is solely funded on grants and donations. If you wish to find out more about the youth club and how to support us please contact Amanda and Allan at hornseayouthclub@gmail.com

HORNSEA ROTARY CLUB UPDATE

AT A recent meeting Treasurer Hilary Himsworth noted that the Rotary Club of Hornsea and East Riding had given grants to the following good causes or charities: Hornsea Music Festival, Brownies, Carnival Committee, Scouts, Shelter Box, Aquabox, Cameo Bereavement Group, Air Cadets, Humberside Police Concert Band, Girls Football team, Air Cadets, Rob Burrows MND Appeal, and Prison Me No Way.

President Keith thanked all those who had supported our fundraising events. The next item on our calendar is the ‘Come and Sing Messiah’ on Saturday, November 26, at St Nicholas Church in Hornsea. Over 60 local singers will join the soloists for a performance that starts at

6.30pm. Tickets, at £5, are available on the door or from The Townhouse shop next to the Parish Hall.

THANK YOU: President Keith Himsworth, who thanked the many people who had supported Rotary’s fundraising events

HART very grateful for extra support

AROUND this time last year, HART was selected to receive a donation from the Co-op's Local Community Fund. This involves local Co-op members nominating who to support from a list of three local organisations, that then receives 1p of every £1 the member spends on selected own brand products over the course of 12 months.

A big thank you to everyone who nominated HART. This meant a cheque for £1596.76 being presented to Manager, Caroline Wegrzyn, at a ceremony on Friday 4th November. Also receiving awards were Hornsea Inshore Rescue and Hornsea Nursery School.

While funding from the Co-op's fund is just for a year, there are continuing ways to support HARTat no cost to yourself – if you shop online.

One is AmazonSmile, which donates a portion of the price of

eligible purchases on Amazon to a charity of your choice. Just visit smile.amazon.co.uk, sign in as you normally do for Amazon, and choose a charitable organisation to receive donations (HART is registered as North Holderness Community Transport). If you then add a bookmark for smile.amazon.co.uk, it will make it easier to always use AmazonSmile.

Similarly HART is registered with Easy Fundraising, again as North Holderness Community Transport. This means over 4,000 shops and sites will make a donation every time you shop with them if you do it through Easy Fundraising. Just go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk/caus es/northholdernessct/ to sign up. If you have difficulty signing up to either or both, just call HART on 01964 5536684 who would be more than happy to assist. Thank you – these donations will help SO MUCH!

Meanwhile members of Hornsea Ex Servicemen's club have already been helping with a donation of £500, which HART will put towards MEDiBUS service running costs.

Accepting the cheque at a bingo afternoon on October 24, Caroline Wegrzyn was able to tell those present about HART services and how the charity funds the

work. “Thank you so much for your donation” she said. “We applaud you all for your regular fundraising, which is benefiting local community groups and residents”.

Currently, HART's regular services in the Hornsea area are:

• Shopper buses to Beverley (twice a week) and Driffield (fortnightly) – for anyone who might struggle to get there any other way. The return fare is £5. For details and to book a place, call the HART office on 01964 536684

• MEDiBUS to hospital and other medical appointments, for those without access to a car and who cannot use public transport for any reason. Getting to hospital can be a challenge if there are no direct connections or even a bus service at all, you may be feeling unwell or have difficulty getting to a bus stop. It may also be that you do not meet the criteria for the NHS Patient Transport Service. If so, MEDiBUS may be the answer. The return fare is £5 for bus pass holders and £10 for those without. It serves appointments between 9am and 3.30pm Monday-Thursday and 9am-11.30am on a Friday, and this time the booking number is 03456 445959.

THANK YOU: Receiving the donation from Hornsea Co-Op

Hornsea Museum update

Hornsea Museum in Winter

The museum may have closed its doors to visitors, but there is still lots going on behind the scenes in readiness for the 2023 season. Our housekeeping team put the rooms to bed, covering furniture and exhibits with dust sheets prior to the big spring clean. The maintenance team has a schedule of works that includes mending a leak in our wash house roof. The pottery and collections teams can pick up on projects put aside during the busy months and begin new ones - reappraising displays, cataloguing, and recording objects from the museum’s eclectic collection - while front of house carries out a stocktake, and replenishes the shop with gifts for Lights Night (when we are open from 4.30pm), and for Father Christmas’s visit on Saturday, December 17.

Situations Vacant – Volunteer Maintenance Team Leader

Hornsea museum is seeking a team leader, to oversee our maintenance team volunteers, and co-ordinate ongoing maintenance projects on the buildings and grounds. The successful candidate will be expected to attend monthly team leaders’ meetings - to give short reports on the activities of the maintenance team - and attend weekly, on a Tuesday morning, as a maintenance team member. A background in, and understanding of buildings maintenance and general repairs, good communication skills (written and verbal), and the ability to lead a team is required. An understanding of historic buildings would be an asset. To apply, or for further details, email: Nial.Adams@eastriding.gov.uk

Commemorative Rose Planting

Earlier this year, the museum volunteers, to commemorate the Queen’s platinum jubilee, agreed that a rose be planted in the museum garden. With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, it was decided that both historic events be jointly commemorated. A lovely and aptly named David Austin Rose,’ Elizabeth’, was chosen, a plot prepared, and the new addition to our garden planted by one our volunteer gardeners.

Hallowe’en Crafts a Resounding Success

The children’s crafts workshops, that took place on October 27 during the autumn half-term, were very well-received. Children, parents, crafters, and helpers, all agreed it was a great success. Children enjoyed traditional games such as apple-bobbing and trying to eat a bun (in our case a doughnut) dangling from a string – which is harder than it sounds - as well as trying their hands at a variety of Hallowe’en-themed crafts. One such craft encouraged children to create their own version of the famous Hornsea Pottery cat taken from a John Clappison design for a salt and pepper set. Permission to

use this design in our craft sessions was kindly granted by the copyright holder. This year the event required advance booking for the first time which enabled each child to participate in every craft, and to receive plenty of attention from our crafters.

Christmas Crafts

Off the back of the Hallowe’en workshops, the museum will also be able to offer Christmas crafts workshops to be held on Saturday 3 December. Children will have the opportunity to make cards, gifts, and decorations. Our enthusiastic crafting volunteers are already busy planning the event, so look out for posters and postings on our social media sites in the coming weeks. We are hoping to offer online booking for this event; however further information may be had by telephoning, or emailing the museum in the usual way.

Father Christmas Hornsea children are invited to meet Father Christmas at the museum on Saturday, December 17 between 10am and 12.30pm in the morning, and in the afternoon from 1pm until 3.30pm. Please note that this is not a booked event. Each child will be able to spend some time with Father Christmas and will receive a gift. The charge is £5 per child. More details will follow soon, so keep an eye on our Facebook page and notice board.

Queen Tribute Band Fundraiser –a Great Night Out

Another great success was the museum’s fundraiser concert at the Floral Hall held on October 22. A thoroughly enjoyable evening for the band (The Queen Story) and concert-goers alike. Although it was a seated event, the dancefloor saw plenty of action. Any proceeds from the event will help to keep Hornsea museum open.

Children’s Crafts Workshops –Volunteers Needed

We are always on the look-out for talented crafters and helpers to enable the museum to continue to offer children’s workshops. In 2023, dependent upon volunteer numbers, we hope to offer further children’s events to coincide with Easter, the summer holidays, Hallowe’en, and Christmas.

If you would like to offer your services, or just want to find out more, please contact us.

Volunteering Hornsea Museum is an independent, volunteerrun museum. The museum is always happy to welcome new volunteers into its ranks. The opportunities are various and include front of house –(greeting visitors, selling tickets and

By Lesley Bradshaw

working in the shop), being part of our maintenance, gardening, or housekeeping teams, or working with the collections including the Hornsea Pottery. The museum also organises events. If you feel you have a pertinent skill, or an interest in working within a museum, please get in touch.

Regular Weekly Craft Sessions

Our regular craft groups continue to meet up weekly during our closed season. The Tuesday afternoon group can offer tuition in a variety of craft skill,s while members of the Thursday morning group skill share and work on their current projects. If you are looking for a new hobby, wish to acquire a new craft skill, or just like to work alongside others, you would be made welcome. Just contact the museum for further details.

Room Hire

The museum’s education room may be hired for meetings and events for only £25 for a half day and £50 for a full day. Please contact us to find out what facilities the museum can offer.

If you are interested in finding out more about volunteering opportunities, wish to make a booking, or for any other enquiries, please email: info@hornseamuseum.co.uk or telephone 01964 533443.

CRAFTY: A cat made by one of the children who attended our Hallowe'en crafts workshops (photo by Sarah Wilkinson, the volunteer who organised the event)

Fireworks success at new venue for Hornsea Carnival

IT’S TIME for our roundup from Hornsea Carnival Fireworks evening.

Firstly we could not put these events on without the support we receive from the town, we would like to thank all our traders for supporting us, Hornsea Town Council, HUG, Hornsea Freeport, Hornsea Lions and finally Seaside FM.

If we can put it in some perspective our team, who all work full time, devoting their free time to Carnival and managed to pull this whole event together in under a month. From venue issues to supplier issues, to getting traders, it was a lot of planning in a very short space of time.

I won’t lie we all felt a little uneasy, we had a new location, we had no idea how it would be received by the general public, and at 6pm when the whole place was empty we had thoughts that we hadn’t done enough and it was going to fall flat on its face.

But on the whole the event was a resounding success.

The new location provided to be a hit with everyone, and hopefully next year we will make the event bigger and have more wow for Hornsea and the surrounding area.

So how did we do? Well the total cost of the fireworks event was just under £3,000, but we had some great local support to bring this cost down.

Hornsea Freeport provided the generator and light rig hire which was £500, Hornsea Lions donated £1,000, which left Carnival covering what was left. Our fireworks, license and band cost £2,291.

In order to make up the cost we needed local support, we needed people to put money in buckets, and support is in anyway they could. To this end we had fantastic support from HUG who provided plenty of bodies to shake buckets, we had over 20

people shaking but we still needed more as we had at least 1,500 to 2,000 people in attendance.

Our bucket collections made £1,800, yes it was amazing the whole town was truly generous, from our traders we made £620. On the QR code donations we made £45 and we received a cheque for £20.

• Fireworks Event Cost £2,791

• Fireworks Event – Made £3,985

• Profit £1,194

For the first time in a very long time we have made a profit, and we could not have done this without the support we received from all the people we approached and the generosity of this amazing area we live in.

For us as a new committee and also hosting the event at a new location to come away with this really lifted the teams’ spirits and finally put to rest

that the event wouldn’t prove to be popular.

But as you know we don’t rest on our laurels we have two more events planned. Hornsea Carnival will be attending the lights night organised by the Hornsea Chamber of Trade, as always trying to raise funds so the whole area can enjoy the three day event, which is Hornsea Carnival.

This year instead of burgers and hot dogs we will be providing mulled wine, and hot chocolate, and some other festive fair. Now here is the twist , it will all be free, yes free we want to bring some Christmas cheer to the town, and we know things are getting difficult for everyone so we want to give even more back to the community we love.

As always we will have our donation buckets available and if you want to and are able a suggest donation of a £1 will be as always greatly

appreciated by the committee. We will have contactless if that is more convenient, or our QR code which allows you to donate in complete anonymity. We look forward to welcoming you down to our tent to say hi.

Finally we will have Santa’s Sleigh we will be doing the rounds around Hornsea, we will have all the routes on our Facebook Page and we will be partnering with Seaside FM and going live, we have a few new things this year to hopefully make it more special for the kids.

We will be running Santa’s Sleigh from December 12 to December 16 with each day’s route published on our Facebook page, we hope to see you on the route. We hope you can support Hornsea Carnival and make it an event for the whole community.

It’s your community it’s your Carnival.

Five years of Hornsea NCI

By Andrew Garvey

NCI HORNSEA held its Annual General Meeting in early November at the ExServiceman’s Club in Hornsea. The meeting was attended by 22 members.

The station manager welcomed NCI’s chair and vice chair to the meeting. He presented a brief report of the station’s activities including:

• Achieving Designated Facility Status during the spring of the year and is now being a fully-fledged member of the Search and Rescue family.

• The recent recruitment programmes had gone well and new members are undergoing their training.

• He thanked members for their service over the last year observing that as we came out of lockdown there were some challenges that required fixing.

The station's treasurer was able to confirm that, due to the generosity and support of Hornsea folks, the station had been able to cover its operating costs. These funds were raised from a range of activities including our presence at local shows and events, collection boxes in retail outlets and personal donations from individuals. Thank you all.

Celebrating the station’s fifth anniversary this year the Chair of NCI was in attendance to present five members with five year service medals.

The meeting closed with an open discussion session, when all members had the opportunity to raise any issues they wished to discuss.

The station continues to operate as usual, although our station opening times changed over the last weekend in October when the clocks changed. They changed from 9.30am until 5.30pm to 10am to 4pm. This reflects the darker evenings and the failing light results in our loss of visibility. We will revert to the longer watches in the spring.

The seasonal changes have resulted in some days experiencing fairly wet and windy weather, resulting in reduced numbers using the seafront and beach areas. However, with a little sunshine and fair weather, numbers increase as the public come out for a bracing walk.

Rob's ramblings

By Rob Andrew

DOES the boy who cried wolf story come to mind when predicting big tides or stormy weather? Living on the seafront we are lucky enough to be informed of any potential flooding events. The flip side of this is that we receive these several times a month and it never happens. Maybe a bit of tweaking could be useful, who knows! But what I do know is that at the last major incident we were told to evacuate our homes. Sounds good so far until you realise we have a birds eye view of whatever is going on with our house in particular having none of the trouble homes further down the street have. Could be because we are situated up a slope well above sea level which is fantastic for photographic opportunities and also a great place for the on call firefighters to be supplied with tea, soup and biscuits. As long as we never experience the likes of the 'Beast from the East' again when our flat roof blew off, I still sit content in the knowledge of the saying 'I'm alright Jack'.

Talking of another Jack, my Dad, who passed away in the late 90's. Many of you will know he was a bus driver around the same time as Henry Franks, Ernie Hood and Darrell Waters. My dad had three brothers, the last of whom died just a few weeks ago, aged 85. On meeting some of the remaining cousins at the wake the thought came to me with a resounding slap in the face, that I now hold the position of patriarch of the family, nearing 60! All things being equal it will be my turn next for the family to get together, but I hope not until the late 2050's. Though I did make a vow to myself that the effort should be made to keep in touch with the various branches of our not too tight knit relations. I suppose that everyone who made the same solemn undertaking meant it at the time, though whether it in fact comes to fruition remains to be seen. 'Do it now while you still can' could be the adage, as we hadn't all met up since the last funeral a long time ago.

Never let it be said that I would occasionally be known to have a grumble. Let’s set the scene, in the course of my work I spend a lot of my time out of Hornsea. Sometimes Liz comes with me, with the idea of when the job is finished we'd enjoy time at the nearest location. Easier said than done in most places, particularly Beverley. There is nowhere to park a 5.5 metre vehicle. It’s too wide to fit in the roadside parking bay and too long to fit in car parking bays, even if there's no height barriers which there usually is. There is only one small section at the supermarket carpark where we can fit in at a real squeeze. The result is that we bring our hard earned cash back home to spend in our local shops. On second thoughts that's no bad thing is it? Seriously though, shouldn't a small section of parking be set aside for us, like parent and child, disabled and pick up only points? Could boost their local economy!

1. NCI Hornsea members at their AGM

2. NCI Chair presenting 5 year awards to Ron Charlton (a), Jan Parker (b), Malcolm Herring (c), Mike Johnson (d), the fifth award went to Mauricio Bianchi who was unable to attend the meeting

HORNSEA CO-OP CELEBRATES LOCAL COMMUNITY FUND FOR LOCAL CAUSES

ON NOVEMBER 4, Co-op colleagues and staff from the 2022/23 Hornsea local causes got together to celebrate the difference Co-op members have made to their local communities over the last year by supporting our local causes. An amazing £117 million has been raised across the UK by Co-op members, helping 7m people across the UK since 2016.

Carline Wegrzyn accepted a cheque for £1,596.76 from Gillian Perry, Co-op Member Pioneer for Driffield and Hornsea, on behalf of Holderness Area Rural Transport (HART), who will use the funds for their vital MEDiBUS community transport service. (Picture 1)

Sue Hickson-Marsay and Jenny Hannon received a cheque for £1,930.28 on behalf of Hornsea Inshore Rescue. Sue

said: “We plan to further develop our Visitors centre/Lifeboats Station as a sea safe, marine environment awareness education centre that can accommodate school groups and other wide-ranging community groups.” (Picture 2) Then Michelle Catley and Katie Russell from Hornsea Nursery School received £1,422.31, which they will use for their breakfast club and Ethical and Eco Pantry. (Picture 3) Gillian said: “Co-op members have once again provided tremendous support for these local organisations who do such tremendous work in our community. The funds raised will help them realise their planned projects.”

The store has now welcomed three new local causes for the next 12 months for Hornsea and Driffield:

Driffield Youth Action

‘We would like to offer fun, structured and inclusive youth sessions at our building to help improve the mental health and wellbeing of young people and encourage positive healthy minds.’

https://membership.coop.co.u k/causes/66341

1st Hornsea Brownies

‘We would like to enhance our activities to give the girls new experiences they would otherwise not have, e.g., learning outdoor skills to improve confidence, wellbeing and social skills.’

https://membership.coop.co.u k/causes/68041

Hidden Friends

Hidden Friends provides a safe place in which people diagnosed with dementia (and

their carers) can meet. We provide friendship, social interaction, and day trips out. https://membership.coop.co.u k/causes/68720

Co-op members can choose to raise funds for one of these Local Causes by selecting them at Co-op - Local causesCo-op (coop.co.uk). For every £1 that Co-op members spend on selected Co-op branded products, funeral care and insurance services, 2p will go into their membership account. 1p is then allocated to their chosen Local Community Fund Local Cause. The other 1p goes to the Community Partnerships Fund which supports like-minded national organisations to create lasting change on the issues Co-op cares about.

DIARY OF A HORNSEA GIRL

By Alexandra’s Grandad Rob Andrew

HOW drastically our seasons change. There we were quite content with our jaunts to Hall Garth Park play area or Jefferson Park on the Mereside whilst feeding the ducks when, wham bang it’s all change with lousy weather preventing us using the swings and slides. We had to find a good alternative, so daughter Debbie decided that Alexandra would probably enjoy indoor fun just as much. So out came the paddling pool (indoors!), with much dismay from Dad Christian who recommended that the pool should not be filled with water whilst positioned on a parquet floor. Bearing this in mind a compromise was made which resulted in the pool not being topped right up. Then a bright idea emerged from my ever brilliant daughter, whilst Dad wasn't looking, let’s make a big bowl of blackcurrant jelly to play in, as that obviously won't create problems on the

wooden floor. This idea wasn't thought through as much as it might have been. Two year olds and the aforementioned jelly are not a good mix. I'll leave the photo to speak for itself, entitled 'Little girl waits for Grandad'. I suppose that introducing our little angel to the likes of crayons and colouring books is in some eyes a good precautionary measure. Saving on decorating

the walls too frequently, still the cave man like picture of Granny in the living room couldn't have been envisaged. This particular piece of artwork didn't last a fraction of the time of stone age man’s efforts! Good try Darling.

1.WHOOPS: Little girl waits for Grandad

2. DELICIOUS: Princess’ eat croissant on their birthdays!

Think local act global - Home Grown Hornsea doing its bit

By Alan Tharatt

WE HAD a good work day at the Community Orchard on November 5.

Jobs for the day were mowing grass, pruning fruit bushes and clearing up. There was a bit of a discussion about the best pruning strategy, so in the end we decided on a trial by using different methods and we’ll see next summer which method produces the most fruit.

There’s lots to do over the winter, with hedge cutting, pruning bushes and trees, cutting back brambles etc to provide more room for fruit trees and starting work on our new vegetable plot. We’re aiming at creating a living willow woven fence around this area. See our Facebook page for details of work days and other info.

The orchard produces local fruit, free, for the local community. It is also a designated priority habitat listed by the North and East Yorkshire Ecological Data Centre.

Those of you who were environmental activists 30 years ago will remember the euphoria which greeted the Rio Convention.

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the 'Earth Summit', was held in Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil, from 3-14 June 1992. It brought together political leaders, diplomats, scientists, representatives of the media and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) from 179 countries for a massive effort to focus on the impact of human socio-economic activities on the environment. A 'Global Forum' of NGOs was also held in Rio de Janeiro at the same time, bringing together an unprecedented number of NGO representatives, who presented their own vision of the world's future in relation to the environment and socio-economic development.

The Rio de Janeiro conference highlighted how different social, economic and environmental factors are interdependent and evolve together, and how success in one sector requires action in other sectors to be sustained over time.

The primary objective of the Rio 'Earth Summit' was to produce a broad agenda and a new blueprint for international action on environmental and development issues that would help guide international cooperation and development policy in the twentyfirst century.

The 'Earth Summit' concluded that the concept of sustainable development was an attainable goal for all the people of the world, regardless of whether they were at the local, national, regional or international level. It also recognised that integrating and balancing economic, social and environmental concerns in meeting our needs is vital for sustaining human life on the planet and that such an integrated approach is possible. The conference also recognised that integrating and balancing economic, social and environmental dimensions required new perceptions of the way we produce and consume, the way we live and work, and the way we make decisions. This concept was revolutionary for its time, and it sparked a lively debate within governments and between governments and their citizens on how to ensure sustainability for development.

One of the major results of the UNCED Conference was Agenda 21 a daring program of action calling for new strategies to invest in the future to achieve overall sustainable development in the 21st century. Its

recommendations ranged from new methods of education, to new ways of preserving natural resources and new ways of participating in a sustainable economy.

The 'Earth Summit' had many great achievements: the Rio Declaration and its 27 universal principles, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on Biological Diversity; and the Declaration on the principles of forest management . The 'Earth

Plastic Free Hornsea Update by

IT’S BEEN another busy month at the hut, with plenty of families visiting us from far and wide to help us keep our beach clean (in all weather!). We’ve had people visiting from Hull, Wakefield, Castleford, Gilberdyke, and even Birmingham! The majority of whom have been absolutely amazed at how clean and tidy our beach is, so keep up the good work everyone. The weekly quiz night at the New Inn has been a resounding

success, with all funds raised going to Plastic Free Hornsea and our continued work on the beach front. Blister pack collection is taking off, since collection began at the Ecohut on Sunday, May 9 in 2021, 325.17kg has been collected by Plastic Free Hornsea (so that’s more than the weight of 100 bowling balls – which is pretty impressive when you think about how light the packs are!). TerraCycle donate £1 per kg to Marie Curie

for all this material, raising a total of £325. None of this would have been possible without the dedication and enthusiasm of so many residents diligently saving their pill packs and bringing them to PFH, so a big thanks goes out to the local community. Thanks must also go to Quick and Clarke estate agents for facilitating a main street weekday drop off point in their Market Place office.

Now that we’re heading towards the holiday

season, we will be reducing our hours. Our last opening day this year will be Sunday, December 18 and we’ll be open again on Sunday, January 8. So if you have any blister packs that you’ve been storing up, or are keen to do an end of year litter pick, then please do come and see us over the next few weeks. We may open during the Christmas period (on a Wednesday or Sunday), but this will be weather permitting. We’re really looking

forward to the New Year and all the fantastic things we can achieve as a team and community, so if you want to get involved please do come and visit us down on the seafront. As always, a final call goes out to our sponsors, Longbeach Leisure Park, without their support we could not be doing all this great work. Our free refreshments at the Eco Hub are also provided with support from Hornsea Tesco and Number 10 Coffee Shop.

Summit' also led to the creation of the Commission on Sustainable Development,

Unfortunately, as we’re seeing yet again, 30 years on, there’s been no action. Countries will not agree on any cooperative action. So it’s up to local people taking “baby steps” to make a difference.

COMMUNITY ORCHARD WORK

DAY: The helpers on the November 5 Community Orchard work day

Terning the Tide

1. Gentleman and his son from Castleford, they have a lodge at Longbeach and like to do the odd beach clean.

2. Rubbish collected by a volunteer following a busy day out

3. A couple from Hull along for a day’s beach cleaning

4. Plastic free Hornsea volunteer & a friend collecting huge amounts of rubbish along the beach front!

Christians Together in Hornsea thought for the month NOT BELIEVING IN GOD AND SORRY FOR IT

By Mike Hubbard from Holderness Community Church

WRITER and comedian David Baddiel doesn’t believe in God, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t want to. “I wish there was a God. I’m desperate for that comfort…desperate because at heart I’m a wailing load of need, like all human beings. I am a baby at heart…we’re all helpless children.Some atheists would deny that” he says, “but that’s just macho posturing”.

What a pity! How sad that Baddiel hasn’t, at least not yet, discovered the uniqueness of Jesus of Nazareth who is well documented in secular as well as religious history, who revealed that God (in whom, in my opinion, one has to believe, otherwise how else can one seriously explain the wonder of the world

around us?) is an insanely loving Father who embraced, before time began, the prospect of the Incarnation. God becoming human, which C.S. Lewis described as Christianity’s “grand miracle”, thereby ranking it above the resurrection. It was this Jesus of Nazareth who revealed that God can be addressed as Father. “When you pray, say, Our Father…”, as the Lord’s Prayer amazingly begins, having grown up with it we may have lost the wonder of that revelation. He himself addressed God as Abba, which is the Hebrew/Aramaic word for Daddy.

If, like Baddiel, you struggle to believe in God and are sorry for it, take another look at Jesus. Dust off that Bible on the

shelf and have a read of the Four Gospels and acquaint yourself with this Jesus of Nazareth. One modern hymn writer penned these words about the Incarnation:

From heaven you came, helpless babe, Entered our world, your glory veiled, Not to be served but to serve And give your life that we might live. This is our God, the servant King

There was astonishment in heaven, it seems, at God condescending to become man, for the angelic armies of heaven exploded in praise at the announcement of the birth to the shepherds: Glory to God in the highest!

HORNSEA Men in Sheds and Crafty Shedders held an open day on Thursday, November 10 with stalls and cakes.

For anyone that hasn’t called in to the shed yet they are situated on Cliff Road just past the old bus station, next to Kidds removals. They also welcome new members,

perhaps you are recently retired and looking for something to do, or new to the area looking to meet new people. Or perhaps you want to try wood turning or woodwork or simply call in for a cuppa and a chat. They have two groups, one meet on Monday, Wednesday and

Friday 9am to 4pm and they do woodwork, gardening, wood turning, or their own hobbies/projects. There is also a newly formed Scalextric group.

The Crafty Shedders meet on Tuesday and Thursdays 9am to 2pm, there is a mix of talent from artists to

crafters, card makers, sewers and knitters.

OPEN DAY: The recent open day at Men in

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Remembering old Hornsea

THANK YOU to Councillor Barbara Jefferson for sending in this clipping from the past to see if anyone recognises themselves or remembers the project. The photograph shows Cllr Jefferson planting a tree in National Tree Week with pupils at Hornsea Nursery School on some land they had decided to use to create a wildlife habitat. The planting followed a fundraising project to plant trees and shrubs to form an evnironmental hedgerow. The project was supported at the time by a grant from the then Humberside County Council of £250 plus £250 raised by Cllr Jefferson when she was the Mayor of Holderness the previous year and £25 from Hornsea Town

Council and donations from parents. On the tree planting day 15 trees and 25 shrubs were planted. Mr Mark Branch-Evans a parent of a pupil at the nursery and a gardener helped on the day. The headteacher at the time was Mrs Brenda Lepper.

If you have any old images of Hornsea please do take a photo (on your phone will work fine) and send to hornseacommunitynews@hotmail.com

RECOGNISE ANYONE? Cllr Barbara Jefferson planting a Willow Killmarock tree assisted by William Branch-Evans

17. Loquacious (7) 19. Dance similar to the polka (11) 20. Foundation, basis (10) 21. Percolated (9) 25. Childhood (7) 27. ------ Borealis (6) 28. Platform (5) 32. Care for (4) 33. Blood vessel (4)

1. Which African country is nearest to the holiday island of Madeira?

2. When Emmerdale started in 1972 (It’s 50th anniversary is this year) who played the part of Joe Sugden?

3. Which is the longest river in Asia?

4. Which 2 colours appear on the national flag of Spain?

5. What was the name of the high school in Grease?

6. What nationality is top rated pop singer Billie Eilish?

7. Who was the last British winner of the Eurovision song contest?

8. General Lee was the name of the car in which popular TV series?

9. What is the name of the Canadian Prime Minister?

10. The Horse racing St Ledger festival is held in which Yorkshire town?

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Let’s Sing Hornsea – Parish Church Hall 1.30pm –2.30pm

Floral Hall Cinema 3pm and 7.30pm showing Elvis (doors open 30 mins before) £4 from café or on the door if there are any left (See P15)

THURSDAY 1ST DECEMBER

Hornsea Photography Club meeting at Hornsea Golf Club (see P32)

FRIDAY 2ND DECEMBER

Cameo bereavement support group meeting 1pm-3pm

Hornsea Methodist Church (Cinema Street entrance)

Leven Lites panto 7.30pm at Leven Sports Hall (See Pages 20/21)

Seaside Soul at Hornsea Floral Hall 7pm – midnight £5 entry on the door

SATURDAY 10TH DECEMBER

Craft Fair at Hornsea Floral Hall 9am – 3pm Free entry

Carols round the Christmas Tree in Sigglesthorne 6pm Danny Shenton at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club SUNDAY 11TH DECEMBER

Christingle Service at Hornsea URC 10.30am

Seaton & Sigglesthorne Community Christmas Party, tickets adults £5, children £3 at the recreation hall 2pm4pm see Pages 21/21

Christmas Fair at Atwick Village Hall 12noon – 4pm followed by Christmas lights switch on and carols on the green

Hornsea Lions Senior Citizens Carol Concert at Hornsea Floral Hall 2pm – 4.30pm, free admission tickets from Hornsea Lions shop

St Nicholas Hornsea Crib Service 4pm and 10pm

Bethlehem Midnight Holy Communion

Steve Adams at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club

SUNDAY 25TH DECEMBER

Christmas day

Family Communion with Carols at St Lawrence Atwick 9am

Christmas Celebration Service at Hornsea Methodist Church 10am

Christmas morning service at Hornsea URC 10am

Family Communion with Carols at All Saints Skipsea 10.30am

Hornsea Dayspring Christian Fellowship Christmas Day Service 10am at the Lion room, Hornsea Inshore Rescue

MONDAY 26TH DECEMBER

Museum £2.50 including refreshments 1pm – 3pm

Families at 3 at Hornsea Parish Church Hall, 3pm – 5pm, free

Bingo at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club, eyes down 8pm Hornsea Foundation quiz night at The New Inn Hornsea from 7.30pm

WEDNESDAY

Warm spaces at Hornsea Methodist Church 2pm – 4pmfree

Walking for Health 11am-12pm, Meet at East Riding Leisure Hornsea. Free to attend and free tea or coffee afterwards.

Ladies Walking Netball 11:30am-12:30pm at East Riding Leisure Hornsea, £2.60 per session.

FRIDAY 25TH NOVEMBER

Hornsea Christmas lights switch on evening 6pm – 8pm lights switch on at 6.30pm (many businesses open from 5pm)

Emporium of Crafts Christmas craft fair at Hornsea Parish Church Hall 5.30pm – 8.30pm

Laughing Gull Comedy Club at Hornsea Floral Hall 7.15pm for an 8pm start £10 (in advance only from Floral Hall café)

SATURDAY 26TH NOVEMBER

Hornsea Collective Christmas Market Place 10am –4.30pm Hornsea Town Hall (See P17)

Emporium of Crafts Christmas craft fair 10am – 3pm at Hornsea Parish Church Hall

Come and Sing Messiah at Hornsea St Nicholas Church evening performance starts at 6.30pm entry is £5 payable at the door

Pastiche memorial concert in memory of Tina Brooker, Hornsea Methodist Church 7.30pm – tickets £7 / £6 from Hampsons on Newbegin (See P27)

Elderberries at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club

SUNDAY 27TH NOVEMBER

Traditional Advent Carol Service at St Nicholas' Church (Christian’s Together Hornsea)

Mark Leeman at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club

MONDAY 28TH NOVEMBER

Monday (faith) Matters at Hornsea Parish Church Hall 10am (See P10 for details)

Made in Hornsea exhibition preview evening at Hornsea Indoor Bowls Club 7.30pm – see P14

TUESDAY 29TH NOVEMBER

Psychic night with Medium Joe at Hornsea Indoor Bowls Club 7pm ticket only event (See P36)

WEDNESDAY 30TH NOVEMBER

SATURDAY 3RD DECEMBER

Victorian Christmas market at the Hornsea Hub from 10am and 3.30pm

Christmas crafts for children at Hornsea Museum – see page 24

Leven Lites panto at 2pm and 7.30pm at Leven Sports Hall (See Pages 20/21)

Skirlaugh Christmas Fair 12 noon – 4pm at Skirlaugh

Primary School (See Pages 20/21)

Aldbrough Christmas event 5pm – 7pm (see P20/21)

Hornsea Choir concert at United Reformed Church 7.30pm tickets adults £5 school aged accompanied children free

Lee Davsion at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club

SUNDAY 4TH DECEMBER

Carol service at Hornsea URC 10.30am

Leven Lites panto 2pm at Seaton Village Hall (See Pages 20/21)

Antique Fair at Hornsea Floral Hall 9am – 4pm admission £1

Christingle Service at the URC 4pm (Christian’s Together Hornsea)

Carol Service at All Saints Skipsea 4pm

Dave Lesley at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club

MONDAY 5TH DECEMBER

Book club at Hornsea Floral Hall Cafe 1pm for a 1.30pm start (Enquiries- 01964 532322)

Wreath making at St Lawrence Church in Sigglesthorne 13pm £10 (See Pages 20/21)

TUESDAY 6TH DECEMBER

Hornsea U3A meeting at Hornsea Floral Hall 10am for 10.30am (See P22)

Christmas quiz and bingo with Stuart all welcome at Hornsea Indoor Bowls Club 2pm start £5 per team of 4

Muddy Church (family focused activities) at the URC 4pm (Christian’s Together Hornsea)

Paul Brian at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club

MONDAY 12TH DECEMBER

Tea dance including tea and cake £5 per person all welcome at Hornsea Indoor Bowls Club

Hornsea WI at Hornsea Methodist Church 7.30pm –visitor / new members welcome

TUESDAY 13TH DECEMBER

Carol Service at St Lawrence Atwick 3.30pm

WEDNESDAY 14TH DECEMBER

Let’s Sing Hornsea – Parish Church Hall 1.30pm –2.30pm

Floral Hall Cinema 3pm and 7.30pm showing Phantom of the Open (doors open 30 mins before) £4 from café or on the door if there are any left (See page 15)

THURSDAY 15TH DECEMBER

Christmas carols with Ukulele band 1pm all welcome at Hornsea Indoor Bowls Club free entry

SATURDAY 17TH DECEMBER

Father Christmas at Hornsea Museum 10am – 12.30pm and 1pm – 3.30pm £5 per child no pre booking required Corsairs at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club

SUNDAY 18TH DECEMBER

Nativity service at Hornsea URC 10.30am

Carol service at Hornsea Methodist Church 10.30am

Traditional Christmas Carol Service at Hornsea Methodist Church 4pm (Christian’s Together Hornsea)

Hornsea Dayspring Christian Fellowship Christmas Carol Service 10.30am at the Lion room, Hornsea Inshore Rescue

Carols round the pond in Seaton 3pm

Martin Yorke at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club

SATURDAY 24TH DECEMBER

Boxing day TUESDAY 27TH DECEMBER Bank Holiday SATURDAY 31ST DECEMBER

Live Rock & Roll band, buffet and fizz at Hornsea Indoor Bowls Club 7.30pm – 1am tickets £15 See P36 Liam Alexander at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club

WEEKLY EVENTS

MONDAY

Warm spaces at Hornsea Floral Hall 1.30pm – 4pm - free

Hornsea & District Pop In at Hornsea Town Hall 10am –11.45am

Keep fit class at Hornsea Floral Hall 9.30am – 10.30am £4.50

Chair aerobics at Hornsea Floral Hall 11am – 12 noon £3.50

Charity bingo, quiz and afternoon tea at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club, eyes down 2pm

Air Cadets (for young people aged between 12 and 19) 79.30pm

Hornsea Choir 7.30pm in the Hornsea URC (further information is available from the secretary, Georgina Chamberlain, 01964 536705) – note started back on September 12.

TUESDAY

Warm spaces at Hornsea Floral Hall 1.30pm – 4pm - free Let’s Get Moving gentle activity sessions for those with a long term condition at Hornsea HUB 1pm – 3pm £2.60 (Free until 23rd Aug)

A stitch in time (bring along your knitting, sewing, crocheting, or macramé, etc… all levels) at Hornsea

Hornsea St Nicholas children’s choir rehearsals 3.30pm4.15pm for years 3-6, and 4.30pm-5.15pm for years 7 upwards (Contact Leonie on music@hornseabenefice.org for more information)

Air Cadets (for young people aged between 12 and 19) 79.30pm

THURSDAY

Warm spaces at Hornsea URC 9.30pm – 43pm - free Keep fit class at Hornsea Floral Hall 9.30am – 10.30am £4.50

Chair aerobics at Hornsea Floral Hall 11am – 12 noon £3.50

Line Dancing at Hornsea Floral Hall 2pm – 4pm £5

Charity farmyard bingo (meat and cash prizes) at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club, eyes down 2pm -4pm

Women’s walking football at 3G pitch, Atwick Road, new players welcome 6.45pm

FRIDAY

Warm spaces at Hornsea Parish Church Hall 1.30pm –4pm free

Craft and chat at Seaton Village Hall 1pm – 3pm, £3 including refreshments

Bingo, quiz and card games at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club

SATURDAY

Warm spaces at Hornsea Methodist Church 10am –12noon - free

Coffee morning at Hornsea Methodist Church 10am –noon (incl sale of books & Jigsaws) – all welcome

Table top sale in the morning at Hornsea Town Hall

Artist, bingo, tote beer draw at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club

SUNDAY

Artist, bingo, charity raffle and treasure chest at Hornsea Ex Servicemen’s Club

The Marketplace @ Botany Boutique

FOLLOWING on from the huge success of the on-going Hornsea Collective marketplace events which take place in the Hornsea Town Hall three times a year (next one is on Saturday, November 26!) - the founding members came together to create The Marketplace Collective where the work of artists, makers and creators can be showcased in Hornsea. The Marketplace is located within Botany Boutique on Southgate and opened on Saturday, November 12 for the first time.

Botany Boutique customers could already browse amongst the plants, plant care products, accessories and seasonal gifts available at Hornsea’s only independent specialist plant shop. Now they can peruse products from 13 artists, creators and makers who display their work at The Marketplace within Botany Boutique as well which makes it a totally unique shopping experience. Sher from Botany Boutique commented: “We are truly delighted to be introducing new small independent businesses to Hornsea, including Holistic Kitchen who is currently only stocked at The Marketplace @ Botany Boutique along the East Coast (two of their essential oil mists are exclusively sold at The Marketplace at this time), Yeo Botanical and Willow

Leather. Others who have joined The Marketplace are Pots & Petals, Helen Rowland Art, Dot to Dot Creations, Ada Rose Design, Phil Ramsdale and Tori Foster Jewellery. Our existing guest artists: Coco Clementine Studio, Skew Whiff Designs, The Painter’s Daughter and Eve & Me also remain core members of our Marketplace community.”

Everything on sale within the shop can also be purchased online and delivered to any mainland UK address, as part of our expanding retail service.

Sher added: “it is an absolute privilege to be working with such an inspirational group of people during this next adventure and we hope our Hornsea Community will continue to support our small independent

business and pop into the shop to say hello. Our plan is to continue to grow our Marketplace Collective community within Botany Boutique over the upcoming months and would like to thank everyone who turned up to support our mini opening weekend.”

ADVERTORIAL

Hornsea Photographic Club chat for November

THE LAST few weeks have been busy for Hornsea Photography Club. At the end of October we had an extra meeting at the Golf Club where we had arranged for our friends from the local Steam Punk scene to come along and act as our models whilst we tried our hand at portraiture. Two of our members generously supplied us with studio lighting and professional backdrops (thanks Chris and Iain! Photo 1) and our models were amazingly patient with us. As always there was a mix of beginners and more experienced photographers and help was always on hand as we tried to sort out the best camera settings, positioning of lights and posing our models. For many of us, the opportunity to use studio quality lighting using remote flash sensors doesn’t happen very often, so along with having helpful and willing models it really was a great chance to develop our range of photographic skills. It was an excellent evening and our members scurried off home afterwards eager to see how the portraits had turned out and to start tweaking and enhancing them during postprocessing. Within a few hours some great images were already starting to be posted on our club Facebook page! Huge thanks to our Steam Punk models for a great night.

Our October monthly challenge was portraits and with the two meetings focusing on that topic there were quite a few uploads. The scoring system to give us a 'most liked' score (those wonderful emojis) means that each entry marked #portraits can have up to three points awarded by each viewer - using 1 point 2 points 3 points

The portrait with the most points was Glenn's Steam Punk which can be seen on our Facebook page. (Photo 2)

The November challenge is #inanimate macro/close up

On a cold but beautifully clear night in early November, members congregated at the beach near the boat compound for some night time ‘fire and light’ photography. Gerry and Carl had come prepared with a metal whisk, some wire wool and a length of strong string. (It can be a very dangerous exercise, so don’t try this without all the correct safety precautions.) The whisk held the wire wool which was then lit and swung around in a circle. By taking exposures of between 5 and 15 seconds or so and using a tripod for stability, the effects can be fabulous as seen in the images included with this article. (photos 5,6,7)

The resulting circles of fire can be processed and combined with other images to create interesting effects, Using Affinity software Glenn added an additional image of the snowy landscape behind the image of the circle of fire. Then by erasing the centre portion of the front image, the picture behind shows through. It's a straightforward technique that most image processing software packages can do, more often to change skies or backgrounds etc., but the effect can be quite creative. (photos 3 and 4)

Phill brought along his drone to take some images from above. This diversion was not as successful as Phill had hoped but he plans more

By Glenn Malkin and Ann Underwood

experiments with settings to identify the limitations of this new extension to his hobby. The image he did create he loaded to Facebook but it would not be suitable to appear in Newsprint. The clear night also had moonlight illuminating the beach a little, so some members also took some longer exposure shots of the landscape. This created star trails in some cases, or others where the scene looked almost like daylight but with bright stars in the sky. It was a great opportunity for us all to do some creative photography and get some fabulous results. We are not sure what the sea fishermen, who were a little further up the beach, thought of it all though…

As a member of the YCPG (Yorkshire Coastal Photographic Group) HPC took part in the first competition of the winter season. All entries were digital images and as a Club we came 4th.

Congratulations to Gregg Simpson who was awarded 19/20 for his entry 'Mission Impossible' (Photo 8).

In our general chat we were asked to recommend a photographic magazine subscription that could be given as a present. Whilst there are many to choose from it was pointed out that you can download dozens of the latest photography magazines (and other topics) every month via the East Riding Library website. You need to be a member of the library, but it is free.

Our next meeting is on Thursday, December 1 and will be a social evening considering programme topics for 2023 and sharing images and news. As always, we are happy to welcome new members to Hornsea Photographic Club, irrespective of experience or what kind of camera you have. All you need is an interest in your photos and not taking things too seriously! In the club we have members ranging from beginner to professional. We meet on the first Thursday of each month at Hornsea Golf Club, but in addition to regular practical activities we mostly chat about photography, help each other to take great images and have a bit of fun! Take a look at our Hornsea Photography Club Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/HornseaPhoto graphy) to see what we have been up to and what it coming up in the future. You can ask to join the Chat Group and upload examples of your photos simply to share or to ask for help or constructive criticism. We look forward to welcoming you to a meeting soon!

Bumper month for Hornsea Music Society

By Sarah Perkins

OCTOBER saw two concerts for Hornsea Music Society, breaking with the usual pattern of one a month during concert season.

The first treat was a programme of duets from Graziana Presicce and Amy Butler. These two fabulous local pianists began with the overture to Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, followed by a lively and varied programme of music, ranging from Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The evening included some lesser known composers, including some lovely music by Cécile Chaminade, demonstrating once again how much talent has been ignored by the classical mainstream for decades. The whole evening was very entertaining, and just right for the Hornsea audience.

Then there was an additional fund raising concert, generously sponsored by the Hornsea and District Lions. David Chew grew up in Hornsea and moved away to have a very successful international career as a cellist. He brought with him Barry Wyse (piano), David Johnson (violin) and Blas Rivera (saxophone and piano). They had travelled from as far afield as Germany and Mexico to play a series of concerts in this area with the title “Back to Bach”. Chairman Roberta Loades said: “I’ve been talking to David about organising this concert for a very long time. Before covid struck, we were on the point of adding this to the programme, but then international travel became so difficult and unpredictable that it wasn’t sensible to fix anything into our main season’s programme. We were delighted when it was possible to get this fabulous group of players together.” This was a truly memorable concert, including some jazz, Latin American music, and new pieces composed by the performers. All four players were talented, but the most surprising item was when Blas played a “duet”, using one hand for the saxophone and the other for the piano.

After the November concert with the East Riding of Yorkshire Band on November 19, Hornsea Music Society will take a break until the spring. The pattern of the concert season has been changed to recognise that many people don’t want to venture out on cold dark evenings.

Coasting along

By Justin Furapaddle

THE COST-OF-LIVING crisis continues to throw in some gems of advice and information. I was particularly impressed by the Government spokesperson who said that the inevitable further rises in taxation and ‘cuts’ would hit the poorest in our society the hardest.

I wonder how long it took him to work that gem out. The fact remains that the ones imposing these current restrictions and future ones are cushioned from the effects of them. Its not a bad racket when you can be Prime Minister for just a couple of months and that entitles you to a massive annual pay-out for the rest of your life. Who pays for this largesse? Answers to the editor please.

Everywhere you turn there is scandal especially in public services. The NHS is constantly apologising for mistakes and now we see how the police service is mired in controversy over the recruiting of officers with criminal backgrounds and some with family links to organised crime. (Incidentally at what point does crime become organised?) Evidently this is seen by at least one Chief Officer as some kind of fulfilment of ‘diversity.’ Evidently the criminal fraternity deserve to be numerically represented in the police on the grounds that so many people are criminals in the wider society!

It reminds me of a recent appeal by a senior officer being made to the ‘criminal community.’ Since when have we had such a community? Do they do charitable works? Is it like ‘men in sheds?’

To make matters worse, if that was even possible, the very people charged with vetting recruits are seemingly more bent than the ones being recruited. It’s enough to make your brain hurt.

It is a tell-tale sign of how far we are falling that we continue to have ‘strong denials, ‘strenuous denials and vigorous denials,’ what ever happened to normal denials?

It’s is all very depressing especially as trying to find some good news to report is becoming increasingly difficult.

The Editor of HCN has asked me to take on the role of an agony aunt and find answers to those personal problems that so fascinate those who are not suffering from them.

Such a case is that of ‘nose picking’ which, when witnessed in action, seems to irritate the female half of the adult population more than the male half especially when they witness this particular male pursuit. It seems men find a strange satisfaction in cleaning their noses by inserting a grubby finger up their hooters and then discarding the contents by flicking them on the footpath or eating them!

This has led to some interesting research, and I offer this as a partial answer as to why men behave like this. It turns out (surprisingly perhaps in view of its widespread use,) and a Professor Fabre has claimed it is understudied because it's really seen as a bad habit," when studies that investigate the behaviour in people have shed some light on how common the habit is, revealing that the majority of humans pick their nose often but are reluctant to admit it.

There are a few studies examining the consand possible pros - of nose picking. Some have pointed to its role in spreading harmful

bacteria. But there is at least one study suggesting that picking your nose and eating it might actually be healthy for teeth, as people who picked their noses reported fewer cavities.

One study encouraged additional research by suggesting that the ingestion of nasal mucus could play an important role for the immune system, because of the immune proteins in the mucus.

Fundamentally, Prof Fabre says it is likely to have evolved for a reason and should be investigated.

"We have no idea about its functional role, and it could be advantageous."

Rather than being simply disgusting, it may have benefits for some species and since so many animals appear to share this habit, Prof Fabre said, "I think we really need to investigate it". As stated above my own research points to this being a mainly male practice. Perhaps that needs to be investigated to.

Writing about the two main sexes (evidently there are many more,) has got me wondering whatever happened to men’s ‘female side? Its only a few short years ago that a man’s female side was on everyone’s lips but now you never hear of it. Has it simply disappeared into folk lore? I never understood it much anyway, something to do with men who like washing up, hoovering and knitting.

On the subject of domestic chores, I recently made a major purchase of a Window Squeegee from one of our local shops. I find them to be useful for wiping condensation off car windscreens but was intrigued to read on the attached label :Please only use this item for its intended purpose.’ It made me wonder what other purposes could there be?’ I would hate to think I was missing out on some obscure practices that would benefit my private life.

I see that dogs are back in the news. They never seem to be far away. In last month’s HCN was the revelation that dogs not only looked like their owners but that the breed of dog was relevant in that their characteristics mirrored that of their owners too. Now we learn that a Divorce court has let the dogs decide who gets custody of them. This came about when a couple who were divorcing could not reach an amicable decision as to who had their two dogs. It came down to the dogs to decide who went where.

Sadly, the confidentiality rules do not allow for the process to be described but happily (and conveniently,) the dogs each chose a different owner to spend the rest of their lives with. It was not made clear what visiting rights were put in place but the presiding judge who made the ruling said, “Animals are sensitive beings who feel, who miss, who rejoice, who suffer and who require habit.”

Sounds like a normal state of marriage to me.

I could not let the month of November pass without a line or two about ‘Remembrance.’ Sadly, all the service personnel from the First World War have now died from the effects of war or of passing time. It made me think that I too might be part of a WW1 minority as I had an uncle killed in France when he was blown up ‘going over the top,’ just one month before the war ended and shortly after his nineteenth birthday. Even had he survived I guess I would probably never have known him but some of his letters he wrote to his Mother (my grandma,) from his time in the army are still in my possession and I feel a strange affinity with him that makes me emotional when ever I think of him or read his letters.

His life was cruelly snatched away as it was for millions of others. Why do we never learn the terrible consequences of all wars?

We will remember them.

Talk to the paw

by Karen Whitchurch

YOUR dog is your best friend, your constant companion, your baby even. He’s so attuned to your moods he’s almost telepathic, and he understands every word you say. Up to a point.

Dogs do recognise certain keywords. Haven’t we all played that spelling game?... W-A-L-K, D-I-N-N-ERR, B-A-L-L, B-I-S-C-U-I-T whispering, gesturing or speaking in French, not that they’re fooled for long, but you do your best.

To the dog, it’s all in the tone rather than the words. A brisk ‘SIT’! is unequivocal, likewise: ‘DINNER!’ However, the command ‘SIT in your DINNER!’ would be entirely meaningless. If you don’t believe me, try saying ‘Get here, you horrible, smelly little git!’ in a sweet, welcoming voice. The dog will, of course, come willingly because, to his ears, you’re being nice. But should you stamp your feet, wave your arms and roar: ‘Get here NOW! Have a BISCUIT!’ he would most probably dive for cover.

Likewise, the classic after-the-event scolding. Dogs live in the moment. They don’t link cause and effect, therefore walking in on the miscreant who ripped up a favourite cushion while you were out and bellowing; WHO DONE THIS? won’t ‘teach him a lesson.’ He’s incapable of reasoning: ‘Oh, My Bad. Step away from the cushion!’ as he’s totally forgotten what he did to deserve a telling-off. Of course he will cower, and ‘look guilty’. but he’s reacting to the angry voice and nothing else.

In general, women make better trainers than men, because they can pitch their voices higher, thereby sounding welcoming and fun. They are also more prepared to make silly noises and perform exaggerated movements, as they might when playing with children. Men, on the other hand, find all that stuff stupid, emasculating even, and will either go for an uninspiring monotone: ‘Dog. Come. Here. Now.’ or a macho 120 decibel: ‘DOGGG! COME!! HEEEERE! NOW!!!’ which the dog rightly interprets as threatening behaviour.

Dogs learn by association: the positives of their humans reaching for coats, producing leads, picking up car-keys or rattling feedingbowls...and, too, the perceived negatives, such as (for some) bathtime, or approaching the vet’s threshold, but most of all, they interpret body-language. Hand in pocket? Treats. Arms wide? Lots of fuss. Kettle on, mid-afternoon? Everyone round the fire. There might be cake.

Observe two strange dogs checking each other out. Tails raised, defensive, hackles up, ears back, nosing the air. Posturing. Their bodylanguage will depend on what’s imminent: a fight, a flirt, or a fun halfhour.

And so it is with training. We teach our dogs the basics: how to sit, stand, lie down, walk nicely, come back, using short, one-word commands and hand-signals until the dog learns to associate what goes with what. He or she quickly understands exactly what’s being asked, as a good handler will ignore failure and reward success. So far, so good, until someone decides to complicate things.

Take Bill, a huge ex-copper with a small Jack Russell who turned every command into a debate. ‘Oh, Brian, sit, sit, sit. Why can’t you just sit, eh? On your bottom? Come on, lad, play the game.’ Cue one confused little Brian who had understood only one word of the entire speech: his name.

We all do it, of course, chat away to our dogs, share our feelings and our secrets, because they’re company and, even better, won’t answer back. But to them, unless we’re using their name or any other exciting word, we’re just comforting background noise, and there’s no harm in that. But do keep communicating: make sure it’s the dog you’re talking to, not the paw that ain’t listening.

The current training course finishes on November 29th. Booking now for January 10th 2023 For training tips, further information and all things Dog, please visit us at: www.hornseadogowners.co.uk

Snapping Hip Syndrome

By Graham Janes

WHAT IS IT?

Sometimes referred to as ‘Dancer’s Hip’, Snapping Hip Syndrome (SHS) is a condition where you will hear or feel a snapping sound or sensation in the hip when you get up from a chair, walk, run or just swing your leg round.

For the majority, SHS will feel more annoying as the only symptom you will get is the sensation or sound of the snap. For those that are involved more heavily in sport or dancing, pain can accompany the snapping and you may also witness a weakness or pain that will get in the way of your performance.

WHAT CAUSES IT?

In most cases the snapping is caused by a muscle or tendon moving over a bony structure in our hip.

Internal Snapping Hip – this is the most common type of SHS and happens at the front of our hip when the tendon slides over protruding bony structures thus creating tension which is then released causing the snap.

• It can be caused when:

o the Iliopsoas tendon, which connects the two inner hip muscles to our Femur, moves over the protrusion in the Iliopectineal Eminence (Pelvic bone)

o our Rectus Femoris (a muscle in the quadriceps) moves over the ball (Femoral Head) in the ball-andsocket joint in our hip

The Iliopsoas Tendon and Rectus Femoris are known as our Hip Flexors and those experiencing Internal SHS may experience:

• Popping in the hip when:

o running – sometimes accompanied by a sharp and sudden pain at the front of the hip and deep in the groin

o extending the hip more than 90 degrees as in standing up from a seated position o we rotate our hip away from our body

• A pain that may get worse with activity

External Snapping Hip – this type happens when a muscle or tendon slides over the Greater Trochanter, the knobbly bone at the top of our Femur (thighbone). As with Internal, it creates tension and then when released, causes a snapping sensation on the outside of our hip.

• It can be caused either when:

o the ITB (Iliotibial Band), which is a wide strip of fibrous tissue that goes down the outside of our upper leg, slides over the Greater Trochanter (the widest and most prominent part at the top of our Femur)

o the Gluteus Maximus (large muscle in our bottom) slides over the Greater Trochanter

External Snapping is associated with pain in the outside of the hip and can indicate that there may be a form of Bursitis (Trochanteric Bursitis) which is called ITB Syndrome. The external snapping is also a good sign that the ITB or Gluteus Maximus are too tight and those suffering External SHS may notice:

• the ‘snapping’ happening when you flex or extend your hip – when you run, play golf, carry something heavy or climb the stairs

• a sharp and sudden pain on the outside of your hip

• that the pain gets worse with activity – due to the tendon being irritated and inflamed

• the hip feels as though it is going to pop out of the socket (don’t worry, it isn’t)

• a visible sign on the skin over the hip as the ITB or Gluteus Maximus snaps

Cartilage Injury due to Snapping Hip - the third type is indicating a problem in the hip such as:

o Articular Cartilage – the cartilage covers the bony surface where they meet and its job is to reduce the friction between the bones at the joints. It can be damaged suddenly by a traumatic injury or over time by Arthritis

o Acetabular Labral Tear – this is the tough and flexible cartilage that surrounds the hip socket. When it is torn it can cause the snapping sensation and is commonly accompanied by a pain in your groin area

o Loose bodies – the joints normal biomechanics will be affected and interrupted by loose fragments of soft tissue or bone breaking away, getting caught in the ball and socket joint causing a snapping or catching sensation and usually limits the range of motion in your hip. This can happen after a sudden traumatic injury such as a fall

Activities that are more prone to causing SHS are:

• Track and field events

• Football

• Horse riding

• Weight lifting

• Cycling

• Dancing

• Gymnastics

• Out of sport, an everyday activity that requires us to repeatedly lift and/or rotate our leg outwards can trigger this condition

HOW SHOULD I TREAT IT?

In the first instance you should modify the activity that is causing the problem and if that doesn’t work, try and rest the affected hip using ice to help reduce any swelling. Anti-inflammatories can be taken but you should check with your GP or Pharmacist first if you are taking any other medication.

Book in at the clinic to get the problem diagnosed and get the correct treatment and rehabilitation. Treatment may be in the form of heat, electrical stimulation, ultrasound, hands-on therapy and mobilisation techniques, exercises and/or strapping.

A bespoke programme will also be given to help you restore the normal movement in your leg and hip using specific stretches for muscles that may be too tight or exercises to improve your strength, agility and power.

Unless the snapping is accompanied by pain or difficulty in carrying out normal tasks or sporting activities it is very unlikely to receive any medical treatment but you should always consult your GP if you are concerned to avoid any future joint damage.

If you need a chat then please feel free to get in touch with me or Hannah at the clinic.

Alberta Canada –Part 11

An RAF Ghost Story by David Everard.

David lives in Hornsea with his wife Noelle. We will share a chapter of the book he has written each month so please save this page, there are five chapters in total. This is chapter two which is split into two. Although the story is fictitious a large percentage is based on fact including the area, dates and times of where the aircraft and crew were stationed. The destination of their mission, the crash site, statistics of the raid on Leipzig are also true and can be seen and verified at The Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington near York. Names, nationalities and aircraft numbers have been changed to protect those who feel they may need it.

CHAPTER FOUR - I DID RETURN TO HULL (part 4)

WHEN we had finished the rally, I borrowed one of the service crew's cars and drove to Market Rasen. It didn't take me long to find the address even in the darkness, and soon I was knocking on the door. I noticed the curtain move and the figure of an old man peering out of the window. I smiled and waited for him to come to the door. The door slowly opened. "Sorry to bother you this late," I said. "Are you Mr Smith?” l couldn't quite see him as the porch light was off. He answered he was, as he reached for the switch and turned it on. I stared at him, recognising him immediately. He was of course a lot older, but it was definitely him. I stepped back aghast. My mouth opened “You're not Mr Smith... are you?” He stepped back into the house and slammed the door shouting he was, and to leave him alone. “I know who you are and it's not Mr Smith, it's Flight Sergeant Peter Fitzpatrick, that's who you are. For God's sake. please open the door I really need to talk to you." I stood there in the darkness frantically scanning the door and the windows. Suddenly I heard the door click open and a frail voice saying very quietly and slowly. “Come in, son, I haven't heard that name in a long time.” My heart started to beat like a drum as I stepped in and followed him into his lounge. I could see he was a tall man, which surprised me as I learnt from the Air Museum that most rear gunners were short. But now he stooped a little and his once jetblack hair was now grey. He pointed over to a chair and asked me to sit down. I noticed a faint Canadian accent that had all but disappeared, but it was still there. He sat himself down in an armchair and looked at me very cautiously for a moment. His eyes were scanning me, probing me. Well, son, you seem to know my real name, so what can I do for you? He looked frightened; it was as though he knew what I was there for I noticed his hands were trembling quite violently as though he was cold. How the hell was I going to start this. I

thought? I took a deep breath and told him my name was David and that I'd been looking for him for a long time. Then I asked him if he had received the message from his cleaning lady to ring me. He told me he had, but when she had mentioned the name Fitzpatrick, he admitted it had frightened him and knew it was something to do with the war, and that he said in a hoarse voice, had too many bad memories. He then coughed and cleared his throat. I told him that I'd got his telephone number from his friend Mike Davison and that I needed to know how he had survived such a terrible ordeal. He sighed, and then started to tell his story. He had somehow fallen from the bomber into the North Sea. He didn't know how. He reckoned he must have floated unconscious in the sea for at least seven hours before Michael’s father Jack had picked him up on the morning of the 20th.

I could see he was struggling to tell me what had happened, as he repeatedly said that he hadn't spoken a word of this to anyone until today. He went on to tell me that his new Irvine buoyancy suit that had just been issued the day before had kept him upright. without it he would have surely drowned. Also being yellow made it easier for a wouldbe rescuer to see. Jack Davies had told him that. He had been taken to Grimsby General Hospital where he was in an unconscious state for nearly three months. He awoke to a strange place not understanding or remembering anything of his life. When he was well enough, he was transferred to Bellevue resting home in Louth and stayed there for nearly two years and of course this was now nearly a year after the war had ended. He had to stop for a moment or so to get his breath. He looked down at his hands which, by then, had relaxed a little.

“I’m settling now, my hands do shake nowadays”. he said as he pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and twisted it around his finger. I sat quietly for a few moments and thought of my next question, then asked when had his memory returned. He told me he used to sit in the foyer of the resting home. One day he must have nodded off to sleep and could hear shouting in the darkness. Fitz! Fitz! But he couldn't see who was shouting, and then he heard, Flight Sergeant Fitzpatrick! Get out of there! I suddenly realised I had seen what he had seen in my strange dream. That’s why everything was in reverse. I was seeing the view of the rear gunner, but why had I seen what he had seen? The words, get out" echoed around my head. I was somehow reliving his past in my dreams. But why. I thought. why? He had then woken shaking like a leaf, slipped off his chair onto the foyer floor and said to himself, "Peter! Peter Fitzpatrick." After that, memories came flooding back, he assured me, not all were good. He sat there totally silent for a while. I could see a tear forming in his eye as he looked over at me and said with a sorrowful voice, I’m dead, you know!" He wiped his eyes with his handkerchief. "Flight Sergeant Peter Fitzpatrick is dead and has been for over fifty years. What do you think of that? Do you know why? Because I want him to be." Then he suddenly shouted. "Why did you come here? Why did you come" The pain in his voice turned the air cold. I knelt down beside him and apologised for upsetting him. "I just need you to come with me," I said as I gripped his am. Raising his head he smiled then patted my hand.

Hornsea District Walking Club update

Sunday Walks

On 16th Oct there was a long walk from Lockton, north of Pickering, led by Graham Hadfield with Betty Lusby, Susan Copeland, Sylvia Caygill, Margaret Goodson, David Holtby, Stephen Smith, Stuart Kemp and Alan Tharratt. Their route followed Levisham Beck to Dundale Griff and on into the Hole of Horcum. There are geological explanations - ice age glaciers etc - for this vast hollow in the moorland landscape below Saltergate Bank. However a more believable story is that it was created by Giant Wade! Following an argument with his wife, he scooped out a handful of earth, forming the Hole, and threw it at her. He missed and his throw landed a few miles away creating a hill, Blakey Topping. The walkers would pass this hill later in their walk. For now, their way out of the Hole was up, up to the road at the top of Saltergate Bank. A nice level stretch followed along Saltergate Brow, with views north over Fylingdales, to Malo Cross, one of many ancient stone crosses on the North York Moors. Then it was down to the farm at Newgate Foot, passing Blakey Topping. A short, steep climb brought them onto Newgate Bank and Bridestones Moor. Crossing the moor, they came to the weathered rock outcrops known as the Bridestones. After a steep descent to Low Staindale the walkers followed farm tracks and field paths from Low Pasture Farm into Green Dale and up to cross the main road back into Lockton, to complete their 11 mile walk.

Ten Club members gathered at the 'Old man's mouth' car park in the Forge valley on Oct 30th for a walk led by Sue Copeland. The group set off heading south along the boardwalk by the River Derwent. After a brief stop at the ruins of Ayton Castle, they turned north into Forge valley woods for their coffee stop. They continued along the top Forge Valley Woods to emerge on the open hillside above the river, from where a farm road led down to Cockrah and the hamlet of Wrench Green where they took their lunch break at the bridge over the river. So far, although the skies were overcast there had been no rain. After lunch they headed across the valley and through fields to meet Sea Cut at Mowthorpe Bridge. Sea Cut was constructed in the 1800s to relieve flooding in the Derwent Valley by providing a 4 mile 'short cut' for floodwater into the North Sea at Scalby Beck, rather than the 150 miles via the rivers Derwent, Ouse, and Humber! From Sea Cut the walkers continued through Raincliffe Woods back to their cars, then to a local garden centre tearoom for tea and cakes. It had been a good day in the countryside, spoilt only by quite heavy rain for the last 20 minutes!!

6th Nov - a chilly, misty day that didn't deter seventeen walkers from gathering in the new village car park in Huggate for a walk on the Wolds led by Arnold Underwood. At 10.30 the walkers set off cutting across a rather sticky field that was home to a herd of cattle - cows with calves, and a Hereford bull! The cattle generally ignored the walkers except for one young calf who seemed delighted to see them and rushed to greet them whilst 'mum' looked on. After the muddy field the group kept to lanes past Huggate church and up past Glebe Farm, then along field sides near to Wold House Farm, the highest point of the walk with no shelter from a chill wind. After crossing York Road the walkers headed down into the shelter of Tun Dale for a coffee stop under the trees. Then followed the long trek through Frendal Dale to the road in Millington Dale. Next another climb up to the top of Nettle Dale for a well-deserved lunch break. For a few minutes the sun considered breaking through the clouds, but then decided not to bother! After lunch there were no more hills as the group followed the Hawold Bridle Road (an ancient green lane that keeps to the tops of the Wolds) as far as Mill Lane where they turned towards Huggate to complete their 7½ mile walk. Afterwards a few adjourned to Rachel's Walnut Cottage Tearoom for tea and cakes to round off their day.

On Remembrance Sunday, 13th Nov, it was another misty start for the nine walkers on this 8¼ mile walk by the River Derwent from Kirkham Priory led by Sylvia

Caygill. After crossing the bridge over the river they had to wait for a York to Scarborough train to pass through before crossing the railway. Then began the steep ascent up through Oak Cliff Wood and on to the village of Crambe. They walked through the village and back towards the river with a fine view across to the Jacobean Howsham Hall, built in 1610. The group observed the 2 minute silence before their elevenses br eak beside the River Derwent. Afterwards they made a small detour to visit Howsham Mill which was a working corn mill from 1755 to 1947. Its ornate styling is in keeping with nearby Howsham Hall. The Mill has been beautifully restored with various funding as an Environmental Education Centre generating hydro-electricity from its waterwheel and from Archimedes Screw Turbines, the first to be installed in the UK. It is well worth a visit and is free although you can make a voluntary contribution. Upon leaving the mill and crossing a footbridge near the lock, Carron spotted a kingfisher; otters are also in residence along the river but none were seen. The walk continued into Howsham village and a lunch stop was taken at St John's church (built in 1860). After lunch they headed up through Howsham Wood, east of the river Derwent and ended the walk via the road back to Kirkham. Their drive home was through thick fog, with a stop at Sledmere house cafe for tea and cakes.

Autumn Break

Between October 24th and 28th Oct, eight members of the Walking Club spent a few days based in Berwick on Tweed, organised by Carron York.

Here is Carron's report: "Eight of us set off on the train from Hull to Berwick on a Monday morning in October for the scenic ride up the coast. Arriving mid afternoon we found our hotel The Castle Hotel is indeed just across the road from the train station and major bus stops. We would happily recommend this as the rooms were clean, with all amenities, staff were helpful and the breakfasts ample.

We took a stroll around the walls to get our orientation and familiarise ourselves with Berwick and its bridges before heading out later for what was to be the first of four super evening meals. We ate at the Queens Head which was as good as the reviews had led us to hope. Berwick is not short of eating and drinking choices from Micro pubs, craft bears, cocktail bars and tapas bars we found them all to be recommended. The Audula, Chinese Garden and Atelier were visited by our party.

The group made good use of the local bus services on the following four days. For the first full days walking we caught the bus outside our hotel to Haggerston Castle on the A1. After a tour around the caravan park unsuccessfully trying to find a short cut to the coastal path we went the long way to Cheswick and the beach. From the beach you could see Holy Island and Bamburgh Castle reaching out into the sea. We walked along strange rock formations along the beach into Spittal for a welcome coffee before continuing across one of the bridges into Berwick after 10 miles.

The next day we headed again on the bus to St Abbs for a truly memorable walk along this spectacular bit of coast. A feature of St Abbs, is the bronze sculpture by Jill Watson, commissioned by the people of Berwickshire to commemorate the women and children left without husbands or fathers, following the East Coast Fishing Disaster of 1881 which claimed the lives of 189 local fishermen. We turned inwards after the lighthouse at St Abbs Head to walk back along a lakeside of Mire Loch. We came across the crew preparing a set for filming the new series of Outlander and we all enjoyed the cafe at Northfield Farm. This is worth of visit for the pottery as well as the rustic wholesome food. This was a 7 mile walk which enabled us to explore the village of Coldingham next and its Prioiry before heading back along the old Creel Road Path onto the beach and back up into St Abbs for the bus. We will be back to do this again we have promised ourselves.

On our last day due to the weather we caught the Paxton House bus outside the hotel which drops you at the door of Paxton House. Paxton House was built

for Patrick Home. Attributed to James Adam, the house was built between 1758 and 1766, under the supervision of James Nisbet, with extensive interiors by Robert Adam, as well as furniture by Thomas Chippendale. The East Wing was added in 1812-13 by architect Robert Reid to house the library and picture gallery. Making the best of the weather which held off until lunch we walked through the grounds and had lunch in their lovely cafe with home cooked soups and apple pie. Tours are guided through the house which makes them very informative and its is a lovely house. All in all Berwick makes a great base for walking and sightseeing the area and we plan to go back to explore Holy Island next time.

Other walks by Club Members

On the wettest day for many months, Arnold and Caroline managed a 7 mile walk from Pickering taking in some new ground for them by way of Newbridge Quarry and Middleton. They took to the footpath through Breedon Aggregates' Newbridge Limestone Quarry and were impressed with how the right-of-way had been maintained through the site on a reserved path with gates at quarry road crossings and even a flight of steps to reach a higher level. Alas, by the time they reached the top of the quarry near New Hambleton Farm, heavy rain began. The lane down Middleton Dale was more like a river, but ahead could be seen the tower of the church in Middleton. They arrived wet and bedraggled at St Andrew's Church where the porch would provide shelter for their lunch. There were still a few churchgoers about who made them most welcome, putting the lights back on and allowing use of the facilities which included toilets. After a lengthy lunch break, church lights turned off, doors closed, the pair left the luxury of the church porch and headed back into Pickering. Before returning to their cars, they warmed up with mugs of tea in the station buffet.

Their next planned walk on Oct 30th, was again the victim of the weather - this time fog! With no visibility on Blakey Ridge they returned down to Hutton le Hole and did a short walk from there, via Lastingham. The sun came through for a short time whilst drinking tea in Hutton, but didn't last long. The drive home was through heavy rain!

On Saturday 12th Nov, David returned to one of his popular areas, Cropton Forest. Starting from Stape on a fine, slightly misty morning, his route took him through the forest into Newton Dale and up to Needle Point, for a drinks stop overlooking the Dale towards Levisham Moor. His return took him over Wardle Rigg, to Mauley Cross for a lunch break, then on past High Muffles Farm back to Stape.

Sunday Walks are scheduled each month throughout the year (Short, 6-8 miles; Medium, 8-10 miles; Long, more than 10 miles)

Coming up:

Sunday 27th Nov: Market Weighton (Market Place) 10.00am for a medium walk via Arras, Sancton Wold, and Houghton Hall.

Sunday 4th Dec: A medium walk into Drewton Dale from Beverley Clump (near South Cave) 10.00am.

Sunday 11th Dec: Christmas Dinner Walk - a short walk from Sproatley (11.00am) followed by Christmas Dinner at the Constable Arms (Dinner to be booked/paid for in advance please)

Compiled by Arnold Underwood with contributions from Sylvia Caygill, Carron York and David Holtby

Puzzle solutions and quiz answers

Hornsea Promenade Bowls Club presentation night

SATURDAY, November 12 saw

52 members and guests enjoy a night out at Hornsea Golf Club for the Hornsea Promenade Bowls Club

Presentation Night. We welcomed our special guests Mark and Suzy Mewburn from the Sandsfield Group of Companies, who have been helping us to secure funding for various projects at the Green. David Ward started off proceedings then we had an enjoyable meal and drinks. This was followed by a fun quiz prepared by Graham Watson,

the winners receiving a box of Quality Street which was passed around the room We then got down to the main purpose of the evening, the presentation of the various awards for friendly games and Club Competitions held throughout the season, with Mark Mewburn handing out trophies to the various recipients. Winners and runners up were as follows:

• Challenge match v Burton Pidsea: Hornsea Prom

• Centenary Cup v Hornsea:

Hornsea Prom

• Hildi Cook Trophy: Ladies Mandy Dahlgren, Gents Peter Barker

• Rose Bowl: Carl Blagg and John Soulsby, runners up Anne Ash and Gordon Clewlow

• Friday Triples: Simon Rigby, Donal O’Driscoll, Jacky Stringer, runners up Ron Blake, Gordon Watson, Allan Broadbent

• Bob Blake Plate: Evelyn Buckley

• Ladies Shield: Mandy Dahlgren, runner up Anne Ash

• Mens Shield: Peter Barker,

runner up Carl Blagg

• Presidents Cup: Graham Watson, runner up Donal O’Driscoll

• John Hall Sevens: Gordon Clewlow, runner up Martyn King

• Carver Evans: Donal O’Driscoll, runner up Steve Gilbert

• Pairs: Jacky Stringer and John Rawlings, runners up Steve Gilbert and Peter Barker

• Ladies v Gentlemen: Gentlemen

• Club Championship: John Rawlings, runner up Carl Blagg

Our new Club Champion, John Rawlings gave a speech of thanks which was well received by the room.

Members of the House Committee ran a popular raffle which raised over £130.00 for Club funds. Sylvia Charter, our Treasurer, gave a bouquet to Suzy Mewburn and David Ward and closed the evening and sent the members and guests on their happy way home. We will meet up again for our Christmas lunch at the Garden Centre in December The Club has finished with the outdoor bowls season now and

By Peter Barker

is looking forward to the reopening of the Green in April 2023. We will have various improvement works to the Green and surrounding paved areas completed by then We continue to meet for roll-up games at Hornsea Indoor Bowls Club every Wednesday morning during the winter, and will be playing friendly matches against Burton Pidsea and Hornsea Bowls Club in January and February 2023.

The Green will re-open in April 2023 when we will do it all again!

Kevin Sinfield Ultra 7 in

TO BE asked to support Kevin Sinfield OBE in the final challenge of his trilogy of challenges, the “ULTRA 7 IN 7”, was a privilege. This was my second experience of a fund raising and awareness event in aid of the Motor Neurone Disease Association and the Leeds Hospitals Charity, following on from the Extra Mile Challenge in 2021, that saw Sir Kev run 101 miles from Leicester Tigers RUFC to Leeds Rhinos RLFC in 24 hours.

Why is the Leeds Hospitals Charity involved? The charity’s aim is to build and operate the Rob Burrows MND Resource Centre in Leeds as a regional centre to support MND sufferers and their families. This year the challenge’s aim was to run from the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on a Sunday in November through to the following Saturday at Manchester United’s Old Trafford Stadium, some 300 miles over 7 days at an average of an Ultra Marathon distance in excess of 40 miles each day (a marathon is 26.2 miles).

The route planned stops in Melrose, Doddie Weirs’ original Rugby Union Football Club, Otterburn Castle, Durham County Cricket Club’s HQ in Chester-le-Street, North Yorkshire County FA’s base at Stokesley near Middlesbrough, York, Leeds to meet Rob Burrow and his family, Bradford City Football Club to meet Stephen

Darby and completing the challenge on the Old Trafford pitch at half-time in the Rugby League World Cup Final. Kevin Sinfield’s monetary target was to raise £777,771 and at the time of penning this report the fund is just shy of two million pounds and by adding in the gift aid it is expected to surpass this magnificent amount. Why all the 7’s you ask? Rob Burrow’s shirt number during his outstanding Leeds Rhinos career was 7 and he is affectionately known by fans as RB7.

My motorhome was one of several vehicles and a team of 18 including two support runners, three cyclists, a nutritionist, a professor of sports science, a doctor, a route planner, film crew, a journalist who is ghost writing Kevin’s forthcoming autobiography due for publication in 2023 and two motorhome drivers/caterers/odd jobbersnamely Glenn and I. Glenn is my wife’s cousin, and he lives in Roslin, Scotland. The following photographs, which often features the two of us, will tell the story better than me rabbiting on. I hope you enjoy my story and wish to express my thanks for everyone who has contributed to Sir Kev’s fund raising. As Kev has said, generating awareness of MND is every bit as important as the money that is raised!

by Chris Smith

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- Doddie Weir (My Name’5 Doddie Foundation) at Murrayfield to send off Kevin. Notice they’re wearing matching trainers!

2 - Olympian Champion, Steve Cram, was one of many fellow sportspersons to turn out to support Kevin.

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- The tunnel at St. James Park.

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- Kevin having a massage from the team’s physiotherapist.

5 - Sally Nugent of BBC Breakfast who apologised one morning on the programme for referring to my motorhome last year during the Extra Mile Challenge as a caravan.

6 - The massive crowd on arrival in York under the Christmas Lights was described by Kev as awesome.

7 - Kevin’s emotional meeting with his great friend and motivator, Rob Burrow, outside of the Headingley Stadium.

8- Kevin’s wife (in the middle) flanked by wives of the two support runners in a surprise welcome at a racing stable.

9 - In spite of the current cost of living pressure the British public is so generous!

10 - Another football stadium, this time at Bradford City’s Valley Parade.

11 -Stephen Darby (three from the left) was also in attendance at Bradford to welcome Sir Kev.

12- The chaotic scene at The Rams Head on Saddleworth Moor, literally rammed with well-wishers.

13 - Kevin acknowledges the applause of the 70,000 plus crowd as he walks towards the halfway line at Old Trafford.

14 - Kevin with his team on the top floor of Hotel Football adjacent to Old Trafford. The hospitality room doubles up as a five a-side indoor football pitch.

15- It’s not too late to make a donation!

16 - Mark Elvin’s support with vinyls on the motorhome for the second year was invaluable. Lifestyle Wealth Managements sponsorship of the vehicle’s diesel and LPG was a big boost.

17 - Glenn and I spruced up the exterior, carrying more of Mark’s vinyls, in Roslin prior to driving to the Murrayfield start.

All members of Kev’s team were presented with an “Ultra 7” medal by the MND Association.

By Mark Williamson

Early start on Thursday November 17 and a 2-hour drive to Fewston to take part in a Grim Up North Event. 4 marathons in 4 days. A different challenge of running, resting, back again within 24 hours, doing the same 4 laps again. But for me personally the monotony of the same route didn't faze me as the course was so scenic each lap making you notice more. Swinsty / Fewston Reservoir is a reservoir in the Washburn valley north of Otley and west of Harrogate in Yorkshire, with no other than some manager called Gareth Southgate taking residence in a beautiful grade 1 building overlooking this breathtaking view. I’m led to believe he wasn't at home as working away, with the possibility of him being back later in the week. The route snakes around the reservoirs which are always on your left (if right you've gone wrong!). With the autumnal leaves slowly leaving their trees it still made a lovely view of different colours and light. Day 1 and we were hit with torrential rain of a biblical proportion, which proved to be very challenging within its own right. Happy to finish in a respectable 2nd place with a time just under 4hrs. Day 2 and weather was favourable with no rain forecast. Just a wind to contend with, which proved a blessing as it wasn't too pushy. Being in the unknown of never running a 2nd marathon in 2 days I was pleasantly surprised how my legs held up and came in first, with a time of 3h48m Day 3 and this time accompanied by the wife. Legs were achy but I was ready for it. Shame the weather decided to play dirty with rain all day. It didn't dampen spirits too much. A lot more runners turned up on the Saturday to take on the event as a one-off marathon. Good time of 3:41:21 for 3rd place.

Day 4 The day of reckoning. We stayed locally so a little lie in helped to rid the fatigue which was threatening to show. My legs felt up for this last penultimate run, as did my head. The weather gods were shining today as perfect conditions, a little drop of rain halfway through but cool and sunny. Again, more runners and a lot more dog walkers to navigate through. Clair took on the role of Marshalling, handing out refreshments and

motivation to keep the weary going. 2nd place on the day. Time 3:35:59. The fastest and the final one. All in all, a very well organised and friendly event. For those who aren't as fast you can start earlier. Medals are amazing, goody bags with chocolate and beer. Can't recommend these events enough, so encouraging, well supported throughout, and they take you places you may not normally go to. For further info on their events: https://www.itsgrimupnorthrunni ng.co.uk/home/

By Peter Hardy-Cork

On Saturday, November 12 Pete and Liz Hardy-Cork headed to Goathland for the Hardmoors trail running event. Pete did the full marathon and Liz the, slightly longer than advertised, half marathon.

The weather was perfect and surprisingly warm for November. The course contained some challenging climbs but some beautiful scenery. Mallyan Spout waterfall, beautiful woods and the moors at their glorious best.

Both Pete and Liz finished in impressive times. Peter in just over five hours and Liz in three and a half hours. Both thoroughly enjoyed the event and were practically bouncing over the line at the end.

By Caroline Barker

On Sunday 6th November 4 of our Harriers headed to Sunk Island to complete the Meridian Blip Active half marathon with Carole Williams and Caroline Barker both winning their categories, James Rooks and Paul Arthur both completing and gaining personal bests. This is a new race organised by Blip active and on quiet rural roads and one with no hills for a change. A really good run by all.

Caroline Barker 1.48.23

Carole Williams 1.58.52

James Rooks 2.01.36

Paul Palframan 2.03.04

Hornsea Walking Football By Chris Smith

THE INAUGURAL meeting of the Hornsea Town Walking Football Club, a non-profit making organisation, was held in March 2016 at the Victoria Inn, Hornsea. Previously to this, walking football was provided by the Hornsea School & Language College on its 3G pitch via a casual pay as you play basis. One of the original officers elected in 2016, Michael (Foggy) Evans (72), still holds a committee post as the club’s treasurer. The club’s first Sunday open session for players over the age of 50 years was in May 2016 with 11 attendees. This was closely followed by a Tuesday session later the same month that attracted 18 players. Gradually one or two female players joined the club and eventually it was decided to establish a dedicated women’s session on July, 2021 with 16 in attendance. More about the women’s game to follow. The current total membership of the club is a shade over 70 members who pay a nominal annual subscription with session fees of £3 per one hour duration. Although the club has several stalwarts still playing since the club’s formation, a total of 190 local individuals have partaken in what is regarded as the fastest expanding code of football. Although walking football was originally introduced to attract over 50-year-olds, the club currently has a range of members that includes a 12-year-old plus a 75 years young

outfield player. The popularity of the sport has meant that sessions have been divided into three groups for players under 60, over 60 and exclusively women. A policy of inclusiveness (all ages, genders, ethnicity, religions and ability) means that players of all levels of skill are welcomed with an emphasis on the three “F’s” - Fun, Friendship & Fitness. Apart from the benefits of the physical aspect of walking several kilometres per session, the mental well-being of participation also cannot be underestimated.

In the last full year of statistics 2021/22, the club facilitated 131 sessions, which attracted 2,471 attendees, an average of 18.9 players per session. The current year’s sessions are running at attendances averaging 20.6 players. Apart from the football aspect of the club social events such as Go-karting, Indoor Bowls,

Foot-golf and Christmas Parties add to the development of friendship. Inevitably many players look for competitive opportunities which the sport offers, the club has not been slow to encourage this. For a relatively small club within walking football circles (it’s a fact that half of the club’s catchment area is the North Sea) reaching the finals of the FA’s Peoples Cup plus other tournament successes has been no mean feat. The latest accolade is finishing as runners-up in the East Riding County FA’s Over 60’s Walking Football League. The women’s players have also not been shy of putting themselves forward for representative honours with no less than six Hornsea members in the IWFF’s (International Walking Football Federation) England squads. All this progress has not been achieved without a succession of generous sponsorship and grants including and from the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Tesco (x 2), NISA, East Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Paul Fisher, Kingston Communications, Yorkare Homes, Greene King, Dogger Bank Wind Farm, Top to Toe Beauty Bar and, most recently, culminating in the club’s largest ever grant from the waste disposal company Biffa!

1. PLAYERS: A crosssection of Hornsea Town Walking Football Club’s members wearing their Biffa training tops with Alison Parr, Operations Manager at the firm’s Bridlington depot.

2. PRESENTATION: Fred Bree, Chairman - Hornsea Town Walking Football Club, presenting a framed training top to Alison Parr, Biffa’s Bridlington Operations Manager, supported by members of the club’s committee.