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Exhibitions Workshops Events May - August 2016 The Ropewalk • Barton upon Humber May - August 2016
The Ropewalk was built in 1801 and as Hall’s Barton Ropery manufactured ropes for the world. It closed as a working factory in 1989 and was brought back to life as an arts centre in April 2000 by an artists’ co-operative who still manage the site today. The Grade II listed building is a cultural quarter of a mile long!
The Ropewalk has 3 temporary exhibition spaces with a rolling exhibition programme that ensures there is always something new to see.
The Ropewalk offers a stimulating programme of art and craft workshops that run throughout the year, including regular classes in printmaking and life drawing and day classes in a range of activities.
Ropery Hall is a small community venue with a capacity of around 120 that offers a programme of film, theatre, music and comedy.
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The Craft Gallery continually displays in excess of 200 makers’ work from throughout the country including jewellery, ceramics, glass, textiles and a wide selection of artist-made greeting cards. The Hall-Mark Room displays a range of contemporary prints and collectables.
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Fresh local produce is used to create a wide variety of mainly vegetarian snacks and light lunches. A large selection of delicious freshly made cakes, coffees and organic juices are also available.
The building also houses a small Museum, Artist Studios, meeting rooms for hire and bespoke picture framing service.
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welcome
Time to take the art outside Yes, it’s that time of year when we start to think about enjoying our theatre and music al fresco and this year there is a great array of outdoor performances in North Lincolnshire. Before you pack your pop up tent and wellies heading off to some far flung field to enjoy the festival season we have a few gems to entertain you under the Ropewalk roof. Join us for theatre and music in May, and three of the Barton Arts Festival performances in late June. After discussions with some of the young people who attend the START craft evenings every week we will be hosting our first under 18s ‘banned night’ where young musicians will play to their peers in an alcohol free evening. As always full details of Ropery Hall events are on our website including our autumn programme of events. Workshops are still available over the summer and now that tenant Jane White has moved into a larger unit there is no stopping her! She has a great range of sewing and couture classes to get involved with. In the galleries we will be hosting a summer exhibition featuring work by invited artists. This takes the place of the Print Open which has been postponed to 2017 to coincide with other print exhibitions being held as part of Hull 2017. Whatever you do this summer I hope the sun shines on you and you have time to pop in to catch an exhibition, to see what Twink is doing in the Sculpture Garden and to pick up a Mr Moos Ice-cream. Liz Managing Director
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Admission Free Galleries Open 7 days a week: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays 10am - 4pm The Ropewalk is on one level with good wheelchair access; we are a 5 minute walk from the Barton Transport Interchange with half-hourly buses to Hull and Scunthorpe and a 2-hourly rail service to Grimsby and the wider rail network.
May - August 2016
jewellery
Featured Jewellers
May – Clare Hawley
Clare uses traditional silversmithing techniques to create her collection of jewellery which is inspired by the natural surroundings of the forest and the environment around her. Her studio is based in the ancient and beautiful Sherwood Forest where she collects and uses real leaves. The leaves are stuck on to sheet silver and used as a template and as each leaf can only be used once, each piece is the definition of ‘one of a kind’.
June – Charlie High
This collection by Charlie is bold and tactile with an earthy rawness. Rough semi-precious stones are incorporated with textured silver and touches of 18ct gold to enhance and complement each other. She uses various processes and texture is created through repousse and chasing, roll milling or casting. Her designs are a result of the observation of how a body moves and how the piece of jewellery can sit harmoniously with it.
July - Helen Shere
Helen’s jewellery is inspired by illustration and is based on natural themes such as birds and trees, produced in a distinctively quirky style that is instantly recognisable. The collection is mainly created in silver, with accents of copper and brass for colour and texture. Helen uses detailed pattern effectively to draw on the surface of the silver, using techniques such as stamping and oxidising, creating an individual look and feel to the jewellery.
August - Tracy Wilson
Tracy’s current collection was inspired by and developed from sound wave patterns. Each piece is hand crafted using sterling silver wire which is constructed to create a unique, memorable, tactile item of jewellery. As no two sound wave patterns are the same, no two items in this collection are identical. Tracy works mainly with silver but often incorporates colour into her designs by adding gemstones, hints of gold, enamel and oxidising.
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Box Gallery
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hris Moss creates sculptures of beasts and birds in order to understand them better. Time spent watching animals gives her an understanding of their framework and architecture as well as how they interact with each other. Her curiosity is linked to their movement and how this can be recreated. She finds that drawing focuses her observations allowing the natural extension into wire sculpture. Penny Withers 7 May – 5 June Chris Moss 5 July ‒ 5 Aug Katy O’Neil 6 Aug – 4 Sept
With the use of new and reclaimed materials, sourced from various suppliers of functional wire and metal products or fragments found on walks and forays Chris experiments with the balance between these materials, so that a work, as well as saying something about its subject, is still about the materials it’s made from and reveals aspects of the drawing and re-drawing process.
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aty O’Neil has worked with clay for more than 20 years creating contemporary ceramic vessels and handmade ceramic jewellery from her Lancashire studio. The vessels, bowls and wall plaques are decorated with slips before being impressed with marks which are inspired by her photographs taken whilst travelling extensively. Each piece is decorated with splashes and layers of colour to highlight the texture and mark making before firing to stoneware. Every item created by Katy is slab built with black clay and are a celebration of material and mark making. “The marks made on my work are created with man-made objects such as screws and nails found on the street, or from parts of circuit boards salvaged from abandoned electrical goods. This way of impressing marks into clay is a reflection of my long-held fascination with the concept of future fossils and how the throw away nature of modern life affects the land.”
May - August 2016
craft
Made By Hand C
raftsmanship, originality, and innovation underpin this new exhibition.
Featuring work by the following artists; Stuart Akroyd, Cath Hill, Janie Knitted Textiles (Jane Withers and Michael Hamner) and Lyn Lovitt, this body of work celebrates authenticity, difference, and the makers’ desire to create work of enduring quality. With eclectic experiences, diverse backgrounds, and a fascination with materials and process, these exciting, contemporary artists showcase excellence with artistry in handmade glass, jewellery, knitted textiles, and ceramics. In our current culture of branding and cheap, mass-produced goods, this exhibition aims to show that the concept of Handmade is still very much valued. Handmade
Gallery One
April 30 – June 19
Stuart Akroyd
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Inside Out
New work from Lindy Norton ‘When first I walk into a darkened room, my eyes need to adjust; a short period of visual insecurity stimulates ideas; moments that much of my work relates to.’ Lindy Norton Lindy Norton has always been able to use drawing as a means of generating atmosphere. Purposefully developed and well practiced observation skills enable her to subtly change the truth of light and darkness, to amplify uncertainties. Norton’s drawings and dry point etchings have a physical urgency, the energies required to generate the compositions are retained, enlivening the work with an uneasy
breath. Beasts from Africa may wander along the window sill, a sailor boy may sit in an armchair with teddy bears or an entrance hall may contain vague shapes that cannot be identified as friendly or hostile. Her paintings in both water colour and oil paint are just as accomplished as her drawings and prints. Her use of light, subject matter and her selected range of colours amplify surreal associations. Lindy Norton’s work welcomes us uneasily into a friendly twilight zone, allow yourself to consider her interiors and their occupants: your perceptions may shift, just slightly. Artspace
April 23 – June 12
Summer Exhibition
Our Biennial Print Open Exhibition has been postponed until next year and in its place from June 25 to September 4 we will host a mixed exhibition of work from artists associated with the gallery. Details for the print exhibition will be available early in the New Year.
May - August 2016
workshops
Emily Connor delivers her first workshop
An introduction to Drypoint Etching using aluminium and easy scratch plastic Saturday 7th May 2016 £45/40* (*non Ropewalk members) Emily has been a studio artist at The Ropewalk since March 2015. She graduated from the Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education with a First Class BA (HONS) Fine Art Practice degree and is currently studying MA Fine Art at the University of Lincoln. Her practice involves a variety of methods, including: drawing, printmaking and painting. She uses three printmaking techniques: dry point etching, acid etching and mezzotint and through using print her aim is for a strong suggestion of tone and ‘playful manipulation with the fluidity of surface ink’. Emily will be teaching her first workshop at The Ropewalk which is ideal for beginners and will introduce them to the direct printmaking technique of Drypoint Etching, using both aluminium and
easy scratch plastic. There will be time to explore the different ways of mark making using various tools and methods to create a sense of tone, texture and line.
May-August workshops 2016 Saturday 7th May Emily Connor An introduction to Drypoint Etching using aluminium and easy scratch plastic. 10.30am-4.30pm £45/40* Saturday 14th May Gill Hobson - Stained Glass Flowers 10.30am-4.30pm £65/60* Sunday 15th May Life Drawing with Richard Hatfield 10.30am – 3.30pm £40/35* Saturday 21st May Diane Lee - Silversmithing 10.30am-4.30pm £50/45* Saturday 4th June Multi -stage aquatint with Andi Dakin 10.30am-4.30pm £50/£45*
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theatre Theatre lovers have a treat in store in May with not one but two productions - one casting an eye on that iconic Regency figure Beau Brummell and the other a laugh-outloud parady of Jurassic Park, Dinosaur Park.
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eau Brummell – An Elegant Madness is a brilliant, comic two-hander from old friends of Ropery Hall, European Arts. Writted by Emmy award winning writer Ron Hutchinson it tells the story of George Bryan Brummell, the most stylish man of his day, who popularised modern dress, founded Savile Row but died in a madhouse in Calais. Performed in the West End by Peter Bowles and Richard McCabe in 2001, the play is set in the winter of 1819. Now living in a madhouse in Calais with his valet, and still more interested in matters of cuffs, collars and creases than concerns of life and death, he is determined to relive past glories, and is convinced that once the Prince of Wales (now King George IV) hears of and sees his plight he will be restored to his former glory and position in court and today the Prince is coming to Calais!
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ater in the month Superbolt Theatre come to Ropery Hall with a theatrical celebration of cinematic nostalgia that promises to be the perfect spoof for those anxiously awaiting news of the next film – and for everyone else an enjoyable evening at the theatre! Set in Lyme Regis Community Centre, the Park Family embark on a journey to a misty past but when things go wrong, family feuds are faced with the rapturous roar of DIY dinosaurs.
Superbolt Theatre’s five-star production, that is touring the country for the first time following a sell-out London season, is an epic adventure of show-stopping, spinetingling theatrics and megalithic mayhem *Just like the film that inspired it, Dinosaur Park is rated PG and is unsuitable for under 8s. Beau Brummell – An Elegant Madness May 7 7.30pm £13 adv/£15 otd (students £5) Dinosaur Park May 20 7.30pm £13 adv/£15 otd (students £5)
May - August 2016
film
Films for May 12 May Suffragette 12a 1hr 46m Dir: Sarah Gavron Stars: Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter
A drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalized and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality - their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. Maud was one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is as gripping and visceral as any thriller; it is also heart-breaking and inspirational
19 May Bridge of Spies 12a 2h 22m Director: Steven Spielberg Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
26 May The Lady in the van 12a 1h 44m Director: Nicholas Hytner Writer: Alan Bennett Stars: Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent
A big screen adaptation of writer Alan Bennett’s iconic and celebrated memoir, directed by long-standing Bennett collaborator Nicholas Hytner. The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years. Their unique story is funny, poignant and life-affirming
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comedy
Susan Calman As part of the Barton Arts Festival on June 28, we are delighted to host a work in progress show by Susan Calman. In preparation for her 2016 tour she’ll be spending an hour trying out jokes. Some good, some bad, some incomprehensible. But all good fun! You might even hear things that will never be said again. Work in progress from Susan as seen and heard on The News Quiz, QI, HIGNFY and Listomania Age 16+ “Feisty Scot Calman is one of the best female comics to ever come out of the land of bagpipes and haggis. She’ll make you chuckle your pants off” Time Out
Barnstormers Comedy Club Our last Friday of the month comedy club concludes for the season on 27 May. Join compare Kevin Precious and three comedy circuit comedians for an evening of high energy comedy. Since the first Barnstormers Show last September the monthly slot has proved really popular showcasing a great mix of different styles of comedian and very varied material to the appreciative audience. Thanks to your support we will be making the last Friday of the month a permanent feature of our programme restarting in September. May 27 Barnstormer’s Comedy Club June 28 Susan Calman
8pm 8pm
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music
Tex-Mex Party
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ome along to Ropery Hall for a Tex-Mex Party Night in the company of Los Pacaminos featuring Paul Young, Drew Barfield, Matt Irving, Mark Pinder, Steve Greetham, Jamie Moses and Melvin Duffy. Los Pacaminos were formed in November 1992, as an antidote to the bleak English winter, and as an opportunity to play their shared passion of the Border, Tex-Mex and Americana music that the band members love.
allowed these are top musicians just playing for fun. Word got around as word does and soon the band started playing gigs. The band members are some of the best known names in the music industry, from a variety of backgrounds. They’ve covered all kinds of music, but the unifying factor is that they all have played in Paul Young’s bands through the 80s and 90s. Their friendships stretch back 20 to 30 years, and it’s these long term connections that underpin the very special atmosphere generated at a Los Pacaminos show. Members of the audience are often invited onstage to join the guys in a slug of Tequila!
At least one member of this highly respected group will be very familiar. Los Pacaminos is fronted by one of the UK’s finest and best loved vocalists – Paul Young. However, Paul is not You’ll be in good company, so put the only luminary in this seven piece your blues on cruise and come join band. Some of the best musicians the Tex-Mex party… in the business have teamed up to present an incendiary mix of classics and original material. May 5 Los Pacaminos 8pm £17.50/£19otd Starting as a practice band playing (Standing Gig) when other musical commitments
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W
e welcome back to the Ropery Hall stage a pair who were part of our young folk showcase back in 2013.
Young Folk return
In January 2013, the pair picked up the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award. Following the award win, Russell and Algar toured the country in April and, after completing school and University exams in May, began touring again at the beginning of June – a schedule which saw them play venues and festivals such as Cambridge Folk Festival and Fairport’s Cropredy Convention as well as appearing live on Mark Radcliffe’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Show. After recording their second album in the November of 2013, again with Fellside, Russell and Algar received the Horizon Award for Best Breakthrough Act at the 2014 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. The second album, The Call, was then released in July receiving 5 Stars in fRoots, 4 Stars in both R2 Magazine and The Telegraph and a host of other brilliant reviews.
Barton Arts Festival looks East The Budapest Café Orchestra is a music-driven phenomenon, a specialist performanceentertainment outfit, certified to enthral audiences everywhere. The infectious energy of the BCO will sweep you off your feet and stay in your heart forever. You will journey from one emotional pole to another: from a desperately tragic evocative heartrending ancient Jewish melody to a dance from Romania or Russia and all the fiery exuberance that goes with it. With a sole mission: to entertain and enchant audiences, they are undaunted by even the most demanding and wildest crowds, for example those inhabiting the darkest corners of North Lincolnshire.
The Ropewalk and Mad Dog Folk present May 28 Greg Russell and Kieran Algar 8pm £13/£15otd Barton Arts Festival present June 30 Budapest Café Orchestra 7.30pm £13/£15otd
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A comedy double bill for Arts Festival
Hue & Cry (1947) is regarded as the very first Ealing Comedy. An energetic combination of youthful adventure and comic book fantasy it stars a number of familiar and much-loved faces including Harry Fowler, Jack Warner and Alastair Sim. Shot almost entirely on location, it is now a notable historic document due to its vivid portrait of a London still showing the damage of World War II. It is accompanied by The Plank, a 1967 British slapstick comedy short film that follows the misadventures of two builders who require a floorboard. It was written and directed by Eric Sykes and the cast features many of the top comedians and comic actors of the time including Sykes, Tommy Cooper, Jimmy Edwards and Roy Castle.
Banned Night featuring Different Oceans As part of the 2016 Barton Arts festival we are planning a night of music by young people for young people. Especially for the under 18s this alcohol free night will feature a great young band that are making a lot of noise locally. Different Oceans are based in North Lincolnshire - James O’Roary (bass and lead vocals), Olly Tandon (Drums) and Andre Ilkiw (guitar and back vocals) With Kyle Murphy joining them for this performance (Keys).
From the moment they get up on stage they exude energy and likeability coupled with excellent musicianship. Their debut EP “Bad Guy” can be found on the Band Camp website as well as through their Facebook page if you want to listen to them before you purchase a ticket. Different Oceans will be supported by singer songwriters Mark Roland and Sarah Clayton. If you are under 18, or have a teen that would like to come, tickets are just £3 in advance and the night will be staffed by experienced youth workers.
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Young at art Summer holiday activities
ST-ART evening art classes Have you heard about the lively Tuesday and Wednesday evening art classes for young people in our dedicated art room? As well as the art classes we also offer fun cooking sessions where we make both sweet and savoury bakes, and lots of healthy snacks too.
This summer ST-ART will be putting together two week-long arts projects all about the environment. See what you can make from everyday recyclables, - take part in some outdoor activities and make some temporary art works. Bring in old items of clothing that can be transformed and learn about different ways to be kind to our environment. This project, aimed at seven to 12 year olds, will run from Monday, August 1 to Friday August 5 and again between Monday August 15 and Friday August 19 between 10am and 3pm each day. If you are aged 13 years or over perhaps you would like to get involved in this project by helping out with some of the young children.
Tuesday nights are for eight to 11 year olds and run from 7pm to 8:30pm while Wednesday nights are for those aged 12 years and over and Please check the website for more run from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. details www.st-art.co.uk
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children’s summer theatre
The Adventures of Walter Lemonface
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fun-filled, interactive experience for the whole family brings this season’s Performance in the Park to an end on Sunday August 28. Come along to Baysgarth Park and join adventurer, fearless inventor and connoisseur of carrots, Walter Lemonface as he hunts for Rhubarb Ogres, battles ghosts and finds a new adventure around every corner. Older than the hills around him, Walter lives in a purple shed at the bottom of a waterfall. He will tell you that he’s been everywhere, met everyone and he saves the world at least once a week. But remember, not everything Walter says is true...
Sometimes scary, often touching and always with a healthy sprinkling of silly, 154 Collective’s The Adventures of Walter Lemonface features live animation, music and storytelling, and is a treat for children aged from three to 93! There will be three free performances – 11am, 12.30pm and 2pm – as there is a maximum number of 25 children for each show. There will also be a craft activity to complement the theatre. Call in to The Ropewalk or call 01652 660380 to book your free place.
And did we mention that Walter also happens to have a yellow head, shaped a little bit like a lemon that he is very proud of!
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Until 19 June • Gallery One • Handmade Until 12 June • Artspace • Lindy Norton 7 May – 5 June • Box Gallery • Penny Withers 5
Los Pacaminos
8pm
£17.50/19.50
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Beau Brummell
7.30pm
£13/£15
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Suffragette
7.30pm
£4
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Bridge of Spies
7.30pm
£4
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Dinosaur Park
7.30pm
£13/£15
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Lady in the Van
7.30pm
£4
27
Barnstormers
8pm
£10/£12
28
Russell and Algar
8pm
£13/£15
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Until 19 June • Gallery One • Handmade Until 12 June • Artspace • Lindy Norton Until 5 June • Box Gallery • Penny Withers 25 June - September 4 • Both Galleries • Summer Exhibition 24
Banned Night
8pm
£3/£5
27
Monday Night at the Movies
7.30pm
£4
28
Susan Calman
8pm
£10
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Budapest Cafe Orchestra
7.30pm
£13/£15
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Until 4 September • Both Galleries • Summer Exhibition 5 July - 5 August • Box Gallery • Chris Moss
KEY Exhibitions
Music
Film
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Outdoor Theatre Wonderful free outdoor arts events coming to a patch of grass near you this summer! The Ropewalk is delighted to be involved in presenting these great shows.
Baysgarth Park Barton Sunday 3 July 2pm Pantaloons Theatre presents Gulliver’s Travels Sunday 17 July 2pm Doncaster Concert Band Sunday 24 July 2pm Pendle Story Tellers presents Alice in Wonderland Sunday 28 August 11am, 12.30pm & 2pm 154 collective presents Walter Lemon Face Epworth Memorial Field Sunday 10 July 6.30pm Illyria presents Midsummer Night’s Dream Winterton Showground Thursday 21 July 6.30pm Illyria Presents Danny Champion of the World
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The Ropewalk Ropery Hall
The Venue is a small community venue with a capacity of around 120. For small music nights seating is cabaret-style; for all other performances it is theatre-style and seating is not numbered. Please ensure that you arrive in good time if you wish to be seated together. There is a fully licenced bar at all performances. Doors open an hour before the start of performances.
How To Book
Tickets are available: In Person at The Ropewalk. Open 7 days a week 10am - 5pm (4pm Sundays). By Telephone. Reserve your tickets for 5 days before collection or pay by credit or debit card. (An additional charge of £2 is applied) Online at www.roperyhall.co.uk
Directions We are well signposted from the A15. Just follow the brown signs... Exit the A15 at J.3 and take the A1077 into Barton (Ferriby Road). Turn left at mini roundabout at the bottom of the hill and follow the road round to the next mini roundabout and turn left again. Follow the one-way system through Castledyke West and get in the left-hand lane. Turn left at the junction opposite the railway station, then take the first right off Waterside Road onto Maltkiln Road. For The Ropewalk Galleries turn left into Tesco’s car park where you will find us in the far left corner. There is ample free car parking adjacent to the building. For Ropery Hall, follow the road round to the Waters’ Edge park gates and then left into the car park. Please park at the end of the car park nearest Ropery Hall then walk to the first set of doors at the side of the building. For Sat Nav users please input DN18 5JR which will lead you straight to Waters’ Edge Car Park.
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