What's On

What’s On listings are free for local charities and community organisations and ideally should not exceed 20 words. For all other event organisers, a small charge of £20 applies. CAPTAIN COOK MEMORIAL MUSEUM, GRAPE LANE Winter closure from 1 December. Re-opens on 11 February 2023. www.cookmuseumwhitby.co.uk WHITBY MUSEUM & PANNETT ART GALLERY Opening times: 10.00am – 4.30pm Tues – Sun. Closed Mon. Last admission 4.00pm. Museum admission: £7.00 adults, £5.00 students ticket lasts for a full year. Whitby residents (proof needed) & under 18s Free. Art Gallery admission – free to all. The museum’s tearoom is open 10am-3.30pm Tuesday-Sunday. Winter closure to the public – closes at 4.30pm on Sunday 4th December and reopens at 10am on Tuesday 7th February. 2023 will be an exciting time as it is the museum’s bi-centenary – watch out for announcements of special events throughout the year. WHITBY COLISEUM Victoria Place, Whitby. YO21 1EZ. Tel: 01947 825000. Cinema, theatre, events. Café. Internet Café. Community Offices, theatre and meeting rooms available for hire. Network Shop for affordable, nearly new furniture and household items (in Station Square). Walled Garden Community Volunteer Project. For more information, check out the Coliseum’s Facebook page or website: www.whitbycoliseum.co.uk or email info@whitbycoliseum.com. WHITBY PAVILION West Cliff, Whitby. YO21 3EN. Cinema, theatre, shows, events. Café. For more information and tickets visit Whitby Pavilion in person, call 01947 824770 or check out their website www.whitbypavilion.co.uk (booking fees apply). REGULAR WEEKLY EVENTS NB. Local organisations, clubs and societies may not run their regular events over the holiday period. We recommend that you check with event organisers to see if an event is still taking place before making a journey. EVERY DAY Whitby Whalers u3a. Day time activities throughout the week for those no longer in full time work: arts, languages, lectures, exercise, history, social groups and much more. Variety of venues. www.u3asites.org.uk/ whitby EVERY MONDAY Tai chi for beginners Hawsker Village Hall 7pm. First lesson free then £4 pounds thereafter. Contact John 07434 833540 EVERY TUESDAY Whitby Jets Basketball Training Term time only at Whitby Leisure Centre. All ballers welcome. Timings: 7–11-year-olds 16:30-17:30 and 12–18-year-olds 17:30- 18:45. See Whitby Jets Facebook page for details or email whitbyjetsbasketball@gmail.com. EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING Indoor Target Archery at Whitby Pavilion 7.00 to 9.00pm. Archery GB members welcome. https:// whitbyarchers.co.uk/Home.html EVERY THURSDAY Whitby Badminton Club at Fyling Hall School, Robin Hood’s Bay, Thurs 7.30-9.30pm. Four courts, new players very welcome. Free “taster” night. Full details from Walter 01947 602938 or Carole 01947 600746. EVERY THURSDAY (AND OCCASIONALLY WED & SUN) Marske & Loftus Badminton Club at Loftus Cricket & Athletic Club, 7pm till late. Looking for new members. First night is free, contact Paul on 07702 756669. EVERY FRIDAY Sleights Art Group. Art / Painting sessions at Sleights Village Hall. Informal & friendly. Professional assistance from local artist, Dave Jeffery. Fridays 2pm-4pm. Contact Jan 07837 023904 or jw@maybeckantiques. co.uk. Ballroom, Latin and sequence social dancing. Sleights Village Hall every Friday evening 8.15pm to 10.30pm for Basic for beginners 7.30pm. Tel: 07971 606360 (no classes on 23 & 30 December; NYE Dance on 31 December). EVERY SATURDAY Whitby Walking Group. Starting from various locations. Approx. 10 miles. Visitors welcome. E-mail: rogercrowther@talktalk.net Phone: 01723 267019.

EVERY WEEKEND Whitby Rifle Club. Sports and Social Club. Function rooms available for all occasions. Regular live entertainment Saturdays, Quiz every Sunday. CHRISTMAS EVENTS Whitby Christmas Festival 18-20 November A spectacular festive event including a traditional Christmas market. Check out the Whitby Christmas Festival Facebook page for the latest news and full programme of events. Whitby Ice Rink 2 December to 2 January 2023 Housed in an all-weather marquee, a real ice rink right in the centre of town on Langborne Road! Open throughout the day with session times from 11am until 8pm (except Christmas Day). For further information and tickets, please visit www.whitbyicerink.com Christmas Tree Exhibition St Mary’s Church Christmas Tree Exhibition. Preview follows the 3pm Advent Carol Service on Sunday 27 November (closes 5pm), then display will be open daily from Monday 28 November up to 6 January from 10.00am-3.00pm Monday to Friday, 11.15am - 3.00pm Saturday and 1.00pm-3.00pm Sunday (closed on Christmas Day when the Christmas Day Service is held at 11.15am). SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19 A Christmas Fayre will be held in Hinderwell Village Hall from 10.00am. Refreshments will be on sale.

Hilarity Bites presents ‘Sam Avery’ at the Coliseum. Doors open 7.30pm for 8.00pm start. Tickets £10 in advance from the Coliseum or the Hilarity Bites website; £12 on the door. For further details visit https://hilaritybites.co.uk SATURDAY & SUNDAY NOVEMBER 19-20 Craft Fair at Goathland Village Hall 10.00am to 3.30 pm. New crafters welcome for our successful and longestablished Craft Fairs. Contact Elsie on 01947 896333 or e-mail elsie.goathland@gmail.com. SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20 Grosmont Gardening Group’s Christmas Fair at St. Matthew’s Church, Grosmont 11am-3pm. Arts and Craft stalls plus many more. Refreshments. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 23 Whitby WI meet 7pm Northern Lights Suite, Spa Pavilion, West Cliff. The theme is Christmas Crafts. British Sign Language. Raffle: Christmas. Everyone welcome. Visitors £3.00. For further info, please email WhitbyWI2014@gmail.com. ‘Another Winter’s Tale’ at Glaisdale’s Robinson Institute. Starts 7.30pm. A ghostly new play with live music. Two travelling entertainers tell wintry stories during a snowstorm. But who, or what, is following behind them? Visit https://www.dogwoodproductions. co.uk/anotherwinterstale for more information. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 24 Whitby & District Ladies Luncheon Club meet at the Saxonville Hotel, 12 for 12.30pm. The cost (3 courses plus tea/coffee) is £25. Our guest is Paul Blackwell whose talk is titled ‘Life & Times & Paintings’. If you would like further information and to come along and join us for lunch please contact Hilda Gregson on 01947 821591 no later than Thursday the 17th November to make a booking. Cinema at the Coliseum Centre. ‘The Duke’ (2020) Matinee 2pm, evening:7pm. A taxi driver steals a painting from the National Gallery in London. Tickets: £5 in advance - available from reception or on the door. Café & Bar open. For further info, tel 01947 825000 or email info@whitbycoliseum.com FRIDAY & SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25-26 ‘Another Winter’s Tale’ at the Flowergate Hall Community Arts Centre, Whitby. Starts 7.30pm. A ghostly new play with live music. Two travelling entertainers tell wintry stories during a snowstorm. But who, or what, is following behind them? Visit https:// www.dogwoodproductions.co.uk/anotherwinterstale for more information. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26 Staintondale Country Market at the Village Hall 10.30am-2.30pm. Delicious homemade food served throughout the day. Tombola and lots of stalls. All welcome. Enquiries to secretary.svhc@gmail.com Christmas Jumble Sale at Hawsker Village Hall 11.00am to 3.00pm. Christmas stock, clothes, bric-abrac, baked good. Refreshments. Tombola. In aid of Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26 (continued) Saltburn Blues Club presents BAD DAY supported by Reece Hillis at New Marske Institute TS11 8EG. Doors 7.30pm. Tickets £15 from The Spar Saltburn, Ents24. com and 07960 935263. SATURDAY & SUNDAY NOVEMBER 26-27 Dippy Craft & Gift Fair. Whitby Pavilion Northern Lights Suite. 9.30-4.30 each day. Free entry. Over 40 Stalls. THURSDAY DECEMBER 1 Whitby Clothing Bank at Whitby Spa Pavilion. 10am to 12 noon. Adults and children’s clothes. Bring along any unwanted clothes you may have and take away any you need. Totally free! Have a cuppa too and a friendly chat with the lovely volunteers! Whitby Photographic Society Meeting at Whitby Sixth Form College, Airy Hill, 6.45 pm for 7 pm. Members images. Members can bring 3 or 4 images for discussion with others. New members and visitors very welcome. Cinema at the Coliseum Centre. ‘The Railway Children Return (2022) Matinee 2pm, evening 7pm. A group of young children are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during WWII where they encounter a young soldier who is far from home... Tickets £5. Café & Bar open. For further info, Tel 01947 825000 or email info@ whitbycoliseum.com SATURDAY DECEMBER 3 Whitby Naturalists’ Club talk ‘A worm’s eye view of Jurassic Yorkshire’ by Liam Herringshaw. Normanby Room, Whitby Museum YO21 1RE. Starts 2pm. All welcome. Suggested donation on the door: Members: £1. Visitors: £2. For further information contact: seashore@whitbynaturalists.uk SATURDAY & SUNDAY DECEMBER 3-4 Victorian Weekend, Robin Hood’s Bay. Annual Victorian themed weekend with festive fun past and present. A wealth of fun-filled activities and festive entertainment for all the family. Visit Robin Hood’s Bay Victorian Weekend Facebook page for more information. Whitby Krampus Run returns to the streets of Whitby. A noisy and colourful costumed parade with fun activities during the day. The Krampus Parade itself takes place at 3.30pm on Saturday from the Bandstand to the Whalebones. The evening sees the Krampus Ball at the Met Lounge and Ballroom. For more details visit the Whitby Krampus Run Facebook page. MONDAY DECEMBER 5 Whitby Dairy Discussion Group at Sneaton Castle, Castle Road, Whitby YO21 3QN. 7.45pm prompt start. “Running a College Farm” Joey Rodgers, Farm Manager, Velcourt (based at Askham Bryan College) WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7 Jigsaw Library now at Wetherspoons (Baxtergate side entrance) on 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month, 10.30 a.m. -12.30 p.m. No charge, donations for running costs & donations of jigsaws welcome. Free hot drink & mince pies. THURSDAY DECEMBER 8 Whitby Photographic Society Meeting at Whitby Sixth Form College, Airy Hill, 6.45 pm for 7 pm. Barrett and Withell trophies competitions. Subjects are Barrett Trophy: ICM/Multi-Exposure/Image Blending. Withell trophy: Reflections. New members and visitors very welcome. Christmas Bingo at the Coliseum, Victoria Place, Whitby. Doors open: 1.30pm. Eyes down 2.00pm. £6 per book plus flyer. All welcome. SATURDAY DECEMBER 10 ‘Carols on the Cliff’ at Abbey House Café/Bar. Starts 3pm. An afternoon of festive song, drinks & treats. Free entry, call 01947 602878 for more details. Whitby Naturalists’ Club Christmas round-up meeting including mulled wine, mince pies. St John Ambulance Hall, Back St Hilda’s Terrace, Whitby YO21 3AA. Starts 2pm. All welcome. Suggested donation on the door: Members: £1. Visitors: £2. For further information contact: seashore@whitbynaturalists.uk Balmoral Acoustic Blues Club at Saltburn Conservative Club presents Howlin’ Matt. Doors 7.30pm Tickets £10 from 07960 935263. Christmas Concert - Guisborough Choral Society with the Guisborough Salvation Army Citadel Band at the Methodist Church, Guisborough. Starts 7:30pm.For a detailed list of music for the programme please have a look at our next concert page on our website at guisboroughchoralsociety.org.uk/ and our Facebook

page at facebook.com/guischoir. Tickets: https://www. wegottickets.com/event/561958/ MONDAY DECEMBER 12 Yorkshire Country Women Sleights Branch meet at Church House, Sleights at 2pm. This month’s event is our Christmas Party, please remember your Christmas hat and jumpers and gift for the sack. For further details contact 01947 81182. TUESDAY DECEMBER 20 Whitby Antiques & Fine Arts Society meets at St John’s Ambulance Hall, Back St Hilda’s Tce. Meeting starts 7.30pm. Speaker: Clair Stones: ‘The History of Christmas’. Meetings monthly on the third Tuesday of each month. New members/visitors always welcome. More details from 01947 821860 or 228109.

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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 14 Whitby WI meet 7pm Northern Lights Suite, Spa Pavilion, West Cliff. Talk ‘A History of the WI’ by Sue Clarke. Bring & Share. Could everyone please bring a Secret Santa (up to £5). Everyone welcome. Visitors £3.00. For further info, please email WhitbyWI2014@ gmail.com. THURSDAY DECEMBER 15 Whitby Clothing Bank at Whitby Spa Pavilion. 10am to 12 noon. Adults and children’s clothes. Bring along any unwanted clothes you may have and take away any you need. Totally free! Have a cuppa too and a friendly chat with the lovely volunteers! Christmas Tea Dance at the Coliseum, Victoria Place, Whitby. 2.00pm to 4.00pm. Tickets £3 to include tea, coffee & mince pie. All welcome. Whitby & District Ladies Luncheon Club meet for their Annual Christmas Luncheon at the Saxonville Hotel for 12.30pm – a 3-course Festive Lunch including tea/ coffee at £25 per person. All members, plus partners & friends welcome. A bring & buy sale replaces the usual raffle with monies received going to a local charity. Festive carols. Members bringing partners or guests please let Hilda Gregson know no later than 8th December on 01947 821591.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 A Spot On Musical Christmas. A winter’s night packed full of West End hits and festive favourites at Whitby Pavilion Theatre. Starts 7.30pm. Tickets: £9 available from Whitby Pavilion in person, call 01947 824770 or visit www.whitbypavilion.co.uk (booking fees apply). Saltburn Blues Club presents The Boneshakers plus The Big Bad Blues Band at New Marske Institute TS11 8EG. Tickets £12 from The Spar Saltburn, Ents24.com and 07960 935263. Includes Xmas Buffet. Sing Carols. A community get-together with Louise Wootton who plays brilliantly for us, with mulled wine and mince pies on at 7pm in St Matthew’s Church, Grosmont. A fun evening and a good sing-along to your favourite carols which you choose on the evening.

Jigsaw Library now at Wetherspoons (Baxtergate side entrance) on 1st and 3rd Wednesday each month, 10.30 a.m. -12.30 p.m. No charge, donations for running costs & donations of jigsaws welcome. Free hot drink & mince pies. THURSDAY DECEMBER 29 Whitby Clothing Bank at Whitby Spa Pavilion. 10am to 12 noon. Adults and children’s clothes. Bring along any unwanted clothes you may have and take away any you need. Totally free! Have a cuppa too and a friendly chat with the lovely volunteers! (NB Provisional – check Whitby Clothing Bank Facebook page to check if it is running) SATURDAY NEW YEARS EVE DECEMBER 31 New Year’s Party Dance. Ballroom, Latin and sequence dancing in Sleights Village Hall. 7.45pm to12.30 am. Tickets available. Contact Jane 07971606360.

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THE COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS... THE ORIGINS OF THE ADVENT CALENDAR

I loved Christmas when I was growing up back in the late 70’s. Every year we had a trip to see Father Christmas at the Lewis’s department store in Leeds where we would receive a small festive gift and have our photo taken with him and presented to us in a special card. When we arrived home we would put up our cardboard advent calendars that we had bought from Woolworths which were printed with a Christmas scene. Each day we would open a little door that would reveal a tiny picture such as a teddy, a reindeer or a bauble. It was a real treat and part of the build up to Christmas.

My brother and I would take it turns to be ‘odds’ or ‘evens’. I always wanted to be ‘evens’ so I could open the Christmas Eve door which was always slightly larger and had a picture of the Nativity or Santa on the roof of a snow-covered house. When some of the kids at school started boasting about their ‘chocolate’ Advent Calendars we begged my dad for one and eventually he gave in. We were disappointed when we realised that once the chocolate was removed there was no picture, just an empty space where the chocolate had been. The ‘open’ chocolate Advent calendar had all the charm of a mouth with missing teeth. We never asked for another one. The Advent calendar originates from Germany. It began with German Protestants marking the days of Advent either by burning a candle or marking a wall with chalk. This morphed into the practice of hanging a devotional image every day and ultimately to the creation of the first known wooden Advent calendar in 1851. The first printed calendars appeared just after 1900. Small doors were added in the 1920s. Often short bible verses were hidden behind the doors alongside the picture. During the World War ll cardboard rationing put a stop to advent calendars but when hostilities ceased Richard Sellmar of Stuttgart obtained a permit from the US officials to begin printing and selling them again. He designed a calendar based on a German winter town scene. By the 1950s, they were massproduced and affordable and exported across the world. Chocolate Advent Calendars might seem like the new kids on the block but they have been around longer than you might think. Fry and Son produced the first chocolate Advent calendar as early as 1958 and Cadbury popularised them in the Seventies. Lego got in on the action in 1998 with a set that contained a Santa Claus minifigure and simple brick-made structures, which could be finally reassembled into a bigger model or scene. They’ve produced at least one every year since. My oldest teen begs me for their Harry Potter one every year. Over the past decade Advent calendars have gone ‘luxury’ and become a key marketing strategy for many companies. This started around 2010 when Selfridges department store launched a beautythemed Advent calendar with the cosmetics giant L’Oréal. It was filled with product samples from fragrances to body creams. There is now a advent calendar catering for pretty much every taste, most of them marketed at adults rather than children. There are advent calendars for gin-lovers, tealovers, and nail-polish addicts; there is even one for pets, and they are not cheap! Some cost upwards of £150! It’s all a worlds away from Sellmar-Verlag, now run by Richard’s grandchildren, which still produces traditional card Advent calendars to this day. The company’s most popular advent calendar is still Richard’s original design, called Little Town. A few years ago my husband (knowing my love of traditional Advent Calendars) bought me a wooden one which is reusable and is a beautiful Christmas decoration in its own right...in fact my teens actually argue over which one of them will inherit it when I die (that’s the festive spirit guys!). However you choose to mark the occasion...Happy Advent!

Foodbank4Whitby

Registered charity number 1159269

We need your help!

With recent rises in the cost of living we are finding more people need our help.

Food supplies are running low so any donation

of this kind will be greatly appreciated.

We would be grateful for donations of:

Tinned items:

Tomatoes • Potatoes • Ravioli Spaghetti • Macaroni Cheese Fray Bentos pies • Baked Beans Fish • Meat (hot or cold) Fruit • Custard • Rice Pudding

Packets:

Mash • Rice • Cereal • Pasta Porridge • Instant Noodles Sauces • Sugar • Biscuits

Products In Jars:

Pasta Sauce • Jams & Spreads

Drinks:

Soft Drinks • Squash • Coffee Milk (UHT or dried)

Hygiene & Cleaning Items:

Shower Gel • Deodorant Shampoo • Soap Toothpaste • Toilet Rolls Washing Up Liquid Multi-Surface Spray Washing Powder

Other:

Dog / Cat Food

Registered charity number 1159269

Collection points

Co-op (Whitby & Staithes), Poundland, B&M Bargains, Whitby Library, The Dispensary, Spar (Sleights), Coliseum, Egton and Castleton schools and many local churches.

Volunteers

We are frequently in need of people to help in a variety of roles, please contact us if you would like to help.

Contact us

For any further info please contact us on: 07789 765696 or 07810 205014