Jeff Coates

North Yorkshire Rotters

Jeff, the Volunteer Co-ordinator for North Yorkshire Rotters, will give us a talk about composting with helpful information for the gardeners in our midst.  

If you wish to know more about successful composting and receive tips and wisdom do come along. 

A timely talk for the year ahead when material should be available to compost.

Andy Dalton

Andy will talk about modern art and St Ives, Cornwall where he was assistant curator at Tate St Ives and specialist in the paintings of Peter Lanyon. 

Over the course of nine years, Andy was involved in many exhibitions, exploring the history of the artists associated with the Cornish coastal town … Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Terry Frost and others.  Tate St Ives also showed a number of contemporary artists who traced the influence that a generation of modern British artists had nationally and internationally during the 20th century.

Plant Stall

Newton on Ouse Village Green & Parish Hall

10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Andrew Morrison 

York Civic Trust

York is at a turning point. 

York Central, the adoption of York’s Local Plan, will see a number of strategic developments come forward for planning permission and individual developments like the Coney Street Riverside Project represent the biggest changes for York in over 40 years. 

Andrew Morrison, Chief Executive of York Civic Trust will talk through York’s major developments that are in the pipeline or already on the drawing board and how these may affect living, visiting and working in the city. 

Dr Nick Wilson

Roman Historian

In 2007, a Roman period lead-lined coffin was discovered at Hundayfield Farm, Grafton. 

This discovery led to a large-scale landscape and geophysical survey of the surrounding area, prior to a 12 month programme of excavation. 

In this talk, Dr Nick Wilson will discuss the results of his research which looked at how the nearby Roman period settlement of Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough) influenced both the organisation of the landscape and the social changes which occurred there.

Liz Cole

Georgian York

After the depression and destruction of the Reformation the wealthy landed gentry of 18th Century Yorkshire remodelled York turning the city away from its Medieval past and into a modern metropolis rich with Neo-Classical buildings and high society.

David Keats

Raptures of the Deep – A life working underwater

David will speak about his career as a welder-diver/welding engineer. How he became a diver working offshore and some lifetime achievements. 

Chris Cade

Actor & Storyteller

Chris Cade visits us again, presenting his one man adaptation of 'What the Dickens?' a story of 1st and 3rd class Victorian Railway Journeys with insights into some of Charles Dickens own experiences and the odd Christmas reference

To be followed by supper in the Parish Hall.  

Numbers this year for supper are being limited so please purchase your tickets early if you wish to attend - £20 adult, £10 children 16 and under;

 attendance for Chris Cade's performance only is free to members.