The Healey and Minsteracres Domesday Group are holding a two-day Local History event on Saturday & Sunday, May 21st – 22nd, at Slaley Commemoration Hall.
Unfortunately, the Hollybush Nursery events have been cancelled (due to a death in the family).
There will be FREE admission from 10 am – 4 pm, and the displays will include photographs and press releases on many topics including on Saturday:
- Healey Grave Stone inscriptions and photographs.
- Healey School, Minsteracres School, Barley Hill Community Hall.
- The making of the Derwent Reservoir.
- Minsteracres, the home of the Silvertops, now a Retreat Centre.
- Slaley School, Farming and People
- Slaley Hall, Relics of the Past, Slaley Show
- and much, much more!
Other attractions will include Pony Rides for the children, plant and book stall, and local ice creams.
On Sunday:
- Award-winning local stonemason, Billy Hall, will be building a section of dry stone wall from one-ton of Ladycross Quarry stone between 12 noon and 2 p.m.
- Bill Stokoe, author of “Coal Mining West of Whittonstall, 1266 – 1966″, will be giving a talk, and Father Hoodland will talk on Minsteracres.
- On Sunday additional attractions will include Tom Warde-Aldam giving a brief talk on the need to close Barley Hill hut and the options open to the trustees.
- Ian Hancock is giving a talk on farming and the weather – reasons for non-attendance at Healey & Minsteracres schools before both schools closed in 1961.
Local lad Michael Adamson will be busking, and refreshments will be served throughout.
For details look at the Draft timetable; where there is a question mark (‘?’) this signifies that that particular event is not confirmed. For instance, the children’s picnic depends upon the weather, etc.
