Saturday 1st of August is Yorkshire Day and throughout the country there are events taking place to celebrate everything this beautiful county has to offer.
Phil, Caroline, Meg and I are all so proud of our Yorkshire roots, we will be celebrating in style on Saturday. We might take Lily along just to show here how great Yorkshire is, especially as she is from Lancashire! Payne, our Essex girl, is not having anything to do with what she claims is just silliness!
In Pickering there will be guided town walks, a duck derby on the beck, dancers, swordsmen, drumming and banner workshops and music from the Yorkshire Relish Jazz Group and Stape Silver Band. Children can win prizes in a Fancy Dress Competition and parade, watch a magician and street performers Lord and Lady Fetlock.
On the North Yorkshire Moors Railway they are planning a number of events:
Yorkshire Tea. They have teamed up with Taylors of Harrogate to offer visitors to their tearooms a selection of biscuits and tea loaf alongside a good cuppa, with donations towards our Bridge & Wheels Appeal.
Goathland Plough Stots: One of the oldest dance sword teams in North Yorkshire, The Plough Stots will perform first at Goathland Station, at around 12:30, before heading by train to Pickering. There, at approximately 14:00, they will once again dance both on the station and in the town.
Family Weekend – 1st & 2nd August: There will be selections of games available up and down the line to for all the family to play. Travel by train from any of the NYMR stations and see what each station has to offer!
Phil, Caroline, Meg and I are all so proud of our Yorkshire roots, we will be celebrating in style on Saturday. We might take Lily along just to show here how great Yorkshire is, especially as she is from Lancashire! Payne, our Essex girl, is not having anything to do with what she claims is just silliness!
In Pickering there will be guided town walks, a duck derby on the beck, dancers, swordsmen, drumming and banner workshops and music from the Yorkshire Relish Jazz Group and Stape Silver Band. Children can win prizes in a Fancy Dress Competition and parade, watch a magician and street performers Lord and Lady Fetlock.
On the North Yorkshire Moors Railway they are planning a number of events:
Yorkshire Tea. They have teamed up with Taylors of Harrogate to offer visitors to their tearooms a selection of biscuits and tea loaf alongside a good cuppa, with donations towards our Bridge & Wheels Appeal.
Goathland Plough Stots: One of the oldest dance sword teams in North Yorkshire, The Plough Stots will perform first at Goathland Station, at around 12:30, before heading by train to Pickering. There, at approximately 14:00, they will once again dance both on the station and in the town.
Family Weekend – 1st & 2nd August: There will be selections of games available up and down the line to for all the family to play. Travel by train from any of the NYMR stations and see what each station has to offer!
Katie, a Yorkshire Lass!
