| Description | Originally deposited as a VHS video cassette.
Includes footage of Pickering, Hutton-le-Hole, Rosedale Abbey, Lealholm, Glaisdale, Rievaulx, and Thornton-le-Dale.
Timing. Action on film:
(00:07) Pickering, with the Forest and Vale Hotel in the background. This was once a busy market town between Helmsley and Scarborough.
(00:29) The Crossways Hotel.
(00:54) The parish church of St Peter and St Paul.
(01:06) The church has connections with Nicholas King, a surveyor who planned the layout of Washington [DC] between 1803 and 1812.
(01:52) Medieval wall paintings inside the church.
(03:17) A medieval tomb monument of a knight and his lady.
(03:58) A clock made by R. Northam of Hull.
(04:44) Another medieval tomb monument.
(05:08) The baptismal font.
(05:31) A memorial to the First World War.
(05:57) A list of vicars and rectors of the church starting at 1150 AD.
(06:51) The Liberal Club and some other fine houses.
(07:48) The Old Rectory.
(08:14) The Parish Hall, formerly a school.
(09:55) The home of William Marshall, who established the first agricultural college in England. This is now the Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life.
(11;05) The Methodist Chapel dated 1885.
(11:44) The Dame Vera Lynn steam locomotive, (also at 17:12). The railway station and line has been maintained by railway enthusiasts.
(15:14) Inside a vintage railway carriage. The luggage racks, seats and door fittings may have been made by Deans and Sons of Beverley.
(15:56) A railway guard in uniform.
(18:09) The White Swan, an old coaching inn.
(18:58) Castlegate.
(19:46) The ruins of Pickering Castle.
(20:44) Hutton le Hole.
(23:52) The Ryedale Folk Museum.
(23:58) A water clock in the Museum.
(25:03) Exhibits of domestic life.
(26:01) A reconstruction of a blacksmith's shop.
(27:14) A cobbler's exhibit.
(27:58) A tinsmith's shop.
(28:41) Examples of local pottery.
(29:40) The Folk Museum's reconstructed post office.
(30:50) The chemist's shop.
(31:33) The foundry.
(31:59) The saddler's shop.
(32:33) A wheelwright.
(33:34) The exterior of some of these buildings.
(33:58) A thatched cottage
(34:26) The cottage interior.
(37:24) A Verjuice press for turning crab apples into vinegar.
(37:56) A traditional gypsy caravan.
(39:10) Inside the Witch's Cavern.
(39:35) The interior of a [Victorian] house.
(41:44) An exhibition of bells and their uses.
(42:35) A photograph of Wharram Percy church when the tower collapsed.
(44:53) A replica of a medieval pottery kiln.
(46:40) Agricultural implements.
(47:50) A [Victorian] photographer's studio.
(48:02) A threshing machine and other harvesting artefacts.
(48:49) The Park Phaeton [a small carriage] from Mulgrave Castle.
(49:40) A Fordson tractor from the 1940s
(50:06) The hearse which was used in Farndale until the 1950s.
(52:19) Lastingham, where a monastery was established in 654 AD.
(53:11) The small Wesleyan Chapel.
(53:54) Jackson's Cottage and Jackson's Bridge are named after John Jackson RA, a Lastingham native, who paid for the restoration of the church in 1828.
(55:55) The Blacksmith's Arms.
(56:12) The old village school, built in memory of Harriett Louisa Darley in 1885.
(57:11) St Marys, an ancient crypt church located where the abbey once stood during the 7th and 8th centuries. The church was built about 1078 AD and is the shrine of St Cedd and his brother St Chad.
(58:07) Inside the crypt.
(59:11) A pre-reformation bier.
(1:01:18) A list of abbots and vicars from 1228 AD, displayed in the main church.
(1:01:50) An exterior view of the church.
(1:02:41) Rosedale Abbey. The village takes its name from the Cistercian nunnery built on the site in the 1100s.
(1:07:38) Gillamoor, near Kirkbymoorside. An image of a hob or hobgoblin on one of the buildings.
(1:08:50) The Royal Oak Inn.
(1:09:18) The Wesleyan Methodist Memorial Chapel, erected in 1867.
(1:09:54) A sundial with four faces at Dial Farm.
(1:13:17) The parish church, St Aidans.
(1:19:10) An inscription on the churchyard wall about the famous "Surprise View" written by John Keble, who had an Oxford College named after him.
(1:20:05) A café in Lealholm. Other places of interest in the village include -
(1:20:26) A drinking fountain built in 1904.
(1:21:10) St James the Greater Church.
(1:21:50) The Wesleyan Chapel, erected in 1839.
(1:22:23) The River Esk.
(1:22:51) Glaisdale. Beggars Bridge, built by Tom Ferris, a local boy made good in the 1600s.
(1:25:09) Fylingdales, with its geodesic domes.
(1:25:23) The ruins of Rievaulx Abbey, founded in 1132 AD by Cistercian monks from France.
(1:42:57) A view with the Rievaulx Temple in the distance.
(1:43:06) Rievaulx Village.
(1:46:03) Thornton-le-Dale. The village center and the famous Thatched Cottage.
(1:48:28) The Bec, which is a source of the River Derwent.
(1:49:18) The village church, Dog Kennel Cottage and the Hall, which was then a hotel.
(1:51:20) Lady Lumley's Almshouses, built in 1656.
(1:52:30) The parish church.
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