Letters draw
The football club letters drawn on October 8 were A, J, V. As there was no winner the prize money next week is £300.
We were welcomed by Christine Pickard and Bible readings were given by Sandra Cade and Liz Aconley who also took part in a dialogue with Chris Cade. Margaret spoke about love and healing. The organ was played by Chris Cade and the audio visual was by Frank Crofts. After worship refreshments were enjoyed in the hall.
The service next Sunday at 10.30am will be led by the Rev Bob Whitfield and a warm welcome is extended to all. Dr Martin Arnold, reader in Old Northern Studies in the Department of English at the University of Hull, spoke about Wade’s Causeway and its links to Norse mythology.
Dr Arnold drew attention to references to Wade in sources from Chaucer to Wagner and that the place names of the North York Moors from Roseberry (Odin’s Hill) to Grime Moor are part of a pagan landscape. It would seem that we take on board the beliefs of our forefathers very easily. So that Odin becomes Wade and the Celtic Bel (as in Beltane) becomes the “Auld Wife”. So that when Wade was building Mulgrave Castle and was sharing his hammer with Bel; in a fit of pique he scooped out the Hole of Horcum and threw it at Bel down the Auld Wife’s Trod; missed and created Blakey Topping.
It was announced at the meeting that copies of the Transactions of the Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society whose contents include an article on the Victorian Working Class in Brompton are available at £6.50 from Chris Evans (the author).
Next month’s talk is by Jim Hall of Appleton-leMoors who will tell us about the schoolmaster, Frederick Dawson, who would walk up to Whitby after school on a Friday night; walk down to Scarborough on the Saturday and back to Appleton-le Moors on the Sunday.
Everyone is welcome at this meeting which is at Brompton Village Hall at 7.30pm on November 2.
The society’s excursions next summer will be to Pickering church to look at the murals there in the company of Kate Giles and to Rievaulx Abbey.