Stories of the long, fascinating history of North Yorkshire’s places, people and events will be brought to life in Hambleton’s libraries during Local and Community History Month in May.
Talks, discussions and exhibitions will feature topics including the historic gardens of Hambleton, Northallerton prison through the ages and the archaeological work in Captain Cook’s Memorial Garden in Great Ayton.
Following this year’s theme, Then and Now, libraries across the county will join the national drive to encourage people to discover the excitement of uncovering the history on their doorstep.
Neil Irving, the county council’s assistant director for policy, partnerships and communities, said: “Then and Now is an ideal theme for our libraries.
“While they are very much forward-looking and at the centre of today’s communities, libraries are also repositories of a wealth of local history and ideal places for people to come together to listen to stories and join discussions about what made us and the places we live what they are today.
“With our colleagues from the County Record Office and many partners and guests, we’re delighted to host such a wide array of events celebrating our diverse past.”
For details of all events, visit https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/libraries-news-and-events or your library.
Local and Community History Month events
Northallerton Library
- Then and Now exhibition, 1-31 May: Display on three historic gardens in Hambleton; Rounton Grange, Wood End and Kirby Fleetham, have been researched as part of a larger project by the Yorkshire Gardens Trust in Hambleton. The project aims to research and record locally significant historic designed landscapes, some of which are lost, endangered or not otherwise recorded.
- Display of photographs and information featuring the former Northallerton prison site: in partnership with Hambleton District Council, with images of the prison through the ages, including when it was home to the world’s largest treadmill; when it was a military prison and a young offenders’ institution; the recent archaeological dig, and how the prison site is due to be transformed.
- Wednesday, 1 May, 10am-3pm: Pop-up Archive, Meet an archivist from North Yorkshire County Record Office and learn about their work and the county record office collections. 11am, Mapping Northallerton, free talk lasting 30 minutes.
Richmond Library
- Saturday, 4 May: display, Richmond then and now.
Great Ayton Discovery Centre
- From Monday, 20 May: The Cook Memorial Garden Exhibition, display about archaeological work in Captain Cook’s Memorial Garden in Great Ayton, the site of the Cook family cottage, located in the garden until it was moved stone by stone to Australia in 1934.
- Wednesday, 22 May, 3pm-4.30pm, free ancestry for beginner’s session.
The Globe Library, Stokesley
- Then and Now display by the Stokesley History Society.
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