Ryedale Folk Museum

Here a re a few photos from Tractor & Engine Day 2014. which was held on Sunday 13th July. Thanks go to Museum Director Jennifer Smith for these. JS

One of our most exciting events, the Ryedale Folk Museum Tractor & Engine Day is not to be missed. Dozens of tractors of all types, stationary engines and other vehicles will be present and also drive round the village. I hope you enjoy looking at this video and photographs of previous tractor days. The above video was filmed in 2009,photos from 2009 & 2010 Ryedale Folk Museum - Tractor and Engine Day blog from Tony O'Reilly - The Atom Film Co on Vimeo . Please click on the above link to watch an excellent video from 2011 Tractor Day.

The museum's model village Kevin & Wendy Simms. Wendy demonstrating the use of a rolling pin The salt box in Stang End. A salt box was often built into the fireplace wall to prevent salt going damp. A traditional cheese press in Stang End. Enjoying a cookie decorated in White Cottage. A few pictures of the museum during half-term. It was cold, but as usual plenty to see and do, the little lad loves it. Jonathan S

Lots Of Changes At The Museum It's been over a year since I was last at Ryedale Folk Museum, it was nice to go with my little lad Tom in half term and see what has been happening. There were some new pygmy goats which Tom liked, and one of the Buff Orpingtons had made a nest in Max's stable. Barbara and Joan were in residence with handicrafts and there was a nice exhibition of quilts in the Manor House. Building work is advancing well on the new Harrison Collection building and it was nice to see plenty of visitors when it was raining. Jonathan S

Where could you go in a museum and see activities from completely different eras within yards of each other? Ryedale Folk Museum, of course. We had an excellent group of iron age re-enactors who were demonstrating different crafts from the period. These included wood-turning, pottery, weaving and textiles. Today, volunteers and staff were treated to a lovely dinner of stew, cottage pie, beetroot, and jacket spuds. Us blokes were even lucky enough to get a pint of Black Sheep. For afters - if you had room, was a smashing apple crumble and cream. Thanks very much to everyone who prepared that lovely meal. After dinner we got busy harvesting the cornfield. We got off to a slow start due to the weather, it was very overcast and drizzly before dinner, but we got the field done with the binder and stooked the sheaves. The binder probably dates from the 1940's, a Sunshine Massey Harris from Australia, and the tractor used to pull it is a MF 135 from the 1970's. Jonathan Severs