Ryedale Folk Museum

Under a week to go ..!  WE NEED YOUR VOTE  HOW YOU CAN VOTE You can only vote by calling the voting line on Monday 25th November, and the number will be published on the Ryedale Folk Museum website – only on the day!! Lines will be open from 9am until midnight, and you can call up to 10 times! Please get all your friends and family to vote! ITV came to film for our short clip yesterday which will feature on the telly on Monday 25th of November at Teatime on the Yorkshire News broadcast. Above are just a small amount of the images which I took yesterday at the filming, we had Welburn Hall, Gillamoor and Kirkbymoorside Primary schools all involved, as well as the chainsaw carvers and Duncombe Birds of Prey Centre kindly came with one of their barn owls to excite the children in the project! They are all really excited and we really want to win this for them and the community that will reap the benefit from the process and end piece of a wildlife sculpture trail. VISIT US ON FACE...

We open Sunday January 20th for visitors- weather permitting. Please ring before making a special journey on 01751 417367. Jonathan S

This year our ever popular Halloween Party has spooky goings on and fun for all the family  - the museum comes alive once more between 6 and 8pm on Wednesday 31st to provide a Halloween Party with a difference. Moonlit activities around the museum buildings. Warm clothes and a torch recommended. £ 3.75 a head - tickets available from the Museum.

Robin Butler recalls Second World War air raids in Kirkbymoorside. C.Gough

Museum Volunteers Robin Butler and Peter Smith share their memories of wartime treasure hunting. Silk parachutes and unexploded parachute flares could be of great value to a wartime youth. C.Gough

Yesterday I when to College with Emma, and we had a great time. We get the 7:37 train from Malton to York and change over to the Bradford Interchange train. The annoying thing about the train is that we have to wait 20 minutes to get on, but on the positive side we have time to get a bite to eat. Sometimes we go to the Bradford City Training Services and others we go to Bradford College. Yesterday we were at the City Training Services. It is great when we are in Bradford because we are able to socialise with others around us. There are people like us who are doing different courses in the same class as us. We have made some good friends there and are going to make more i should think as there are some new people joining. The different Apprentices there are all to do with creativity, as the City Training Services provide a course for different Apprentices combined together. There are Apprentices doing courses on Gallery Management, Museum Directory, Media Management, Theatrical Manageme...

Sorry folks for not writing in a long time but I have been busy!! Recently I have been to the Bradford college and, got to know the surroundings around me. Over the past few weeks I have opened up the museum, got to know the different sets of keys and what they are used for, i have also learnt recently, how to open up the actual site with the Master set of keys. When I am at work I have been doing lots of different jobs such as; Front of House (on my own), as well as doing a bit of my own work with college. David has been helping me get up to the same stage as him, so we can help each other and discuss our different opinions. I have been on a 'Customer Care course' and have found it useful and have taken many notes for college. This will be useful for Evidence. - I have also already done a Customer Care course and I achieved the highest standard in my class. David and I cleaned out the office, and you would have to have a strong gut to do it, as it was a hard job. We both felt ...

Part Two of Peter and Robin's Evacuee Stories Following last weeks blog of Peter discussing his experiences as an evacuee you can now click on the player below to hear part of Robin Butler's story. Robin gives a view of what it was like to host evacuees, his family took in a pair of evacuees whom, among other things had never eaten a boiled egg! Carrie Gough