Held at Stump Cross Caverns 9 - 10th November 2002
 

What a great weekend! I don't know how many visitors we had, but most of the time you couldn't move in the place. The photo was taken during a quiet period.

The visitors book, which some people signed after we had put it in a more visible place, contains about 50 entries. Most people came from Greenhow and Pateley Bridge and some were ex-Greenhow people now living in the towns and cities around. The ages ranged from a few years to 90+.

The exhibition featured in the Yorkshire Post and the Pateley Bridge and Nidderdale Herald the week before, which probably accounts for the large turn out, and a report on it was in the Herald the week after.

The exhibition was organized by the Greenhow Local History Club which is actively collecting old photographs and information about Greenhow. Many people have leant us photographs to copy, and at the exhibition we had a computer and scanner set up to do this.

Also on the photograph is a collection of mineral specimens and tools that have been found in Coldstones Quarry as the quarry face has broken into old workings.

Many thanks also goes to the persons who leant us various other items to display.

A Loving Cup, from the old Methodist Chapel. The text "Greenea hill Chappel" is unusual and could be based on the spoken dialect at the time.

A wooden box. The brass plate reads "Mme Barkman 1904 - 1969". This box contained the cremated remains of Ruby Barkman, the daughter of Harald Bruff who had lived with her husband in America. The box arrived in England, complete with a member of the Swedish Legation from New York, and was given to the Rev T Garnett-Jones for her ashes to be scattered on Greenhow. As the story goes the box was taken onto the moor tops for this purpose, but when it was opened it was found that the ashes were in a sealed metal box within the wooden one, and as they had no tools to open this, they had to return and do it all over again. Later, a leather top was added to convert it into a small buffet.

A stool, made out of a slice of a tree, "Georgie Thaw", the biggest tree on Greenhow, or was until it became necessary to widen Duck Street in the 1970's - so down it came.

A tobacco jar. Made from a quarter inch thick Lead, which would have probably stood on the mantelpiece. It is thought to date from about 1860 and was found at Hardcastle a hundred years later.

A clay pipe, found some thirty years ago in Eagle Level. It has been dated to the period 1825-1845.
 
 
 

A glass vase in the shape of a mine tub which was found lodged in a dry stone wall near to Greenhow Quarry. It was found broken into two pieces, presumably by some movement of the wall. There is a diamond shaped glass makers mark on the base; this indicates that the design was patented. this type of mark was used between 1868 and 1883 and indicates that this was made in June 1880.
(Please don't go knocking down dry stone walls hoping to find a rarity like this!)
 
 

We would like to express our thanks to Gordon and Sue Hanley, of Stump Cross Caverns, for putting up with us and allowing us space to hold this exhibition.

Malcolm Street, Nov 2002
 

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