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Review Issue 149

YDS/001/040/001

Review issue 149 published in Winter 2020. Articles include a feature on the endangered crayfish by Paul Bradley, wildlife under threat at Hellifield flashes by Roger Haffield and a piece on the Society’s campaign on road verges by Anne Readshaw. Anthony Bradley discusses the impacts of agriculture on the environment, Rick Cowley updates on the Glover ...
Review Issue 124

YDS/001/032/004

Review issue 124 published in Autumn 2013. Articles include a feature on HF Holidays by Chis Flecknoe, ‘Bell Busk Station and the Victorian Mill Workers’ outing to the Dales’, an appreciation of Colin Speakman, Bill Mitchel on JB Priestley, an piece on learning to read your building by Sue Cowgill, an item on Rohan and on ...
Review Issue 13

YDS/001/004/004

Review issue 13 published in Winter 1985. Articles include ‘Subtopia in the Dales’ about the need to control development, an update on Coolscar Quarry, a tribute to the first 50 years of The Council for National Parks and contributions from YDS members living abroad. Cover photo is of Gordale in Winter by John Avison.
Review Issue 14

YDS/001/005/001

Review issue 14 published in Spring 1986. Articles include the campaign to save the Settle-Carlisle railway line, the issues of providing homes for locals whilst preventing inappropriate development as at Pateley Bridge, greenways in the Dales and date panels on historic buildings. There is also a poem by Roy Brown, ‘Turrets and Tors of Limestone’. Cover photo of ...
Review Issue 45

YDS/001/012/004

Review issue 45 published Winter 1993. Articles include a comment on quarrying by Dr. Jim Burton, a visit by officers from Hochharz National Park in former East Germany, a feature on the conservation of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal historic landscapes, access to the countryside for those with disabilities and the geology of Wharfedale by A. ...
Review Issue 47

YDS/001/013/002

Review issue 47 published in Summer 1994. Articles include a tribute to the late Geoffrey Wright, conservation of the farmed landscape, “The ‘lile Grey Fergie”, the craftspeople of the Dales, the geology of the Howgills and Dentdale and a piece on the Friends of Pembrokeshire National Park. There is also a piece on the Festival of Culture ...
Jack Myers Collection

JMC

This is a small sample of a large collection of 35mm colour slides. They are mainly landscape images of the North Pennines, in particular the Ingleborough area. The slides were created by Jack Myers between 1963 and 2002. He was a lecturer in Mining Geophysics at the University of Leeds.
Sample of Jack Myers photographs

JMC/001

This is just a sample of the thousands of landscape images of the North Craven area taken by Jack Myers.
Looking across limestone pavement to Ingleborough

JMC/001/003

Dramatic photo looking across the extensive limestone pavements above Chapel-le-Dale, and capturing the large erratic boulder against the distant and distinctive profile of Ingleborough. This was a view that Jack Myers returned to on several occasions.
Looking South along Raven Scar

JMC/001/006

This striking view looking along Raven Scar is just one of many photos of geological features in the Ingleborough area.
Typical carboniferous landscape above Chapel-le-Dale

JMC/001/007

Jack Myers had enormous enthusiasm for the landscapes of the north Pennines, judging by the thousands of photos he took – like this one, of a typical Carboniferous Limestone land forms above Chapel-le-Dale.
The origins of Giggleswick and its people and paths to freedom

GHC/002
Rivers Past and Present

AAA/003/001

General notes for lectures given whilst at Cliffe Castle Museum. The work of rivers – valleys, sediments and formation of rocks.
Geology and minerals in West Yorkshire

AAA/003/005

Notes for vernacular building courses run by YVBSG with a focus on Craven Dales. Particular emphasis given to use of timber in old buildings – crucks, beams, purlins. Background information on dendrochronology – how it works and evidence derived for local buildings (houses and barns). Also notes for CBA talk in Sheffield -Recent developments in ...
Pioneering Science in the Pennines

AAA/003/009

1 Programme for a weekend course at Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley June/July 2001.The pamphlet contains briefing information and background preparation for a weekend course given by Alison and other local academics. Drawings and preparation notes are included. Information on local buildings such as Boyle School, Burnsall Grammar School. 2 Report and Summary of the above course. ...
Geology and the use of stone in Craven vernacular buildings

AAA/003/016

1. “Geology and Building Materials” – Paper on geology of Yorkshire with an emphasis on the west of the county but including the Vale of York. 2. Three sheets looking at the use of stone in vernacular buildings of Craven area. 3. List of masons working in Craven during 17th and 18th centuries.
Geology - Dry Rigg Quarry - unconformity i

AAA/004/002/010

AA4_1_10 Geology: Dry Rigg Quarry, Helwith Bridge, unconformity between Horton Formation silurian siltstone and Kilnsey Formation carboniferous limestone above.
Geology - Dry Rigg Quarry - unconformity ii

AAA/004/002/011

AA4_1_11 Geology: Dry Rigg Quarry, Helwith Bridge, unconformity between Horton Formation silurian siltstone and Kilnsey Formation carboniferous limestone above.
Container 1 - Ribblesdale: Langcliffe to Horton-in-Ribbledale

AAA/004/002

Slide box 1 titled “Ribblesdale: Langcliffe to Horton” containing thirty 35mm colour positive film photographic slides of exterior and interior views, drawings and context shots of historic buildings together with scenery and geological features in Ribblesdale from Langcliffe, near Settle, North Yorkshire to New Houses, Horton-in-Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire. Slides in this box are referenced AA4_1_01 to ...
Slipped shale of the Bowland Shale Formation i

AAA/004/005/037

AA4_4_37 Slipped shale of the Bowland Shale Formation on the W side of the road between Addingham and Bolton Bridge somewhere in the vicinity of NGR SE07095238.
Skipton anticline at Bolton Abbey

AAA/004/005/036

AA4_4_36 Extract of geological map of the Skipton anticline at Bolton Abbey from unknown publication.
Sandy Quaternary Alluvium Depoits

AAA/004/005/039

AA4_4_39 Looking SW across R Wharfe to Bolton Priory from the sandy Quaternary alluvium depoits at approx NGR SE07535425 to an exposure of rock (difficult to identify in the photograph but likely to be mudstones of the Bowland Shale Formation).
Slipped shale of the Bowland Shale Formation ii

AAA/004/005/038

AA4_4_38 Slipped shale of the Bowland Shale Formation on the W side of the road between Addingham and Bolton Bridge somewhere in the vicinity of NGR SE07095238.
Quaternary deposits of till and alluvium ii

AAA/004/005/041

AA4_4_41 Bolton Abbey: Quaternary deposits of till and alluvium probably riverbank E of tearoom.