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Betty Dobson, Jenny Gibson, Ruth Street & Gordon Machen

Art Eccles, Lesley Abernethy, Chris Willott & Steve Whitaker

Liz Holdsworth, Elaine Mullins,
Janet Lovegrove, Dorothy Lovegrove, Susanna Greenwood,
Tony Carroll & Brian Lovegrove

The Bay Horse, at Fulford, found favour with us all! The food is plentiful, reasonably priced, good quality and a nice varied menu.
Highly recommended!

A nice, light room, at the rear of the pub, provided ample comfortable seating, and a back door provided a convenient exit for the smokers to disappear, but still be 'in touch.'

Liz, Janet, Dorothy, Tony and Susanna

This picture is from Speakers Day - From the back, Left to Right: Pat Fisher, Colin Withers, Pam Elliott, Hazel Morrill, Elaine Mullins, Susanna Greenwood, Liz Holdsworth, Janet Ogden, Anne Wigglesworth, Brian Lovegrove, Janet Lovegrove(behind Harry), Dorothy Lovegrove, Judith Varley, Harry Varley

The names in blue are local visitors, all Yorksgen listers, who joined us just for this event.

"Speakers Day" - Some of them look a bit fed up,
but they were waiting for the talks to begin!

Brenda Griffith, opening the bottle

Chris Willott's talk, "What Our Ancestors Ate" was a great success, and was followed by a lunch comprising lots of the foods
that Chris had talked about:
Salad leaves, Yorkshire Ham, Rye Bread, Cottage loaves, Wensleydale Cheese, pickled onions, tomatoes, stuffed dates, ginger beer, light beer, real lemonade and, if we were not already full up
...... Yorkshire Parkin!*

*Parkin (Picture below) is a gingerbread loaf,
made with treacle and oatmeal. It is very filling! Sustaining - it certainly must have been
designed to fill hungry people!
This one was specially made for us by the baker at Hovingham Bakery, who has recently won an award, "Craftsman Baker of the Year 2008"

Jackie Depelle dipping into some lunch,
watched by Art Eccles and Janet Ogden

Parkin
(I witnessed several chunks of Parkin being washed down with coffee, by Colin, back at House K)

Jackie Depelle, the "Hat Lady"
aka one of "Your Fair Ladies" organisers of the
Family History Fairs at Pudsey, Malton, Scarborough and Hull

Jackie was the first speaker in the afternoon with a talk entitled "Chasing Million Eyres - From Leeds to Kamschatka"

This is Chris Willott, at Whitby, following a superb lunch at the famous "Magpie" Cafe.

and finally...........

Our "Last Night" Dinner at the Red Lion, Knapton

On the left, Dorothy Lovegrove, Janet Lovegrove, Colin Withers, Magdalena Gorrell Guimaraens, Elaine Mullins, Liz Holdsworth, (someone hiding behind Liz - was it Lynn Lucas?), Chris Willott, Brian Lovegrove, Andrew and Anne Harley, Sue Taylor (completely hidden by Susannah), Susannah Greenwood, Betty Dobson, Art Eccles, Ruth Street, Brenda Griffith -
Sitting on Brenda's left were Jocelyn Appleyard and Yvonne Clarke, (too close to me to fit in the frame)
Victoria and Alexander Harley joined us later

Ahhh..... if only our ancestors could see us now!