What a difference a Balsam Bash makes!
Over the past four years volunteers from Bilton Conservation Group have spent time pulling out Himalayan Balsam, at Grange Quarry. Grange Quarry is situated off Skipton Road behind Pets at Home.
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STOP PRESS! Millennium Path – 18th March 2015
A small group of volunteers will be supporting HBC Countryside Ranger Sam Walker on the next stage of reconstruction.
MILLENNIUM PATH 1999 - 2015
In 1999 the conservation group decided to celebrate the new millennium by creating a 220 metre permissive footpath from Willow Wood, behind Tennyson Avenue, Bilton to link with the old abandoned mainline railway (now the ‘Nidderdale Greenway’).
Bilton to Ripley Bridleway – at last!
It has been over 40 years since it was possible (although probably illegal) to walk from Bilton across the Nidd Viaduct and along the disused Pateley Bridge railway line to Ripley.
NIDDERDALE GREENWAY – latest
A group of cyclists from ‘Wheel Easy’ enjoy a break on the greenway! Two rustic seats were provided by Harrogate Borough Council – formed from the bole of a huge oak tree which blew down in the winter of 2013.
Urgent - Your help is needed by the RSPB
Help us the RSPB, to stamp out albatross deaths by giving us your used postage stamps - we can convert them to cash. In 2012/13 your stamps helped us raise £17,000!
Obituary: Jack Henry Bouckley
Jack Henry Bouckley
6th April 1919 - 19th June 2013
By the rivers of my memory...
“Oh those rides across the river
Where the shallow stream runs wide Where the sunset’s beams were crossing The sand on either side
They would cross the sparkling river
On a brown horse and a bay
Barber Reconstruction Project – Progress Report - September 2014
The Barber Reconstruction Project undertaken by the South Tynedale Railway Preservation Society has progressed steadily with the main body of the locomotive being stripped and rebuilt at Bridgnorth in Shropshire.
Barber Project 2015
‘Barber’ left Keef’s Engineering Works last autumn and is now safely back in Alston, Cumbria on the South Tynedale Railway Preservation Society line where it will be pulling passengers from April/May in time for the spring holidays!