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Almost 200 people attend Pocklington Rotary Club s Thanks for the Memories event at Burnby Hall
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Beautiful Rickman House sits at the edge of Warter, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and enjoys glorious views of the Yorkshire Wolds.
This is the landscape so beloved of David Hockney. Although the artistic relationship with his native Yorkshire blossomed relatively later in his career he only began painting it in earnest from the late 1990s, opening his studio in Bridlington in the mid 2000s he has since captured many views of the undulating roads, the mosaic of fields and the changing seasons, on his iPad, as well as on canvas.
In particular, he painted his Bigger Trees Near Warter a massive, 50-panel work only four minutes’ drive away from Rickman House.
A COMMUNITY group striving to create a museum in Pocklington has been granted charitable status by the Charity Commissioners, and is now named Pocklington District Heritage Trust. The chance to keep recent Iron Age and Saxon archaeological discoveries in the town saw the group formed in 2017. Further digs produced more finds of international importance. The group aims to develop a local facility to showcase and tell the story of all eras from Pocklington, surrounding villages and the western Wolds, covering an area of approximately Melbourne to Huggate on one axis, and Nunburnholme to Wilberfoss in the other. The Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) application was approved in November, and the new trust is now managed by a board of ten trustees. Chairman of trustees, Phil Gilbank, said: “Gaining charitable status is a small but significant step on the road to achieving our vision of a museum that does justice to the area’s remarkable heritage. We have a long way