Austwick Church news: With the Government’s national ‘Step’ Regulations progressively enabling more activities to restart, we are now gradually reintroducing services of worship in our churches. Initially these are combined services to include everyone in the parishes of Clapham, Keasden, Austwick and Eldroth: Sunday, April 25, 9.30am, Austwick; Sunday, May 2, 9.30am, Eldroth; Sunday, May 9, 11am, Keasden. Ascension Day Thursday, May 13, 10.30am, Austwick; Sunday, May 16, 11am, Clapham. Parish News: The current edition can be found on the link below or from the village website: drive.google.com/file/d/1lLD4YaMwMxFiXWKeqE O8NVJIZ8xsv8I/view?usp=sharing WI: We began the first meeting of the year with a Zoom presentation. Sarah Lister had been our last speaker in March 2020 and she returned in April 2021 with her talk about the surprising revelations from the Settle graveyard. Her excellent talk about two Settle families, the Ellis family and the Slinger family, revealed
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Letter: Settle planning proposals ANYBODY who lives in Settle will be aware of the unsightly toilet block at the Kirkgate entrance to Ashfield Car Park. Something has to be done with this and whilst the obvious thing is to reinstate the toilet blocks , it is unlikely to happen given the council’s financial status. My concern is Craven District Council is looking to redevelop the site which potentially could be a good thing. However what we are concerned about is the possible size of this project and the building materials used. It’s inevitably going to be built to a price and any opportunity to cheapen the cost will be taken. Kirkgate area of Settle is part of the conservation zone and really hasn’t changed for a century or more and consists of stone mullion windowed buildings with slate or stone roof tiles.
FRIENDS of St Mary’s Church in Carleton are busy creating - in their own homes, because of the coronavirus, a 7ft tall nativity banner which will take pride of place at its outdoor Christmas Eve service this year. Craven artist, Alison Gaynor, joined forces with parishioners from St Mary’s to develop the design. Pupils from next door Carleton Endowed Primary School, and others throughout the village, have been busy cross stitching stars to twinkle in the banner’s ‘night sky’. Meanwhile, clever folk from the village’s knit ‘n’ natter group, the choir and other villagers are independently creating the super size traditional nativity stable scene, from fabric.