The Old Town Hall, picture Ellwood Rowley Collection I WAS fascinated to read David Aynesworth s letter (Craven Herald, January 27 and online) about the Chinese Restaurant in Middle Row Skipton. He mentioned that when Heppers moved in to 76 High Street they found a lot of letterheads concerning The Celebrated Pork Pie Shop. Stanforths originally had one of the two shops on Millbridge, the other was a Post Office. The pies etc. were all made in a house on Park Street, where I lived for a few years in the 1980s. They took over the shop next door and then all the pies were made on the premises and the Post Office moved onto Raikes Road.
The Old Town Hall, Skipton. Picture Rowley/Elllwood Collection.NYCC FOLLOWING the Then and Now feature on the Old Town Hall in Middle Row in Skipton s High Street and the letter from Michael Townson about the Chinese Restaurant next door known as Yi Din Haw I remember it well as I used to work in Hepper Watson and Sons who were in 76 High street immediately adjoining the Old Town Hall on the other lower side. This was in the late 1960s and the 1970s. The restaurant was run by Mr and Mrs Lee and he was Chinese and his wife English.
YORKSHIRE in all its glory is revealed in a new four-part series starting on TV on Monday. The Yorkshire Dales and The Lakes: Season by Season, was filmed over a calendar year and will air on More4 on successive Mondays from 9pm-10-pm. It is the fourth series of the popular programme and film makers have returned to the picturesque Dales and Lakes to follow a range of remarkable characters who live and work in England’s biggest expanse of protected countryside. This series celebrates life in the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales National Parks across the four seasons, meeting real and engaging Yorkshire and Cumbrian folk.