Yes did get somewhere with the Sun Colonnade in the Valley Gardens. HBC now know it is there and hopefully it will be treated as the important building that it is. Hopefully the Sun Parlours will be restored and the Colonnade be used for a commercial purpose in keeping with the Valley Gardens. I am sure we all have ides of its use plant and garden based. As a founder of the Friends of the Valley Gardens I have a keen interest in both the Sun Pavilion and the Sun Parlours. I remember running through them as a child and I also remember that there was a big ship in a case in one of the Sun Parlours, My Dad was in the Royal Navy so that is probably why I remember it but unfortunately I cannot find anyone who also remembers the model ship in the glass case. Have you seen the fairy light that are now on the Colonnade roof which will be cleaned and tidied up. It looks lovely.
I am afraid we are stuck with the Dunlopillo building two storeys higher. Wonder if the Pannal Post Office will move into the light industry site behind this edifice. There was talk of that but we shall just have to wait and see. I have had calls from young people who used to live here when they were young. Now married with children and have come back to see where they had lived. Some hardly recognised Pannal. Fields where they had played and fished now all housing (Crimple Meadows) They said thank goodness the quarry and fields (Sandybank Quarry and Crimple Valley) are still there. I took some Harrogate Civic Society members a walk round Pannal and did say to come back in the spring and see all the bluebells and wild garlic flowers in the Quarry. It is a sight to behold.
Must mention if you go to Pannal Post Office to buy a copy of my book Pannal and Burn Bridge Their Stories if it is not on the shelf to the right of the door as you enter they are up by the magazines and papers at the rear of the shop. I am trying to keep them at the front as well but just in case they are not you know where to find them.Only telling you this because someone rang me the other day and said "your book is not at the Post Office"
I still have the black cat coming in for food and sleeping in Marbles bed. Poor Marble has been out all night but now there are three beds in the utility room so peace once more reigns. They have accepted the black cat. It never comes near me so I do not know whether it is feral or just a scared stray.
