Pannal Walk

Have Yorkshire Water, Gas, Broadband, etc gone from Main Street Pannal. Well they have at the moment but a couple of days ago fear was struck into the hearts of residents of Main Street, Three men in high viz clothes looking where holes had been dug and filled in. So far no one has come to dig holes but who knows what we have in store for us.

Thursday we awoke to snow and it was cold. No traffic disruption with the snow this time and by the next day the snow was gone and there was sunshine off and on. This was the day I took 17 Pannal Plodders around Pannal telling them what used to be in various places and buildings. We had a lovely time and everyone was so interested. I am very proud of the history of Pannal and when I first joined the Harrogate Society one of the first task was to look around Pannal and its buildings and have them listed. All listed buildings are now in the Conservation Area which I and the Conservation Officer for Harrogate Borough Council Peter Fisher looked at. This was in 1984 and the Conservation Area was added to later.We also have the very first Forest of Knaresborough Boundary Stone in Pannal which I take people to see. Yesterday's walk met at St Robert's car park and we walked up Main Street to Sandy Bank Quarry and All Saints Court then the old Pannal School down Rosedale which was the beautiful Gardens of Rosehurst which was built in 1833 and destroyed in 1966. Back along Main Street past Pannal Hall and down Mill Lane. Then retraced our steps to Crimple Meadows and we kept stopping so that I COULD TELL THEM THE HISTORY OF ALL THE BUILDINGS AND PLACES WE WERE PASSING. We then walked down Crimple Meadows the originally intention was to walk along Mill Lane but it was very wet so Crimple Meadows which were fields belonging to Pannal Hall and where the teasel grew and was used for napping and where we used to picnic. We were on our way to lunch at the Black Swan and a lovely lunch it was too. 

I am getting o well with Villagers Recollections of Coronation Day 1953 and what has happened in Pannal every decade since. 

Last week we and Marble and Tigs were enjoying the lovely warm Spring weather and then snow. So like the rest of us they were both wondering "what happened there then"