Pannal and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth Coronation and Platinum Jubilee

Pannal very quiet. Well Pannal is by I am not. Now is the time for people to email me about relatives who lived here in the past or buildings they live/lived in. I am not complaining as I love answering their queries. I have been told no one in Pannal knows as much as I do and that is lovely. I live here and I have made it my "duty" to find out about people and buildings and places.I have never been stumped yet. The only funny query I have had well not the query the people asking was concerning Pannal Hall and they said they were related to the Bentley family (owners of Pannal Hall at that time). They produced a family tree. We asked them in and made coffee etc. When I studied the family tree I said I am sorry but it is not the Bentley family of Pannal Hall you are related to it is another family named Bentley who lived in the village at the same time and I produced the evidence. They took one look at it and flounced out without a word said.  I bet when they went back to America they produced the photos of Pannal Hall they had taken and said this is where our ancestors lived. 

Another query I had was two ladies came to the front door and asked if I could tell them the history of a house.I could and did. Then I said to one of them "Years ago we had a midwife here called Joan Alderson you look very like her are you related and she said yes I am her daughter". 

I have finished the task I was asked to do by the Parish Council namely to write down what happened in Pannal on Coronation Day 1953 and what happened here in the 1950s and every decade after, right up to the present day.   

This I have done and also printed off some photographs and passed them on to the Parish Council. Quite a lot of work involved but I have a lot of papers and also copies of the School Log Books. Pannal celebrated Coronation Day with flags, bunting. Fancy Dress and a Gala held by kind permission of the owners of Rosehurst a beautiful  building in it's own grounds. It was demolished in 1966 and Rosedale Close was build where the house was and Rosedale built on its magnificent grounds. I was lucky enough to have been inside Rosehurst and also its grounds and I remember, also sadly gone, a most beautiful red rhododendron in front of the house when in bloom could be seen all over the village. It was the sight of some of the wonderful specimen trees being felled that I got in touch with Harrogate Borough Council and with the help of their solicitor Mr Hoyle put on the very first tree preservation order covering and saving  the rest of the trees. TPO No 1 Pannal 1969. Every decade from the 1950s.has been interesting to write about and I hope it will be available for all to see on a history stall when we celebrate  our Queen's Platinum Jubilee over the four day holiday in June, Also of course on 29th May 1953 Everest was Ascended for the first time. The highest point on earth by Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing and the world found out on the morning of Coronation Day. 

Tigs and Marble were sitting alongside me when I was typing that exciting information and I told them but they were not at all interested. Funny that!