Pannal research plus

 I have been contacted, by his grandaughter, in regards to an A Boty who attended Pannal Ash College  in 1921 when he was fourteen.As I have all the papers and documents of this College I could give her the answer to all her queries together with a photograph of her grandfather as a young boy and also told her he had a brother who also attended the College.  Pannal Ash College founded in 1870 under the name of Southern College later becoming Pannal Ash College purchased in 1897 by Walter S Hill then in 1946 purchased by West Riding Police Authority as a Police Training School. In 1939 it was requisitioned at 24 hours notice by the Ministry of Works and occupied by the Royal Air Force until 1945. The staff and pupils had been transferred to Newburgh Priory. it was purchased by the Home Office as Police Training College. Sold in 2014 for housing and in 2014 I had the War Memorial Library which was built in 1925 and opened by the Earl of Harewood in1926 listed and good job I did as once when I was passing I saw lorries all round the Memorial Library and went up to see what was happening only to be told they were preparing to demolish it. Suffice it to say I had that stopped. Permission now January 2024 for building work to start. I am sorry to see that happening as with all the housing being built a school is desperately needed. Together of course with a hospital and more doctors surgeries. I do a number of queries re Pannal and Pannal people and I have never been stumped yet.

Another one I have had recently was of Black Wood at the end of Pannal Golf Club going towards the bypass.  Has anyone heard the tale of the mysterious Black Dog. When I was young and lived at Kirkby Overblow I heard tales of it from very old people who lived next door to us at Maltkiln Cottages. Has anyone heard of the Black Dog that is seen then vanishes? Let me know if you have as it has been seen recently and then vanished. 

Nancy Downey email me to say that the powers that be have had a change of heart and the Neighbourhood News will once again be printed in the Harrogate Advertiser. 

Thinking recently of all the people I knew in the early 1960s in Pannal. All sadly gone but Ken Walker that had Walker's Butchers I am pleased to say still with us. Pannal was really a village then and now a number of the inhabitants have all changed  but it is still the Pannal that we love. 

Pannal in Winter

 Happy New Year everyone.

I started typing this in sunshine but now getting dark only 2.45pm, so big light on. Does everyone say put big light on as I have always said it. 

I had a lovely Christmas. All the family here and Fourteen of us and two dogs sleeping here for a week. Only spaces left in the house were the top of the wardrobes. It was great fun though. Did manage to get out when it was dry. Difficult as rain hardly ever stopped. My young grandchildren love the Quarry. My children loved it too. So lucky to have it so near us. New Year I was in Cheltenham and Bristol where it was the same weather has here - rain. Flooding in places in Pannal and flood notice went up at the bottom of Church Lane and Crimple Meadows. Have noticed this morning all the pigeons attacking my cottoneaster for the berries. Does this mean a cold spell? Remember Mr Foggatt the weather man. He said that was a sign. We all remember Dr Graham Foggatt ( a relative and when I asked him if he was relate. He said raising his eyes upwards "for my sins - yes") I remember him when he first started in the practice which was in Dr Jones house in Drury Lane. We all sat round on chairs and went in "to see the Dr" in the order you were queued in the chair and heaven help anyone who tried to jump the queue. I was very friendly with Dr Anna Powell his wife. She was so lovely and took it so badly when Graham died and then Anna very sadly died later quite young. I was very upset. RIP.

I am answering questions about Pannal and surrounding areas. When we were first married we lived at Maltkiln Cottages in Kirkby Overblow so I am getting queries about there which so far I have been able to answer. It is so nice to be able to answer queries. I am Pannal's historian and also historian at Pannal Golf Club. I wrote their Centenary Book and that took me two years to research and write having to read one hundred years of men and then ladies minutes. It was well received and I am told very well used. 

I told you I lost Marble. Well Tigs has been acting very strange. I would not have thought she missed Marble as she never really got on with her and was always trying to pinch her food. It got so bad that I had to shut Tigs in one room and Marble in the other as if  I had left them together to eat their food I would have had one very fat cat and one not. Anyway Tigs follows me around now and I have to be careful I do not fall over her and she forever wants to sit on my knee. Not only if I watch tv of an evening but all day. Now have to have a cup of tea either standing up or sitting at the table.