WHITBY CIVIC SOCIETY

–EVENTS PROGRAMME 2008

Monday 21 January – Stephanie Wilson will talk on ‘Sailing the Bay of Biscay’.
Saturday 26 January – Visit to Whitby Fire Station, 1.30 pm. Members and partners only. Meet outside main door. Station Officer Paul Burnett is our host.
Thursday 14 February - 7.00 pm, Whitby Museum. The Peter Thornton Memorial Photographic Competition (held together with the Whitby Photographic Society). (Cash Prizes £30).
Monday 18 February - Annual General Meeting – 7.15 pm at Whitby Museum. Following refreshments there will be a discussion and a question & answer session about Civic Society activities. Admission free. Everyone welcome.
Monday 17 March – Whitby Museum, 7.15 pm. Phyllis Walker will talk on ‘Archery through the Ages’. .
Monday 21 April - Whitby Museum, 7.15 pm. Angela Verrill will talk on ‘Flower Pressing’.
Saturday 10 May – 2pm. Visit to the new Youth Hostel at Abbey House. The Hostel will be open to Civic Society members and their friends from 2 pm to 3 pm. Please telephone Maureen on 604170 to give an idea of numbers.
Monday 16 June 'Pannett Park Revitalised' - A talk about the exciting project to redevelop the park given by Friends of Pannett Park.
Monday 21 July 'Whitby Fishing School' by Tony Hornigold. An introduction to the college for trainee fishermen.
Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 September - Heritage open days. Several venues (some that do not normally open to the public) will be open free of charge during this weekend.
Saturday 20 September 2.30pm Beachwatch beach clean and survey at Upgang Beach
Sunday 21 September 2.30pm Beachwatch beach clean and survey at Tate Hill Sands
Monday September 8 – Mr Bernie McLyndon - Senior Ranger for North York Moors National Park will talk on ‘The Work of the National Park Ranger’.
October 20 – Mark Edwards will talk on ‘An Introduction to Whitby Museum’.
November 17 – Vernon Smith will talk on ‘Elizabeth the Steam Bus’.
All meetings are at Whitby Museum Lecture Room at 7.15pm unless otherwise stated and cost £2 for non-members and £1 for members

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Whitby Civic Society participates in First Civic Societies Week

Over 30 societies across Yorkshire and Humber will be taking part in the week long event from Saturday 21 June to Sunday 29 June by hosting their own activities, putting on displays and events and running campaigns, with the aim of raising the profile of the civic society movement across the region and celebrating the important work that societies do in providing a community voice on development and regeneration matters.

Civic societies are independent, voluntary organisations made up of people who care passionately about their surroundings and who want to change them for the better. They actively promote high standards of planning, architecture, regeneration and sustainability.

Civic Society Week
We are offering an opening of the Spa Well and a guided walk as our contribution. These would be on the Sunday 29 June;the Well opening 10.30-14.30 and the walk 14.00 and to occupy one and a half to two hours. Since we have used the Georgian Walk on two occasions, a shortened version of this will be devised, to start at the Cook Memorial in groups of about ten, each with two or three guides, and to finish at the swing bridge.