As part of the Jubilee celebrations in and around Askrigg and Bainbridge, we’re planning a special Jubilee Edition of OSWALD’S OUTLOOK, which will be in addition to our normal run.

So – if you remember this old crooner (they definitely don’t make ‘em like this any more) you’re almost certainly old enough to remember the day the King died and/or the Coronation 16 months later. What were you doing on either of these occasions? Who were you with, and where? (For me, the death of the King is my earliest memory: the Coronation the first time I – and Kate Empsall, as it happens – had ever seen a television).
Meanwhile the younger ones among you might have memories – good, bad or in any way interesting – of the Silver (1977) and Golden (2002) Jubilee celebrations in Askrigg, Bainbridge, Stalling Busk and surrounding areas. Did you take any photographs, or keep a diary, perhaps? Do you still have your Coronation mug, or medal? Or anything at all that reminds you of any of those special events.
The Jubilee edition will be published on Sunday 27 May and I’d like as man people as possible to contribute. Of course we can’t use pictures in the paper copy of the newsletter, but we hope to get as many memories, stories (they need only be brief) and documents as possible. And here on the website we can create an archive in words and pictures of all those memories – a snapshot of village life in the early 1950s, and of the landmark celebrations that spanned half a century.
Below is a round-up of what’s planned – please contact me ’phone, 01969 650180, or email, oswaldsoutlook@gmail.com if you have other ideas, or especially if you can help in any way at all. I’ve created a separate page for the latest news of the village celebrations which you can find by clicking here.

OSWALD’S OUTLOOK JUBILEE EDITION JUNE 2012
DISTRIBUTION DATE: SUNDAY 27 MAY
PRINT DAY: THURSDAY 24 MAY
COPY TO KAREN: TUESDAY 22 MAY
COPY DEADLINE: SUNDAY 20 MAY
CONTENT – IDEAS (MORE WELCOME!)

• Details of Jubilee events for the whole Bank Holiday weekend.
• Memory Lane: Accession Day (Feb 6 1952) and Coronation Day (June 2 1953). People who’ve been here a long time; not necessarily elderly but a variety of ages.
• Poetry competition (8 or 10 lines?) with a £20 Tesco or Amazon voucher as a prize. Any other ideas – from people who still know what sort of vouchers little ones like. Karen (Prudden) and Kath (Alderson) will take the idea into the Askrigg and Bainbridge schools.
• Memory books – Elma, Denny, Elizabeth Metcalfe.
• ‘Snapshot’ in words of the village in 1952. Prices in the shops, PCC minutes, Parish Council minutes, maybe D&S Times News from the Villages (if they carried this at the time). Possibly number of houses, shops, pubs etc.
• This would mean an 8-page issue: We’ll need others to contribute.
• Recipes/food – any ideas? Some foods were still rationed in 1952. Does anyone have their old ration book?