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Slide 13 - On the west side is the Minstrels gallery where in olden times the musicians discoursed music and song, to the assembled guests below, and on the north side are two internal and ancient looking windows, from which it is said, the fair…

Slide 3 - From the crevices between the flags have sprung up in profusion lily of the valley, and groups of musk, etc.

The architecture of Woodsome Hall is of the Tudor period, but it does not appear to be all of the same date. In front there is the…

Slide 16 - Emerging from the courtyard, we view the mansion from the back, noticing the buttressed chimney-stacks and diagonally formed summits, peculiar to the period.

In taking our leave of Woodsome, the lines from Tennyson can truly be applied…

Slide 6 - In the grounds surrounding the house are many fine 'ancestral trees' copper beeches, variegated sycamores, light coloured elms and weeping beeches.

Our attention is drawn particularly to a magnificent wych elm, the branches of which, it…

Slide 3 - If not much is known of their history, their generosity and handsome bequests to York Minster must not be forgotten.

Slide 4 – In 1291 Robert de Vavasour supplied the stone from his quarries near Tadcaster for building the nave of the Minster, the memory of this is preserved in a statue of a Vavasour as a mailed Knight bearing a block of wrought stone, which was…