Beverley is a largely Georgian town, but how much do local residents know about Georgian times?
The new exhibition at Beverley Guildhall, ‘Through the eyes of a Georgian gentleman’, uses the diary of a Beverley gentleman, John Courtney, who lived in the town from 1734 to 1806, to illustrate how life in Georgian England was experienced by real people in Beverley. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, 6 March.
Hull and East Riding residents are encouraged to ensure they are prepared for the upcoming Easter bank holidays and reminded which NHS services will be available.
Urgent Treatment Centres (UTC) and out of hours GP services across Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire will remain open. However, GP practices and most pharmacies will be closed on Good Friday (15 April) and Easter Monday (18 April).
Beverley Chamber Choir, directed by Jeffrey Makinson, will perform a Good Friday Concert on Friday 15 April in St Mary’s Church Beverley
The concert will be a Sequence of music for Good Friday and will include the glorious and popular setting of the Miserere by Allegri.
Local people who need to see a GP or physiotherapist over the Easter bank holiday period will be able to do so for the first time this year.
Routine care appointments, with a doctor or physiotherapist, will be offered from the East Riding Improving Access hub at Manor Road surgery in Beverley on Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday.
This Good Friday, April 19th marks 20 Years since Beverley Chamber Choir’s first Good Friday concert in St Mary’s Church Beverley.
Now under the direction of Jeffrey Makinson, the choir will be joined by a professional orchestra drawn from musicians from the North of England, in the intimate setting of St Mary’s Church Beverley, to perform a small scale version of Messiah by Handel.
For the first time, Taxi marshals will be in place over the Easter weekend on the ranks in Beverley and Bridlington to help customers get home safely.
The taxi marshals will be in place on the taxi ranks on Good Friday and Easter Sunday between 11pm and 3am.
Sewerby Hall and Gardens are hosting a superb programme of events this Easter weekend.
The ever-popular Medieval Jousting spectacular returns once again – on Easter Sunday (1 April), the Knights of Nottingham will take over the front field and present a performance of jousting, sword fighting and much more. Displays will be at 1pm and 2.30pm.
Beverley Chamber Choir, directed by Jeffrey Makinson, will perform Allegri : Miserere and Brahms : A German Requiem on Friday 30th March in St Mary’s Church Beverley
Beverley Chamber Choir has a reputation of presenting choral concerts to the highest standards. The Good Friday Concert will see the choir joined by Soprano : Eleanor Garside and Baritone : Robert O’Connell and the Piano Duo : Jonathan and Tom Scott.
Yorkshire Party Leader, Stewart Arnold says the deal struck between the Conservative Party and the DUP shows just how impotent Yorkshire’s MPs are.
His comments come after the DUP confirmed they would support Theresa May in return for a number of concessions including an additional £1 billion in funding over a two year period.
Ruth Carr will attempt to put the gloss on a memorable few days when golden oldie Dubai Dynamo runs at Beverley on Bank Holiday Monday.
The North Yorkshire handler is still on a high after Sovereign Debt provided Carr with a first Group-race winner from as many runners at Sandown on Friday.
After a bumper senior Pock 7s on Good Friday, the youngsters got in on the seven-a-side act at Percy Road on Sunday.
24 teams produced another six hour try feast in the Pocklington Junior Charity Sevens, sponsored by Agriyork 400, with Beverley coming through at the end of the day to finish Under 14 runners up.
One of the stand-up tale tellers appearing at The East Yorkshire Theatre on Good Friday 14 April 2017 is having to tell his tale while seated in a mobility scooter.
This “new” performer at the theatre is Patrick Nolan, a local Romany character who lives in a supermarket car park and drives about the town in a electronic vehicle believed to have been a bumper-car in a traveling fair.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is reminding residents and visitors looking for somewhere to go on Easter Sunday 16 April can visit a top exhibition.
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition will be open on that day in the Treasure House in Beverley – its final Sunday opening. The exhibition closes for good on Saturday 22 April.
NHS Leaders are warning local people not to be caught short of medication this Easter Bank Holiday.
As the long weekend approaches NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is reminding patients to order their prescriptions in plenty of time, before their GP or pharmacy closes.
Beverley and Bishop Burton College will again take part in Yorkshire’s oldest rugby seven-a-side tournament, the 59th John Smiths Pock 7s, at Pocklington RUFC, next Friday (14 April).
The event has been held in Pocklington every Good Friday since 1959, and it has grown from humble beginnings into one of Yorkshire’s biggest sporting and social days out, with the local rugby fraternity plus many ‘ex-pats’ making their way to Percy Road for an annual Easter reunion.
Prizes galore are on offer for families and shoppers visiting Flemingate in Beverley with an Easter Egg Hunt over Easter weekend and a Superhero Treasure Hunt for the whole Easter holidays.
DCC David Griffin started with Humberside Police as a police officer in 1985 at Beverley and then he was promoted to Sergeant and was based in Hull at Tower Grange.
Tangerine Trees and Borderlescott are on a potential collision course for the Totepool Beverley Bullet in August as horse racing returns to Beverley Racecourse on Wednesday.