Master craftsman Steve Rail who has spent almost 33 years looking after the most iconic East Yorkshire landmark, Beverley Minster has downed tools for the final time.
His work has ensured that a building loved by so many has been maintained for generations to come.
Work is underway to protect the huge West window at Beverley Minster from further deterioration.
The dedicated maintenance team are currently in the initial stage of what is a large scale project.
This evening, Wednesday 21 June Beverley will play host to the East Yorkshire Thoroughbred Car Club as they take over the town centre for their annual show.
Hundreds of classic cars will be on display from 6PM as the club host their Beverley Midsummer Gathering meeting.
Beverley Classic Car Show will take place this month, an event that always seems to bring the best out in the town.
Nature conservation organisation the RSPB and Beverley Minster are hoping to provide a home for breeding peregrines after installing a specially designed nest box on the tower of the Gothic church.
The benefits of bringing the Beverley Christmas Festival of Food & Drink into Beverley Minster were spread widely at a successful and tasty first appearance in the great old church.
Beverley Minster this week took delivery on a Beacon as part of the Queens Golden Jubilee Celebrations. The lighting of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Beacons takes place on Monday 4th June 2012.
Steve Rial and Paul Hawkins, the men who maintain Beverley Minster, opened up an old well inside the historic building for the first time in two years.
A chance meeting with Steve Rail on Friday in Beverley Town centre led to me spending some of the day on the roof of Beverley Minster.
“It’s not alive if it’s not dripping.” That’s how Steve Rial, the head maintenance man at Beverley Minster, described his British classic 1969 BSA Starfire at Wednesday’s Beverley Classic Car Rally. Steve has owned his BSA since 1984, riding it all over the place and keeping it in pristine condition thanks to the efforts of the men at RM Motorcycles on Flemingate. He told HU17.net: “In its day this was…
As spring inspires new optimism and re-discovered vigour in the people of England, so it energises the men who keep Beverley Minster in shipshape condition. Steve Rial is the ecclesiastical plumber/ glazer at the Minster. Or, rather more prosaically, he’s the man who, along with his mate Paul Hawkins, keeps the water out, the heat in and the Minster safe. For 21 years Steve, 54 and employed by the Minster…
HU17.net Magazine issue 40, featuring pictures from the following events and sports fixtures: * Steve Rial * The Way of the Cross: Churches Together * Curry Night @ Queens Head * ERYC Local Elections: Labour Party & Conservative’s * Urchin: A Great Shoe Shopping Experience * ALison Booth: Training Guide Dogs * Laura Reed’s 21st @ Hodgsons * Hodgsons FC & Beverley ARLC Group Poster * Beverley ARLC Vs Hodgsons…
HU17.net enjoyed a morning’s shooting at Beverley Minster and St Mary’s Graveyard with computer-game and movie icon Lara Croft. Lara, the star of EIDOS’ classis Tomb Raider series of console games and made famous to non-gamers through Angelina Jolie in the film series, is the alter-ego of Beverley model Heidi Taylor. Heidi is on the books at new Beverley model agency Beautiful Freaks, run by Kirsty Mills, and it was…
As beautiful as historic buildings are, they take some looking after, as Steve Rial is only too well aware. Having worked at Beverley Minster for almost 21 years, Steve has been instrumental in the preservation and repair of this stunning piece of history that took 200 years to build, and is therefore between 800 and 600 years old depending on which part you are looking at. One of Steve’s current…