2010 in pictures


Picture gallery of photographs taken by the Gazette & Herald photographers.

2010 in pictures
  • Three baby rabbits which were left at the door of a Norton pet shop in a carboard box.
  • Pupils at St Mary’s RC School, Malton, learned about Fairtrade Fortnight during morning assembly and sold Fairtrade goods and products during playtime.
  • Malton and Norton winger Henry Newitt makes a break in the team's stunning 23-19 victory over Yorkshire One leaders Wheatley Hills on Saturday.
  • Fairtrade campaigners Alison Hardwick and Celine Wahab launch The Big Swap Event in Malton, which takes place during Fairtrade Fortnight.
  • Pickering and district Rotary Club collect money to help win the war against polio. Pictured are Derek Thrippleton, left, and Peter Woodall, getting ready for the Polio Plus fundraising events.
  • Members of the 'My Malton' team - volunteers who aim to tidy up the streets of Malton and Norton. Angie Gair, left, and Sarah Lally-Marley get to work with and Ryedale District Council Streetscene worker Steven Bosworth.
  • Muriel Field, Keith Manning, Linda Gurnell, Emily Newman and Isabel Rogerson get dressed up for Malton and Norton Golf Club’s centenary celebrations.
  • Rev Dr Quentin Wilson who has taken over from Canon John Manchester at St Mary's Priory Church, Old Malton.
  • Sun sets over Langton church as late afternoon light catches the snowdrops in the churchyard.
  • Ryedale School jazz band which has been selected for a Leeds College of Music award for the ensemble showing the most potential.
  • Walkers take a rest on a seat overlooking Rosedale, with signs of snow still on the moors at the top of Chimney Bank Top.
  • The Valentine's Day mixed open race at the Sinnington Hunt Point-to-Point event at Duncombe Park, near Helmsley.
  • Victoria and George Heaps pictured with the Lleyn sheep sextuplets born at Hall Farm, Welham.
  • Pupils from lady Lumley's School, Pickering, who attended the Venturefest 2010 event at York Racecourse, pictured with their horticulture venture.
  • Chow the tiger at Flamingoland.
  • Children from House Martin's Day Nursery are pictured in Mennell's chocolate shop in Malton, where shopkeepers are decorating their windows with St Valentine's Day hearts and flowers to encourage people to shop in the town.
  • Romantic couple Paul Taylor and Laura Grant at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in Pickering. Railway enthusiast Paul proposed to Laura in the dining carriage of the train.
  • Derek Haswell, left, and Mike Haigh in the print room at Beck Isle Museum, Pickering, which has opened for the new season.
  • Sam Lowe, from Lady Lumley’s School, Pickering, meets the residents in the giraffe enclosure at Flamingoland as part of the new national diploma courses, due to be officially launced in Septermber.
  • Emma Boyes and David Hill learn about Ryedale life in centuries gone by as part of their apprentice roles at Ryedale Folk Museum in Hutton-le-Hole.
  • The red phone box in Rievaulx. Many people in Ryedale have said they want to keep the boxes as part of their village street scene.
  • Hippos wallowing in the mud at Flamingoland near Pickering.
  • Barrie Pickering of North Yorkshire County Council's mobile library service delivers books to Hill Cottages, near Blakey Ridge, on the North York Moors.
  • Canon John Manchester retires as vicar of St Mary's Priory in Old Malton.
  • A highland cow stands in a field in front of Helmsley Castle.
  • Rievaulx Abbey.
  • Antiques dealer David Lloyd-Williams with Benson the cat, who he discovered while carrying out a house clearance.
  • The new Bishop of Whitby, Martin Warner after his consecration at York Minister by the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu.
  • Volunteers have completed their painstaking work to repair and catalogue maps of North Yorkshire at the County Records Office.
  • Morrison's staff collecting cash for Haiti earthquake victims. From left: manager David Charlton, Chelsea Scott, Johnny Wilson and Bev Cook.
  • Therapists at Kirkbymoorside Natural Health Centre mark its 10th birthday. From left: Michael Cordel, Annie Wilkinson, Oliver Grant, Julie Watson, Philip Watson and Nicola Simm.
  • A fishing boat returns to harbour as as a dog walker enjoys the deserted beach at Scarborough.
  • Dennis Selina, 83, of Pickering, has been honoured by the Pope for being an outstanding servant of the Church. He receives his Benemerenti medal and scroll from Father Bill East at St Joseph’s Church, Pickering.
  • Norton College pupils celebrate the school’s success in the GCSE league tables. From left to right: Rebecca Reeves, Ben Wainwright and Gemma Grogan.
  • Graeme England, manager of the Blue Ball in Malton which has reopened after a year, pictured with staff member Shauna Hazell
  • Sue Jones, left, and Jackie Farnell who are cooking up a Big Breakfast in Thornton-Le-Clay in aid of St Leonard’s Hospice, York.
  • Mike Gwilliam, left, of Norton, and Steve Stroud, of Ampleforth, pictured on their return to Yorkshire. They were part of the huge Viva Palestina ambulance convoy which took urgent medical supplies to Gaza.
  • Some of the cast of Malton and Norton Musical Theatre's production of Aladdin. Martha Goswald, as the Genie, left, Bethany Fox, the Spirit of the Ring, Rory Queen, the Dame, and Mark Poole as Wishee Washee.
  • All Saints Church in Slingsby, where the congregation face having to raise tens of thousands of pounds for repair work – or close because of the danger of falling masonry.
  • Marcus Burnside, whose home was snowed in at Beck Hole, near Goathland, stars in Pickering's pantomime Sleeping Beauty, and spent the weekend in a bed and breakfast in Pickering to ensure fans would not be disappointed
  • The funeral took place at St Peter and St Paul's Church, Pickering, of flood campaigner Topsy Clinch, who died aged 92.
  • The wintry scene at Goathland Station. Staff and volunteers at North Yorkshire Moors Railway were praised for their 'heroic' efforts in keeping the trains running.
  • Postman David Pottas trudges through deep snow to get to homes in Goathland.
  • The only way in or out of Beck Hole, in the North York Moors, was on foot. Householders in the tiny hamlet were prepared and had laid supplies in.
  • Postman Clive Atkinson receives retirement presents from Kirby Misperton sub-postmistress Amanda Haigh and her husband, Michael, when villagers gave him a surprise send-off after 28 years of deliveries in his North Yorkshire patch.
  • Coun David Lloyd-Williams, has been made an Honorary Alderman of North Yorkshire in recognition of his long service.
  • The picturesque church at Foston after the recent heavy snowfall.
  • A springer spaniel leads the way as sledgers make the most of the recent snowfall snow at Terrington bank.
  • A LIFETIME of working for the North York Moors National Park has been honoured for the park’s chief planning officer Val Dilcock who has been made an MBE in the New Year’s Honours List, just three months before she retires.

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