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16-Dec-2024: Last-minute Christmas present? Copies of the new edition of Alne Annals are still available - but when they are gone, they are gone. See the entry for 01-October below.

16-Dec-2024; Click here to read the December Parish newsletter (in full colour!)

15-Nov-2024:The final green bin collection of the year is on Friday 29 November. There is no Christmas tree collection in January. Green bin collections will start again in March when a new subscription will be required..

25-October-2024: Whiteley's Cafe winter hours change from 03-November. See the new opening hours in the poster alongside. Alne Annals 2024 (see item below) can now be bought in the cafe.

25-October-2024: Click here to read the November Parish Newsletter (in full colour!)

25-October-2024: The footbridge across the River Kyle has been restored and the path is open to Tollerton. Take care on the double bend in the dip and, 100m further up on the other side of the road, pick up the path which leads to Main Street, Tollerton. Thanks to Alne Parish Councillor Colin Fletcher who has been on this case for the whole of the nearly 5 years since the bridge was swept away in Feb-2020.

01-October-2024: Alne Annals 2024 Now available.

The 2024 edition of Alne Annals is two-and-a-half times as big as the original and contains many more photographs. It is not a history and it is not a chronology, but it is a collection of tales from many authors and publications from many sources. It thus forms a fascinating insight into the village and parish of Alne, its people and its pastimes over the years.

New for this edition:

* Nearly 100 more pages of Alne archives. * Many more maps and photos. * The Story of Gale Garth and Gale Road. * Dating the pre-WW1 photos of Alne Station.

 * Award-winning author Charity Norman, daughter of Vicar Norman, tells us of her childhood memories in Alne in the 1960s.

* Six histories of interesting Alne houses. * The Coronavirus Plague in Alne, 2020-2022 and comparison to earlier plagues. * A miscellany of interesting dates and their sources such as: When was the village pond filled in? * A miscellany of anecdotes such as: Why isn’t the Village Hall at Spout Dyke Corner?

£20. Pay online to Co-op Bank, APLA, 08-92-99, 67195084 with your name as the reference, and send a confirming email to Robert at  [email protected]  stating your delivery address. Or cash/cheque (payable to “APLA”) to 6 Hallgarth, Alne YO61 1RN. Free hand delivery or pick-up in Alne.  Add £4.50 for UK postage and packing.

Proceeds to the APLA recreation ground, UK Charity No 516566

13-Jul-2024: Village Hall Clock Restoration: For some months now, time has stood still as the public clock at Alne Village Hall has stopped.
The clock has been part of Alne’s history dating back to the 1890s. It is a unique double-faced clock (faces on both the inside and outside of the hall) and was installed by the esteemed York clock maker G.J.F. Newey. The mechanism that drives the Village Hall clock was almost certainly made by the famous York-based scientific instrument maker Cooke, Troughton and Simms. The clock is a great asset to the village of Alne. It is a connection to Greenwich and to the important advances in scientific knowledge that took place in Victorian and Edwardian-era York.
The cost of the necessary specialist repairs is £4,000. Two generous grants of £1,000 each from Alne Parish Council and North Yorkshire Council’s Locality Fund have covered half the cost so we have a target of a further £2,000 to meet the rest. A crowdfunding page has been set up at the link below and we would be very grateful for your help.
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/Alnevillagehallclock?utm_term=YJn3GwwW4

01-Oct-2022: The presentation to APLA of the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service (the MBE for volunteer groups) took place yesterday evening on the Alne recreation field.The rain stopped, the sun came out and a marquee full of sparkling wine and beer provided sustenance to those many folk who took heart and ventured out. The presentation of the late Queen's crystal and a signed certificate was made by the Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire.