XMAS entertainment
The Website team showed their versatility this Christmas by scripting and stging two sketches for the TBS Christmas gathering. Dave Skillen had the audience in stitches with the help of his wife, Lynn, Peter Algar and Mick Dogett with his take on a Monty Python Classic entitled The Four Yorkist Men. Chris Murphy also helped [...]
VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED
Although it’s Christmas we are starting to plan for the 2012 Commemoration Event (it’s on 1st April so there is no excuse for forgetting the date). We need as many volunteers as we can, whatever help you can provide would be appreciated, please let Mark Taylor know if you can help.
BATTLEFIELD WALKS IN 2012
These are the dates for our programme of regular Battlefield Walks for the first half off 2012 . All walks begin at the Rockingham Arms in Towton at 10.30am and all are on a Sunday 11th December- Graham Darbyshire 15th January- Mark Taylor 29th January -Graham Darbyshire 12th Febuary -Peter Algar 26th Febuary- [...]
THE FREI COMPAGNIE IN 2012
Here is an early list of the events at which the Frei Compagnie will be appearing in 2012. Sat 31st Dec: Sandal Castle show n’ tell, 1.30 – 3pm 1st April: Towton Palm Sunday event Sun May 6th: Friends of Lead Church Open Day, Crooked Billet Sat 19th May: Sherburn Gala Sat 16th June: St [...]
Desert Island Discs
TBS Patron Robert Hardy starred on BBC Radio 4′s Desert Island Discs on 20/11/11 with Kirsty Young. You can listen to it here and download it for keeps as part of the BBC’s archive service: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b017c8gp Not surprisingly, Mr. Hardy chose his tome on the Longbow, that he’d co-authored with Professor Matthew Strickland, as [...]
Campaign for King Richard III
Please lend your support to a campaign to set the record straight for our most maligned monarch, King Richard III. If you go to our Events tab you will see that TBS supports the efforts of the “Richard III Project” which is an initiative aimed at getting the media moguls to produce a [...]
YOUR SOCIETY NEEDS YOU – MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT
Towton Battlefield Society have been nominated and are now through to the final round of the NatWest Community Force programme, a project that recognises the work of local charities. If we win we stand to gain between £3,500 and £6,000. Imagine what that would do for our funding? In order to win it though, we [...]
WYTON GOES TO WAR
TBS Members were treated to a spellbinding evening of entertainment when acclaimed Performance Poet, Peter Wyton, paid a visit to Saxton Village Hall for our monthly meeting. Peter captured the essence of battlefield verse and held us in awe, before performing his specially commissioned Towton poem ‘Advice From The One Percent’, an extremely moving elegy. After the break, he launched [...]
FIELD OF DREAMS
Chairman Mark Taylor’s vision becomes a reality in an emotional and epic year for TBS members. Leading a large and enthusiastic group on this year’s Members Walk, I was conscious that we were actually creating history of our own making. This is the first year we have been able to make the walk knowing that [...]
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