Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"The Council also owns the museum and fine art collections on display in these buildings, and located on-site at Woodend, in an external store in Filey, and within Scarborough Town Hall."
"SMCCT have an SLA with the Council to manage the buildings, care for the collections, and deliver the museum service offer. This agreement has been in place since 2005."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltba1_-tRT4
"In November 2024 the Trust called an extraordinary Board meeting, at which the worsening financial position of the charity was set out, and Trustees agreed to ask the Council to explore the option of bringing the service back in-house. The assessment of the Board was that taking into account the current capacity of the Board and the deteriorating financial position there was not a realistic option of delivering their objectives in accordance with the SLA, and that the team at North Yorkshire would be in a better position to do so."
A Restricted Enclosure?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5d7QLr7lGQ
"The current CEO is an interim appointment which ends on 31 March 2025."
Without Exemption.
"The current payment to SMCCT for the delivery of services as set out in the SLA is £491,100, per annum for financial year 2024-25. The SLA payment rises annually by the same percentage increase in CPI in the preceding 12-month period. CPI to end of December 2024 was 2.5% so estimated SLA for financial year 2025-26 would be £503,377. The current SLA agreement runs until 31 December 2038."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B90-CMgYuQ
https://scarboroughmuseumsandgalleries.org.uk/
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'Magnets'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"A suggestion that dark energy reached a peak billions of years ago would also herald the first substantial change in decades to the widely accepted theoretical model of the universe. The clock itself was by the family of prolific clockmakers William Potts and Sons Ltd of Leeds and had to be regularly wound, on one occasion in the 1960's the ladder slipped and left a council employee trapped in the tower overnight. Shortly afterwards the movement was replaced by a synchronous electric motor."
"The terraces of flats proceeding North along the Esplanade are all impressive in scale if not always in style but they do exude a splendid air of faded grandeur. "Belvedere" is a building of interest, identified by the monogram OE on the gates. In recent times this was the home of Eric Olsen the shipping magnate."
https://www.pockettours.co.uk/tours/demo-tour/scarborough-south-cliff-cl...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOhDyUmT9z0
"“An active member of the Scarborough Amateur Radio Club, he enjoyed talking to fellow "hams" around the world.”"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eg2evrq55o
"Other areas of the garden were set out for the blind as a sensory trail, and bronze braille boards identified the plants. Alas now all gone."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vzqv59jgeo
""We can't lay our boats alongside this fish quay because of the dereliction and the damage it has caused, so we are sometimes stuck above the bridge."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL8AgEzg5fI
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jpyl8g772o
Big Ears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iDwk4n39R0&list=RD4iDwk4n39R0&start_rad...
https://www.southcliffgardens.co.uk/explore/star-map/
'Assembled Worthies'
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"It’s a brave move. Wandering the aisles, between gilded altarpieces and tribal masks, all within touching distance, it’s a wonder that you’re not forced to don white gloves and a lab coat. “It does slightly keep one awake at night,” says Tim Reeve, the V&A’s deputy director and chief operating officer. “But if we had glass everywhere, it wouldn’t be a storage facility to which you have been invited behind the scenes. We had to commit to that philosophy.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/27/houseplant-clinic-w...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE77RZO54ZA
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/may/28/v-and-a-east-storeh...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw8Q6no7kB4
'Allotments are Good'
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"In the spacious village hall, we joined a line of people slowly snaking forward beside a long table displaying all manner of fruit and vegetables. There were runner beans, peppers, beetroot, cabbage, apples and onions. Huge pumpkins sat beside weird-looking gourds. Tomatoes came in all shapes and sizes."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/sep/20/huge-crater-under-north-...
"The council said it was aware of "continuing interest" in commemorating Sunderland residents who volunteered for the International Brigade"
Baldrick!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMnGpEzrHoM&ab_channel=TrailerWorld
Can we stick a Candle on it?
"Today, the decades-long scientific debate can be settled. The Silverpit crater 700 metres below the seabed under the North Sea was in all likelihood created by a direct hit from an asteroid or comet about the size of York Minster that hurtled towards the Earth more than 43m years ago."
https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/25482839.allotments-good---need-create/
"“They had the big debate and then they had a vote. It was overwhelmingly decided that it was a non-impact origin. Most people favoured the mundane explanation and I think that reflects a tendency to reject the more spectacular explanation.” The vote was 80-20 against the impact hypothesis, raising the question of whether geologists are naturally conservative. “There are different flavours of geologist,” said Nicholson. “People say I get too excited by certain ideas.”"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrq2gpqqyro
Never, Mind.
"Silverpit is exceptionally preserved and important, he said. “We can use these findings to understand how asteroid impacts shaped our planet throughout history, as well as predict what could happen should we have an asteroid collision in future.”"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyYnnUcgeMc&list=RDIyYnnUcgeMc&start_rad...
"“A decision by the Duchy Council on charity rents has been reached and any changes will be announced in due course.”"
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHYPSkEoUcQ&list=RDOHYPSkEoUcQ&start_rad...
https://www.nature.com/ncomms/
Hmmm ... looks like the Dutch got there first.
Where was Vancouver again?