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With the aim to contribute to the improvement of IELTS test preparation Vietnam, the British Council IELTS have been organising teacher training workshops in Vietnam for the past 8 years. Teacher training is one of our key activities that we offer to our IELTS partners to provide the teachers with insights of how IELTS are marked and practical skills of teaching IELTS in order to help the students reach their full potential in the real exam. This year we are very delighted to welcome nearly 70 teachers to the British Council's Practical Teaching Methodology Workshop - IELTS Advanced 2017, organised in Hanoi on 19th & 20th August 2017.
Với mục đích nâng cao chất lượng dạy và học IELTS tại Việt Nam, Hội đồng Anh đã và đang tổ chức các khóa tập huấn nâng cao năng lực giảng dạy dành cho giáo viên IELTS trong suốt 8 năm qua. Chương trình tập huấn dành cho giáo viên là một trong những hoạt động quan trọng dành riêng cho các đối tác IELTS của Hội đồng Anh trên khắp cả nước nhằm cung cấp cho các giáo viên những hiểu biết sâu sắc và cập nhật về bài thi IELTS, cách thức chấm điểm của bài thi IELTS và những phương pháp giảng dạy thực tiễn có thể áp dụng ngay trong lớp học, thông qua đó giúp đỡ cho các học viên của đối tác đạt được phong độ tốt nhất và số điểm IELTS mơ ước. Năm nay Hội đồng Anh rất vinh dự được chào đón gần 70 giảng viên IELTS tới từ mạng lưới các đối tác tham dự khóa tập huấn nâng cao British Council's Practical Teaching Methodology Workshop - IELTS Advanced diễn ra tại Hà Nội trong 2 ngày 19-20 tháng 8 năm 2017.
Contributing Building - Harbor Oaks Residential District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #87002133
L B Dickerson House - Built 1925
PEPPER MASHAY performance during 37th Capital Pride Festival at the Main Stage on Pennyslvania Avenue and 3rd Street, NW, Washington DC on Sunday afternoon, 10 June 2012 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE: AMERICA, WE SING BACK! community event at the All Souls Unitarian Church at 1500 Harvard Street, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 28 September 2013 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Performances
Poet Amin Dullal, professionally known as DRAW LAW
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Contributing Building - Brookwood North Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #95000684
Contributing Building - Avon Park Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #90000486
Built in 1924
The Peabody-Fordson Historic District (also known as the Redbird Ranger Office Complex) is located at 91 Peabody Road, south of Big Creek in rural eastern Clay County. The district is an historic complex which dates to the early 20th century.
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. It includes three contributing buildings, three contributing structures, and a contributing site, on 23 acres. It also includes six non-contributing buildings and six non-contributing structures.
Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody-Fordson_Historic_District
Sandra Swindle contributes her thoughts with Brittany Block on “The Book of Unknown Americans” September’s book for Woodworth Consolidated library “Books Around Town” book club during the monthly meeting Sept. 28 at Vallarta restaurant. (Photos by Alia Naffouj/Fort Gordon Public Affairs Office)
Nearly a decade in the works; Uprise and Quiksilver joined together to develop a concept into product. This concept was inspired by a vision of true blue-collar quality product, centered on the standard Blue Collar -- Beach City Clean Up Crew Uniform. What was once only a concept, only a vision, became the most authentic product collaboration between two of the skateboard industry's most prestigious brands.
Contributing Building - Palatka North Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
Formerly US Post Office
Built 1915
Contributing Building - Zephyrhills Downtown Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #01001058
Author and artists contributing to "The Adventure Time Encyclopædia" talk about the book and take time to sign autographs at SDCC '13. Photos by World Domination Designs"
Contributing Building - Cuthbert Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #75000607
Buildings on left and center are Mesker designs.
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Physical characteristics
Medium-size but relatively slim bunting, with long, thin tail contributing to more attenuated outline than any other congener. Shares rufous-buff ground-color to plumage with five other Emberiza, best distinguished by rather small, lead-colored bill, strong head pattern of blackish crown-stripes and complete black surround to ear-coverts on greyish ground, and strongly rufous rump. Terrestrial, rarely far from rocks. One call distinctive. Sexes dissimilar, some seasonal variation in male.
Habitat
Extends across lower middle latitudes of west Palearctic, from Mediterranean to Caucasus, from warm temperate to steppe climatic zones. Avoids most humid or wet situations, closed forest, and good agricultural land, preferring sunny semi-arid terrain, often stony or rocky, with more or less spare shrub vegetation, and usually with no more than scattered trees. Often on slopes or hillsides, up to 1900 m, and extralimitally in Asia above 4000 m, frequenting mountain villages and gardens. Occupies open areas at upper forest limits, juniper scrub, subalpine meadows with shrubs and screes, stone-walled cultivated areas, and vineyards on hillsides.
Other details
Emberiza cia is a widespread resident across much of southern Europe, which accounts for less than half of its global range. Its European breeding population is very large (>1,300,000 pairs), but underwent a large decline between 1970-1990. Although the trend of the key population in Spain was unknown during 1990-2000, the species was stable across most of its European range, and was probably stable overall. Nevertheless, its total population size probably remains below the level that preceded its decline.
Feeding
Seeds, mainly of grasses, and other parts of plants, invertebrates in breeding season. Feeds principally on ground among rocks and scrubby vegetation, or in short grass in fields, at woodland edges, etc., but not infrequently in bushes or tall herbs taking both seeds and insects. Mostly picks seeds from ground, but will also stand on stems, sometimes several at a time, to bend them over and reach see-head, reaches over to seed-head from neighbouring perch, or pulls seed-head down while standing on ground. Catches flying insects in short sallies just above ground.
Conservation
This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,000,000-10,000,000 km2. It has a large global population, including an estimated 2,600,000-8,200,000 individuals in Europe (BirdLife International in prep.). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. [conservation status from birdlife.org]
Breeding
Late April to mid June in Switzerland, early May to mid July in Hungary, mid May in Greece, April to mid june in Algeria. Nest sit, on or close to ground in cleft in rock or between boulders on slope, usually by bush, etc., generally hidden by vegetation though sometimes exposed, also in wall or earth bank, or low in dense tree or bush. Nest, foundation of dry grass, stalks, and roots, occasionally leaves and bits of bark, lined with fine grasses, rootlets, and some hair. 4-5 eggs, incubation,12-14 days, by female only.
Christian Koloko contributed 17 points, 13 rebounds, six assists and five blocked shots in a stellar all-around performance to help No. 1 seed Arizona sail to an 87-70 victory over Wright State on Friday in a South Regional first-round game at San Diego.
Bennedict Mathurin scored a team-best 18 points and Dalen Terry added 16 points and seven rebounds for the Wildcats, who will face ninth-seeded TCU (21-12) in Sunday's second round. The Horned Frogs routed eighth-seeded Seton Hall 69-42.
Azuolas Tubelis had 13 points and Pelle Larsson added 11 for Arizona (32-3), which overcame 19 turnovers during the wire-to-wire victory.
"I think they were fine," Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said of his players to truTV. "Wright State is a good team and they have a lot of pride and they have no quit in them. We had them on the ropes a couple times and they battled back."
Grant Basile registered 21 points and three blocked shots for Wright State (22-14). Trey Calvin scored 16 points, Tim Finke had 15 points, six rebounds and four steals, and Tanner Holden had just 12 points.
Holden was just 3 of 11 from the field two nights after pouring in 37 points on 11-of-15 in shooting in a 93-82 win over Bryant in the First Four at Dayton, Ohio.
Kerr Kriisa (ankle) missed his third straight game for Arizona.
The Wildcats shot 55 percent from the field, including 11 of 20 from 3-point range. Arizona held a 46-25 rebounding edge to offset their turnovers.
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Contributing Building - Tuscawilla Park Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #87002015
Ansel Adams Gallery -- Best's Studio/Gallery, Residence No. 102
Part of Yosemite National Park – www.nps.gov/yose
Mariposa County, CA
Listed: 03/30/1978
The Yosemite Village Historic District, through both sites and structures, represents almost the entire range of Yosemite history since 1855, including early homesteading, John Muir’s early residence in the park, development of the National Park, the army’s role in park administration, and the evolution of early National Park Service administration and interpretation of the resources of Yosemite. The district is of Regional Significance in architecture and the history of conservation in America, and possesses at varying levels a complex mixture of other qualities of significance attached to particular sites and structures.
The Yosemite Village Historic District is composed of a complex mixture of sites and structures which reflect the history of development of the Yosemite National Park from 1855 to the present, and the use of "rustic" architecture to harmonize necessary structures with their park environment from 1918 to 1951. It is of regional architectural significance with respect to "rustic" architecture and of regional historical significance with respect to conservation, with qualities of either local or regional significance in the categories of exploration/ settlement, education, commerce, art and science attached to particular elements of the district as indicated in detail above, and contributing to the whole.
The final structure in the Yosemite Village Historic District which must be addressed is the Ansel Adams Gallery, actually a complex of five buildings: No. 900, Best's Studio, consisting of a shop and living quarters, was erected about 1925; No. 901 was a darkroom; No. 902 consisted of a 8-room residence built about 1925; No. 903 was a three stall garage built about 1925 and No. 904 was a residence built about 1925.
This complex was built by Harry Cassie Best, a musician by training but painter by choice, who had married in Yosemite in 1901 and returned the following year to open an art studio in the old village. The phasing out of the old village brought him to this "new" village in 1925, and it remained his painting studio until his death in 1936. At that time management of Best's Studio, as it was then known, passed to his daughter Virginia and her husband, Ansel Adams. Adams, who like Best had trained to be a musician, also like Best turned to art for a career, but in this instance photography rather than oil painting, and explicitly to nature photography. During his lifetime Ansel Adams has become a photographer of national if not international importance, perhaps the world's foremost scenic photographer. In 1972 the name of the studio was changed to Ansel Adams Gallery in recognition of Adams.
Contributing Building - Downtown DeLand Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #87001796
Built 1920s
Contributing Building - Fletcherville Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #85000861
Built 1902
Contributing Building - Moultrie Commercial Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #94000543
Selby Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey and current Anglican parish church in the town of Selby, North Yorkshire, England. It is a member of the Major Churches Network in England.
Monastic history
The church is one of the relatively few surviving abbey churches of the medieval period, and, although not a cathedral, is one of the biggest. It was founded by Benedict of Auxerre in 1069 and subsequently built by the de Lacy family.
On 31 May 1256, the abbey was bestowed with the grant of a Mitre by Pope Alexander IV and from this date was a "Mitred Abbey". This privilege fell in abeyance a number of times, but on 11 April 1308, Archbishop William Greenfield confirmed the grant, and Selby remained a "Mitred Abbey" until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Archbishop Walter Giffard visited the monastery in 1275 by commission, and several monks and the Abbot were charged with a list of faults including loose living, (many complaints referred to misconduct with married women). In 1279 Archbishop William de Wickwane made a visitation, and found fault with the Abbot as he did not observe the rule of St Benedict, was not singing mass, preaching or teaching, and seldom attending chapter. Things had not improved much in 1306 when Archbishop William Greenfield visited and similar visitations in later years resulted in similar findings.
The community rebuilt the choir in the early fourteenth century, but in 1340, a fire destroyed the Chapter House, Dormitory, Treasury and part of the church. The damage was repaired and the decorated windows in the south aisle of the nave were installed.
In 1380–1 there was the abbot and twenty-five monks. In 1393 Pope Boniface IX granted an indulgence to pilgrims who contributed to the conservation of the chapel of the Holy Cross in the abbey.
The fifteenth century saw more alterations to the abbey. The perpendicular windows in the north transept and at the west end of the nave were added and the Sedilia in the Sanctuary was added. One of the final additions was the Latham Chapel, dedicated to St Catherine, east of the north transept, in 1465.
In the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535 the abbey was valued at £719 2s. 6¼d (equivalent to £467,021 in 2021). The abbey surrendered on 6 December 1539. The community comprised the Abbot, and 23 monks. The abbot was pensioned off on £100 a year (equivalent to £71,416 in 2021) the prior got £8 and the others between £6 6s. 8d. and £5 each.
Abbots of Selby
Benedict 1069–1097
Hugh de Lacy 1097–1123
Herbert, 1123–1127
Durand, 1127–1137
Interregnum 1137–1139
Walter 1139–1143
Helias Paynel, 1143–1153
German, 1153–1160
Gilbert de Vere, 1160–1184
Interregnum 1184–1189
Roger of London, 1189–1195
Richard I (prior), 1195–1214
Alexander, 1214–1221
Richard, 1221–1223
Richard (sub-prior of Selby), 1223
Hugh de Drayton, 1245–1254
Thomas de Whalley, 1254–1263
David de Cawod, 1263–1269
William de Aslakeby (prior) 1280,-1293
John de Wystow I (sub-prior), 1294–1300
William de Aslaghby (sacrist), 1300–1313
Simon de Scardeburg (prior), 1313–1321
John de Wystow II, 1322–1335
John de Heslyngton (a monk), 1335–1342
Geoffrey de Gaddesby, 1342–1368
John de Shirburn, 1369–1408
William Pigot, 1408–1429
John Cave, 1429–1436
John Ousthorp, 1436–1466
John Sharrow, 1466–1486
Lawrence Selby, 1487–1504
Robert Depyng (monk of Crowland Abbey) 1504–1518
Thomas Rawlinson, 1518–1522
John Barwic, 1522–1526
Robert Selby, 1526–1540
Post monastic history
For a time after the dissolution, the church was unused but in 1618 it became the Parish Church of Selby. During the English Civil War and the Commonwealth period the building suffered with the north transept window being destroyed, and the statues on the brackets in the choir were demolished.
Like York Minster, the church rests on a base of sand and has suffered from subsidence. Many sections collapsed entirely during the seventeenth century, including the central tower in 1690 which destroyed the south transept. The Tower was rebuilt, but not the transept. In the eighteenth century the choir was filled with galleries, and used for services, the nave only used for secular purposes.
The church was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1871–1873 who restored much of the nave for use, and again in 1889–1890 by his son John Oldrid Scott, who restored the choir. The tower was restored in the first few years of the twentieth century.
The reredos was designed by Robert Lorimer and added in 1901.
Vicars of Selby Abbey
Anthony Ashton 1540 – 1583
Robert Dove 1583 – 1586
Thomas Tomlinson 1586 – 1603
John Bradley 1603 – 1610
Thomas Greenwood 1610 – 1613
John Moor 1613 – 1620
Richard Smith BA 1620 – 1625
John Whitaker BA 1625 – 1642
Paul Hammerton 1642 – 1650
Richard Calvert 1650 – 1658
Thomas Birdsall 1658 – 1666
Arthur Squire MA 1666 – 1698
Shadrach Sherburn BA 1698 – 1701
Henry Allan 1701
Geoffrey Rishton 1701 – 1720
Thomas Hardy 1720 – 1728
William Charnley BA 1728 – 1748
Marmaduke Teasdale BA 1748 – 1778
William Porter MA 1778 – 1796
William Caile 1796 – 1797
Thomas Mounsey 1797 – 1819
Jonathan Muncaster 1819 – 1834
John Leidger Walton MA 1834 – 1850
Francis Whaley Harper MA 1850 – 1889
Archibald George Tweedie MA 1889 – 1904
Maurice Parkin MA 1904 – 1910
John Solloway DD 1910 – 1941
Alfred Edgar Moore Glover MA 1941 – 1945
Frank Read AKC 1945 – 1952
John Aldwyn Pelham Kent MA 1952 – 1978
Anthony Cecil Addison Smith MA 1978 – 1983
Michael William Escritt DipTh 1983 – 1990
Peter Lawrence Dodd MBE 1990 – 1993
James Alexander Robertson 1993 – 1996
Roy Ian John Matthews TD MA 1996 – 1997
Keith Michael Jukes BA 1997 – 2007
Keith David Richards 2007 – 2010
Canon John Weetman[9] 2011 –
The fire of 1906
The organ builders from John Compton had been working until 11.00 pm on Friday 19 October, and shortly after midnight on Saturday the organist Frederick William Sykes spotted flames coming from the organ chamber. The organ builders had been installing a new kinetic gas engine to provide power to the new organ. Initial reports that the new organ equipment was to blame for the fire were later proved inaccurate.
The fire destroyed the roof of the choir and the belfry and peal of eight bells was also destroyed. All of the interior fittings were also destroyed but thanks to the actions of the local fire brigade, the fourteenth-century stained glass in the East window was saved.
A secondary fire broke out in the nave roof on the Sunday, but this was quickly extinguished.
The abbey was rebuilt under the supervision of John Oldrid Scott at a cost of around £50,000 (equivalent to £5,545,000 in 2021) and reopened in 1909. The restoration of the south transept was completed in 1912, funded by William Liversedge.
Later twentieth century
In 1952 the abbey was given Grade I listed status.
Restorations of 2002
In 2002 the abbey underwent an extensive restoration, costing several million pounds. Stage 6, the restoration of the Scriptorium was completed at a cost of £795,000. The £400,000 cost of restoring the South choir Aisle and the "Washington Window" was met in full by British American Tobacco. World Monuments Fund committed more than $800,000 to exterior work, including roof repairs, beginning in 2002.
The Washington Window
A notable feature of the abbey is the fifteenth-century Washington Window, located at the clerestory level of the quire, which features the heraldic arms of the ancestors of George Washington, the first president of the United States. It is believed the shield is in the Abbey thanks to a financial benefaction supporting the work of the monastery at Selby from John Wessington, one of George Washington's ancestors, who was Prior of Durham from 1416 to 1446, and the design is thought to be one of the oldest representations of the Flag of the United States in the world. Selby Abbey is on the 'American Trail' of attractions around the UK with strong American historical connections.
Music
Music at Selby Abbey has a long history going back to its monastic foundation in the 11th century when plainsong was chanted at the daily services by the Benedictine monks. Today, the music at services consists principally of choral music sung by the Abbey's choir, organ music, and congregational hymn singing.
The Choir of Selby Abbey numbers c35 adults and children. While the choir consists principally of dedicated volunteers, the Abbey provides three Choral Scholarships and employs a professional Assistant Organist and Director of Music. The Abbey Choristers receive a full musical education and training. During term-time the choir sings at the weekly Sung Eucharist on Sundays, and at Choral Evensong on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month, in addition to singing at other special services, weddings and concerts.
In 2022 the Abbey Junior Choir was founded to provide singing opportunities for younger children aged five and upwards.
The Abbey hosts many concerts throughout the year performed by choirs, orchestras, brass bands and other musicians and groups. Selby Abbey Trust organises an annual Organ Recital Series featuring performers from across the world.
Organ
The previous organ was installed in 1825 by Renn and Boston, in a gallery on the east side of the choir screen wall. It was rebuilt several times by Booth of Wakefield, Forster and Andrews of Hull and Conacher of Huddersfield. In 1868 the organ was rebuilt and moved to a bay in the quire. The opening recital was given by William Thomas Best. This organ was rebuilt in 1891 by James Jepson Binns of Bramley and moved again, this time to the north side of the quire. A rebuild took place by John Compton in 1906, but the organ was destroyed by the great fire of that year, which nearly destroyed the abbey too.
Following the 1906 fire and as part of the subsequent restoration of the Abbey, the firm of William Hill & Son was commissioned to build the current organ, completed in 1909. With 67 speaking stops and 4 manuals, most of the pipes of this instrument occupy two organ cases designed by John Oldrid Scott and placed either side of the choir stalls in the Chancel. The huge pipes of the "Pedal: 32' Double Open Diapason" sit in the Triforium overlooking the Nave.
The first major restoration of this organ was carried out in 1950 by Hill, Norman and Beard. In the early 1960s, the Italian virtuoso Fernando Germani made several LP recordings at the Abbey of organ music by Reger, Franck and Liszt, bringing the organ to international attention. In 1975, further alterations and additions were made to the organ by John T. Jackson.
By the 2010's the organ was showing its age and becoming increasingly unreliable, so in 2014, Geoffrey Coffin and Principal Pipe Organs of York carried out a major restoration which lasted two years. Paul Hale was the adviser and the project was completed in 2016.
Organists and Directors of Music
Wharton Hooper 1864–1866
Edward Johnson Bellerby 1878–1881
Frederick William Sykes 1881–1919
Henry Oswald Hodgson 1920–1921
Herbert Hill 1921–1922
Walter Hartley 1922–1962
David Patrick Gedge 1962–1966
Mervyn John Byers 1966–1976
Peter Seymour 1976–1978
Anthony Langford 1978–1980
Mervyn John Byers 1980–1987
Geoffrey Pearce 1987–1994
Roger Tebbet 1994–2020
James Lowery (Interim Organist) 2020–2021
Oliver Waterer 2021–
Ian Seddon (Assistant Organist) 2023–
Burials
Thomas Thwaites and wife Alice de la Hay
Bishop of Selby
The Bishop of Selby is a Suffragan Bishop to the Archbishop of York and oversees the Archdeaconry of York, which includes the Deanery of Selby
Selby is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England; it is located 12 miles (19.3 km) south of York on the River Ouse. In the 2021 UK Census, it had a population recorded at 19,760.
The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire; from 1974 until 2023, the town was the administrative centre of the Selby District.
Selby once had a large shipbuilding industry and was an important port on the Selby Canal, which brought trade from Leeds.
History
Foundation
The town's origins date from the establishment of a Viking settlement on the banks of the River Ouse. Archaeological investigations in Selby have revealed extensive remains, including waterlogged deposits in the core of the town dating from the Roman period onwards. It is believed that Selby originated as a settlement called Seletun, which was referred to in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of AD 779.
The place name 'Selby' is first attested in a Yorkshire charter c. 1030, where it appears as Seleby. It appears as Selbi c. 1050. The name is thought to be a Scandinavian form of Seletun, meaning 'sallow tree settlement'.
Development
The town of Selby is on the main route north from the Midlands and is the traditional birthplace of King Henry I, fourth son of William the Conqueror, in 1068/69; the connection is supported by William and his wife Matilda's unique joint charter of Selby Abbey, far to the north of their usual circuit of activities, which was founded for Benedict of Auxerre in 1069 and subsequently supported by the de Lacy family. King Henry I is reputed to have been born there in c. 1068. A notable feature of the abbey is the 14th-century Washington Window, featuring the heraldic arms of the ancestors of George Washington, the first president of the United States. The design is often cited as an influence for the Stars and Stripes flag.
It is said that the abbey was founded when Benedict saw three swans on a lake in Selby, which he took as a sign of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and that is why the official crest of Selby Abbey is three swans. Selby Abbey was closed in 1539 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII and the majority of the buildings have since been demolished. The central nave of the abbey church survived and in 1618 it became the parish church of Selby.
During the English Civil War the Royalist garrison of Selby was captured by Parliamentarians in the Battle of Selby on 11 April 1644. There are other historical sites, such as the cholera burial ground on the north side of the abbey, the market cross and the local school, Selby High School. The Market Place has existed since the early 14th century, when the market was moved away from the monastery churchyard. The Crescent which curves eastwards from James Street, was planned in the early 19th century by a local man, John Audus, after he saw Lansdown Crescent in Bath, Somerset.
Since 2000
Selby is expanding. New houses and shops are being built on the outskirts as far as the bypass, which has resulted in the loss of some trade from the town centre. Meanwhile, the riverfront is being revamped with modern housing and fashionable flats.
Rail crash
Main article: Great Heck rail crash
The 2001 Great Heck rail crash is also often referred to as the Selby rail crash. It happened a few miles south of Selby, at the village of Great Heck near the M62 motorway, and Selby was the closest major town to the accident site. On 28 February 2001 a vehicle crashed off the M62 down an embankment onto a railway track, where it was struck by a passenger train heading to London. The accident was then compounded by a second collision involving an oncoming goods train.
Hobson murders
Selby and its surrounding area came to national prominence once again through another tragedy on 18 July 2004, this time through four exceptionally violent murders carried out by former refuse collector Mark Hobson. Hobson, 34 at the time, killed his girlfriend, Claire Sanderson, 27, and her sister Diane at a flat in the nearby village of Camblesforth. He subsequently murdered an elderly couple, James and Joan Britton, at their home in the village of Strensall, near York. Hobson was later sentenced to life imprisonment, with the trial judge recommending that he should never be released; the High Court later agreed with this recommendation.
At the lowest level of governance is Selby Town Council. The town is divided into three electoral wards, north, south, each represented by five councillors, and west, represented by seven councillors. These 17 councillors are responsible for burial grounds, allotments, play areas and some street lighting. Elections to the town council are held every four years. The Mayor of Selby is elected annually by the members of the town council.
From 1974 to 2023, Selby was administered as part of a two-tier council system by Selby District Council. The town was represented by seven councillors on the District Council, two each for the west and south wards and three for the north ward. On the North Yorkshire County Council the town was part of the Selby Barlby county division, which elected two representatives to the county council.
In April 2023, both councils, along with all district councils in North Yorkshire, were replaced by North Yorkshire Council. The unitary authority now provides all the services previously provided separately by the two councils.
In the United Kingdom Parliament, Selby formed part of the Selby constituency until the 2010 general election, when it became part of the new seat of Selby and Ainsty. It was represented by Conservative MP Nigel Adams until he resigned in June 2023, triggering a by-election held in July. The 20 July 2023 by-election was won by Labour candidate Keir Mather.
Geography
Selby lies on the tidal River Ouse in a natural area of Yorkshire known as the Humberhead Levels. The main roads that cross at Selby are the A63 from Leeds to Hull and the A19 from Doncaster to York, though the A19 and A63 have no longer met in Selby itself since the opening of the Selby Bypass in 2004. The River Ouse is navigable upstream as far as York so the old toll bridge, by which the A63 crossed the river at Selby, had to allow for this. For many years the swing bridge in Selby was a notorious local bottleneck but since the opening of the Selby bypass congestion in the town has been relieved.
The importance of Selby as a market town has declined in recent decades and its short-lived prominence as the centre of the Selby Coalfield has also waned. Selby is close to both York and Leeds. Its popularity as a tourist destination, owing to Selby Abbey, has led to a large amount of development and renovation in the town and surrounding area.
The residential areas of Selby have also been subject to expansion and development. A significant development called Staynor Hall continues to the south East of the town, with other developments in the Holmes Lane area and around the villages of Brayton, Barlby and Thorpe Willoughby. More have been built at various points along the riverfront, the result of an ongoing project to improve an area that had been largely derelict since the decline of the shipbuilding industry.
Floods
In recent years there have been serious flood problems in Selby and the adjoining village of Barlby. The threat in the Barlby area has been alleviated to some extent by work on improved flood barriers following the major flood of November 2000.
Religion
Selby Abbey is one of the largest parish churches in Britain and is larger than several cathedrals.
There are various other Christian churches in the town that offer community and differing styles of worship: King's Church, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Portholme Methodist / URC Church, and St James' Church. Edge Community was founded in 2009 for the Flaxley Road community, and The Salvation Army opened The Church at the Crossroads on the Abbotts Road estate in 2015.
Brayton has St Wilfrid's Anglican Church and the Methodist Chapel and All Saints' Church is in Barlby. Thorpe Willoughby has St Francis Church.
Selby Churches Together set up and run the Selby and District Food Bank.
Economy
Much of the historical wealth of the town is based on its position on the banks of the tidal River Ouse. Selby used to have a large shipbuilding industry and was an important port on the Selby Canal, which brought trade from Leeds. The Selby Canal links the River Ouse at Selby to the River Aire at Haddlesey. The replacement Greenpeace craft (1989–2011), bearing the name Rainbow Warrior, was built in Selby in 1957 as a fishing boat. Selby's location allowed vessels to be launched into the river. This often required the more unusual technique of launching the vessels side-on into the river owing to lack of space for a more conventional stern-first or bow-first launch. One famous vessel of the Cochrane and Son's shipyard of the town is the preserved trawler Ross Tiger at Grimsby's National Fishing Heritage Centre. Cochrane launched their last vessel into the Ouse in 1998, a historical occasion which people around the area went to see. After Cochrane had closed the massive cranes still stood over the skyline of Selby until 2001, when very strong winds blew them down. Most of the shipyard buildings are still standing (as of February 2014) and the site, along with interviews with former employees and archive film, was featured in a 2013 video production 'Cochranes of Selby'. The site of the shipyard is currently home to many small businesses, housed in the buildings once used to build the Selby ships.
For a time Selby was the leading coal-mining area in the UK and featured some of the most advanced mining technology in Europe. It was the first new mine in the UK for decades and seen as a rejoinder to widespread concern that the British mining industry was effectively shutting down, particularly following the defeat of the 1984–85 miners' strike.
Wistow Colliery, which was part of the Selby Coalfield, holds the UK record for coal mined in one week—200,743 tonnes in 1995. The 110 square miles (280 km2) Selby Complex, employing 3,000 miners plus contractors and ancillary staff, closed on Friday 14 May 2004 despite rising demand for coal in the UK. UK Coal, the pit's owner, said closure was due to rising costs caused by deteriorating geological conditions and the falling price of coal. In its final years the company listed a £30 million loss on the plant.
Although much of the infrastructure of shipbuilding and coal mining remains both in and around Selby, both industries have long since been defunct. Now the main income for the area is derived from arable farming and as a commuter area for Leeds, Wakefield and York.
In recent years Selby has seen the development of new shopping areas both in the town centre and on the outskirts. The Abbey Walk Shopping Centre was developed on recreational land that runs parallel to the town centre. The expansion not only increased the volume of town-centre shops but also provided large-scale, convenient parking for the town centre. In more recent years the Three Lakes Retail Park has opened on the outskirts of town and continues to expand. Two of the town's supermarkets, Tesco and Morrisons, are looking to expand their stores, the latter meaning the resiting of the Abbey Primary School.
On 14 September 2005, Selby District Council was conditionally granted outline planning permission for a state of the art science facility to be built on the site of Burn Gliding Club but these plans did not come to fruition.
Transport
Selby is the transport hub for the local area; it has a bus and railway station running services to many places around the area.
Train services from Selby railway station run directly to London King's Cross, Leeds, Liverpool Lime Street, Manchester Piccadilly, York and Hull. Services are operated by several train operating companies; these are London North Eastern Railway, Northern Trains, TransPennine Express and Hull Trains.
Bus services are operated predominantly by Arriva Yorkshire, which runs a range of local services, as well as longer-distance routes to Goole, Leeds, Pontefract, Wakefield and York. Thornes Independent operate two routes to Hensall and Hemingbrough.
In July 2001, construction began on the Selby by-pass, which had been authorised for development in 1993. The by-pass runs from the A19 at Barlby, along the southern perimeter of Selby, joining the A63 at Thorpe Willoughby. The project was delayed owing to technical difficulties with the swing bridge over the River Ouse, but was eventually completed in July 2004.
Culture and sport
Selby Town Hall has been running a music venue since 2003, with regular performances of music, dance, drama and comedy and local band nights, with an annual Battle Of The Bands final, which in 2009 sold out in 12 hours, seeing local band Leonard's Revenge crowned victors.
There have been four cinemas in Selby with the last one closing in the early 1980s. In 2009 a community group established a cinema project called Selby Globe. The group is also working with local community groups in securing the Abbot's Staith, a 15th-century warehouse currently on English Heritage's At Risk Register. It is expected that the development of the Abbot's Staith could offer opportunities for social, educational, historical and economic solutions for the town while also promoting tourism.
Selby's major sporting team is Selby Town F.C. ('the Robins'), playing in the Northern Counties East Division One at the Flaxley Road Stadium. As a result of a sponsorship deal with a local business, the stadium is now known as the Fairfax Plant Hire Stadium. The club was founded in 1919 and their most successful season was perhaps 1953–54, when they won the Yorkshire Football League and reached the first round of the FA Cup – meeting Bradford Park Avenue and getting their highest ever attendance of 7,000 fans.
A Rugby union club, Selby RUFC, plays at Sandhill Lane Stadium. Sandhill Lane Stadium is currently undergoing construction work to create a new seating stand overlooking the first team's pitch, and a gym and new changing rooms are being added to the members' bar and existing club bar. Selby RUFC have five open-age teams and have veteran and junior set-ups. Selby 1st are currently in Yorkshire League Division One. In the season 2008–09 Selby U10s won the Gullivers Plate at Twickenham, the U16s got to the final of the Yorkshire Bowl and Selby 3rds reached a North Yorkshire final. Selby also has a rugby league club, Selby Warriors, which plays at The Rigid Containers Sports Ground, Foxhill Lane and the Selby Rugby League Referees Society.
Selby Cricket Club, which shares Sandhill Lane Stadium, has four senior league teams, with the 1st and 2nd XI playing in the York and District Senior League, the 1st XI in Division 4 and the 2nd XI in Division 5. The 3rd XI play in Division 4 and 4th XI play in Division 5 of the York Vale League. The team runs two junior teams, the under 11s and 15s, which both play in the York and District Junior League, and an evening league team in the Howdenshire Evening League (West Division).
Selby and District Motor Club has its own clubhouse at Breighton Airfield on Sand Lane. Meeting on Tuesday evenings, its members participate in Road Rallies, Stage Rallies, Sprints, Autotests and Production-Car Trials. Members discuss motor sporting events and regularly show videos. The club organises an annual Road Rally called the Three Swans Rally, based on local roads and forming a major part of local championships.
Media
Local news and television programmes is provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire from the Emley Moor TV transmitter.
The town's local radio stations are BBC Radio York, Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire, Capital Yorkshire, YO1 Radio, and Selby Radio which is a community based radio station.
Selby's longest-established newspaper is the Selby Times, owned and published by Chronicle Publications along with its sister paper the Goole Times. The company previously owned the Selby Post and purchased the title from Johnston Press when they ceased publication of the paper in August 2013. Published weekly, the paper costs 60p and covers the Selby district, including the town centre and villages such as Sherburn-in-Elmet and as far as Tadcaster.
In 2014, despite the shift to online news, The Goole and Selby Times together were only one of three newspapers in the country actually to increase print sales. The Goole Times (incorporating the Selby Times) saw a rise of more than three quarters to 15,045 compared with the same period in 2013.
The Goole Times and Selby Times received an unprecedented 1,000 toys for their annual Christmas toy appeal in December 2017.
In 2019 The Selby Chronicle was relaunched as an online-only newspaper.
Twin towns
Selby is twinned with:
France Carentan, France
Germany Filderstadt, Germany
Notable people
Harold Brigham, footballer
Nigel Adams, Member of Parliament, Selby and Ainsty (UK Parliament constituency) and Minister of State for Asia
Robert Aske, rebel leader, lawyer
Tommy Cannon, entertainer
Robert of Selby, courtier, chancellor of Sicily
Jack Byers, footballer
Gavin Harding, first person with a learning disability to become mayor in the United Kingdom
Henry I of England, king of England
Arthur Hinsley, Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop
Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon, dermatologist
Woods Hutchinson, physician, writer
Thomas Johnson, botanist
Keith Kelly, pop singer
John Sherwood, Olympic athlete
Steve Sherwood, footballer
James Stephenson, actor
Eden Taylor-Draper, actress
Smithson Tennant, chemist, discoverer
Matthew Warchus, theatre and film director
Leigh Wood, footballer
Topics contributed on the theme 'scenes from stock photography' and pulled from a hat. Whose writing is whose?
Contributing Buildings - Main Street Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #84000650
IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE: AMERICA, WE SING BACK! community event at the All Souls Unitarian Church at 1500 Harvard Street, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 28 September 2013 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Performances
Quique Aviles (El Salvador)
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Contributing Building - St Augustine Town Plan Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #70000847
Stavros is a seaside village located 17km northeast of Chania, at the northernmost edge of Cape Akrotiri. One characteristic feature of the area is the very steep camel-shaped mountain Vardies rising opposite the harbor of Stavros. The mountain is famous, because there were filmed scenes for the film “Zorba the Greek”, where Anthony Quinn danced the famous Sirtaki Dance in 1964. Then Stavros was a humble small fishing village. Today the region has become a major tourist resort with many hotels and important tourist infrastructures. The two beautiful beaches of the area have contributed to the development of the area.
Contributing Building - Northwest Newnan Residential Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #82002401
Now part of the University of West Georgia Newnan Campus
Built mid 1920s
Architect: R Kinnon Perry
Night of Excellence celebrated excellence in athletics and the arts as we honored these four groups of students for their exemplary accomplishments.
Marching Band
Elizabeth Public Schools is dedicated to recognizing the excellence of those who continually contribute to the district’s vision of becoming one of the best school systems in America. The Night of Excellence Ceremony was created to honor students who have performed at a prestigious level through demonstrating exceptional dedication, determination, and perseverance.
The next group of talented, dedicated young men and women and the professionals who lead them in their high caliber performances have achieved not only a State championship title but also a National championship title. They are now the three-time defending state and national champions in US Bands Group 5A after winning the state and national championships in 2013! They have also gone undefeated in three consecutive seasons!
If that isn’t excellent enough, they were also the only high school group to be selected to perform at Super Bowl 48 here in New Jersey this past February. How big of a deal was it for this group to perform at the Media Day and Gameday events for Super Bowl 48? The game was watched by 112.2 million people in the United States, the largest television audience in United States history.
Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy
The next group of students are part of the school that was ranked among the best high schools in New Jersey and America by The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report. This school was ranked Number 11 in New Jersey and Number 613 in America by The Washington Post and Number 30 in New Jersey and Number 836 in America by U.S. News & World Report. In its performance on state assessments, the school attained the rankings of ‘Very High Performing’ in Academic Achievement in a peer comparison and ‘High Performing’ in a statewide comparison, while achieving a ‘High Performing’ ranking in College and Career readiness when compared to its peer schools.
Elizabeth High School
Next, we want to recognize another one of our high schools that was ranked among the best in New Jersey and America by The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report. This school was ranked Number 1 in New Jersey and Number 34 in America by The Washington Post and Number 11 in New Jersey and Number 221 in America by U.S. News & World Report. This school has a 96% graduation rate with a total enrollment of 769 students and it has attained an impressive 99% proficiency or advanced proficiency on the High School Proficiency Assessment. Lastly, this school was recently identified by the State of New Jersey as ‘Very High Performing’ in the category of Academic Achievement in both peer and statewide comparisons.
Terence C. Reilly School No. 7
Last, but not least, is a school that was one of 59 throughout the country to be nationally recognized as a National Title I Distinguished School for exceptional student achievement in 2013. This designation is awarded in honor of the efforts of schools across the country in making significant improvements for their students. The program has been in place since 1996, highlighting the success of hundreds of schools in the categories of exceptional student performance for two or more consecutive years and closing the achievement gap between students.
Contributing Building - Montezuma Historic District - National
Register of Historic Places
NRIS #03001017
Contributing Building - Lincolnville Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #91000979
Contributing Building - Downtown Jacksonville Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #16000212
Remnants of sign on facade call this the Bisbee Building. However, there is another Bisbee Building, a multi-story building, just to the north.
aka First National Bank Building
Built 1901-02
Style: Beaux Arts
ARCHITECT: Gottfried L. Norrman
Contributing Building - Tifton Residential Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #08000355
Built 1917
Style: Neoclassical Revival
Currently Tift County Administrative Offices.
Contributing Building - Riverside Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #85000689
Built 1913-14
Architect: H J Klutho
Contributing Building - South-McDaniel-Patton Commercial Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #03000088
Built 1872-91
Style: Late Victorian
IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE: AMERICA, WE SING BACK! community event at the All Souls Unitarian Church at 1500 Harvard Street, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 28 September 2013 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Performances
Quique Aviles (El Salvador)
www.facebook.com/quique.aviles
Follow DC Office of Human Rights / IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE: AMERICA, WE SING BACK! facebook event page at www.facebook.com/events/530488973690958/
IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE: AMERICA, WE SING BACK! community event at the All Souls Unitarian Church at 1500 Harvard Street, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 28 September 2013 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Performances
George "G." Yamazawa Jr. (Japan)
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What does design contribute to human rights?
MU and We Are Foundation host a Design and Human Rights Forum on 19 April. We Are Foundation asked itself: how does design contribute to human rights issues? The conclusion was that there is much room left for improvement. The goal of the Design and Human Rights Forum is to brainstorm about ways in which design can support human rights defenders in their practice.
Human rights defenders are often forced to work in very hostile environments, with a scarcity of resources and a lack of allies. They are constantly confronted with threats such as incarceration, enforced disappearance and violence.
The design initiative We Are Foundation, in collaboration with Justice & Peace Netherlands, and MU, wants to open up a dialogue between the government, human rights defenders and creatives, in order to explore ways in which design can support human rights defenders in their practice.
On 19 April, you can expect presentations by We Are Foundation about their project We Are Human Rights, and by Justice & Peace about their initiative Shelter City. Next to this, there will be workshops with international human rights defenders. Our goal is to jump start an engaging conversation.
We Are Foundation is a strategic design agency for societal impact. As such, the foundation strives to promote the application of design as an extensive tool for problem-solving, as well as to extend its scope to fields such as international law and ethics. With their project We Are Human Rights, We Are Foundation tries to establish a role for design in problem solving for human rights issues.
Justice & Peace has developed the Shelter City. This initiative provides shelter, rest and respite to human right defenders at risk, while providing them trainings with relevant knowledge, and contacts to support them in their future jobs.
Photos: Boudewijn Bollmann
Credits: We Are Human Rights, MU Eindhoven 2018, photos Boudwijn Bollmann.
Contributing Building - Dawson Street Residential Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #84001251
Night of Excellence celebrated excellence in athletics and the arts as we honored these four groups of students for their exemplary accomplishments.
Marching Band
Elizabeth Public Schools is dedicated to recognizing the excellence of those who continually contribute to the district’s vision of becoming one of the best school systems in America. The Night of Excellence Ceremony was created to honor students who have performed at a prestigious level through demonstrating exceptional dedication, determination, and perseverance.
The next group of talented, dedicated young men and women and the professionals who lead them in their high caliber performances have achieved not only a State championship title but also a National championship title. They are now the three-time defending state and national champions in US Bands Group 5A after winning the state and national championships in 2013! They have also gone undefeated in three consecutive seasons!
If that isn’t excellent enough, they were also the only high school group to be selected to perform at Super Bowl 48 here in New Jersey this past February. How big of a deal was it for this group to perform at the Media Day and Gameday events for Super Bowl 48? The game was watched by 112.2 million people in the United States, the largest television audience in United States history.
Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy
The next group of students are part of the school that was ranked among the best high schools in New Jersey and America by The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report. This school was ranked Number 11 in New Jersey and Number 613 in America by The Washington Post and Number 30 in New Jersey and Number 836 in America by U.S. News & World Report. In its performance on state assessments, the school attained the rankings of ‘Very High Performing’ in Academic Achievement in a peer comparison and ‘High Performing’ in a statewide comparison, while achieving a ‘High Performing’ ranking in College and Career readiness when compared to its peer schools.
Elizabeth High School
Next, we want to recognize another one of our high schools that was ranked among the best in New Jersey and America by The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report. This school was ranked Number 1 in New Jersey and Number 34 in America by The Washington Post and Number 11 in New Jersey and Number 221 in America by U.S. News & World Report. This school has a 96% graduation rate with a total enrollment of 769 students and it has attained an impressive 99% proficiency or advanced proficiency on the High School Proficiency Assessment. Lastly, this school was recently identified by the State of New Jersey as ‘Very High Performing’ in the category of Academic Achievement in both peer and statewide comparisons.
Terence C. Reilly School No. 7
Last, but not least, is a school that was one of 59 throughout the country to be nationally recognized as a National Title I Distinguished School for exceptional student achievement in 2013. This designation is awarded in honor of the efforts of schools across the country in making significant improvements for their students. The program has been in place since 1996, highlighting the success of hundreds of schools in the categories of exceptional student performance for two or more consecutive years and closing the achievement gap between students.