Roger Dowson of Beck Isle Museum and students from Lady Lumley's school are working together on a piece of local heritage work focusing on the Canadian Forces that were here in Wartime North Yorkshire.

            The story that the students have called 'Mud, Maples & Memories' features Canadian and other nationalities serving with the RAF and specifically those who were based at or who served at Wombleton in Ryedale from 1943-1945.      

            The museum would especially like to find any relating photographs or collect any memories of RAF Wombleton and of the airmen and women who were stationed there. Students have spent some time researching the people and events at Wombleton. One casualty, a pilot of a Lancaster, was actually an American from Maryland. His aircraft crashed, as a number did and he and his crew were all killed.

            The project work will run throughout the year and involve participation from other students from schools across Ryedale. The outputs will be a published booklet and a short film as well as contributing valuable reference material to the Beck Isle Museum archive.

            If you can help in any way please get in touch with Beck Isle Museum, Pickering. beckisle@aol.com  - 01751-473653

 Kim Pennock.