b'Hall Farm as it was in Spring 1975of the ravine drifting in and out of consciousness.to Youlthorpe for their holidays and had great times He was unaware of who found him but rememberswith the sons Bob, George and Bowman. They even waking up in a hospital bed with most of his bodyhad their honeymoon in Youlthorpe. The Sleightholme in plaster. He was lucky; he was told that by chanceboys were a mischievous lot. On their wedding night the Kings surgeon just happened to be making athey put their luggage on the top stack of corn, made visit to the hospital when my father was brought in.an apple pie bed and put baking powder in the po!In He had worked for hours in the operating theatre to1946, Bob and Lorna Sleightholme were living at no. save his life; he had fractures of the tibia, fibula, ribs96, the old police house, and they told mum and dad and head injuries and was many days in a criticalthat Hall Farm was now available for rent as they had condition and was given nine pints of blood. He spentdecided to rent a bigger farm at Youlthorpe, owned the next fifteen months in hospital and was then putby the church and called Church Farm. Dad was not on a hospital ship and returned after a long voyagea farmer, but they decided to bring along grandad home that went around the African Cape and right upRivis who had lost all purpose in life since the death of the coast of America to join the perilous convoy runhis dear wife. Grandad could teach Dad how to farm, across the Atlantic to make it safely home. He washow to milk cows, raise livestock and sow arable discharged from the army on a small war pension.crops.Mum (Dorothy) was working at Plaxtons munitionsHall Farm had been part of the Manor of Bishop factory in Scarborough soldering munition boxes onWilton for centuries, it was the farmstead of the night shift. But at home Dad was unsettled; Mumoriginal Manor House near to the church. The Hall says he was never the same man he was before thewas demolished around the turn of the century. The war. So, they decided to start a new life in the countrySefton family arrived in Bishop Wilton in the spring of away from the noisy city.1947 and rented the farm from Garrowby Estate. They My grandmother, Mary Eleanor, was amoved into no. 96 (a Garrowby house) in February Sleightholme who had married Reginald Rivis, a1947, in the worst winter ever recorded of that farmer and son of a miller from Helmsley. One of mycentury. The snow drifts on the wolds were said to be grandmothers brothers was Richard Sleightholmeas high as a house. Down Worsendale the rabbits had from East Farm at Youlthorpe. We knew him as Uncleeaten the bark off the top of the trees. They gradually Dick. When Mum and Dad married, they used to gomoved all their things and decided to buy some 54 BULLETIN 5'