Rally Report from Deaf Camping & Caravanning Club North   (DCCCN) – September 2021

DCCCN Rally No 6
at
Rufforth Playing Fields Association
(Thursday September 30th to Sunday 3rd October 2021 in York.)

Number of Units
22 units booked.
(4 units to join with us first time this year. 2 of them ex-members from 2 years ago)
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Fuel crisis/shortage
(Fuel ran out in some petrol stations)
Prior to the start of the weekend, fuel crisis/shortage, due to fuel tanker delivery problems
caused members to think twice about travelling as some areas are in critical condition.
Three units were unable to make it but two others made it from as far as Inverness and London.
Other three units couldn’t make it due to emergency cropped up.
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16 units eventually met up after being trapped/staying at home for so long and one of the
units brave enough to erect their tent up in the downpour rain on arrival!!
But luckily the facilities including high powered showers on site were available
for them to dry and freshened themselves up.
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Weather
The sun was shining out all day on Friday and Sunday morning too but a bit a chilly.
Saturday all day was a miserable and rainy day but the spirits
within the community were high anyway.
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York Bird’s Eye view
Many went to explore in Wetherby and others to York.
(York Minster, Jorvik Viking, The York Dungeon and Bettys Café Tea Rooms)
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Bettys Café Tea Rooms
Facts interesting about Bettys

The story of Bettys
doesn’t begin in Yorkshire but in Switzerland.
In 1885, Anna Maria Bützer gave birth to a son, Fritz.
Her husband, Johann, was a miller and master baker
and they lived in a mill in Lindenbach near Bern.

Tragedy seemed to surround the life of young Fritz.
His mother died when he was still a baby and a few years later a fire
at the Bützers’ mill left Fritz and his older sister Ida orphaned.
While Ida was raised by relatives, they had no room for five year- old Fritz.
As was the Swiss custom, he returned to the village of the ancestors
where he was fostered to a local farmer who pledged to provide food
and shelter and send him to school.

In practice, Fritz spent much of his childhood working as an unpaid farm labourer.
As soon as he was old enough, Fritz left his foster home.
He trained as an assistant baker and then travelled around Switzerland
and France learning to be a confectioner and chocolatier.
Then, in 1907 he decided to seek his fortune in England.

On his arrival in London he realised he’d lost the address of his destination.
All he could recall was that the place he was heading for sounded like ‘bratwurst’ (German for sausage).
A helpful local put him on the train to Bradford.

On arriving in the Yorkshire city, he found work at a Swiss-owned confectioners, Bonnet & Sons.~
Not long after he wrote to his sister Ida back in Switzerland saying, “Maybe I will stay a while….”

He eventually settled in the spa town of Harrogate by which time he’d changed his name
to Frederick Belmont and styled himself as a ‘Chocolate Specialist’.

It was in Harrogate that Frederick’s luck started to change.
Looking for lodgings, he fell in love and later married his landlady’s daughter, Claire Appleton.

In July 1919, with the financial support of Claire’s family, the first Bettys opened for business.
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.Saturday 2nd October –  evening
The room we hired was a bit chilly, so the marshal and one other to prepare the games.
One was called Removing Blocks Game (Jenga) without letting the wooden blocks built collapsing,
putting audience in scary position (biting their nails) and sitting on the edge
of their seat but after the 27th person, Mike C made the Blocks collapsed.

Another game looked like a rugby game(tackle to grab hold of a ticket/card).
At the end of the evening, the room were boiling hot even when the windows
and exterior doors were open. It was an enjoyable evening, and everyone love it.

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Sunday 3rd October – morning
We had a DCCC North open meeting, informing the audience
the financial year 2020 and plans for next year (2022).

After lunch, many departed for home with a happy face after catching up with all the news.

 

More photos
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2021 DCCCN Rally No.06 – York, Yorkshire.

 

Reported by
Deaf Caravanning & Camping Club North (DCCCN)
Paul Winterhalter

 

 

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