Haxby Local History Group

Haxby Local History Group is well established , their most recent news is that Pauline Briggs prepared a display, to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, which was on display in the local library in June and July. This was also taken to the Haxby Carnival on July 8th and displayed along with much other material in a marquee. There was a gratifying amount of interest: we were busy all afternoon and some useful information came to light. Also, the “Flying Ducks”, the Haxby Youth Theatre, gave a performance of the Haxby Sword Dance; they hope, sometime in the future, to be able to revive the Plough Stotts Plays (these were apparently performed by the ploughboys – other villages in the area also have these plays). The word “Stott” is defined in the Annandale Concise Dictionary of 1896 as a Scots word meaning young bullock or steer!