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I've listed a
few links to various businesses here that I can
personally vouch for!
Some are
stick-related and others are of general
interest.
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Are you interested is sea
fishing? Mistress Sea Angling Charters (Whitby)
take boat parties of up to 12 anglers - but you can
book individual places most days - throughout the
year (weather permitting). I've had some fantastic
days sport with cod and ling, mackerel, whiting,
pouting, gurnard and many more species and can
vouch for the skill and dedication of the skipper,
Rich Cope. Rods & reels can be hired on board
if you don't have your own and bait and end rigs
can be bought from the tackle shops in the harbour
at Whitby. Check out the Mistress
website
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Do you suffer back or joint
pains? Try medication-free treatment in Helmsley at
the Natural
Health Clinic which
uses Emmett and Bowen therapies.
I can personally vouch for
the effectiveness of the treatment and so can many
friends and family members!
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For an artist who will do
pet prtraits and animals try Jane
Cousins from North
Yorkshire
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For beautifully carved and
painted sticks in North America try Ivan Wilson at
Wilson
Walking Sticks
If you require horns and
other materials in the USA, try the
Boone
Trading Company
or this one
Hide
and Fur.com is good
for antlers
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Lucy
Saggers takes
delightful landscape and rural life professional
photographs showing the area around my home town of
Helmsley.
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Pictures to help
with carving are often dificult to find - my
friends Carl
Church and
Dave
Hornbrook are both
international award winning taxidermists and have
some fantastic pictures on their websites - great
for close up shots of birds and other wildlife
subjects. If you still can't find anything, try
Google
images - just type
the name of the bird or animal you want and you
should get many pictures to choose from - some may
even be useful!
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American customers may be
interested in a website selling traditional
Irish sticks and
lots of other things with Irish connections too. I
don't normally advertise other stick sites but this
is a bit different and not really
competition!
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Hayden
Boer Goats is an
American site about breeding and selling goats,
working Border Collies and making
crooks.
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Carving and turning
tools and timber can be found at
the
Snainton Woodturning Centre
which I use personally - it's only a half-hour
drive from my home and I get most of my timber
supplies from them. Good stocks of British timbers
- lime, sycamore, beech, oak, ash etc - and an
increasing stock of exotic timbers.
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For top quality Bed and
Breakfast in Helmsley I can recommend
Number
54 Bondgate
The
Carlton Lodge
B&B
The
Feathers Hotel
The
Black Swan Hotel
Stilworth
House B&B
I always ask for customer
feedback if they stayed in Helmsley and these
establishments are very highly rated.
For other accommodation in
North Yorkshire why not look at the
Stay
in North York Moors
website?
and now their newer addition for Yorkshire
Lodges and Cabins
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Helmsley is full of small,
top quality retailers often selling individually
crafted items and the kinds of purchases you can't
make in other shopping centres and high streets
elsewhere. Here are just a few of them I can
personally recommend:
Libby
Butler Jewellers
Saltbox
Gallery
Hunters
Delecatessen
Clarridges
of Helmsley
Porters
Coffee Shop
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Birds
of Prey Centre in
Helmsley - well worth a visit! Only five minutes
from my workshop by car so why not visit us
both!
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For Market Stalls
like the one I use at shows try Nichol
Industries in the
UK.
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