Harrogate & Yorkshire Dales News
HIC at Yorkshire Show
10th July 2008
HIC's Tourism team took an even bigger stand
this year at the 150th Great Yorkshire Show, the regions largest
countryside event, which was visited by HM The Queen, and The Duke
of Edinburgh.
Read the full press
release.
Harrogate TIC Celebrates Show's
150th Anniversary, 7th July 2008
Harrogate Tourist Information Centre celebrated
the 150th Great Yorkshire Show this week, when they presented a
complimentary show ticket and a gift bag of Harrogate goodies, to
the last customer to buy an advance ticket from the centre.
Read the full press release.
Royal Hall Summer Open Days
22nd May 2008
The Royal Hall in Harrogate is running a series of summer open
days when anyone interested in seeing the results of the
£10.7m restoration work, which took two years to complete,
can visit.
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release.
Open Day at Royal Hall
5th May 2008
Over five and half thousand people filed
through Harrogate's Royal Hall with a queue forming early on that
snaked back along Kings Road for a quarter mile.
Read the full press realease.
750,000th Visitor to Harrogate TIC!
2nd May 2008
Squadron Leader Frank Tierney was greeted with applause and
jubilation when he entered Harrogate's Tourist Information
Centre becoming the 750,000th visitor to the Centre since it
relocated in 2000.
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release.
StrayFM broadcasts live from
Harrogate TIC, 14th March 2008
Harrogate TIC celebrated National Tourism Week this year with
a live broadcast by Stray FM from the information centre offices.
Read the full press release.
Gates Open to North Yorkshire's
Secret Garden, 16 January 2008
Walled parkland in Scriven near
Knaresborough is now open. Miss Winifred Jacob
Smith, who was the last surviving member of a prominent farming
family, bequeathed the parkland for "people to enjoy the freedom and beauty that public
parks bring". Read the full press
release.