http://yorkstories.co.uk/beautiful-musical-rievaulx/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 http://yorkstories.co.uk/beautiful-musical-rievaulx/#comment-115 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:21:59 +0000 #comment-115 Drake, I know what you mean, but thankfully they haven’t ruined it. There’s a personal audio thing you can listen to if you want, and a small museum/display, but the place itself is just as magical. In the school holidays I guess it might have more rowdy interactive things going on.

]]> http://yorkstories.co.uk/beautiful-musical-rievaulx/#comment-114 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 15:18:13 +0000 #comment-114 I didn’t know he was ‘Baron Wilson of Rievaulx’, until you mentioned this. Found this Yorkshire Life article when Googling for more info:
http://www.yorkshirelife.co.uk/people/yorkshire_connections_harold_wilson_rievaulx_abbey_and_the_beatles_1_1957186

]]> http://yorkstories.co.uk/beautiful-musical-rievaulx/#comment-113 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:35:57 +0000 #comment-113 Right now I’m in a building named after Harold Wilson – that’s a picture of a building he named himself after when he got his peerage. Neat.

]]> http://yorkstories.co.uk/beautiful-musical-rievaulx/#comment-112 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 11:11:33 +0000 #comment-112 Rievaulx is a lovely atmospheric place tho i havent been for many years.No doubt gone the way of ‘living history’ with interactive touch screens and out of work actors dressed as monks ….Look i just want to left alone to look round thanks

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