Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards have revealed the shortlist which includes five entries from Beverley.
Beverley Puppet Festival, Newbegin House, Butt Farm Caravan, Camping & Glamping site, ‘What Was Here?’ Mobile App and Atom Bar Beverley have all made the shortlist in the prestigious East Yorkshire awards.
Walter Sweeney, a 71-year-old solicitor and former MP, is doing a sponsored walk of the 79 mile Wolds Way with his miniature Bull terrier Bernard to raise funds for Dove House Hospice.
Commenting on his fundraiser he said that he will be taking care to observe social distancing rules, keeping at least six feet six inches from the very few other people currently using the route.
Current champions are going head to head with first-time finalists in the battle to be crowned the “best of the best” at this year’s Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards.
The much-anticipated shortlist of finalists, revealed today by Visit Hull and East Yorkshire (VHEY), is being described as “the most exciting ever”. Tourism bosses say it’s testament to the popularity of the region as a visitor destination and the range of what’s on offer.
My mother Jane Yerbury Sweeney, who was born on 7th. January 1920 and died on 1st. June 2018 at Newbegin House in Beverley, was an extraordinary woman. Brought up in Kensington and Sussex, she was educated at home, mostly by herself. She read widely, but obtained no formal qualifications.
Her mother had been expelled from boarding school while her parents were living abroad, and her father, although he eventually qualified and became an eminent doctor with a successful practice in Kensington, had hated school, so the couple decided to keep Jane and her younger siblings at home.
Newbegin House, Beverley’s only five star B&B, has received a gold award from Visit England.
Newbegin House, which recently won an ‘Editor’s Choice’ award from the Good Hotel Guide, has now become the only five star gold serviced accommodation in the whole of Hull and East Yorkshire.