On this day in Yorkshire 1916

A menace to the beauty of the Goathland Moors, and the famous route trom Pickering to Sleights, was referred to at the meeting the Yorkshire Federation of Women’s Institutes at York on Saturday, when the proposal of the Electricity Commissioners to erect pylons on that route were the subject of a vigorous protest by Miss Thompson, the representative of the Goathland Institute.

She also read a report on the matter which contained an alternative route, which avoided many of the objections to the Saltersgate line for the overhead cables. Mrs. Edward Shaw presided over the meeting.

Miss Thompson moved a resolution protesting against “the erection of pylons for the electricity cables in districts where they interfered with the beauty of scenery.”

She said that as one went about one saw the beauties of nature utterly destroyed until there were very few places left unspoiled.

The proposal to place pylons from Pickering to Sleights would completely destroy a lovely piece of moorland scenery.

The proposal was put forward on the grounds of economy, but if the beauty of the district was destroyed the cost could not be counted terms of pounds, shillings, and pence.

The Goathland Women’s Institute had received letters of sympathy in their protest from various quarters, all expressing the earnest hope that the danger might be averted.

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