European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Mews Antiques Market in Low Harrogate Down the Hill from West Park the main Street. There Are More in the Kings Road area just across from bettys. The big event is the 40-year-old Northern Antiques fair held annually in the Royal Baths Assembly rooms in late september. A fair with the same name but with a wider Range of goods and with different organizers will be nov. 2-4 at the great Yorkshire showground Hoo Stone Road. The visitor with an interest in horticulture won t want to miss the late flowering chrysanthemum show to be held at the Royal Bath Assembly rooms on nov. 16 and 17. The Yorkshire Countryside around Harrogate Ripon and Knaresborough is As restful and refreshing As the summer sunday afternoon band concerts that take place in the Center of town in each of the three places through the end of August. Ripon has a Horn blowing ceremony each evening of the year that could be straight out of die meistersinger to Mark the setting of the night watch and the Cathedral has a Fine collection of 15th-Century carved Misericord Little shelves in the choir seats that gave the monks a merciful boost during the standing parts of Long medieval services. Four Miles to the West Are the ruins of fountains Abbey the richest and most powerful cistercian monastery in England in its heyday in the 12th Century. The Abbot was hanged when Henry Viii dissolved this and Many other monastic foundations in the 16th Century but a visit to the ruins of Fountain Abbey still gives a sense of the wealth that King Henry was after and seized. Wool was the source of it and the monks owned lands As far away As the Pennine mountains. Grass now grows where the pavements and tombstones of the Nave once formed the pavement of the Abbey s Nave and Bare ruined choir. The vast Hall of the Lay monks refectory still More or less intact gives some idea of the size of the establishment. On Friday and saturday evenings through the end of this month the ruins Are floodlit from dusk to 10 30 . �?zs.v-v-. In it a x of. Victim British tourist authority a quiet Road wanders through the Yorkshire moors around Harrogate. British tourist authority the Cathedral at Ripon a town in the Countryside near Harrogate where a Horn blowing ceremony is held every evening to Mark the night watch. British tourist authority Antiques paintings arts and crafts crowd the shop windows along Harrogate s Montpellier Parade. October 25, 1990 stripes Magazine 13