08/02/2010
York Conferences welcomes back the Samaritans
York Conferences hosts the Samaritans Annual Conference and we are looking forward to welcoming them back again in September 2010.
Community Carol Concert Hosted in Central Hall
Details of the Community Carol Concert run by Graham Bradbury each year in the University of Yorks concert venue, Central Hall.
Kick Off the Conference Season with York Conferences!
Gym use is now free for all University of York Conference guests!
York conferences invites you to step back in time 40 years...
It is 1970, and the University of York has just appointed its first event Conference Officer, heralding the creation of York Conferences. Forty years later marks their Ruby Anniversary, but what else was happening in that eventful year?
· On April 11 1970, the Apollo 13 mission was launched, due to be the third manned moon landing. An electrical fault and the subsequent explosion precipitated the now famous, but often misquoted, transmission, “Houston, we’ve had a problem”. The whole flight team landed safely back on Earth 6 days after launch.
· War movies such as Catch-22 and M*A*S*H stormed the UK and US box offices, although it was Love Story, a tragic romance, that was the highest-grossing film of the year, bringing in $106 million in the UK alone.
· 1500 people gathered to see Stackridge and T. Rex perform at the first ever Pilton Festival at Worthy Farm, 6 miles east of a small Somerset town called Glastonbury. 137,500 tickets have already sold out for the Glastonbury Festival 2010 where mega-band U2 are set to headline the main stage.
· The soundtrack to 1970 included number 1’s from Simon and Garfunkel with Bridge over Troubled Water, Mungo Jerry with Summertime, a post-mortem hit for Jimi Hendrix with Voodoo Chile, and a Christmas number 1 from Benny Hill with Ernie (the Fastest Milkman in the West).
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Kick Off the Conference Season with York Conferences!Gym use is now free for all University of York Conference guests!
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