[All images © Kate Thick 2020. Used with permission.]
While life has been difficult for everyone over the past few months during the lockdown, people experiencing fuel poverty continued to benefit from the services of the Northumberland Log Bank. Operating out of Wooler and Haydon Bridge, their services are invaluable to many residents in north Northumberland and in west Northumberland/Tynedale.
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Owing to the coronavirus pandemic, Ingram Village Hall (in keeping with other local village halls, including Breamish Hall and Bolton Village Hall) closed its doors to visitors and user groups.
As most local people know, the Powburn Show is the first of the annual Cheviot Sheep & Horticultural Shows. But, of course, owing to the coronavirus pandemic, it had to be cancelled this year, along with all other country fayres (including the Ingram Show).
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And now on Facebook: Cllr Wendy Pattison
Great news for all parents and children…at the July 2020 Quarterly Meeting of Hedgeley Parish Council on Wednesday 22 July 2020, it was agreed that the Powburn Play Area could now re-open.
Following an appropriate risk assessment in the light of recent UK Government guidelines, the Powburn Play Area will open as from Saturday 25 July 2020. With due consideration to the safety of children, their guardians and local residents the following conditions will apply until further notice.
At the July 2020 Quarterly Meeting of Hedgeley Parish Council held on Wednesday 22 July 2020, the following financial documents were approved and are now available for viewing online and to download.
If you read the recent post entitled Wholesale Rabbit and Game Dealer about Andrew Thompson and The Old Powburn Shop, you will likely have noticed that May Wilson (who kindly provided a copy of the postcard featured in the post) also recently came into possession of two other postcards – both of which give views of Powburn prior to 1913. They are:
Following the installation of the Road Sign Planters in Powburn at the end of June 2020, two well-crafted planters have now been installed in Bolton.
Chris Armit from Newcastleton (in the Scottish borders, near Kielder), who made the six planters for the road signs in Powburn, also made two for Bolton. And yesterday (Saturday 18 July 2020), he delivered and installed them.
Hot on the heels of making Powburn bloom-ing beautiful (see what I did there?) with planting flowers and shrubs in road sign planters – including a donation from Dobbies – May Wilson has been out and about again improving our environment by putting bedding plants into the flower bed just at the entrance to the Plough Inn car park. She was helped by Noreen Birnie and Mary Wealleans.
