Readers of this website will likely be aware of the Log Bank at Wooler that serves the people of north Northumberland.
Well, Kate Thick (Founding Trustee) of the Northumberland Log Bank project has been in touch with the exciting news that the log bank has now grown to include a site at Haydon Bridge that serves west Northumberland/Tynedale.
The Powburn Show is an annual festival enjoyed by the whole community. And everyone benefits! Money raised by the Show is donated back to the community when spare funds are available. In the past, we have donated money towards:
wendy.pattison@northumberland.gov.uk – Tel. 07779 983072
And now on Facebook: Cllr Wendy Pattison
Thanks to Jean Givens of Brandon, a new photo has been added to the Breamish Valley Photographic Collection – a photograph of 30 soldiers in the local Home Guard during World War II.
Over the past few weeks, the content of the previous Ingram Breamish Valley website has been migrated into the current Breamish Valley website.
[Credit: Header image copyright © Tweed Forum 2019 and used with permission.]
As the River Breamish Riverbank Protection project comes to an end, Tweed Forum Project Officer, Joe Taylforth has been on site again to take some more aerial photographs. These clearly show the extent of the work undertaken and how the project has created new riverbanks from old.
Since the root wads were delivered and ready to be installed at Site 1 and the logs were sorted at Site 2, work on the Breamish Riverbank Stabilisation and Reinstatement project has continued on track – and now all the heavy work is completed.
The old, eroding riverbanks have been stabilised using so-called soft engineering techniques to reclaim some of the lost land and to protect them from further erosion that was threatening to damage the road.
After driving in several vertical posts and continuing to line them up along the riverbank, the contractors undertaking the River Breamish Riverbank Protection works have been spending hours backfilling the log matrix.
The River Breamish Riverbank Protection works began a few days ago by driving vertical posts into the ground at Site 2.
The team of three contractors have continued to drive more posts into the ground, following the line of the riverbank.
Len Glen-Davison, Chair of the Ingram Village Hall Committee, has been in touch to inform us that £200.00 was raised at the recent Ingram Fireworks Fun night. This has been given to support the work of local mountain rescue teams.
