2019-2020 Financial Documents now available
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.
Powburn Postcards
Powburn postcards give views into the past
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:
Bolton Road Sign Planters
Village of Bolton Road Sign Planters installed
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.
Wholesale Rabbit and Game Dealer
Yes…it’s true!
In the article entitled ‘The Old Powburn Shop’, I noted the following:
“In the ‘Powburn Golden Jubilee Cookbook’, there is an unattributed claim that Andrew Thompson’s grocer shop was “specialising in wholesale rabbit and game”.
Well, we now have evidence that this was the case. May Wilson, who compiled the cookbook, has recently bought a set of three postcards. One of these is a business postcard for the Powburn Shop:
Plough Planting
Plough planting: Powburn
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.
Hedgeley Parish Council Meeting (Jul 2020)
Hedgeley Parish Council Meeting
The July 2020 Quarterly Meeting of Hedgeley Parish Council is to be held on:
Wednesday 22 July 2020
7:30 pm
* electronic meeting *
Bolton Village Hall Reopening Update
We’ve received the following from Benita Robson (Secretary, Bolton Village Hall Committee) regarding the Government’s advice on the easing of lockdown as it pertains to village halls from 4 July 2020 [received 10 July 2020].
Holy Island Staithes
Holy Island staithes disappearing fast
Now that the UK lockdown has eased, and it’s easier to travel to some of the local beauty spots, I took the opportunity yesterday to make my first trip to Holy Island.
The wooden staithes – part of an old jetty – in front of Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island are an iconic part of the seascape.
County Councillor Report (Jul 2020)
County Councillor Report
July 2020
by Wendy Pattison
wendy.pattison@northumberland.gov.uk – Tel. 07779 983072
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