DON’T FORGET…we have a Coffee Morning planned for Saturday 4 February 2023 – 10:00-12:00 – Breamish Hall, Powburn. There’ll be an illustrated talk: ‘History of Breamish Hall 1897-2022’ to celebrate 125 years of the Breamish Hall in Powburn. Entry is free!
ADCS presents the ‘Messiah’ by George Frederic Handel.
With guest soloists, organ and chamber orchestra.
There will be a free talk today about the discovery, preservation and publication of the photographic glass slides of the Breamish Valley postman George Blyth. The event is organised by Hedgeley WI and visitors are welcome!
Now that the Breamish Hall Heritage Project is completed, we are officially launching the heritage website pages. We have around 20 pages packed full of information, photos and documents that represent a history of the Breamish Hall in Powburn from 1897-2022.
Here’s wishing everyone a joyful and peaceful New Year for 2023.
wendy.pattison@northumberland.gov.uk – Tel. 07779 983072
And also on Facebook: Cllr Wendy Pattison
The local amateur photographer GEORGE BLYTH (b. 27 May 1875) is informally known as the ‘postman photographer’. This is for good reason, having worked as a rural postman for around 43 years.
GEORGE BLYTH was the first child of Charles Blyth(e) and Elizabeth English, who were married sometime during the 2nd quarter (April-June) of 1875. According to the 1939 Register of England and Wales, he was born on 27 May 1875. Assuming this is accurate, this entails that Elizabeth was pregnant at the time of her marriage. George was subsequently baptised on 25July 1875 at Belford, Northumberland. At that time, his father Charles was a farm labourer living at Twizels Village.
Just wanted to wish everyone who has visited the website over the past year, a very Merry Christmas!
It feels like the first full year for a while when we haven’t had to think about the Covid pandemic too much. So, I hope this is true for you and yours, and that you’ve managed to remain healthy throughout the year.
We are pleased to announce that the Breamish Hall Heritage Project that began in October 2021 has completed successfully! We’ve managed to gather some fascinating history about the village hall in Powburn, supported with several new documents and photographs. To celebrate the conclusion, we’d like to share our findings at a Coffee Morning to be held – of course – in the Breamish Hall.
The British Library is preserving this site for the future in the UK Web Archive at www.webarchive.org.uk
