In collaboration with Community Action Northumberland (CAN) and Northumberland Archives, the Ingram Village Hall Heritage Project has been set up to preserve, record and share the heritage of the Ingram Village Hall. It is one of several ‘second-wave’ projects included as part of the county-wide Northumberland Village Halls Heritage Project.
The new 150cm x 90cm information board with a visual timeline of the 125 year history of the Breamish Hall has not been installed.
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!
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.
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.
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 Breamish Hall Heritage Project that began in October 2021 is coming to its end. Graham Williamson and May Wilson have collected together a number of images and documents that help to record a history of the Breamish Hall in Powburn. However, there are two events for which we have no suitable images/photos:
In co-operation with Community Action Northumberland (CAN) and Northumberland Archives, with funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, a new project has begun to preserve, record, and share the heritage of the Breamish Village Hall for the benefit of the rural community it serves.
This below article was originally published in two parts in Issue 15 (October 2013) and Issue 17 (March 2014) of the former Cheviot Views newsletter. It was written by Richard Poppleton of Titlington who adapted it from May, M. (1988) Aln & Breamish Local History Society.
The British Library is preserving this site for the future in the UK Web Archive at www.webarchive.org.uk
