Each year, Northumbria in Bloom runs a campaign to recognise, encourage and reward community groups who work together to transform their environment through gardening, environmental awareness and community support (see County Councillor Report (Aug 2023)).
Opening this winter, Northumberland Cottages is a new development of luxury accommodation with fabulous panoramic views of the Cheviot Hills at Breamish House in Powburn.
Our very own bee farmer, Ian Robson of Powburn runs a successful local honey production business. Recently, Ian attended the Apple Day at the Breamish Hall, with lots of types of honey to see and purchase.
Are you still looking up over a year on from the first England lockdown? I hope so. And, if you are, then you’ll most likely have seen the recent wonderful late-Spring sunsets. There have been some vibrant pinks and oranges on display: quite breath-taking at times.
Having seen the snow on them ‘ills a few days ago, followed by the frozen Branton lakes, it was fairly inevitable that the snow would reach the valley floor. And, sure enough, we all awoke yesterday to a carpet of snow all across north Northumberland.
Thanks once more to May Wilson sharing her personal collection of vintage photographs of Powburn and the Breamish Valley, we have been able to add another image of the Old Powburn Shop to the Breamish Valley Photographic Collection (BVPC).
Thanks to May Wilson for letting us have a copy of an old (possibly 1950s-1960s) photograph of some properties in Powburn from her personal collection.
Well, after all the seeming drabness of lockdown, even the skies are beginning to reward us with their colours.
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:
We have today (24 March 2020) received the following notice from the Chair of Hedgeley Parish Council.
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