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Month: September 2019

Access and Inclusion Community External Funding Organisation Services

The Community Bank

LarryWinger
September 30, 2019
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It used to be Tynedale Community Bank, but as I discovered, as Christina at Fawside was busily proofreading the latest iteration of the Allendale and Allen Valleys Pocket Directory, it’s now joined forces with the Credit Union for South-East Northumberland…

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Access and Inclusion Cultural Life Event Faith and Worship

A Festival of Angels

LarryWinger
September 29, 2019
0

From Seraphic Sopranos and edible Biscuit Angels, through Angelic Choirs, Angel Mosaics, Angels Amongst Us, and Angels from South African HIV Clinics, these few photographs represent some of the most moving submissions at the Angel Festival held in St. Cuthbert’s,…

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Event Reminiscence

The Allendale Wolf . . .

LarryWinger
September 28, 2019
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Wikipedia recounts the story from 1904 of the Allendale Wolf, also reprised in the pages of the Allen Valleys Folk Festival programme. The creature was the ‘large black cat’ of its day. [From early in 2000 until at least 2012,…

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Community Cultural Life Event Organisation

Allen Valleys Folk Festival

LarryWinger
September 27, 2019
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The programme for this year’s folk festival is the biggest ever, and the weekend looks like an exciting jaunt through contemporary folk music. The festival workshops are an annual component of the festival, as led by local tutors, and the…

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Access and Inclusion Cultural Life Healthy Living Organisation

Hadrian Clog in the Allen Valleys

LarryWinger
September 26, 2019
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Georgia Shorrock, who recently moved into Allendale, has been active in the Hadrian Clog Dance group for some time, and sends us this fulsome report on their activities: “Hadrian Clog has become a familiar sight around the Allen Valleys over…

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Services Transport Travel

MOT Time . . .

LarryWinger
September 25, 2019
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Three little letters strike fear into the hearts and minds of virtually every family in this patch: M and O and T. It comes around once a year, and today it’s our turn. Although our new-to-us little Fiat Panda 4×4…

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Environment Infrastructure Services

The long and winding road . . .

LarryWinger
September 24, 2019
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that leads . . . to your door Our track is in a constant state of disrepair. That is to say, we repair it each year, and without fail next year renewed attention is required to the new ruts and…

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Business Cultural Life Tourism

Pots in the Byre

LarryWinger
September 23, 2019
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I dropped in to Steph Jamieson‘s annual ‘Pots in the Byre’ show at Broadwood Hall Studios, yesterday, just before the heavens opened and the rain came down in a deluge, to see some of the pottery displays. The day before,…

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Business Tourism

Langley Dam: Fishing and Glamping

LarryWinger
September 22, 2019
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Today at Langley Dam Lake it’s the Freddie White Memorial Macmillan Day, from 9am as noted on the business’s facebook page, with donations going to Macmillan Cancer Support. The Langley Dam enterprise has recently added a diversification component to its…

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Anecdote Community Fundraising Services

Shifting things for the auction . . .

LarryWinger
September 21, 2019
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Every year, the annual charity auction re-appears at Allendale Village Hall. There’s junk galore, it’s true, but there are treasures amongst the dross that the cognoscenti are actually very keen on, though they always profess nonchalant disinterest. More on the…

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