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…
Year: 2019
Shifting things for the auction . . .
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…
Allen Valley Angling and Conservation Group
Based mostly along the River East Allen and Coatenhill Reservoir up here in Sparty Lea, the Allen Valley Angling and Conservation (AVAC) group have a very informative website, which keeps the members informed of upcoming events and conservation efforts, and…
The Garden Station, Langley
These Allen Valleys, East and West, are blessed with the most idiosyncratic, and lovely, places for events. And sometimes, because the places are so fetching, the events grow up around them. Something like that has happened at The Garden Station,…
The flu jab . . . an autumnal routine
As the autumn rolls in, it’s time once again for the annual flu jab, if you’re part of the population for whom such a preventative strategy is deemed cost-effective by the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). That…
Isaac’s Well flows again!
It may not look like much, the little fountain just left of the roadway entrance to Arnison Close, and it might typically be parked up as well, but Isaac’s Well, a Grade II listed structure, is part and parcel of…
‘Music in Allendale’ — last concert of the season
It’s hard to believe that the group promoting chamber music in Allendale has been going since 1992. A brainchild of members from the Northern Sinfonia, the idea caught on and helped to place Allendale on the musical map of the…
Old idea, new venue: Car Boot Sale at the Sports Ground
I haven’t been to very many Car Boot Sales, but I have a fair idea what to expect: lots of cars or tables spread out over the area, and lots of people ambling about looking at the offerings, hoping for…
Rounding out the season . . . The Allen Valley & King’s Head Leek Club Show
Offering that extra bit of time for the super vegetables to increase in size, the Allen Valley & King’s Head Leek Club Show entries are on display tomorrow late afternoon, some three weeks after the ‘Allendale Flower Show.’ I may…