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New Year’s Eve . . . only the Tar Bar’ls will do

LarryWinger
December 31, 2019
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This is Allendale, after all, and tonight the ‘guisers will be out in full force, marching away from the Lych Gate in front of the Golden Lion and the King’s Head, and down around the Dale, turning left at the…

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Anecdote Community External Funding Healthy Living Institutions Organisation Reminiscence

The Tea Dance

LarryWinger
December 4, 2019
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Mary Gibson invited me specially to drop in this afternoon to chat with the regulars at Wednesday afternoon’s Tea Dance Society in Allendale Village Hall. So I’ll certainly have more stories and information about this beloved institution in Allendale, later…

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Business Community Environment Institutions

The Elk’s Head and Whitfield Estate Partnership

LarryWinger
November 28, 2019
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I seem to have spent some time traversing the West Allen valley over the past week or so, trying to make this diary a more comprehensive recapitulation of the entities in the whole patch. The Elk’s Head is the last…

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Communications Community Cultural Life Education Institutions

Allendale Bell Tower

LarryWinger
November 24, 2019
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Shirley Brown writes in with a lovely and fulsome description of the bell ringers at St. Cuthbert’s: “An article in the Hexham Courant in September 2019 was headed ‘Tower of Friendship and Team Spirit’.  I think this sums up nicely…

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Access and Inclusion Community Fundraising Institutions Services

The High Forest Community Centre

LarryWinger
November 23, 2019
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Just about on the road coming down from the ‘heeds into Sinderhope, the High Forest Community Centre has become rather a busy hall over the past few years. Rescued from its near-derelict state by a combination of significant and timely…

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Anecdote Event Institutions

Making the Christmas cake

LarryWinger
November 21, 2019
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Apparently we’re a week late on this lovely kitchen task; you’re supposed to make your family’s Christmas cake some six weeks ahead of the day itself, to give it time to mature, and also, of course, to soak up even…

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Access and Inclusion Faith and Worship Institutions

Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey

LarryWinger
November 17, 2019
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The Buddhist Abbey at Throssel Hole, Carrshield, welcomes visitors on Festival Days to experience their contemplative service, meditation and ‘dharma’ (loosely translated as ‘the teachings’) for themselves. And afterwards to enjoy the fellowship of a lunch with the acolytes and…

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Institutions Reminiscence Those We Have Lost

Remembrance Day

LarryWinger
November 11, 2019
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Every Canadian of a certain generation learned several poems by heart. In my day, this was one of those poems: In Flanders FieldsBY JOHN MCCRAEIn Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,    That mark our place; and in the…

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Faith and Worship Institutions Reminiscence Those We Have Lost

Remembrance Sunday

LarryWinger
November 10, 2019
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The Lych Gate honours the fallen from this parish in both World Wars of the last century. Remembrance Sunday, when the Last Post is played at the memorial, is always the closest Sunday to Remembrance Day itself: the 11th of…

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Business Institutions Services Tourism

Cart’s Bog Inn at Langley

LarryWinger
October 16, 2019
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At lunch the other day in the Cart’s Bog Inn, I had a quick chat with Stuart Davison, who I discovered is expecting to be celebrating running the place for a decade in March 2020. I remember so well when…

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