Allendale Parish Council is comprised of 13 ‘elected’, or co-opted, councillors, who put their names forward for a term of four years and who are all neatly listed on the Northumberland Parishes website, as ‘People‘. The current chair is David…
Category: Institutions
Mothering Sunday
I know that the secularisation of this day is all around us, since most things Americana get here eventually, but the significance of this day is possibly not known to many people. Certainly I didn’t know where the term came…
Friends Meeting House
A little row of gravestones stands in front of the Meeting House, dating back to the end of the 17th Century (a Meeting House was built on the site in 1688, replaced in 1735, and rebuilt in the late 1860s)…
Tranquility, but not just yet please
My brother emails me from the Near North, Ontario, just below Lake Nipissing where the northern half of the province begins, to wonder if the recent diary entries are not some sort of metaphor for my current state of health…
Allendale Pre-School
We all feel wonderful, great, in this amazing balmy weather, as London records temperatures of higher than 21ºC and daffodils even on the fellsides of Sparty Lea erupt in the sunshine. But, on the other hand, it’s terrifying, isn’t it?!…
The Fire & Rescue Service: retained professionals
I guess it’s almost every little boy’s dream (and some girls’ too, no doubt about it) to grow up to be a fire-fighter one day. So I asked our cheerful Retained Fire Service crew, or at least the 7 who…
49 years, still going strong . . .
Now back in the premises at Scotch Hall where he started the Allendale Motor Company business in 1970, Mick Robson has a busy day ahead, taking care of two Land Rovers from the estate, but he kindly obliges me with…
I’m fixing a hole . . .
. . . where the rain gets in. The friendly gent organising the removal of the scaffolding around Trinity Methodist Church was happy to tell me what the job had been about. Apparently the very long lintel, which extends from…
‘A hive of activity’ at the Dale Salon
Lindsey Weatherson greeted me cheerfully at the door as I stomped inside from the flurry of wet snowflakes drifting down, and we sat quietly beside the hair dryer to chat about the Dale Salon, a business she took over some…
St. Cuthbert’s on a Sunday
So on the third (and the first, incidentally) Sunday of the month (that would be today), Rev. Jon Russell, the rector of the Allendale with Ninebanks and Whitfield Anglican churches holds the 9:30am communion service at St. Mark’s of Ninebanks,…