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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MOT Time . . .
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…
The long and winding road . . .
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…
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…
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…
Hexham, our market town
A village, even one as vibrant as Allendale and its surrounding communities throughout the East and West Allen Valleys, needs a market town relatively close by. We’ve already considered, in the diary, some of the cultural aspects provided in Hexham,…
Barney Craig: Carrshield Camping Barn
The Carrshield Camping Barn, renovated out of the old mine shop of Barney Craig, is one of the components of the portfolio of Allen Valleys Enterprise Ltd, or AVEL as the Community Benefit Society is called. AVEL was created to…
West Northumberland Foodbank
There’s been a Foodbank collection point at Allendale Co-op for some years now. But the need has not diminished; rather it’s grown — over the past six months and into this summer the West Northumberland Food Bank based in Hexham…