Showing posts with label Wylam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wylam. Show all posts
Friday, 26 February 2016
Busy weekend in Tynedale - but make sure you support Hexham Market + Corbridge point to point
Today I am on the BBC recording the Sunday Politics in the North East - it is broadcast at 11.30 on Sunday. I also have surgeries and various other meetings today and tomorrow. Saturday I would urge you to support the Hexham Farmers Market. Sunday I will be in Wylam in the morning but thereafter I will be meeting friends, farmers, and racing folk 2 miles north of Corbridge on the Aydon Road at the Tynedale Point to Point - first race is 12.30. Come along.
Friday, 1 November 2013
Bonfire nights and Christmas fairs this weekend in Tynedale
There are a multitude of bonfire nights this coming weekend and one for everyone over the whole weekend with some villages having theirs on Friday, others like hexhamshire having theirs on Sunday whilst the bigger towns like Hexham are favouring Saturday night. Enjoy but be safe.
On Saturday there is a Christmas fair in wylam institute from 10-12.30. There is also a craft fair the same day in riding mill parish hall from 10-4.
On Saturday there is a Christmas fair in wylam institute from 10-12.30. There is also a craft fair the same day in riding mill parish hall from 10-4.
Sunday, 22 September 2013
Like Railways, trains, engineering, endeavour, community spirit? Wylam was the place this Saturday.
Yesterday was train central in Wylam. Dwarfed by the mighty Puffing Billy train we all enjoyed both the celebration of the first steam railway engine and so much more: hundreds visited the wonderful railway Museum in Wylam, saw the incredible Elaine Milbourne Dancers, watched the first perfomance of the new silent movie "Just in Time", and witnessed the modern day version of a Waggonway race as the Heddon and Wylam Brownies and Guides fought it out - this time using converted shopping trolleys.
It was an amazing day and full credit to all the organisers, activists, Beamish Museum, supporters, local engineers and the sponsors: special praise to Tom Martin and the Wylam Parish Council, without whom this would not have happened.
If you missed it do not despair: take a drive to Wylam and park your car by the river and walk the waggonway down to George Stephensons cottage. As you do time passes and you are back in tough days, and tough times, where the industrial revolution was formed. William Hedley was the man behind the Puffing Billy [his ancestors were there yesterday!] and his need to haul coal from Wylam Coliery to Lemington Staithes; but the story is linked by the Waggonway that takes you barely a half mile down to the one room in a small cottage where George Stephenson grew up. It is 12 foot by 12. His father, mother and 3 siblings lived there, on the site of the Wylam Waggonway. The hardship and struggle are palpable and humbling. In those days coal was king and life expectancy short. The Puffing Billy train was the transformative engineering breakthrough of its time but Stephenson took the dream and the change a further step. In those days the North East drove the economy of Britain and the coalfields of Wylam and the surrounding area drove that change.
Yesterday Stephensons home was packed with tourists, an incredible local guitar based band played in the grounds and visitors flocked eager to see where so much started. It is a National Trust site and well worth the visit: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/george-stephensons-birthplace/
The all day celebration of the Puffing Billy train was a testimony to Hedley, and the effort by so many local people. But the legacy lives on Wylam. If you like trains, railways, engineering and a real sense of community this is the pace to visit. It would not be this blog if I did not mention a cracking local pub to visit at the end of your journey and the Boathouse at Wylam will not disappoint - http://www.boathousewylam.info/
It has won dozens of awards and is a good place to consider what made this country great; and so much starts in Wylam.
It was an amazing day and full credit to all the organisers, activists, Beamish Museum, supporters, local engineers and the sponsors: special praise to Tom Martin and the Wylam Parish Council, without whom this would not have happened.
If you missed it do not despair: take a drive to Wylam and park your car by the river and walk the waggonway down to George Stephensons cottage. As you do time passes and you are back in tough days, and tough times, where the industrial revolution was formed. William Hedley was the man behind the Puffing Billy [his ancestors were there yesterday!] and his need to haul coal from Wylam Coliery to Lemington Staithes; but the story is linked by the Waggonway that takes you barely a half mile down to the one room in a small cottage where George Stephenson grew up. It is 12 foot by 12. His father, mother and 3 siblings lived there, on the site of the Wylam Waggonway. The hardship and struggle are palpable and humbling. In those days coal was king and life expectancy short. The Puffing Billy train was the transformative engineering breakthrough of its time but Stephenson took the dream and the change a further step. In those days the North East drove the economy of Britain and the coalfields of Wylam and the surrounding area drove that change.
Yesterday Stephensons home was packed with tourists, an incredible local guitar based band played in the grounds and visitors flocked eager to see where so much started. It is a National Trust site and well worth the visit: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/george-stephensons-birthplace/
The all day celebration of the Puffing Billy train was a testimony to Hedley, and the effort by so many local people. But the legacy lives on Wylam. If you like trains, railways, engineering and a real sense of community this is the pace to visit. It would not be this blog if I did not mention a cracking local pub to visit at the end of your journey and the Boathouse at Wylam will not disappoint - http://www.boathousewylam.info/
It has won dozens of awards and is a good place to consider what made this country great; and so much starts in Wylam.
Friday, 5 April 2013
Action day in Ovington, Ovingham, Newton and Bywell tomorrow
I shall be helping Fiona Hunter, our council candidate for Bywell division, tomorrow at 11am - meeting by the Post Office in Wylam - please feel free to come along and help. We will have a number of teams out campaigning, canvassing and delivering - something for everyone on a Saturday! The pub and the Grand National will beckon afterwards.
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Campaigning Wylam Saturday + going 2 the Boathouse Inn
Fiona Hunter is our local candidate for the Bywell Council seat so this Saturday I will be campaigning in Wylam for her, with our team. We had 9 out on Saturday morning last week in Prudhoe and we are meeting outside the post office in Wylam at 11am if you want to come along this Saturday.
Afterwards I shall be heading to the Boathouse Inn in Wylam [winner of multiple awards as a pub / ale heaven] around 1.30-2 for a much deserved pint. Martin Hammill of the Hadrian Border Brewery has been asking me to drop by the pub for some time and I am never one to turn up the chance of a good pint. http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/14/14558/Boathouse_Inn/Wylam
I will be campaigning afterwards but definitely stopping for the Grand National at 4.15
Afterwards I shall be heading to the Boathouse Inn in Wylam [winner of multiple awards as a pub / ale heaven] around 1.30-2 for a much deserved pint. Martin Hammill of the Hadrian Border Brewery has been asking me to drop by the pub for some time and I am never one to turn up the chance of a good pint. http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/14/14558/Boathouse_Inn/Wylam
I will be campaigning afterwards but definitely stopping for the Grand National at 4.15
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