The recent warm sunny weather is helping the daffodils and pansies to come into full bloom. The 50 tubs have been provided throughout the Conservation Area, with funding raised by the Trust for its Britain in Bloom initiative. Volunteers will replant the tubs with summer bedding at the beginning of June.
Flowering tubs
March 30, 2011Heritage Open Day
March 13, 2011The Consett and District Heritage Initiative is holding another exhibition at the Heritage Centre in Blackhill Park on Saturday 9th April 2011, 12-4 pm.
The Trust is supporting the Initiative to help preserve the history of Shotley Bridge and will have a display table of old photographs at the event.
The research room at the Heritage Centre is open on a Wednesday, where old documents, artifacts and photographs can be looked at. Permanent displays about the history of the area are being created in the foyer.
The artifacts include some from the ‘Consett Steelworks Exhibition’, which used to be in the Shotley Bridge Heritage and Tourist Information Centre.
Please let me know if you have any artifacts or records of the area that you are willing to donate or loan to the Heritage Centre. In particular, the Centre is compiling a digital archive of old photographs and is appealing to borrow personal collections for scanning.
Willow Burn presentation
March 9, 2011At the Village Trust’s Open Meeting last night, a cheque for £1380 was presented to a trustee of Willow Burn. The charity collection was held during the Victorian Christmas Spectacular last November. Paul Jackson gave a talk about the hospice at the former Maiden Law Hospital site in Lanchester, stating that they had now raised £1.5 million towards the £5 million target for new buildings. Construction of phase one of the new facility would be starting in the near future.
Clare Singleton and Sue Shaw gave a presentation on the Trust’s Britain in Bloom entry in the Neighbourhood Awards Scheme and Garth Johnson gave details about a photographic competition.
Big Spring Clean
March 3, 2011In support of Litterfree Durham’s “Big Spring Clean”, the Trust is holding a litter pick on the morning of Saturday 2nd April this year.
If you can spare an hour or two, meet at 10am in the bottle bank car park [next to the Golden Flower] and bring gloves and a litter picker [if you have one]. The trust has a small supply of litter pickers and will provide refuse sacks and bibs.
SBVT Open Meeting
February 23, 2011The agenda for the next Open Meeting of the Trust on March 8th will include a cheque presentation to Willow Burn, of the money collected during the Victorian Christmas Spectacular in November.
There will also be a short video of the event and photographs of old Shotley Bridge provided by Sarah Thew, as well as a presentation about ‘Blooming Shotley Bridge’, the announcement of a photographic competition and a report from County Councillor Stephen Robinson.
Take a look at the open meeting agenda
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