Shotley Bridge Village Trust

2010 in review

January 1, 2011

Happy new year to all the readers of this blog.

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,700 times in 2010. That’s about 9 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 53 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 70 posts. There were 54 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 92mb. That’s about 1 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was March 16th with 76 views. The most popular post that day was Snowy scenes.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were google.co.uk, owentemple.mycouncillor.org.uk, saintcuthberts.blogspot.com, mail.yahoo.com, and search.bt.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for shotley bridge village trust, shotley bridge victorian weekend, shotley bridge, sbvt.wordpress.com, and shotley bridge village hall.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Snowy scenes December 2009

Victorian Christmas Weekend December 2009

Photo Galleries November 2009

Contact the secretary November 2009

Committee November 2009

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Frozen River Derwent

December 23, 2010

I was in the village today and these photos of the River Derwent and village square looked appealing.

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Victorian Christmas Spectacular photos

December 22, 2010

Sorry for the delay in posting these on the site but I did not have time before going on holiday.

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Thank you to all those who made the effort to dress in Victorian costume. Despite the snowy weather the event was a great success and visitors gave generously to charity. When all the collection tins are returned and counted I will post a report about the money raised for Willow Burn and the Village Trust ‘Britain in Bloom’.

Thank you also to the Methodist Church for hosting the entertainment and the Village Trust volunteer stewards who helped to ensure that the event ran smoothly.

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What a difference

November 26, 2010

What a difference a day makes. The day after I took the photos of the Christmas tree it snowed. So today I took a couple of more photos for comparison. Apart from the snow can you spot the difference?

Also, due to the cold weather and more snow in the forecast, it has been decided that the Victorian Christmas Spectacular events will be held in the Methodist Church, Front Street. The only event in the square will be the lighting of the Christmas tree, by Santa, at 4.30pm.

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