Environmental awareness

November 22, 2010

At the end of the summer term this year, pupils in year 5 at Shotley Bridge Junior School worked on a project dealing with ‘good dog ownership’.

The Benfieldside, Blackhill, Bridgehill and Shotley Bridge Partnership has now published an Environmental Awareness leaflet containing their work and that of pupils from Benfieldside and Blackhill St Mary’s Primary School.

All pupils at these schools have received a copy and it is also available to pick up from community venues.

If you would like to look at the leaflet you can download a copy [but please read the pages in numerical order].

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Victorian photocall

November 15, 2010

A reporter and photographer from Newsquest were in the village this morning gathering information and taking photos for a newspaper article about the forthcoming Victorian Spectacular on Saturday 27th November, in support of Willow Burn.

Do you recognise the Town Crier and Fagan?

[Click on an image to enlarge]

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Happy birthday

November 15, 2010

Today this blogsite celebrates its first birthday, with over 3700 hits during the last 365 days. That’s an average of 10 per day.  Here are the full stats [which do not include my own visits].

If you have subscribed to this site you will have automatically been notified of this and other new posts, immediately they occur. If not and you wish to be kept up to date all you need do is enter your email details in the subscription box. But don’t forget to keep a check in the ‘Pages’ section, particularly the ‘Photo Galleries’, as you will not be notified about additions to these.

Please take the opportunity and use the ‘leave a comment’ box to let me know how you feel about the site, particularly if there is anything you would like to see included.

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Victorian Christmas Spectacular

November 6, 2010

Arrangements have now been finalised for the Victorian Spectacular, in 3 weeks time, on Saturday 27th November 2010. Posters are on display throughout the area and flyers will soon be coming through letter boxes.

Throughout the day, there is an entertaining programme of events, in the village and at the square, culminating with the lighting of the Christmas Tree by Santa at 4.30pm.

Download  a preview of the Victorian Christmas Spectacular Flyer

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Tubs in place

November 2, 2010

The 50 tubs purchased by the Trust have now all been positioned in the Conservation Area. Volunteers who have offered to maintain the features will shortly be contacted about which tubs have been allocated to them.

The photo shows the repositioning of one of the tubs by the village notice board.  This morning, 4 members also planted 200 crocus bulbs at the front of the grassed area on the opposite side of Front Street, which were provided by the County Council’s Civic Pride Team, through their 2010 Bulb Planting Challenge.

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