TONIGHT’S FILM
To end our season is a CLASSIC DOUBLE BILL from the 1940s:
BOGART and BACALL in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT and THE BIG SLEEP
Note – we will be starting early, at 7.00pm.
FIRST SCHOOL NEWSLETTERS: JULY 2019
To read the July newsletters from our First School click the links:
WIND FARM GRANT APPLICATIONS OPENS 15.7.19
The next round of bidding for support from the Windfarm Community Fund, via the Community Foundation will open on July 15th. On that day, this link will take you to the right area:
https://www.communityfoundation.org.uk/apply/
The officer in charge is Nils Stronach. His details are below.
In the meantime – please put together your proposals – if you have applied before, you know the score – if not this reminder applies.
- At least two quotes
- Have a proper sets of rules and a constitution
- Be able to provide bank account details, including any reserves you have that are not put aside for vital spending in emergency
- Be able to demonstrate how it benefits members of your community
- You will be expected to contribute your own funds to the project
- Plus anything else the application process demands
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ROAD CLOSURES AHEAD: KYLOE
Temporary Traffic Regulation Order as follows: 114141867 B6353 Lowick To Fenwick
DETAILS
B6353 Lowick To Fenwick B6353 Lowick
Northumberland County Council – Road closure for carriageway repairs, structural patching and resurfacing Order is valid 01/09/2019-01/03/2020
Road is expected to be closed 30/09/2019-04/10/2019 07:30-17:00
Access will be maintained for emergency vehicles, residents and businesses within the closure
TM personnel on site to deal with any arising issues
ROAD CLOSURES AHEAD: ANCROFT
Temporary Traffic Regulation Order: 113097208 B6525 Barmoor – Ancroft – Scremerston
DETAILS
B6525 Ancroft To Scremerston Hill B6525 Berwick-upon-tweed
Northumberland County Council – road closure for surface dressing and associated works Order is valid 07/05/2019-27/09/2019
Road is expected to be closed 10/07/2019-11/07/2019 07:30-17:00
Access will be maintained for emergency vehicles, residents and businesses within the closure
FIRST SCHOOL NEWSLETTERS: JUNE 2019
To read the June newsletters from our First School click the links:
NEW DIG AT HUNTING HALL
On 11th June members of the Lowick Heritage Group Archaeology section began a dig at Hunting Hall Farm. Two trenches were opened at locations that had been chosen to investigate the many interesting subterranean features shown by last year’s geophysical survey. We were already very confident that the site had Iron Age origins because of the obvious semi circular ring ditches but it didn’t us take long to discover that the site is much older.
What has been particularly rewarding is the number of volunteers each day. Although professionally led by Kristian Pedersen, the rest of us have very little experience of practical archaeology. That doesn’t stop us finding artefacts and it’s quite exciting to be the first one to reveal a man made object that hasn’t been seen for thousands of years. There have been many. The oldest object found so far is a flint tool that has been identified as used sometime around the end of the Neolithic Period to the beginning of the Bronze Age. That makes it around 4,500 years old! Other complex underground stone features have revealed that the site was probably occupied by Bronze Age communities prior to the Iron Age people who were around at the time of the Romans. Whether that was continuous or intermittent occupation over a period of more than two thousand years remains to be seen.
Originally intended to be a two week dig, the site is revealing so much potentially important information about prehistoric farming in North Northumberland that we intend to extend until early July. Volunteers and visitors to the site will be made very welcome.
