The Free Community Magazine for Eglingham Parish North Charlton | South Charlton | Eglingham | & Everywhere Between
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HEAR ABOUTS JUNE 2020 The Free Community Magazine for Eglingham Parish North Charlton | South Charlton | Eglingham | & Everywhere Between From the Editor Email: [email protected] We’ve made it to June! The way things have Address: The Croft gone so far in 2020, it was in doubt, though 32 South Charlton of course we have a 2nd spike in the virus Alnwick impending after everyone now fancies a Northumberland trip to Barnard Castle... NE66 2NA Also it looks like America is about to tear itself apart now, rather than in November when someone doesn’t cede power - kind of like you’ll never get rid of me making this magazine! haha We joke to stay sane, but please all stay safe, we’re not through it yet! ...and no trips out to check your eyesight!! Andy As this issue goes to print it is our intention to hand deliver as many as we can The April edition was left at collection points. If you missed this or the last issue because you didn’t venture out or aren’t on any notification lists, you can download previous issues from http://www.eglingham.info/hear-abouts-magazine R e s i d e n t s @ Email List A resident of the Parish? Then if you haven’t already... Sign up for our community email list! Our very successful email list is open to any resident within our boundaries, just send an email to [email protected] and you will get added. Next Issue: Early July Please continue to submit content as normal www.eglingham.info SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Hear Abouts is all about you the reader within our Parish. It is written by yourselves (or by those just beyond our borders) and without those submissions there would be no Hear Abouts. Just a few things to note while submitting content to us which helps us out though. Please email all content to the email address [email protected] and no other. 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Feel free to write in with a reply to anything to be published though! Also please be aware that Hear Abouts is made available online digitally at www.eglingham.info and is searchable worldwide, so any information you provide will be published “beyond our borders”. County Councillor Report [email protected] Tel. 07779 983072 and also on Facebook Members Allowance 2019/20 As the Longhoughton Ward County Councillor I receive £15,000.00 per year to spend on my Communities. The initiatives for 2019/20 are listed as below. I am also contributing towards an interactive speed sign for Christon Bank, which, unfortunately due to lockdown this prevented the installation from moving forward and I am carrying the money forward into year 2020/21 and the sign will be purchased and installed asap. Traffic calming (Speed reduction measures) B6346 Eglingham Village - Phase 1 £2,000.00 - VillageTraffic Design Plan. Contribution towards purchase and installation of new interactive speed sign, A697 Powburn north £3,390.00 Contribution towards footpath resurfacing outside Moodys (Londis) in Embleton and opposite the village hall in Howick Village £3,000.00 Contribution towards purchase and installation of 7No. new litter bins for Craster Parish - £2,269.68 Total Balance 10,659.68 Carried over to 2020/21 = £4,340.32 Northumberland Libraries Northumberland library customers who have been missing their regular visit to their local branch have received a welcome call from staff to check on them. The county’s library service is running a “befriending” service for its regular, elderly customers, who are currently shielding during the Covid19 outbreak, to ensure residents don’t become isolated and lonely. The service identified 3,800 customers of 70yrs+ who have been regular visitors to a library this year. Staff will call them all at least once to check how they are getting on and if there is anything they can help them with, such as offering them support on accessing digital resources if they have a device. They are also signposting residents to other services which can help. They will chat to them about books they have been reading - and suggest others they might like. For those who are particularly isolated staff will make more frequent calls for a friendly chat. The service is also seeking to offer limited doorstep deliveries of books to some of its most isolated customers. The library service offers hundreds of e-Books, e-Audiobooks and e-Magazines online. At the moment you can also research your family history for free with Ancestry at home and Find my Past. To access these and the Library’s other online services, all you have to do is sign up as a library member for free. Go to www.mylibrary.co.uk for more information. If you are in need of help you can also contact the Northumberland Communities Together team on (01670) 620015 between 9am to 6pm, seven days a week or email: [email protected] Anyone who is concerned about library books which they may not have not been able to return before the current lockdown commenced, will not be charged/fined once libraries reopen. Grass Verges I am increasingly contacted by residents and Parish Councils about protecting our grass verges and managing them to benefit wild flowers and other nature. Safety must come first on our roads and certain verges must be cut to maintain clear lines of visibility at road junctions. NCC Neighbourhood Services Team are happy to leave the verges uncut if Parish Councils request this and they can be contacted to discuss at any time. Household Waste Recovery Centres Please check the council website for latest guidence. Current Site Rules • Social distancing measures must be adhered to at all times by both staff and visitors. All site users must adhere to the 2m social distancing rules. • Ideally, only one person per vehicle should travel to the site, as only one person will be permitted outside their vehicle once on-site. People must remain in their vehicle whilst queuing. • You will be required to prove you live in Northumberland - please bring proof of your postal address and postcode - e.g. a utility bill or driver’s licence. You will need to display this in the windscreen of your vehicle. • No assistance will be given to offload materials by site staff so only bring what you can safely carry. • A new traffic management system will be in place and due to safety concerns, queueing outside of the sites will be restricted. If there are queues you may be asked to leave and come back at a later time. • Only cars, small vans and small trailers (below 5 feet or 1.5 metres long) are allowed on site. • No transit-type vans, large vehicle trailers or commercial vehicles of any type will be allowed on site. • Sites can only accept • bagged general household waste • garden waste • cardboard • glass • TVs • small electrical appliances • wood • carpets • bulky items of household waste such as old furniture. • fridges (provided they can be carried by one person), but no other white goods • Do not attend the site if you are self-isolating due to having/or having had possible COVID-19 symptoms. • If any households have had COVID-19 symptoms, then the waste should be left for 72 hours before being brought to site. Waste should be doubled bagged. • If residents have sanitary or incontinence pad waste this should be bagged and placed in their household general waste bin and the excess household waste brought to site. • No access to pedestrians on any site. Contacting Northumberland County Council The safest way for you to contact the council is via our website at www.northumberland.gov.uk/contact - You can also call us on 0345 600 6400 during office hours. We now have dedicated #CoronaVirus section on our website dedicated to provide you with the information and updates on our services at www.northumberland.gov.uk/coronavirus Mystery solved! Thanks to Tony Hooks for identifying the marker stone I spotted while out walking last month. As he suspected, it was indeed on Beanley Moor. The photo in last month’s Hear Abouts showed a letter N on one side and Tony correctly stated that on the other is a letter T. He explains that this was a boundary stone between the land of the Duke of Northumberland and the Earl of Tankerville. How long the stone has been there is probably a more difficult question to answer but according to the records I have found, the first Earl of Tankerville lived at Chillingham Castle in the late 1600’s, so the boundary stone could be anything up to 300 years old.