THE HAYDON NEWS ON LINE Dan Anderson & Tom Robb, Tom Craggs & Michael O’Riordan, Michael Thirlaway & ‘Dickie’ Lambert, Mick Hayter & Chad Alder get set for the Annual Wheelbarrow Race on Easter Monday. The race was supported by the Haydonian Social Club, the Anchor Hotel, the General Havelock and the Railway Hotel. INSIDE THIS ISSUE PAGE Parish Council Notes 3/13 Historical Notes 4 to 6 Correspondence 6 All The Way From Haydon Bridge 7 Issue 4 A Museum Is Born 8 Haydon Bridge War Memorial 9 THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE A View From Up There….. 10 HAYDON NEWS WILL BE PUBLISHED May IN JUNE 2011 John Martin Heritage Centre 11 John Martin Heritage Festival Events 12 All copy to the editors 2011 Haydon Bridge High School 13 as soon as possible, but not later than Church Pages 14/15 Friday May 22nd 2011. www.haydon-news.co.uk Notices 16 Thank you. Crossword 17 e mail: [email protected] HAYDONPublished NEWS by The Friends Of Haydon Bridge Page 1 THE HAYDON NEWS ON LINE In last month’s article on the Community Centre, the regular club meetings and other activities at the Community The Haydon News was Established in 1979 and preceded Centre were listed. Unfortunately the Bowls Club Thursday on and off for over forty five years by a church Parish evening meetings were omitted from the list. Magazine, The Haydon News is published by the Friends We apologise for this omission. The Editors of Haydon Bridge and is written, printed, collated and delivered by volunteers. 1,000 copies of The Haydon News are distributed free of NOTICE. charge, ten months of the year, throughout Haydon Parish in Tynedale, Northumberland. 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The committee of the Friends of Haydon Bridge thank those members who produce the Haydon News, people who contribute items for publication, our advertisers and distributors. THE HAYDON NEWS Editors: Mike Parkin. Dennis Telford. www.Haydon-News.co.uk Site construction by Henry Swaddle. Page 2 HAYDON NEWS PARISH COUNCIL NOTES from the meeting in April 2011 This meeting was held in Langley The Council decided against NCC residential use. Village Hall. introducing traffic calming measures Middle House, 13 Shaftoe Terrace, listed in Church Street, Strother Close and building consent for internal alteration to Public Participation Langley Gardens. The proposal agreed convert store into bedroom. A member of the public asked the Parish some months ago to introduce a traffic No objections raised to either Council to scrutinise closely any activated speed limit sign on the application. planning application made for the western approach to the village is to be redevelopment of the Old Brickworks’ Correspondence followed up when funding is available. Site as most Langley residents were The council received notice that NCC The gullies along Church Street and opposed to the previous plans submitted intend to make an order to add a public North Bank have been inspected by for this area. footpath to the definitive map. The NCC. Most were fine once leaves and The Council was thanked for holding a footpath will run from Ratcliffe Road at debris were removed from the tops. meeting once a year at Langley Village Bridge End in a general south-westerly Both sides of North Bank have been Hall. direction for 495 metres to a point 15 swept and the gulley tanker has metres south east of Brandelhow. The A complaint had been received about the cleaned those gullies identified as Council was asked if they wished to public toilets being locked on several requiring attention. make any representations or objections occasions in recent weeks. This has been The gravel and stones, washed down relating to the order. None were made. checked by members of the Council but onto Land Ends Road from the ‘green on each occasion the toilets were open. lane’ that runs up to Castle Farm, have A letter was received from the owners of It was thought that the person(s) making now been cleared. The situation is to the shed/agricultural building in the field the complaint may have tried the be checked after the next heavy rain to to the east of the village. disabled toilet door, which can only be see if the problem recurs. In a letter from NCC, the Parish Council opened by disabled people who belong The Alston sign and a T junction was assured that work is continuing to to the Radar Key scheme, or mistakenly warning sign have been removed from resolve land ownership and allocated tried to open the storeroom door which the junction at Esp Hill. NCC money issues to resolve, as soon as is kept locked. Highways is to be informed. possible, the transfer of play area Councillors were favourably impressed Council Meeting maintenance responsibilities from NCC by the new walls and railings now in 8 councillors were present. The NCC to the Council. place at the Ratcliffe Road/Church councillor sent his apologies. In a letter from the National Trust, Street junction. One councillor pointed Matters arising from the previous out that a road direction sign had been responding to an earlier letter from the minutes. fixed to the railings detracting from Council, the Trust spokesperson pointed Two councillors have had a meeting their overall appearance. NCC out that, while they wish to see the with Tim Fish, NCC Countryside Highways to be contacted about this parking situation at Plankey Mill Officer about the state of the footpath and work to further rationalise road resolved, the area was not under the from the village to Peelwell. He is to get signage in the village. It was noted that ownership of the Trust. However letters the soil cleared from the path. the directional sign, previously have been sent by the Trust and North attached to the side of the new bridge, Pennines AONB to the owners but NCC Report approaching the Church Street neither have received a response. Cllr Sharp was not at the meeting but junction, has now been permanently sent a brief report for the Parish Council. Parish Council Notes continue on removed. The saga of the money allocated by page13 Concern was expressed that the school developers for play area maintenance bus is no longer parking in the lay by continues to be pursued though a between Strother Close and Hordley resolution to the problems seems PARISH COUNCILLORS Acres when dropping off children. someway off. Instead it is stopping at the Hordley Esmond Faulks (chairman) Cllr Sharpe is investigating the Acre junction to allow children to Mr. D Charlton 684505 possibility of acquiring funding for the alight. It was felt that this presented a Mrs. E Charlton 684505 plaque the Parish Council wish to erect safety hazard.