The folk who are behind the plans to save Ye Olde Cross are launching a share event on Sunday 14th October. This is an opportunity to buy shares to help the community to purchase Ye […]
Thorp Academy, official opening!
A couple of years ago I was privileged to be present when Estelle Morris, the Baroness of Yardley, opened the STEM block at Thorp Academy. This was shortly before the old school buildings (where I […]
Cricket Club Fair 2018
Thank you to the organisers and the many people taking part in the Cricket Club Fair. A great afternoon out, and a chance to bump into friends.
Our Ye Olde Cross – Volunteer event
Volunteer
Another year of Sixth Form success for Thorp Academy
The 2018 A-level results at Thorp Academy demonstrate another year of positive results, which were once again above national average. Thorp Academy is one of ten secondary academies operated by Northern Education Trust (NET), a […]
Crawcrook Fair
Lovely afternoon yesterday down at Crawcrook Fair. It’s the first time I’ve been to the event and it was smashing. The sun shone, and the music (particularly from Doug Musgrove and another band called The […]
Don’t hover the apostrophe
“Don’t hover the apostrophe. If you don’t know whether it is mens’ or men’s or children’s or childrens’ look it up. Don’t hover it somewhere up there and think I won’t notice that you haven’t got a clue […]
You can’t touch this
The Greatest Showman is not my favourite film, in fact I thought it was dreadful – but where Hugh Jackman failed St. Agnes have won me over. Their traditional July concert this afternoon featured several […]
Waistcoat Wednesday
Having missed Sweden v England last Saturday NOWT was going to come between me and Croatia v England on Wednesday. Driving home on Saturday with Howard, my festival colleague and friend, in the contentment of […]
North East Live Music is Alive
The talented Paul Kirsopp, as mentioned in my last post, has also asked me to tell you about Nova Radio and his show “North East Live Music Is Alive”. Paul broadcasts on Monday evenings 6pm […]
Family fun day at Ryton Rugby Club!
We’ll known local busker and former school friend Paul James Kirsopp (pictured below) has been in touch to tell me about the Ryton Rugby Club Fun Day, on Saturday 21st July. It begins at 1pm, […]
Fun at the Fun Station
I’ve been down to see Laura of the The Fun Station in Prudhoe. It’s tucked out of the way a bit, so like me you might have missed it. Coming from Crawcrook turn right at the roundabout […]
Latest on Ye Olde Cross
I’ve been hearing from Friends of Ye Olde Cross. The email is as follows; “Hi All, Just in case you missed it on Facebook or Twitter. After our last meeting, we told you that we […]
Ryton Festival is fun!
I’m glad that the light nights are coming in. We usually make plans for the dismal first two months of the year when depression tends to infiltrate. We spend a few days near Holy Island […]
News from Brighten Ryton
Many of you will have observed many diligent volunteers tending the flower beds in our village, clearing up litter, and generally bringing Ryton back to some of the glory it enjoyed during our Britain in […]
Ryton Festival ready go go again
We apologise once again for the cancellation of the Speech and Drama weekend due to the heavy snow. Just to let you know that the final weekend will be going ahead as planned, beginning at […]
Ryton and District Festival cancelled this weekend
It is with great reluctance that we have had to cancel the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth sessions of the Festival, due to run this weekend 2nd and 3rd of March. This is due to […]
Second meeting re. Ye Olde Cross
A second meeting is to be held in the Holy Cross Church Hall, regarding re-opening this much loved pub. The meeting is open to everyone who registered their interest at the last meeting, whether you […]
Meeting re. the future of Ye Olde Cross
Here is an abbreviated version of the meeting minutes, held in Ryton Village Church Hall last week. They have been kindly supplied by Colin Cheesman Open Meeting re. Ye Olde Cross Inn, Ryton. 8.Feb.2018. […]
New beginnings
Here we are in 2018, and so we have turned our attention to home alterations. Well actually not alterations, more bulldozing down half of the house and building it back up again. It seems such […]
Save Ye Olde Cross
Ye Olde Cross has closed again, and everyone is baffled as to why. It was taken over in the autumn by the licensee of the Half Moon, and underwent considerable refurbishment. Certainly Heather and I […]
