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| Visit: www.blagdonestate.co.uk. |
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| TENANTS INFORMATION: Click HERE for on-line version
of our Tenants Booklet |
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| August 2010 |
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| Activities for August and September 2010 |
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| 1st August Alnwick Hospice Care Garden Opening |
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| 26th August The Victorian Society private Visit. |
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| 5th September Plant heritage: Plant fair |
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| 9th September Durham Summer School private visit |
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| 20 to 24th September Outdoor Learning |
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| Estate Events. |
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The Blagdon Summer Event this year was held on the 10th July.
Traditionally the weather treated us to the usual downpour just as the
band struck up at night, but thankfully the warm weather took the edge
off a lot of people being soaked to the skin! Overall it was another
excellent day and so nice to see so many tenants attending and joining
in. The un-forecast gales on the Sunday ruined a lot of peoples gazebos
unfortunately including destroying the estates own marquees, it was a
reminder however that in such windy conditions it can be extremely
dangerous with all sorts of things being blown around and we will have
to ask people not to enter the area should similar gales happen again to
prevent accidents.
The committee will be meeting again shortly to plan our Halloween event
and to start thinking about next years summer event. Once again any
suggestions or offers of help are gratefully received.
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HERE for pictures taken on the day. |
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| Garden Competition. |
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Many thanks to all who entered this years gardens competition which
was judged by Lord Ridley. the standard again was incredibly high and it
was a difficult decision to pick the winners. Lord Ridley decided to
make five awards rather than the planned four and the results were:
First: Yvonne and Helen Steele, Second: John Mitchinson, Third:
Joan Hope and joint Fourth: Clare and Will Cuthbertson and Anne and Norman
Yeaman. Congratulations to all who took part it was a pleasure to be
able to visit so many magnificent gardens.
We plan to have a meeting later in the year to discuss the future of the
gardens competition and to see if it can be improved and how more people
can be come involved. |
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Lord Ridley with the winners, click to enlarge. |
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| Alnwick Hospice Care, Open Gardens Sunday 1st August. |
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| This is the first time the Hospice care have come to Blagdon for a
garden opening. Please support this worthy cause by coming along on the
day, full details are on our events page. |
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| Northumberlandia. |
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| Northumberlandia is shaping up to be a major project
produced by Banks and Blagdon for the benefit of the
region. We are very excited about the potential that this
project promises and we are sure that we will all be very
proud when the park is opened to the public, which is
scheduled for Summer 2013.Work has now commenced on site, initially with
the construction of the car park, soil stripping is due to commence once
access has been formed from the Shotton Site. There is an advisory
committee comprising of representatives from interested parties, who are
meeting to discuss how to promote and develop Northumberlandia for the
future, should anyone have any views I am happy to bring them to the
attention of the advisory group, and design team. If you have any thoughts or suggestions about
Northumberlandia, please speak to me and I will pass your
comments to the design team.
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| Click
HERE for more details |
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| Please e mail me if you have any comments to make on
the website, this newsletter or any other aspect of
Blagdon Estate, I am always happy to receive feedback. |
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| Please feel free to submit any comments, observations or submissions
for future issues of "The Bull." If you let us have your e mail address,
I will notify you of all future issues. |
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| rjdowner@blagdonestate.co.uk |
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