A village shop has continued being there for customers despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Bardon Mill’s Village Store - which also doubles up as a tearoom - has stayed open throughout the last 14 months and has been a lifeline for customers during the uncertain times that everyone has faced. The business, which is family run, has regularly adapted to ensure they have been able to stay open and serve their local community with essential items and takeaway food and drinks. “We have been running the shop for eight years,” says Michael Smith, who runs the business with wife Dawn.
10 YEARS AGO DJ BLACK BELT: Wayne Allen, a former Metro Radio presenter, used his karate skills to carry out a citizen’s arrest during a terrifying attack on the Dr Syntax pub, in Prudhoe. OFFICE SALE: Northumberland County Council started a fire sale of its redundant properties, such as Hexham House, Prospect House, the Old Grammar School and the old swimming pool in Gilesgate. PAY ACTION: Senior politicians and officers at Northumberland County Council met with trade unions after talks on pay and employment conditions collapsed. BOGUS CALLER: Northumbria Police conducted house to house inquiries in Bellingham after a bogus caller targeted the home of an elderly couple in their 70s in the village.
10 YEARS AGO BRAIN SURGERY: Hexham’s MP Guy Opperman underwent a high risk surgery to remove a brain tumour after collapsing in the House of Commons the previous week. ROYAL OCCASION: Communities across Tynedale pulled out the bunting and the party frocks as they marked the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton in fine style. MINE REJECTION: Angry words were exchanged between applicant Paul Murphy and resident Eddie Armstrong at County Hall after Northumberland County Council rejected plans for an opencast mine site in the hamlet of Halton Lea Gate. SOVIET BLOC: Northumberland County Council threw out plans for a ‘Soviet Bloc’ housing development in Darras Hall, which was described as a threat to the area’s garden village style.
Bardon Mill Bob & Mike Ducker Well done to the Bowes which got Bardon Mill on to GMB, Channel 4 and the tabloids for its reopening, thanks to the genius ‘ordering food in the snow’ video and its social media clout. Well played by Ian and Terri-Lou. And now that we have the sound of laughter back on the green, next to come will be the clink of quoits, due to restart May 19! A rather different video with Andrew Birley reintroduces us to Vindolanda and its latest excavation news (google Roman Vindolanda: An Introduction 2021). The car park is also one place now to pick up the AD122 bus nine times a day every day between Hexham and Haltwhistle via The Sill now it’s summer. The bus also makes one stop in Bardon Mill by the Bowes first thing, at 8.54am, and last thing too.
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Thursday, 6th May 2021, 10:50 am
The brewery, which shares a site with popular pub The Twice Brewed Inn on one of the most dramatic stretches of Hadrian’s Wall near Bardon Mill, had entered its Juno Pilsner into the European Beer Challenge 2021.
Billed as ‘Europe’s Most Important Beer Competition’, The Twice Brewed’s Juno was one of thousands of beer samples entered into the contest from breweries across 39 countries.
The judges were ‘blown away’ by the taste of the Northumberland-made Bohemian style Pilsner and decided that it was worthy of a Double Gold Medal accolade.
Juno Pilsner from The Twice Brewed Brew House has won a Double Gold Medal at the European Beer Challenge.