SUMMER FESTIVAL FOCUS 2009

Mrs. Julie Barham opens the 2009 Summer Festival and Art Exhibition .

Accompanying her is Mrs. June Colvin, organiser, Mrs Julie Bell, organiser of Catering , on the left, and Mrs. Janet Cooper, who is organising the Flower Festival, to her right.

Our Festival supports three Charities: St. Oswald's Hospice, the Church Army and Down's Syndrome North East

 

Sunday, 2nd August Festival Communion

	Enjoying the paintings
	Discussion about the art
Admiring craftwork

Festival Refreshments   Here's an empty table! Come and enjoy:   Coffee & cakes;  Ploughman's Lunch;  Teatime Treats;   Occasional Music

Music during the Festival.

Martin and Myrna Luff play the Northumbrian pipes and harp.

Accord in concert, presenting an evening of Song

Robson's Choice played a selection of Northumbrian music

Clarsair play for the Flower Festival

From the left: Mrs. Betty Matthews, Mrs. Judith Anderson and Mrs. Jean Clough

Organ Recital by Geoffrey Watson Director of Music, St. John's Church, Newcastle celebrating the Anniversaries of Purcell, Avison, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn

 Flower Festival ~ a celebration of NorthumberlandOur Northern Saints ~ a celebration in Banners, created by St. Mary's Embroidery Group

Photos: courtesy of June Atkinson

Welcome to St. Mary's Parish Church	Church porch
Festival opening by Mrs Irene Brumwell accompanied by Rev. Peter Barham
The Quayside	The River Tyne
Sunset over Northumberland	Aisle ~ Alnwick Gardens
Harry Potter and the Tree House	Detail in tree house
Rural Northumberland	Main aisle ~ Alnwick Gardens
Alnwick Castle	Hadrian's Wall
Bamburgh Castle	Music
Linhope Spout	Lindisfarne Gospels
Lindisfarne Gospels	Holy Island
St. Cuthbert's Way	Grateful thanks to all those who have worked over a long period to create this Flower Festival. Come along and see these awe-inspiring Flower Arrangements on the theme of our beautiful county of Northumberland  Photos courtesy of Pat Cooper

A celebration of Robert Stephenson and William Weallens, Great Engineers.

In the Vicarage Garden

Bondagers A significant, if transient element in the population of the Border villages during the 18th and 19th Centuries were the females outworkers, or ‘bondagers’, who were employed to labour in the fields of the region’s agricultural estates. The use of such female bondagers as agricultural labourers was especially prevalent in south-east Scotland and extended into north Northumberland. The system is recorded in the Scottish Borders as early as 1656, when it is documented that a hind was bound to provide a women whose labour at harvest paid the rent of his house, and to be on call as a day labourer whenever required (Fenton 1976). In the mid 19th century the rate for such labour was about 10d a day. The bondager’s work was regarded as paying the rent of the cottage in which the hind’s family lived and it was the hind’s responsibility to supply this labour, either in the shape of female relatives able to do the work or, if necessary, by engaging one or two women or girls to ‘live in’. As well as making a major contribution to the local agricultural economy these women were noteworthy for their distinctive costume, which has been the subject of detailed study (Thompson 1977). By the turn of the 19th Century the Bondage System had finally fallen into disuse, although the term bondager persisted till the end of the First World War. Permission for use from: http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk

Above: Ponteland Local History Society Right: Ponteland Photographic Society

Ponteland Photographic Society	Ponteland Churches Together	Church Information Board

The Summer Festival has raised £11,500 for the three Charities: Church Army; Down's Syndrome North East; St. Oswald's Hospice

Photos: courtesy of June Atkinson