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What's on around Alston
Today to Tue 11 May, closest first.
Coronavirus: Do check with venue for Cancellations
Chapelside - Open Garden for NGS
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1 acre windy garden below fell round C18 farmhouse and outbuildings. Fine views. Tiny stream, large pond. Herbaceous, gravel, alpine, damp and shade areas, bulbs in grass.
Chapelside, Penrith CA11 0XR
Sun 9 May
Parking Lot Social drive-in Easter Festival rolls in to Newcastle
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Newcastle residents’ Easter entertainment schedule just shifted up a gear - The Parking Lot Social is back – and this time it’s bigger than ever.
Blaydon Rugby Football Club
Crow Trees Ground,
Hexham Rd, Swalwell,
Newcastle upon Tyne NE16 3BN
Wed 14 Apr and Thu 15 Apr
Rydal Hall - Open Garden for NGS
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Forty acres of Park, Woodland and Gardens to explore. The Formal Thomas Mawson Garden has fine examples of herbaceous planting, seasonal displays and magnificent views of the Lakeland Fells.
Rydal Hall, Ambleside LA22 9LX
Sun 9 May, Sun 6 Jun
Whalton Manor Gardens - Open Garden for NGS
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The historic Whalton Manor, altered by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1908, is surrounded by 3 acres of magnificent walled gardens, designed by Lutyens with the help of Gertrude Jekyll.
Whalton Manor Gardens, Morpeth NE61 3UT
Sun 18 Apr
Lea Cottage - Open Garden for NGS
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Intimate and secluded Arts & Crafts garden, subdivided into ’rooms’ by yew hedges, stone walls & gabions using stone from garden.
Lea Cottage, Ambleside LA22 9PY
Sun 9 May
North East of England Careers Fair
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Out of work due to the current global pandemic? Join us at our North East of England Careers Fair, the perfect place to find your next career!
Virtual Event
Fri 16 Apr
Maddy Prior in concert
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While she made her name as the iconic singer in Steeleye Span, from her earliest days Maddy Prior has enjoyed great success as a solo artist.
Reeth Memorial Hall DL11 6QT
Fri 16 Apr
Tim Burgess
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Tim Burgess is lead singer of one of the defining bands of the ’90s, The Charlatans. He is currently enjoying touring the world to promote the bands phenomenal 10th studio album “You cross my...
The Brewery Arts Centre, 122A Highgate, Kendal LA9 4HE
Tue 20 Apr
Comedy Club 4 Kids
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Cracking entertainment for everyone over six years old and under 400 years old (no vampires). Since 2005, the Comedy Club 4 Kids has been getting the best stand-ups and sketch acts from the...
Brewery Arts 122a Highgate Kendal Cumbria LA9 4HE
Sat 1 May
Low Fell West - Open Garden for NGS
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This 2 acre woodland garden in the tranquil Winster Valley has extensive views to the Pennines. The four season garden, restored since 2003, incl expanses of rock planted sympathetically with...
Low Fell West, Kendal LA8 8JG
Sun 2 May
Low Fell West - Open Garden for NGS
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This 2 acre woodland garden in the tranquil Winster Valley has extensive views to the Pennines. The four season garden, restored since 2003, incl expanses of rock planted sympathetically with...
Low Fell West, Kendal LA8 8JG
Mon 3 May
45 Blackwell - Open Garden for NGS
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No. 45 Blackwell rises from the River Tees up to a 1.5 acre garden with many mature trees, wildlife meadow, pond with waterfall, herb and Mediterranean garden, vegetable bed, greenhouse, camellia...
45 Blackwell, Darlington DL3 8QT
Sun 2 May
46 Blackwell - Open Garden for NGS
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46 Blackwell is a plantsmans garden - compact, but full of unusual specimens and collections of plants and trees, with a pond and summerhouse in the back garden.
46 Blackwell, Darlington DL3 8QT
Sun 2 May
Hilarity Bites presents Al Murray: Landlord of Hope and Glory
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Show rearranged from Saturday 9th May 2020.
Coming to Hilarity Bites at Darlington Hippodrome on May 9th 2021:
Hilarity Bites presents Al Murray: Landlord of Hope and Glory
The year is 2021.
Darlington Hippodrome, Parkgate, Darlington DL1 1RR
Sun 9 May
Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park - Open Garden for NGS
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Winner of Yorkshire in Bloom Tourist Attractions Award 2018 & 2019. 45 acres of garden inspired by the Himalayas.
Himalayan Garden & Sculpture Park, Ripon HG4 3DA
Tue 11 May
Northumberland Coastline Photography Workshop - Spring
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Northumbria - This is a great photography workshop for practising long exposures at sunrise and sunset to get those iconic views on the coast
Northumberland NE66 3TR
Fri 7 May to Sun 9 May
Adderstone House - Open Garden for NGS
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A Victorian house, gardens, millpond with folly and grounds of 10½ acres. Established and ’new projects’ in development with Sean Murray (RHS Chelsea Challenge winner).
Adderstone House, Belford NE70 7HS
Sun 18 Apr
Hospice 100
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Join our Hospice 100 event for a feel-good, flexible fitness challenge this spring.
The Hospice 100 challenge is an easy way for everyone to get motivated, get outside, get fit and make a...
Your community YO7 1LB
Sat 1 May to Mon 31 May
Woodlands Cottage - Open Garden for NGS
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A 1 acre country garden in Nidderdale, created by its owners and making full use of its setting, which includes natural woodland with wild bluebells and gritstone boulders.
Woodlands Cottage, Summerbridge HG3 4BT
Sun 9 May
Low Hall - Open Garden for NGS
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Romantic walled garden set on differing levels designed to complement historic C17 family home (not open). Spring bulbs, rhododendrons; azaleas round tranquil water garden.
Low Hall, Nidderdale HG3 4AA
Sun 9 May