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Autumn 2025 Newsletter – A new Pets Corner addition, and the forgotten stepping stones.

In our Autumn 2025 newsletter, you can read about Abbey, the new Pets Corner pig, the forgotten stepping stones and the case of the disappearing hall.
Volunteer rangers cleaning the ouseburn in jesmond dene

Meet Abbey, the newest addition to Pets Corner

“Our colleagues who look after the animals in Pets Corner occasionally ask the Volunteer Rangers for a little help with some tasks in Pets Corner.

Most recently they welcomed Abbey the pig to Pets Corner and asked the Volunteers if they could help them prepare the enclosure where she was to be housed. The Vols spent several mornings levelling the ground and then laying some paving flagstones in the enclosure to provide a hard standing on which to keep her pigsty. You can see from the photos what a super home she now has ready to show off to visitors.”

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What's included in this issue:

  • AGM
  • Abbey in Pets Corner
  • The forgotten stepping stones
  • The case of the disappearing hall – by John North
  • FOJD Events
  • Jesmond Dene weather – by John Telfer
  • News items
  • Volunteer rangers update

Friends Of Jesmond Dene Committee

  • Patron – John Grundy
  • Chair – Clive Gerrard
  • Treasurer – Jacki Holmes
  • Secretary – Vacant post – acting Yvonne Shannon
  • Members – Geoffrey Carter, John Blakemore, John Telfer
  • Membership Sec. – Susan Lord
  • Newsletter – Yvonne Shannon – Proofreaders Keith Pringle, Sandra Grant

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