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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.
This edition includes the exciting plans for The Ouse Burn Way, as proposed and supported by the Reece Foundation. This intends to create a continuous pedestrian, cycle and wildlife route between the Tyne and Weetslade, along the path of the Ouseburn wherever possible.
You can also read about Armstrong’s
In this issue of the Friends of Jesmond Dene Newsletter we have articles from Henrietta Heald, who is the author of Magician of the North, a biography of William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Cragside (1810–1900). She writes about the missing painting of Prince Hal (more below). We also have an
In this issue with have an article from our Patron John Grundy on the Garden of Jesmond Dene as well a look at a newspaper advert from 1907 for the rent of Jesmond Dene house. John Telfer also writes his third and concluding article regarding the hydraulic organ at The
The Autumn 2022 Friends of Jesmond Dene talks about the Banqueting Hall organ and our Green Flag award, among other interesting subjects, Read it here.
Funny, isn’t it, how once something becomes generally accepted it gets, well, accepted? Take Armstrong Park’s “cattle run”: according to an interpretation panel, this distinctive feature was sunk for bovine use by Victorian industrialist Lord Armstrong, writes Carlton Reid. The livestock, goes the story, were herded through this costly railway-style
Check out the clicky-flicky version of the Autumn newsletter: Or open it as a PDF: Autumn 2018 FOJD Newsletter 26-07-2018 22-37
You may be aware that some nine years ago a new pond was dug in Jesmond Dene Nature Area, across the river from Pets Corner. The new pond was provided with a dipping platform to allow parties of children to dip for pond creatures. The supporting framework of the platform
Happy birthday to us! 40 years young. And to celebrate, here’s the latest newsletter, packed with current and historical information. Go full-screen for the best effect. Or, download it as a PDF..
Barriers on Armstrong Bridge mean the Google Street View camera car has to come to a grinding halt. This means there’s no way of taking a virtual journey across the bridge on your computer, tablet or smartphone. Until now, that is.
A Government initiative to make it easier for people to locate and access greenspaces has launched today with the release of a new database and interactive digital map identifying accessible recreational and leisure greenspace in Great Britain. And, naturally, Jesmond Dene is one of the “green lungs” that can be
