There have been a number of craft-based events at the new Ouseburn Parks visitor centre, connected to Milfield House, including a session for adults making Christmas wreathes and a session for younger visitors making yuletide table decorations and other items.
The new visitor centre has walls adorned with pictorial panels describing the history and wildlife of Jesmond Dene.
More winter pix at base of here.
The Autumn 2022 Friends of Jesmond Dene talks about the Banqueting Hall organ and our Green Flag award, among other
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 cutting because the route had long been used for leading cows to pasture.
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