Last updated 16:27, Thursday, 20 November 2008

COME along to the annual Christmas fair at St John’s Church Hall, Meadowfield Road, tomorrow from 10.30am until 2pm. Coffee, tea and light lunches will be available in addition to Christmas crafts, cake stall, tombola, Traidcraft, book stall, bric-a-brac and children’s activities.

THERE will be a concert of Christmas music by Prudhoe Community Choir to be held at SICA on Saturday, December 6, at 7.30pm. Tickets are available from SICA office. Mince pies and coffee included.

AT THEIR latest meeting, Stocksfield Local History Society welcomed professor John Cannon who spoke on Landscape and Capability Brown who was one in a line of great landscape artists of the English style, a tradition from 1720 that was characterised by the appearance of beautiful nature. Capability Brown was born in Kirkharle and took his inspiration from the countryside of Northumberland. Illustrating his talk with slides, professor Cannon described Brown’s life from childhood. Brown learned his craft at the big estates, and his schemes created for the great gardens involved the large scale movement of earth, the creation of lakes and which took many years to reach maturity, often beyond the life of the landowners.

EIGHT hardy souls from the Walk Your Way To Health group braved last Monday’s rain for a walk to Merryshields and back. Monday, November 24, the group will be celebrating six years since its formation.

ANYONE who has been involved with it in the past is welcome to come along to coffee at Stocksfield methodist church from 11am onwards.