If you have children (or if you don’t) one of the most popular events in the Community Festival is bound to be the Miniature Train Rides organised by The Tyneside Society of Model and Experimental Engineers. Make a note of the date in your diary, Sunday 15 May (11am – 3pm). If the weather is poor, check their website www.tsmee.co.uk or Facebook: TynesideSocietyMEE. The track is in Exhibition Park, behind Wylam Brewery.
Supporters of Jesmond Community Orchard are busy preparing for their Plant Stall, which will be outside Boilerhouse in Acorn Road on Saturday 7 May at 10:30am. Don’t be too late, as this is always a very popular Festival event. There will be a huge choice of interesting and unusual varieties: herbs, shrubs, annuals, perennials, fruit and vegetable plants, and indoor plants!
Places are still available on the free, virtual tour of the Ouseburn’s Victoria Tunnel, which will take place at 3:00pm on Sunday 8 May. Please make a voluntary contribution to the Ouseburn Trust, if you can. To book go to www.ouseburntrust.org.uk/Event/jesmond-festival .
All the High West Jesmond Guided Walks planned as part of this year’s Jesmond Community Festival are now fully booked. However Julie Jacques tells me that she expects that the walk will be repeated later in the summer, as part of the City Guides programme. For more information contact juliemjacques@btinternet.com
Further information has been announced concerning this year’s Teddy Bear Trail, which will have a “Reet Royal” theme. Entry Forms will be available on May 7 at the St George’s Spring Fete and from May 10 in Jesmond Library. There will be a modest charge of £1 per entry. The trail itself will not all be in place until Saturday 21 May.
The Jesmond Festival Guided Walks in High West Jesmond are now all full up! Please do not turn up for these walks if you have not reserved a place. It is possible that further such walks may be organised in future – if you are interested, please contact juliemjacques@btinternet.com .