Blyth Town Council, Meetings week beginning 17th June

As far as I am aware there are no meetings planned for Blyth Town Council next week

Family History and ghostly goings on ....

The other day I was exploring loose ends in my family history, in particular the Appleyard branch of the family in Bridlington and Scarborough.

I was actually trying to find a link to Bob Appleyard, the Yorkshire and England cricketer, who hailed from Bradford but may have been related. As yet, no connection that I can find

Anyway, I knew that several of my forebears had been Harbour Master at Scarborough, and had moved into the house attached to the lighthouse at various times. I therefore "Googled" George Appleyard who died in 1862 to see if there were any references to him.

He has only come back as a ghost! Well, that's what is thought ...I'm pretty cynical about these sorts of things, but I acknowledge that many people are firm believers in the supernatural.

The story is part of an article on the BBC ( no less ) and you can read it here :-

BBC article about Scarborough Lighthouse


I'm almost proud to have a ghost in the family .....

Flower Festival at Central Methodist Church next weekend

Stroke Information Service

(As you may have guessed I have been playing with adding graphics to the Blog. Blogger doesn't like .pdf files, but I have installed a (free) conversion program to one of my computers )

National Care Home Open Day, 21st June

Although this care home is in Cramlington, I'm posting the link to their open day as they offer support of the Stroke Club that I go to.