The Day before Old Cuddy’s Birthday… 25 September, 2010
Posted by Molly Joyful in Cuthbert Collingwood, Events, Online articles, Royal Navy, things you don't need but probably want.Tags: age of sail, beer, collingwood, Cuthbert Collingwood, Events, gateshead, Online articles, Royal Navy, things you don't need but probably want, trafalgar, tyneside
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… seems to be the perfect day to catch up with the long list of news items which haven’t posted during the last weeks. But first things first:
HAVE YOU ALREADY BEEN TO COLLINGWOOD’S BAR?
I hope they’ll throw a big birthday party there tomorrow, but for now, let’s have a look at the
UPCOMING EVENTS
Please always check out the diary at the Official Collingwood 2010 Festival Website first; they have the latest news when it comes to events.
2nd October, 2010, 2.15pm, West Park United Reformed Church, Stockton Park, Sunderland
Friends of Sunderland Old Parish Church, The Rector Gray Society present Cuthbert Collingwood. The North East’s Heart of Oak. A concert of Patriotic and North Country music to mark the Bi-Centenary of the death of Admiral Collingwood (Nelson’s second in command at Trafalger).
9th October, 2010, The Sage Gateshead, Gateshead, in association with the Collingwood 2010 Festival
THE NEW SCORPION BAND: THAT NOBLE FELLOW COLLINGWOOD
The New Scorpion Band present songs, poetry, prose and music written to commemorate the great historical events in the time of Collingwood and Nelson and marking the 200th anniversary of the death of Collingwood.
There will be various events and activities for Trafalgar Day, but that will be covered in a separate entry.
ODDS AND ENDS
We all know of Collingwood’s habit of planting acorns; this is an article about him and the “Trafalgar woods” planted in College Valley to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar (please scroll down the page).
have planted an oak in honour of Old Cuddy. They’ve already named their bar after Collingwood some months ago (see top of this page). This leaves us with one question: what about that Bounce Castle for the kids…?
Talking about hotels: there’s also beautiful Grade II Listed, Georgian
in Cornhill-On-Tweed, Northumberland. And yes, there’s a Collingwood-connection! I really think I’ll have to stay at the “HMS Sovereign” room one day. And oh, they welcome post horses!
(better known as Ted Tinling) wasn’t a relative of Admiral Collingwood and had no connection with him, but I thought this blog could do with a bit of fashion. Thanks so much for your designs, Ted; the tennis world owes you a lot.
The obvious link to the poet aside, it also has a distant connection with our dear admiral:
Reginald was succeeded by his son, also named Reginald, whose daughter married Cuthbert Collingwood, and their son was the famous Admiral Collingwood. Mrs. Collingwood sold the property to Richard Wordsworth, Attorney at Law, Clerk of the Peace for Westmorland and Steward at Lowther from 1723 to 1738.
So if you should have a spare £785,00 stored under your mattress: click the link above for further information.
That’s it for today, read you tomorrow!
