Spittal Improvement Trust
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The Spittal Improvement Trust (SIT) was formed in 1998 out of concerns expressed by the local community with regard to the continuing decline in Spittal.
Spittal, Northumberland
Joined August 2015
🗣 The November 2025 edition of The Point is out now and can be downloaded via the link here: ➡️ https://t.co/NYCwPurAXU
#spittal #spittalbeach #thepointnewsletter #spittalimprovementtrust
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🐘 The elephant blanket knitted by the Wednesday Knit and Natter group has arrived at the elephant sanctuary in Thailand and is looking good on it's 75 year old beneficiary. #spittal #knitandnatter #elephantsanctuary
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🗣 The January 2026 edition of The Point is out now and can be downloaded via the link here: ➡️ https://t.co/ufcnJKTxQu
#spittal #spittalbeach #thepointnewsletter #spittalimprovementtrust
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🗣 The December 2025 edition of The Point is out now and can be downloaded via the link here: ➡️ https://t.co/TCyR8VTbPh
#spittal #spittalbeach #thepointnewsletter #spittalimprovementtrust
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📆 The Trust are having a Christmas Coffee morning on Saturday 6th December from 10am-12pm at the Hall in Middle Street. ☕️ 🍰 Tea, Coffee, Mince Pies, Shortbread, Raffle, Tombola, etc. All welcome - free entry.
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📸 The poppy display created by the Knit and Natter group for Community at TescoBerwick as a thank you for their donations to the Gardening Group is now up in store. #spittal #remembranceday #poppies
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📆 Have you picked up your copy of the 2026 Spittal calendar yet? Available from the Spittal Store on the Main Street or at Geo. C. Grieve Ltd. in the town centre at the bottom of Church Street. #spittal #spittalbeach #calendars
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🗣 The October 2025 edition of The Point is out now and can be downloaded via the link here: ➡️ https://t.co/xjJPRxKT8b
#spittal #spittalbeach #thepointnewsletter #spittalimprovementtrust
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Glass stopper from a bottle. There are also bits of medical and storage bottles and jars. The shore surf is made from the foot on the bottom of cups. MUSSEL AND LIMPET shells were eaten and used as fishing bait by the villagers.
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BRICK and SLATE thought to be used as ballast by ships entering port, and discarded to take on cargo . Also from demolished buildings thrown in the river, along with glazed tiles. GLASS CODD BOTTLES and MARBLE designed in 1872 by Hiram Codd for aerated liquids
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SPONGE WARE was first produced in Scotland in the 1830s. Small pieces of sponge cut into patterns, dipped in colour and hand printed onto the pottery. PANCHEON BOWL of terracota and cream, a very wide, shallow bowl used to separate milk to make cream or to make bread dough
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Materials used in the mosaic include: The sky is mostly Victorian pottery thrown in the river as rubbish. WILLOW PATTERN is copied from China from the 1780s. BLUE FEATHER EDGE c1775 to early 1800s has asymmetrical undulating scallop edge with impressed curved lines.
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The image depicts: The iconic view from the village of the Berwick Lighthouse, built in 1826. A leaping salmon to represent the importance of the fishing industry to the village's existence. The chimney representing the many factories that were here from the mid 1850s.
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📷 On Saturday 20th September local County Councillor Georgina Hill unveiled the new welcome Mosaic at the entrance to the village. The mosaic was started 2 years ago and over a hundred residents and visitors have had the opportunity of adding a piece of mosaic.
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Scooby from Berwick Animal Rescue Kennels enjoyed checking out the @heritageopenday display today in the Hall at Spittal today. #heritageopendays2025 #RescueDogs #spittal
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around Spittal. There will be a short explanation about the historic pieces, and what is depicted in the image. #spittalbeach #spittalimprovementtrust #spittal #spittalpoint
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Just along from the wall of the single storey building, where there are the 4 boards about Spittal, including a fascinating 1932 aerial shot of part of the village. The making of the Mosaic Sign was a community project made from pottery, glass and brick from the river and beaches
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🗣 Unveiling of the Spittal Village Mosaic Sign. This coming Saturday, the 20th of September at 2pm, we will be unveiling the Mosaic Sign and all are welcome. It will be taking place on the grass verge of Dock Road, just as you are coming into Spittal.
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📷 The September 2025 edition of The Point is out now and can be downloaded via the link here: 📷 https://t.co/qh5N1dFrML
#spittal #spittalbeach #thepointnewsletter #spittalimprovementtrust
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