Northumberland Day 2023 Celebrates Flag-bearers County-wide

Northumberland Day 2023 was marked at the Land Trust’s community space and landmark, Northumberlandia, near Cramlington, by an official Northumberland Day photo and a rock hunt, whilst people across the county marked the day in a variety of ways and through pride-filled picture sharing.

Mayor of Cramlington, Helen Morris, joined Northumberland Day organiser, Jane Hunt, for the official photo, in front of the Lady of the North.  

Amongst the other people involved were Margaret Livingstone-Evans, executive general manager of Langley Castle Hotel, representatives from the Friends of Ridley Park (Blyth), Liz Lovatt, communications and engagement manager at Northumberland Wildlife Trust and Karen Brotherton from Blyth, who kindly painted all of the rocks hidden in the rock hunt.

Children and parents avidly sought out rocks featuring everything from Northumberland flags and lighthouses, to Ant and Dec and a teddy in Newcastle United strip. 

Proud Northumbrians flew the county flag with pride in other locations too.  This included Elm Bank Care Home, Hexham, where staff and residents put on a brilliant colour fest to demonstrate their love of their county.

Meanwhile, the Downing family were winners of the Northumberland Flag Challenge, having submitted a picture of their children using the flag as a blanket in their garden. 

The Friends of Ridley Park left Northumberlandia to head back for an evening, sell-out bat walk, which they had organised to mark Northumberland Day. This allowed attendees to get insights into bat life around the park. Earlier in the week, Hexham Racecourse also staged its annual race meeting to help celebrate Northumberland Day.

Entries for Northumberland Day’s Writing Competition 2023 have also been flooding in, with schools such as Prudhoe Castle First School and Stannington First School really throwing themselves into the writing challenges.  Schools and individual parents have until June 5 to enter their pupils’ or children’s work.

The winners of other competitions are due to be announced once the respective competitions have closed.  This will include revealing who has been chosen as the winner of the Lady of the North, following receipt of a good number of nominations intended to recognise someone who goes the extra mile in their community or for others.

Just prior to the day, Northumberland Day revealed that Grace Darling had topped a poll asking for votes for the historic ‘lady of the north’.

The Northumberland Day 2023 education pack is still available for download at www.northumberlandday.co.ukwhere details of other competitions that are still open for entry, can also be found.

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Editors notes

Northumberland Day is the county day of Northumberland, England and is a celebration privately organised by Jane Hunt, of Catapult PR, with the help of many passionate Northumbrian people and businesses, not to mention schools and community groups. It takes place on the Sunday before the Northumberland County Show each May. The date for 2020 is Sunday May 24th and the date for 2020 will be Sunday May 30.