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Cambois
Cambois (/ˈkæməs/ KAM-əs) is a village in south-east Northumberland, England. It is situated on the north side of the estuary of the River Blyth between Blyth and Ashington on the North Sea coast.
According to earlier scholarship, the etymon of the name is probably Gaelic cambas "bay, creek". However, the name could equally be from the Cumbric cognate of cambas, *camas "bend in a river, bay", which would fit with Cambois's location at the confluence of the Sleek Burn and the River Blyth. In either case, the spelling seems to have been influenced by French bois "wood".
Cambois was a township in Bedlingtonshire which, until 1844, was part of County Durham. It was a coal mining village from 1862 to week ending 20 April 1968 when Cambois Colliery closed.
Cambois is now closely related to the area known as North Blyth. The main commercial activity was the importation of alumina for the manufacture of aluminium at Lynemouth, but that smelter has now closed. Alumina is still imported and moved by rail to a smelter powered by the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme, near Fort William on the west coast of Scotland.
In 1883, the Coal Company gave a list of the property it owned, or leased:
Before the closure of the colliery, the social centre of the village was the Miners Welfare Institute in Ridley Terrace. The present building, the fourth, dates from 1929, and was built following the destruction of an earlier institute in a fire. It had "a large billiards room, a library and news room, committee room, a 200 seater meeting room....There was a smoke room and lecture hall also, and films were also shown here."
In 2023, the building, which had been unused for more than a decade, was reopened as an arts centre and community hub, The Tute, by the choreographer Esther Huss and her partner, the writer Alex Oates. The Guardian reported, "As well as Huss making her own work here, she runs a dance group, and Oates runs a writing group, shivering through the winter with no heating and scraping together funding to keep everything free."
The Tute hosts an annual Rude Health festival, launched in 2024, which offers a feast of "daring and anarchic performance" from "world class artists". Alex Oates told the Northumberland Gazette, "Our audience deserve the same calibre of work you’d see in London or Edinburgh, and we’re bringing it here! This season brings together bold new performances, reimagined community projects, and unforgettable stories told through dance, theatre, film, and celebration.”
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Cambois
Cambois (/ˈkæməs/ KAM-əs) is a village in south-east Northumberland, England. It is situated on the north side of the estuary of the River Blyth between Blyth and Ashington on the North Sea coast.
According to earlier scholarship, the etymon of the name is probably Gaelic cambas "bay, creek". However, the name could equally be from the Cumbric cognate of cambas, *camas "bend in a river, bay", which would fit with Cambois's location at the confluence of the Sleek Burn and the River Blyth. In either case, the spelling seems to have been influenced by French bois "wood".
Cambois was a township in Bedlingtonshire which, until 1844, was part of County Durham. It was a coal mining village from 1862 to week ending 20 April 1968 when Cambois Colliery closed.
Cambois is now closely related to the area known as North Blyth. The main commercial activity was the importation of alumina for the manufacture of aluminium at Lynemouth, but that smelter has now closed. Alumina is still imported and moved by rail to a smelter powered by the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme, near Fort William on the west coast of Scotland.
In 1883, the Coal Company gave a list of the property it owned, or leased:
Before the closure of the colliery, the social centre of the village was the Miners Welfare Institute in Ridley Terrace. The present building, the fourth, dates from 1929, and was built following the destruction of an earlier institute in a fire. It had "a large billiards room, a library and news room, committee room, a 200 seater meeting room....There was a smoke room and lecture hall also, and films were also shown here."
In 2023, the building, which had been unused for more than a decade, was reopened as an arts centre and community hub, The Tute, by the choreographer Esther Huss and her partner, the writer Alex Oates. The Guardian reported, "As well as Huss making her own work here, she runs a dance group, and Oates runs a writing group, shivering through the winter with no heating and scraping together funding to keep everything free."
The Tute hosts an annual Rude Health festival, launched in 2024, which offers a feast of "daring and anarchic performance" from "world class artists". Alex Oates told the Northumberland Gazette, "Our audience deserve the same calibre of work you’d see in London or Edinburgh, and we’re bringing it here! This season brings together bold new performances, reimagined community projects, and unforgettable stories told through dance, theatre, film, and celebration.”