Skinningrove Digital Village

Next weekend June 26th & 27th NewtonAycliffe Bus Preservation Society will once again bringing their vintage United bus, as featured in ITV’s Heartbeat TV programme, to the Skinningrove’s Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum.

The Museum will be open on both days from…

Myself and Barry Hunt were in Loftus Library last Thursday when we were shown some amazing plans (circa 1945) for the Skinningrove Jetty. Click on the image below and in opens out into a very large version that you can…

What have Middlesbrough Music Live and Loftus Library got in common? Four rubber blocks that’s what. Thanks to Martie at Music Live I took  charge of 4 rubber blocks and shipped them down to Lofus calling on Mr Motivator, Barry…

We had an excellent visit to the Mining Museum in Skinningrove this week and we’d like to thank CIMM for their hospitality. Particularly we’d like to mention the three volunteers Alan, Liz and Ian who took us through various parts…

Following on from yesterdays Marske visit we once again hit the Healthy Heritage Highway and had an afternoons walk right through Skinningrove. We were met at the Tom Leonard Mining Museum by Barry Hunt and by the time we reached the…

The community animation event in Saltburn on Thursday was a tremendous successes with a full house for the matinee (in which we hooked up with children and police in Latvia) and around 80 people for the evening event. We even…

With the assistance of Northern Film and Media and the UK Film Council there will be a Fringe Animex event in Saltburn featuring community produced animations. This will take place at 7.30pm on February 11^th at Saltburn Community Theatre, Albion Terrace,…

Institute of Digital Innovation Xmas Card from IDI on Vimeo.

No prizes for identifying the voice of the Geordie, Elvis Santa Clause.

I came across some pages from Christmas 2000. This was when the only public computer was in 14 Stone Row and the…