Bishop Auckland Civic Society’s next meeting will be held on Monday 23 January from 7.30pm until 9pm in Bishop Auckland Town Hall. It is open to members and non-members.
Dr Chris Ferguson will inform attendees of Ad Gefrin, an exciting new project based in Wooler, Northumberland.
The talk is free to BACS members and £2 for non-members.
Chris, a Newcastle and Oxford archaeology graduate, is no stranger to Bishop Auckland having worked as Curatorial Director for The Auckland Project.
He is now Visitor Experience Director of the imaginative and visionary project Ad Gefrin, which is based on the Anglo-Saxon history of Bernicia (‘Northumbria’) and its ‘Royal Court’ at Yeavering, which was situated between Wooler and Bamburgh.
With the financial backing of the family haulage company, Fergusons of Blyth, a huge nationwide concern — the Great Hall of the Royal Court of Yeavering — has been recreated as a tourist attraction.
This time, with an additional unique selling point. It is also Northumberland’s first legal whisky distillery to be commissioned in over 200 years.
The site will open to the public in the spring of 2023 and although the distilling process takes four years of maturation before the product can be called whisky, a premium Corenkyn Blend is available now.
With his background steeped in history and the arts, and with his passion for the locality, Chris seems ideally suited to his new role.
His talk will not only introduce you to the Ad Gefrin project, it will contain its historical background too.
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