Cresswell Pele Tower

Cresswell Pele Tower This is a community page designed to share the progress of the restoration work of Cresswell Pele Tower.

Cresswell Pele Tower was built by the Cresswell family in the 15th century and is one of about 80 pele towers in Northumberland. We are currently surveying of the site using Geophysics and will be carrying out field walking in the next week or two.

Another fabulous opportunity for locals.
16/06/2026

Another fabulous opportunity for locals.

This may be of interest to our friends, especially those who worked in our local industries.
15/06/2026

This may be of interest to our friends, especially those who worked in our local industries.

15/06/2026

Massive thanks to all our buskers and to the audience yesterday.

A breezy day but well worth while!

Food rationing in the UK ended entirely on July 4, 1954, when restrictions on meat and bacon were finally lifted. Althou...
14/06/2026

Food rationing in the UK ended entirely on July 4, 1954, when restrictions on meat and bacon were finally lifted. Although World War II ended in 1945, severe shortages caused rationing to continue for nearly a decade.

As we prepare for our WW2 event in September, we are looking for memories people have of rationing. What do you remember as a child? What stories did your parents or grandparents tell you? Do you have any recipes or recipe books you could share with us?

Please leave your memories or stories in the comments.

14/06/2026

Busking in the Walled Garden this pm from 1pm to 4pm. All welcome.
Pele Tower also open.
Let's hope for a lush day

Thursday morning in the gardenEven in the rain we enjoyed some bird ID at the break time and did yet more weeding! The s...
11/06/2026

Thursday morning in the garden

Even in the rain we enjoyed some bird ID at the break time and did yet more weeding! The specialist areas such as the Dyer’s Garden are developing well with some of the planting already filling their sections of the bed. It’s a great feature of gardens that the plants queue up to bloom and the seven here from the Dyer’s Garden are all still yet to show their colours. In the meantime they are deepening their greens in the rain! In order they are Yarrow, Lavender, Rue, Weld, Dyers Chamomile, Cornflower, Hyssop

We are really looking forward to our Busking event in the Walled Garden on 14th June from 1pm to 4pm.Last year's event w...
07/06/2026

We are really looking forward to our Busking event in the Walled Garden on 14th June from 1pm to 4pm.
Last year's event was amazing. All welcome to grab a slot!

07/06/2026

Pele Tower open today 1pm to 4pm. Garden is closed for private event from 12.

Thursday morning in the garden Enabling work today - more path weeding, prep of plants that are becoming ready for sale ...
04/06/2026

Thursday morning in the garden

Enabling work today - more path weeding, prep of plants that are becoming ready for sale as we hit higher summer demand and a tidying / clearing of the brick lined path. We have a person with us on work experience (another important occasional role we have) who will be photographing / recording the origin companies of our heritage bricks.
In the garden we have lots of pollinators and also some wildlife at earlier stages - see photo of the mullein moth caterpillars on a verbascum plant! It’s a good time for poppies (and bees) and we also have a first flowering of a new rose, the golden gate. The delphiniums demonstrate well why the walls need to be so tall!

30/05/2026

The Pele Tower is not scheduled to open this Sunday, 31st May, to give our helpers a short break but the garden remains open 10 to 5.

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Morpeth

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