Come join us for a fantastic evening of games, dancing, bingo fun for all the family! Heaps of cool prizes to be won and lush food on offer too.
Sausages (vegetarian and pork) in buns and juice for everyone.
5pm to 7:30pm – 28th October
£6.00 kids (under 15’s)
£8.00 Adults
Free for under 4’s
Book on 01661 843 607
Tuesday 1st October – Carruthers and Kent Wine Dinner
Yes, due to popular request by you all we are back up to the Feathers Inn on Tuesday 1st October for a food and wine matching night. Rhian and his team are preparing a multi course dinner to match some very interesting wines. Tickets are £50 per person and if anyone is coming from Gosforth there is a taxi laid on (additional cost, but only about £10 per person).
The taxi will leave Gosforth at 6.45pm and the dinner will start at 7.30pm
https://www.carruthersandkent.com/our-events
The theme of the evening is to be confirmed.
Easter Beer and Food Festival 2020
April: arrive 7pm, dinner 7.30pm – quiz 8.30pm. Join us for our Foodie Pub Quiz. Get together a team of four and you could be named our pub quiz Gastronomic Experts – part of our Easter Beer and Food Festival celebrations. 22pp including three course set meal. Winners have cost refunded. Dinner: Charcuterie, Rabbit pie, Marmalade pudding.
Easter Friday 19th April:
Enjoy a fabulous range of fantastic fresh fish on our Good Friday Fish Day.
Start of our Beer and Food Festival with over 20 real ales on offer all weekend. The best beers from the North . Our eminent judges will be sampling the beers in a blind judging. Lunch 12pm – 2pm. Dinner 6 – 8.30pm. reservations being taken.
Easter Saturday 20th April: Pop up Bakery and BBQ 12 – 3pm.
Pop up Bakery: We will be creating Greek Easter bread, fermented grain rye sourdough, white and wholemeal french country loaves (also sourdough), triple chocolate brownies, early grey sticky hot cross buns and chocolate brioche buns.
BBQ: Over charcoal we will be cooking slow roast local Lamb or halloumi served in a flat bread with tahini and mint yoghurt.
We will also be cooking over charcoal our own made sausages. We make our own sausage using local ingredients and will have the following flavours to choose from;
Spicy merguez
Pheasant and spring herb
Pork and ale
Oyster bar
Outside real ale and cider bar. Reservations being taken for lunch and dinner. Lunch 12 – 3pm. Dinner 6 – 8.30pm.
Easter Sunday Day 21st April: Traditional Sunday lunch 12 – 4.30pm. Public invited to vote for their favourite beer in the people’s choice competition. Reservations being taken now.
Bank Holiday Monday 22nd April: The Famous Hedley Barrel Race – you could win 72 pints! egg jarping, Easter bonnet competition, BBQ and more. Run to the pub carrying an empty beer barrel or just watch the fun. Race registration from 11.30 am. Race begins at 1pm. Prize giving 1.30pm. Eggs for jarping on sale after the race. Egg Jarping from 3 pm. Outside real ale and cider bar. BBQ. Raising funds for the North of Tyne Mountain Rescue.
No reservations taken.
BBQ: Over charcoal we will be cooking slow roast local Lamb or halloumi served in a flat bread with tahini and mint yoghurt.
We will also bee cooking over charcoal our own made sausages. We make our own sausage using local ingredients and will have the following flavours to choose from;
Spicy merguez
Pheasant and spring herb
Pok and ale
In addition we will have an Oyster bar and a hot pie and pea stall.
The Hedley Barrel Race
Get your team together for this years Barrel Race
Bank Holiday Monday 22nd APRIL
Race at 1pm, registration from 11.30am till 12 noon.
Children can race too*
Best Fancy dress prizes also!
Teams consist of three adults, we recommend you bring gloves for holding the barrel. All three must cross the finish
line together carrying the barrel.
The barrel race is part of our weekend long Beer and Food Festival. This years beer festival celebrates the North East micro brewers, expect Mordue, Allendale, Cullercoats, Credence and much more.
Call us if you would like more information 01661 843 607
* Children must be in teams of three, aged 10 or over and with permission from parent or guardian.
The race usually follows this course. It is approx 1 mile uphill over farmer’s land then along the road to finish at the pub. Racers must make their own way to the start.
If you arrive via New Ridley road, then take the Hedley road as signposted. Take the first track you come to on your left, follow this to the end and through the gate, this is the start of the race.
Egg Jarping
When hard-boiled eggs come to blows.
Forget the chocolate variety: the Easter tradition in the north-east of England is a competition where you try to smash an opponent’s egg with yours. here’s a guide:
1 You need hard-boiled eggs, but don’t get any ideas about warming your eggs on the radiator or coating them in nail varnish. Jarping-egg-tampering will not be tolerated. They are provided on the day for £1 each. All proceeds to the North Of Tyne Mountain Rescue.
2 It’s a one-on-one, knockout tournament. One player holds their egg firmly in their hand. The second player brings their egg down, in a movement known as a “dunsh”. No runups – feet on the ground please.
3 If either egg is cracked after the first jarp, the unlucky player is eliminated. If both eggs remain intact, swap places and keep jarping until one egg gives way.
4 The victor. That is the bearer of a perfect, undented egg, while others are scooping up broken bits of shell from the floor.