Newsquest Cumbria with LocalIQ, the parent company of the Hexham Courant, has tried to support businesses throughout the pandemic in a variety of ways including featuring the inspirational stories of how local businesspeople have diversified their operations and offering free adverts.

So as we navigate our way through the second national lockdown, Newsquest Cumbria is launching the Hexham guide to shopping local for businesses to advertise details of their opening times, product offerings and best methods of purchasing.

This is the first instalment of the FREE guide. To feature your business in our unique FREE guide visit www.hexham-courant.co.uk/my/ccn/questionnaire/uppj3Dpr.

Baby at the Bank

  • Where are you? Middle Street, Corbridge.
  • What are your opening hours? Monday to Saturday from 10am to 3pm, Sunday 12am to 4pm.
  • What do you sell? We sell baby gifts, baby toys and feeding, wooden toys, clothes up to age three.
  • How can people contact you? Online at www.babyatthebank.co.uk or call 01434 239288.
  • Are you open during lockdown and if not how can customers access your services? We are closed during lockdown due to new regulations. We have everything available on our website and able to contact through phone, email and social media.

Old and New

  • Where are you? 20 Market Place, Hexham.
  • What are your opening hours? Normally 10am to 4pm from Monday to Saturday but they have changed in lockdown.
  • What do you sell? We have two businesses in one shop. One is electrical accessories including light bulbs, batteries and Christmas lights, the other is vintage homeware, gifts and baubles.
  • How can people contact you? Online at www.wardhaughsofhexham.co.uk or by calling 01434602734.
  • Are you open during lockdown and if not how can customers access your services? Open 10am to 12pm during lockdown, contact by phone or email or do click-and-collect from website.

Yvonne Davies Photography

  • Where are you? Little Park End Cottage, Simonburn, Hexham.
  • What are your opening hours? We photograph daily by arrangement with bookings taken between 9am and 5pm from Monday to Saturday.
  • What do you sell? Photographic portraits for families, couples or solo in The Photographers’ Garden, a beautiful walled garden in the North Tyne Valley. A set of digital photographs ready to print, to share with your family and friends are supplied after your shoot. A range of other design services are available, including professional mounted prints, wall art, photobooks or digital albums using photographs from your shoot or from old photographs. Photography workshops and tuition in The Photographers’ Garden and studio. Available for all levels of ability, expand your enjoyment of photography and get more from your camera and editing software.
  • How can people contact you? Online at yvonnedaviesphotography.co.uk or by calling 07711 305576.
  • Are you open during lockdown and if not how can customers access your services? Portraits and tuition are mainly outdoors in the gardens and arranged within any guidelines for distancing and bubbles. Bookings are being taken by phone for portraits and tuition, and for gift vouchers for Christmas.

Peggs News

  • Where are you? 28 Prietpopple, Hexham.
  • What are your opening hours? We are open from 6am to 8pm every day.
  • What do you sell? We are a newsagents and off licence, with Lotto, Paypoint.
  • How can people contact you? By calling 01434 606548.
  • Are you open during lockdown? Yes, we are.

Cookes News

  • Where are you? 5 Meal Market, Hexham.
  • What are your opening hours? From 8am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday.
  • What do you sell? Newsagents, off licence, Lotto, Paypoint.
  • How can people contact you? By calling 01434603694.
  • Are you open during lockdown? Yes, we’re open.

Handmade by LollaMac

  • Where are you? Studio 2, Allendale Forge Studios.
  • What are your opening hours? Studio open by appointment or shop online via website. Small selection of collection available in The Forge Studios gift shop, open every day 10am till 4pm but currently closed due to lockdown, reopening December 2.
  • What do you sell? Sterling silver and mixed metal jewellery, handcrafted in Northumberland.
  • How can people contact you? Online at www.lollamac.co.uk or by calling 07803987721.
  • Are you open during lockdown and if not how can customers access your services? Shop via the website or how about a ‘virtual tour’ of the studio via video call? I will show you around the collection and help you find the perfect gift! Contact me on handmade@lollamac.co.uk to arrange.