North Ferriby Parish Council

North Ferriby - Le Pellerin Twinning Association
Association Le Pellerin - North Ferriby

Chairman
Chris Swindin
Tel 633848
chris@swindin.karoo.co.uk
Secretary
Jane Knight
jane@aknight.karoo.co.uk
22 Parkfield Avenue North Ferriby HU14 3AL
Tel: 01482 633134 Mob: 07796 408 796

With the backing of the Parish Council, the Twinning Association was formed in the spring of 2003. North Ferriby is twinned with a French village in Brittany - situated just West of the city of Nantes on the Loire estuary in North East France.

Le Pellerin is a village with many similarities to North Ferriby, in a similar location, on the estuary of France's longest river, the Loire, just a few miles from the regional centre, Nantes. The relationship between the two villages has been developing steadily, involving not only the two associations but also primary and secondary schools on both sides; we hope to be able to add sporting links in coming months. Any village organisation interested in exploring possible contacts with a French group with similar interests may contact one of our committee members.
There is no limit to the levels and types of personal or group involvement with Le Pellerin. These can be Family and School exchanges, Sports, Gardening, Flower arranging, Scouts, Guides, Bowls (dare we suggest this?), Music, Language and Cultural trips, maybe even Work exchange or Experience.

Everyone is invited to play a part in this exciting project: it is open for the whole village and we look forward to many on-going links between these two special communities.

Read our article about House Exchanges in 2004

Chairman's Report 2010 (pdf file)

Visitors from Le Pellerin - April 2010


Part of the group of visitors from Le Pellerin in April, who had to take the ferry back from Portsmouth to St. Malo because their flight was cancelled as a result of the Icelandic volcanic ash.

Street Naming
A further unanimous vote [at the Town Council meeting on Thursday] was passed in favour of the proposal for naming the new streets in the Les Tulipes development. The main street connecting the development to the rue de l’Hermitage will be known as rue de North Ferriby, and two others will be the allée du Humber (the river flowing past our English partner village) and the allée du Yorkshire (the English county in which North Ferriby is located).

Article d'Ouest France Février 2010 (Word Document with scanned page in French)

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