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This traditional event is run every New Year's Day at noon from the Blackbird Inn.

Andy Pybus and Alan Redman have won five times. Can anyone beat them? The course is just over one mile and the course record is  just under eight minutes. Prizes are awarded to the winners of the men, ladies and juniors races.

Ponteland 41 Club and Ponteland Rugby Club will again be organising the event. There will be the usual men's race, ladies' race and a junior race - weather permitting. We will provide the barrows for these races. The wheelbarrows are loaned each year by Greenham Tools of Gateshead.

This year we would like to add a new event in the form of a Fancy Dress Barrow Parade. We would like local businesses and individulas to enter by coming dressed up with a suitably decorated wheelbarrow and parading from Merton Way to the Blackbird. There will be prizes awarded to the best barrows.

Please support our annual race either as an entrant or a spectator on Sunday January 1^st 2012 at 12 noon and help raise money for our local Leonard Cheshire Home.

Contact Andy Anderson using the 'Contact' link or the telephone number on this page.