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JIMMY FORSYTH: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1950s AND 1960s, selected by Anthony Flowers. Published by Tyne Bridge Publishing, Newcastle Libraries, PO Box 88, Newcastle NE99 1DX (tel: 0191-277 4174). £8.99. Softback.

JIMMY Forsyth left his native South Wales and moved to Tyneside in 1943 as part of the war effort, but an accident which led to the loss of sight in his right eye made it difficult for him to find work. In 1954 he bought a cheap ...


BIDDLESTONE CHAPEL, NORTHUMBERLAND: A HISTORY AND GUIDE, by Dr John Martin Robinson. Published by and available from the Historic Chapels Trust, 55 Alie Street, London E1 8EB (tel: 020-7481 0533). £10. softback.

PERCHED above the ravine of the Biddle Burn in Upper Coquetdale, 10 miles north of Rothbury, Biddlestone chapel is now an isolated structure. Until 50 years ago it was attached to a large, square, Georgian country house, the former ...


GHOSTLY TYNE & WEAR, by Rob Kirkup. Published by The History Press, Stroud, Glos (tel: 01453-883300). £12.99. Softback.

THIS A to Z of ghostly happenings investigates reports of haunted castles, pubs, theatres and shopping arcades, and probes accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena in other haunted locations in the ...


THE REIVERS’ WAY, by Paddy Dillon. Published by Cicerone Press, Milnthorpe, Cumbria (tel: 015395-62069). £10. Softback.

HERE is a very useful pocket-sized guidebook for anyone planning to follow all or part of the 150-mile route of this ‘unofficial’ long-distance trail. It starts at Corbridge, crosses Hexhamshire Common in the North Pennines Area ...


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