IF, as expected, the Vanbrugh-designed Seaton Delaval Hall is acquired by the National Trust, visitors to this imposing 18th century mansion will be intrigued to know more about the family who lived there, and this well researched ...
APTLY, given the many children who have enjoyed playing in Morpeth’s Carlisle Park over the past 80 years, the VIP invited to perform the opening ceremony in September, 1929 was Viscount Morpeth, the six-year-old son and heir of the ...
IN the course of his lengthy research into his family history, which spans eight generations of doctors linked with Longframlington village, retired GP Angus Armstrong unearthed the story of this intriguing 17th century soldier. In a ...
THE author, a canon of Newcastle Cathedral, has lived on Holy Island for 30 years and she stresses that her aim was to ‘stick to reality’ in relating its history. Early chapters refer to the period beginning with the first ...
FOR 19 miles between Yetholm and the Carter Bar, there are no through roads for cars but the Cheviot Hills are penetrated by the ancient ‘streets’ which have been prehistoric trackways, Roman roads, medieval monastic sheep walks, ...
FOLLOWING an introductory chapter which outlines the history of monasticism in the region during the Middle Ages, when religious orders such as the Benedictines and Cistercians made their presence felt, this book offers a description ...
ON the edge of the North Pennines in the south-west corner of Northumberland, Sparty Lea lay at the heart of the area’s 19th century lead mining industry. Now only the miners’ former homes, church, chapels and school remain, but ...
FOR anyone fascinated by old photographs of the city, which is quaintly described on the book cover as ‘the metropolis of the Northern Coalfield’, this compilation offers a selection of more than 180 photographs illustrating how ...
THIS well-illustrated pocket-sized book offers 10 circular leisure walks ranging in length from three to nine miles. Ranging in level of difficulty from easy to fair and more challenging, each walk route is clearly described and ...