Book reviews

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE: REMOTE BRITISH LIGHTHOUSES IN VINTAGE POSTCARDS, by Christopher Nicholson. Published by Whittles Publishing, Caithness (tel: 01593 731333; email: info@whittlespublishing.com). £18.99. Softback.

COMPILED after a lengthy hunt through many private collections and lighthouse authority archives, the many fascinating images in this book are all taken from actual postcards, some more than a century old. The combination of ...


COLLINGWOOD’S NORTHUMBRIANS: OLD AND VALUABLE OFFICERS, by Tony Barrow. Published by Business Education Publishers, Houghton-le-Spring (tel: 0191 305 5165; email: info@bepl.com). £8.95. Softback.

THIS year’s Collingwood 2010 Festival is celebrating the life and courageous career of Tyneside’s greatest naval hero, and the book explores the lives and experiences of battle-hardened naval officers whose family roots lay in ...


ROUND EYEMOUTH: A GUIDE FOR VISITORS AND LOCALS, by Alan Dearling and Oliver Carfrae. Published by Enabler Publications, 45 Haymon’s Cove, Eyemouth TD14 5EG; email: adearling@aol.com). £7.99 (plus £2 p&p). Softback.

THE authors of this guide book, who both live in Eyemouth, begin with an in-depth look at the history of this old fishing port but gradually extend their area of interest to cover a large part of the eastern Scottish and English ...


THE COAL MINES OF SOUTH TYNEDALE AND EAST CUMBRIA, by Tony Storey. Available from 9 The Paddocks, Lound, Retford, Notts DN22 8RR (tel: 01777 818627). £3.50. Booklet.

DESCRIBING himself as a bairn from mining families in Haltwhistle, the author has compiled this social and economic history of coal mining in south-west Northumberland and east Cumbria in the period between 1750 and 1980. The ...


THE APPLEBY FAMILY HISTORY- from Vikings to the Modern Day, by George Appleby. Published by Appin Press. www.applebyvikinghistory.com. £14.95. Softback.

A growing number of people are now delving into their family history as a serious hobby and this personal family history, fully illustrated with original maps, old photographs and documents, could certainly be used as a model and ...


A DROP OF THE GOOD STUFF, by The Northumbrian Ranters. Produced by Northumberland Creative & Performing Arts (tel: 01670 533579). Available in local music shops and from The Northumbrian (see page 42). £12 (plus 60p p&p).

RECORDED at a live concert given in St Michael’s Church, Howick, by the young musicians who make up one of the county’s 13 creative and performing arts ensembles, this CD offers an exuberant collection of traditional music ...


MY NORTHUMBERLAND, by Jim Wigfield. Recorded by Jiva (tel: 01670 516565; email: jimwig@btinternet.com). £7 (incl p&p)

THIS is the second CD of self-penned folk songs by Jim, a field studies instructor at Ford Castle who was awarded a Rothbury Music Festival prize for original composition for a track on his first recording. Many of the new songs ...


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