HUMOROUS writers seem to be thin on the ground these days, so this 62-page book — which offers a very amusing different slant on happenings in the county’s history — is a rare delight. Imagined contemporary newspaper reports ...
CELEBRATING Lord Armstrong of Cragside’s bicentenary year, this book tells the extraordinary story of two great shipyards at Elswick and Low Walker where vast numbers of battleships, cruisers, revolutionary icebreakers and ...
CONTAINING what are described as “10 leisure walks of discovery”, this pocket-sized book written by a regular contributor to The Northumbrian offers walks ideal for families between the mouth of the Tyne and ...
AS previewed in The Northumbrian (Issue 114, ‘Walking the Wall in Wainwright’s Footsteps’) this is a pictorial guide to a walk undertaken by Alfred Wainwright in September 1938. Compiled by members of the Wainwright Society, it ...
THIS is a varied collection of 20 circular walks, ranging in length from 10 to 13 _ miles, either ending at a pub or passing one en route. Widely spread across Northumberland, the walks cover parts of the coast, Hadrian’s Wall, ...
A POCKET-sized book, this is filled with high-quality photographs of Northumberland’s scenic hills, moors, woods and river valleys, alongside many of the county’s most popular visitor destinations including castles, coastal ...
BEDLINGTON’S parish church, St Cuthbert’s, dates back to the 10th century. It is recorded that in December 1069 the Bishop of Durham and his group rested here with the body of St Cuthbert before travelling on to Durham. In 1921 ...
THIS illustrated gazetteer of haunted pubs in the North East of England, written by two paranormal researchers, visits more than 70 pubs spread around the region of which six are found in Northumberland. The county’s spooky pubs ...