AS an exiled Geordie, I have just received some back copies of The Northumbrian, including Issue 119 in which I was delighted to see the article about the North East Maritime Trust, particularly the mention of the Royal Diadem II, a ...
IN these days of endless junk mail, it is such a pleasure to find the familiar brown envelope containing your magazine on the doormat! Your correspondent Robert Hunter, from Oxfordshire, who requested information about his great ...
THE limekiln shown in the picture alongside the letter from George Atkinson (Issue 125) sits within one of the 15 farms which make up the Wallington Estate. It was given to the National Trust by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan in 1941, ...
IN the late 1920s Maggie was the prizewinning black-faced ewe belonging to James Wilson, shepherd at Eglingham Hill. In the family, the story goes that James would prepare Maggie, his pet sheep, in the morning and then send her off ...
I thoroughly enjoyed reading the article on Stephen Lunn’s craftsmanship (Issue 125) and remembered his father and grandfather, both expert agricultural blacksmiths, carrying out work on my father’s and subsequently brother’s ...