RED KITES GRACE OUR SKIES AGAIN
AFTER an absence of over 150 years, one of Europe’s most spectacular birds is rapidly returning to the skies over Northumberland.
SO THIS IS LIFE
SALLY DIXON tried to make the right impression on her boyfriend by offering to help on his family’s farm; not her wisest decision.
BY FOREST TRACK AND ANCIENT DROVE ROAD
STEWART BONNEY heads for the Cheviot Hills for a circular walk which takes in riverside, forest and moorland.
NEW LIFE SPROUTS
ALLAN POTTS goes on a fungus hunt in the autumn woodlands.
HURRAH! WE’VE BUILT OUR HOUSES ON SAND
Well, mostly sandstone to be more precise, and a jolly good thing too, as JOHN GRUNDY explains.
MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE HISTORY FARM . . .
GRAHAME ANDERSON visits a remarkable museum just off the A1 north of Alnwick.
LIVING SHAPES TRANSFORMED INTO METAL
SUSIE WHITE admires the garden sculptures created by artist blacksmith William Pym in his Langley workshop.
NOMADS OF THE CHEVIOT HILLS
VERONICA HEATH finds out about the wild goats which roam our border uplands.
WHERE FARMER CYDDA MADE HIS HOME
KARENZA STOREY begins a two-part history of the Kidland Valley, in the Cheviot Hills, by looking at the period from prehistory to the end of the 18th century.
DID EMILY MEAN TO KILL HERSELF?
DAVE NEVILLE asks whether suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who so publicly ended up beneath the hooves of a racehorse, intended to take her own life.
A GIFT WE SHOULD CHERISH
JOHN STEELE welcomes the new freedom of access to many areas of open country, but stresses that it brings with it responsibilities.
THE OLD SHIPS’ FINAL PORT OF CALL
PHIL HUNTLEY looks back at the heyday of shipbreaking in Blyth.
PLEASANTLY GREEN, WITH CULTURAL INTERLUDES
JOHN SURGEY follows the course of the Ouse Burn from South Gosforth downstream to its confluence with the Tyne.
IT’S A LONG WAY FROM THE ANDES
STEWART BONNEY visits a breeding herd of South American alpacas — near Wooler.
DEATH ON A SUNDAY LUNCHTIME
ALAN WELLS recalls the events leading up to and following Northumberland’s worst rail disaster.
Also in this issue ...
A taste of Northumberland
PASTIES: THE ORIGINAL TAKE-AWAY
News view
A round-up of local news stories
Book review by John Watson
Your letters
What's On Guide
