Confined to barracks and its streets, John Grundy takes a lockdown walk around his fascinating neighbourhood in search of architectural stories of suburban life.

Following the article which appeared in The Northumbrian 176 featuring drawings made by leading 19th Century landscape artist John Wilson Carmichael of the construction of the Newcastle to Carlisle Railway, this second article by Stewart Bonney features some of the fine engravings made from drawings by the same artist.  They were published a few years earlier, in 1830, in a series entitled ‘Pictures of Tyneside’.

Janet Hardie, whose grandparents owned Wallington before giving it to the National Trust, reminisces about her parents’ short marriage during World War II and the discovery of her father’s wartime paintings and letters