Alnwick Gardens ~part 2 ~ the water features.

Part 1 HERE WARNING- long post alert, short attention spanners cease here. 🙂 I neglected to tell the History of Alnwick Gardens in part 1, so I’ll remedy that here. The History Bit Adjacent to Alnwick Castle, the gardens have a long history under the Dukes of Northumberland but fell into disrepair until revived at the turn […]

Alnwick Gardens ~ April 2018 ~ Part 1 ~ Tai Haku Blossom

Cherry blossom, don’t you just love how it bursts forth at the end of winter, piercing the grey skies in defiance with their lush pink or white bunches of blossom. I have a lovely pink one in my front garden, but Sophie doesn’t, so when Spring comes, we go off on a blossom hunt. This […]

Mere Knowles Cemetery~ April 2018 ~Part 2

Part 1 HERE We noticed that the chapels were not in the most habitable state of being and in noticing the roofing issues then noticed carved stone heads around the (technical term alert) stone rim thingy that went around it. There were a lot, so I’ve just chosen the ones I recognised, (see if you […]

Fraggle report – Mere Knowles Cemetary – April 2018

There’s nothing better (in mine & Sophie’s opinions) than wandering around cemeteries reading and photographing old graves and monuments. For us it is history with a personal view, the lives (and mostly deaths!) of real people and sometimes their families, chiselled into headstones. Names, ages, dates and symbols to be pondered on, sometimes researched (googled […]

Beamish Museum WW1 Transport~ Part 4

Part 1 HERE Part 2 HERE Part 3 HERE Coming to the end of our day out now and first off some WW1 Nurses There were quite a few horse-drawn buggies with WW1 re-enactors driving them as well as the odd motor vehicle and a genuine WW1 airplane, though it […]

Beamish Museum WW1 Transport ~ part 3

Part 1 HERE Part 2 HERE The museum is currently undergoing an £18million expansion, to include a 1950s Town and coaching inn. They have a huge store cupboard where they’re getting stuff together for it. This next shot is of a contraption that was used by hairdressers to perm ladies hair! apparently they would sometimes, […]

Beamish Museum WW1 Transport ~ Part 2

Part 1 HERE We came across a lot of horses, and people whilst we wandered around the museum The 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1759 and notable for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. These chaps were […]

Beamish Museum ~ WW1 ~ Horses Edition ~ April 2018 ~ part 1

In April 2016 Sophie and I went along to the WW1 Vehicles & Steam fair at Beamish Museum. On checking their website we found that this year they were doing horses of WW1. The horses were not 100 years old of course, but there were people were all dressed up in period costume and showing […]

Castle Eden Dene~ April 2018 ~ Part 2

Part 1 HERE After crossing the bridge we walked steadily down towards the burn (stream) and along the way I turned my lens on the little things along the way But also took some of the obviously very old trees On the way we came near to a road and could see this lovely building […]

Fraggle Report- Castle Eden Dene- April 2018- Part 1

Last weekend Sophie and I managed a day out at Castle Eden Dene, it stayed dry and it wasn’t too cold which was enough for us to get out and about. Spring hadn’t quite arrived, but some flowers were popping up, and there were plenty of mosses and lichens for my new lens to have […]

Herrington Country Park~ March 2018~part 4

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 So on we go over the dinosaur rib cage and back towards the lake, alongside a rivulet where we watched a swan doing it’s thing Back at the car park we came across a hound meeting I think […]

Herrington Country Park ~ March 2018~ Part 3

Part 1 HERE Part 2 HERE After we’d finished at the standing stones, Sophie and I made our way down the hill and went on to the next hill where there appeared to be a big rock. The rock has square metal engravings fastened to it, as you can see, each one bears the face […]

Herrington Country Park ~ March 2018 ~ Part 2

Part 1 Here We left the lake behind and went off to walk around the park. It had been raining quite a lot in previous days so the ground was a bit soggy, but the paths not too bad. There are seating bits all around the park which are decorated with scenes supposedly celebrating the […]

Fraggle Report~ Herrington Country Park~ March 2018~ part 1

Last weekend, Sophie and I got together and this time went off to Herrington Country Park. It sounded promising on the website- an adventure play area, skate boarding, Nordic walking, model boat sailing in the lake and a variety of sculptures that celebrate the heritage of the area. Wasn’t sure if Nordic Walking involved Viking […]

Northumberlandia~ February 2018

After Sophie and I had finished in Druridge Bay, We travelled back towards home via Northumberlandia, The Lady of the North. The History Bit Northumberlandia is a human landform sculpture of a reclining lady. Made of 1.5 million tonnes of rock, clay and soil, she is 100 feet high and a quarter of a mile […]