As a title I think that is the first time I have managed to use those words together, yet that kind of sums up the morning I had today.
The Tan Hill Inn is a pub steeped in history. High up on the moors in North Yorkshire, it’s one of those places where it [...]
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After seeing a friend referring to a CD he had performed on comment “Thirteen Years ago, how time flies” I started to think about momentous periods of my life.
There are many I could recall, my generation’s Kennedy moment, September 11 2001, starting & selling my first business, graduation and my first published article. All [...]
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As famous as Tyneside’s Angel of the North, but with a much longer lineage, The Transporter Bridge, iconic symbol of Teesside is 100 years old today.
Some of us never thought the bridge would still be [...]
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Arthur Stanley Jefferson, one of four children of Arthur Sr and Magaret Jefferson, was born at his grandparent’s house in Argyle Street, Ulveston, Cumbria on 16th June 1890. We know him, as Stan Laurel.
His parents, both actors, moved to Bishop Auckland in County Durham and managed the Theatre Royal on Newgate Street. Stan’s [...]
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What is the largest fossil you have ever seen? The size of your thumb? The palm of your hand? Your head? How about the size of a tree trunk?
In Stanhope, in the upper end of Weardale of County Durham, traffic sweeps along the [...]
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Durham Cathedral sits high on the peninsula above the city and dominates the skyline, regardless of which direction you approach. However, my advice, is to arrive in Durham by train. The reason for this is the railway station also sits high on a hill, there are many hills in the city, and provides a [...]
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I decided to try and hunt down a couple of medieval villages shown on a map I had acquired.
It was a lovely walk, easy walking terrain, in an area I simply hadn’t explored before. It was the complete lack of knowledge of the area that boosted the interest, but ultimately it was also [...]
Continue Reading →There’s a political hot-potato in my area at the moment in the form of proposal for a huge on shore windfarm. I’ve heard it may be one of, if not the, biggest in the UK if it goes ahead, so to try and get a feel for the area of land that would be affected, [...]
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Well I’m just about there. The site has drastically changed as you can see and so has it’s whole reason for being.
Longer term visitors to this particular address will remember it as a website for a Country Music podcast. Whilst there was some great podsafe country music out there, and people did support [...]
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When traveling, I tend to have an over-developed sense of the prevailing weather conditions. This has led to a certain degree of teasing from friends when out walking, particularly when I am the one suggesting getting down off the hills or moors because I’m detecting poor weather moving in way before the others.
However, on [...]
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