Northumberland Yesterday and To-day

Bamburgh Castle. _From photograph by J.P. Gibson, Hexham_ The Priory, Tynemouth. _From photograph by T.H. Dickinson, Sheriff Hill_ Untitled Hexham Abbey from North West. _From p...

Wild and bleak it may be, hard and cruel at times it undoubtedly is, but, nevertheless, this north-east coast of ours is at all times inspiring, whether half-hidden by storm-clo...

Between Peel Fell and Mid Fell, almost the farthest western heights of the Cheviot Hills, a little mountain stream takes its rise, and flows to the south and east. This little b...

The town of Hexham, standing on hilly ground overlooking the Tyne, immediately below the point at which the North and South Tyne unite, and spreading from thence down to the lev...

The outward signs of “by-gone days,” in the Newcastle of to-day, with the one notable exception of the Castle, must be diligently sought out amongst the overwhelming mass of wha...

For a mile and a quarter, along the north bank of the Tyne, stretch the world-famed Elswick Works, which have grown to their present gigantic proportions from the small beginnin...

From the crowded, bustling scenes of Tyneside to the solitude of the Cheviot Hills is a “far cry,” even farther mentally than in actual tale of miles. Yet the two are linked by...

“Take these flowers, which, purple waving, On the ruined rampart grew, Where, the sons of Freedom braving, Rome’s imperial standard flew. Warriors from the breach of danger Pluc...

Have you and I, then, raced across its moors. Till horse and boy were well-nigh mad with glee, So often, summer and winter, home from school, And not found that out? Take the st...

“The history of Northumberland is essentially a drum and trumpet history, from the time when the _buccina_ of the Batavian cohort first rang out over the moors of Procolitia dow...

Northumberland, as might be guessed from its wild history, is rich in tales of daring and stories of gallant deeds; there are true tales, as well as legendary ones, which latter...

The ballads of Northumberland, as all true ballads should do, partake of the characteristics of the district which is their home. As we should expect, they treat chiefly of warl...