On a cool March morning, Hexham wakes beneath a sky of diamond blue, its ancient heart quickening as market stalls are erected around the cobbled Market Place.
The air carries a faint mist from the River Tyne, mingling with the scent of roasted coffee and damp stone. Traders call cheerfully to one another as they stack wooden ...
Keswick in winter feels like a held breath — a quiet pause between the rush of seasons. The market town, normally alive with walkers and wanderers, slows beneath a hush of frost. The air itself seems older, more deliberate, as if the fells have settled into a long, contemplative dream.
Three days after Christmas, the River Derwent runs cold and clear beneath a sky of pewter light. Along its bends in County Durham, the quiet hush of winter has settled — fields rimmed with frost, the trees bare but for a few stubborn leaves still clinging to the year’s end.
It is here, on this still December day, that a pair ...
High in the windswept hills of County Durham, at the heart of the North Pennines National Landscape, is Groverake Mine — a relic from the north of England’s industrial past that once bustled with life and enterprise for almost two centuries. This area was at the centre of Britain’s fluorspar excavation industry, extracting the mineral ...
Perched high and proud on a section of the Great Whin Sill, rising from the North Sea, is Lindisfarne Castle. A battle-worn survivor from ancient times, and the ever stoical guardian of the world-famous Holy Island.
Crowning the 295-million-year-old volcanic hilltop known as Beblowe Craig, the castle is one of the best known ...
Last year I had an opportunity to visit St.Andrew's Church and the Hopper Mausoleum, which is quite close to home, but a place I'd never been to until then.
I spent a fascinating couple of hours at the site, which is still an active place of worship for people in the immediate, yet sparsely populated area. Here's ...
Journey to the Underworld: Is Hell A Real Place?
Going to Hell is presumably not an item you have high on your bucket list. The very idea of Hell has influenced people’s imaginations, moral beliefs and human actions throughout history. But where did the concept of Hell originate, and is there an actual place that has inspired this ...
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