Bishops of Durham & English Monarchs
If, as I often do, you feel an uncontrollable urge to make sense of random historical facts, putting them into […]
Coal, Caves & Quarries in Durham City
Sunday 18th October 2020 | Not a lot of people know this but you can download excellent on-line field guides, […]
Cronkley Pencil Mill
Sunday October 11th 2020 | This lonely Victorian industrial site in Upper Teesdale is found not too far from the […]
Ashgill Force Waterfall
Thursday 29th October 2020 | Ashgill Force is an unexpectedly impressive waterfall tucked away discreetly off the B6277 between Teesdale […]
Cash Force: North East’s most underrated waterfall?
Wednesday 7th October 2020 | If I’d read it anywhere other than in Russell Bulman’s Introduction to the Geology of […]
Turn Wheel Linn inspires first ‘official’ video
Tuesday 29th September 2020 | Today I drove up to Eastgate, in Weardale, to walk up the Rookhope Burn and […]
A Visit to Staward Peel
Monday 21st September 2020 | This afternoon, as part of my long-term, casual project to record the fortifications of Northern […]
Bastle Hunting at Allenheads
Saturday 5th September 2020 | Historically, the counties and shires along the border between England and Scotland have seen their […]
Northumberland Coast Tandem
Thursday 3rd September 2020 | Although we’d put about three thousand miles on the tandem in 2019 including a 200-mile […]
Ray Lonsdale County Durham Round
Friday, 24th April 2020 If you’ve never heard of County Durham sculptor Ray Lonsdale and you live in the North […]