North-East History Tour

Anyone who knows anything about the ancient history of Northumbria will be aware of the region’s strong links with early Christianity. Aid...

  [thanks to Rebecca Kennison at http://en.wikipedia.org ] The story of the Dun Cow, as depicted in the above eighteenth-century panel o...

  This small island, one mile east of Amble off the Northumberland coast, has an eventful history for such a tiny wee place. It is now an RS...

A famous local landmark, St.Cuthbert’s Cave is a large, natural sandstone feature 3½ miles west of Belford. It is not really a cave at all,...

In 1966, a curious film entitled Cul-de-Sac passed through our cinemas. Best described as a black comedy-cum-psychological thriller, it was...

The ancestor of all fermented drinks, antedating the cultivation of the soil. Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, historian. One of Lindisfarne’s mo...

A little off the main drag linking Holy Island to the mainland are a pair of curious erections known as Snook House and Snook Tower. Locate...