North-East History Tour

One of Riding Mill’s most prominent landmarks these days is The Wellington Hotel public house, sitting, as it does, on the north side of...

The Lord Crewe Arms , taken by the  author  in 1991. Other than the cars,  not a great deal has changed. One of the North-East’s...

The sleepy hamlet of Meldon in the Wansbeck valley a few miles west of Morpeth was once the home of one of the county’s most infamous gho...

 © Copyright  Phil Thirkell  and licensed for  reuse  under this  Creative Commons Licence . Built in 1622, Denton Hall is one of th...

The imaginings of our ancestors knew no bounds. Goblins are one such entity said to have haunted the lanes and backwaters of our countrysi...

Lumley Castle , near Chester-le-Street , has put the willies up many an unsuspecting visitor over the years thanks to rumours of ghostly ...

© Copyright Gordon Hatton and licensed for  reuse under this Creative CommonsLicence . The Ketton Ox public house, a fine-loo...

© Copyright DAVID ELSY and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence Situated on its lofty perch atop the Cleadon Hills, thi...

  © Copyright malcolm tebbit and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence . When it commenced operations in 1871, Souter L...

In Narrowgate, Alnwick, sits a whitewashed public house called Ye Olde Cross (NU185134). You can’t miss it. And when you find it, take a l...

One stormy winter’s night as the skeleton of Dunstanburgh laboured through another of its strenuous battles against the wicked Northumbrian ...