Archive for the tag 'Newcastle'
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle 2015
The Percy Chantry – Tynemouth Priory
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 17th 2015
Filed under Art, Faith Foundations, Holidays, Newcastle 2015
Cathedral Church of St Mary – Newcastle
The church was built in the 1840s to a neo-Gothic design by architect August Welby Pugin, famous for his work on the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. It was paid for by halfpenny donations from the poorest community of immigrants on Tyneside, and was enhanced in the following decades by bequests from the Dunn family [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Nov 7th 2015
Filed under Holidays, Newcastle 2015
A Walk Along the Quayside
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 5th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Newcastle 2015
Newcastle – Day Five
We were all packed up and ready to go before we went down for breakfast so all we needed to do after breakfast was settle the bill for the few extras we had added to our room.
On the way home we stopped off at Hexham to see the Abbey as recommended by JD. Hexham Abbey [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 4th 2015
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Newcastle – Day Four
I awoke abruptly at 1am in the morning to the sound of what I soon realized was the fire alarm going off. We both leaped out of bed just as the alarm stopped ringing so I returned to bed and when I was satisfied it was a false alarm I went back to sleep. I [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Nov 3rd 2015
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Newcastle – Day Three
The five of us were able to sit at the same breakfast table that we had the previous morning. I opted for eggs Benedict but found that there was a little too much hollandaise sauce for my taste. One of the lifts was out of order, delaying progress to and from the hotel rooms to [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 2nd 2015
