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Filed under Holidays, Newcastle 2015
Around the Cragside Estate
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 9th 2015
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Holidays, Newcastle 2015
Newcastle – Day Two
Breakfast in the Vermont was as excellent as usual, although the arrangements had changed since our previous visits. There is still the buffet arrangement for cold breakfast items but all cooked food is prepared fresh to order. We were pleased to find there was the perfect table with five chairs so we were all able [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Oct 31st 2015
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 – 1921)
10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 24th 2014
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
Grace Darling
Within St Aidan’s churchyard stands an effigy to Grace Darling:
Grace Horsley Darling was born on 24th November 1815 in her grandfather’s cottage here in Bamburgh. She was the seventh child of nine. At only three weeks old she was taken to live on Brownsman Island, in the Farne islands, where her father, William was lighthouse [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 28th 2014
St Aidan’s memorial:
According to the Venerable Bede, St Aidan Bishop of Lindesfarne died near this place in AD. 651.
This memorial was dedicated in 2013 by John Sentamu Archbishop of York.
One of the churches stained glassed windows.
6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 27th 2014
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
St Aidan’s Church
A place of worship was founded on the site of the present church in 635 by Saint Aidan. St Aidan was called to Bamburgh from Iona by King Oswald to establish Christianity in his newly united kingdom of Northumbria.
No trace of that wooden building can now be seen – other than perhaps a beam in [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 27th 2014
Filed under Heritage, Holidays, Newcastle & Crookham 2013
Alnwick Castle
8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 24th 2014
