Piano and chair:-

Stairwell:-

Patrick Brontë’s bedroom:-

Branwell Brontë’s room:-

A bedroom:-

Parsonage from garden:-

Model of original building; inside Brontë Parsonage Museum:-

Patrick Brontë’s study:-

Dining room:-

Curate’s room:-

Passage to kitchen:-

Kitchen:-

Stairs:-

This was a return trip to Haworth.

Main Street, Haworth, looking down the hill. Taken by the Black Bull, Branwell Brontë’s favourite watering hole. In this photo the Brontës’ home at the Parsonage is behind and to the right:-

Further down Main Street:-

Looking back up from further down. This really shows the street’s steepness:-

Graveyard at Haworth Church, Parsonage in background.

It was the packed nature of the graveyard that led to the high degree of disease in the Victorian town, the highest in England. Water from heavy rainfall would flow down from the graves under/beside the church and down Main Street carrying germs to the populace. Eventually it was decided to plant trees and space out graves to help prevent this:-

Most letter cases in print works were untidy as the letters would be thrown in. The workers knew where they ought to go and worked on memory. This is a cleaned up example:-

Letter cases, printing blocks etc:-

Smail’s used to print the local newspaper the St Ronan’s Standard. This is a printing block of a front cover:-

Lithograph stones:-

A press:-

Chicago press:-

Heidelberg press:-

Wharfedale press. As I recall this was Smail’s first three-colour printing press:-

The conceit of a visit to Smail’s is that you are starting a printing apprenticeship. Apprentice Card cover:-

Inside of card:-

My apprentice piece:-

Inside St Andrew’s Church in Corbridge are two memorials to the men of Corbridge Parish who died in the World Wars.

Great War plaque:-

Second World War Roll of Honour:-

In addition to these there is in the lychgate of the church a plaque commemorating the Great War dead. The plaque is covered in perspex hence reflections:-

The Vicar’s Pele is a building which stands in the grounds surrounding St Andrew’s Church. It was once the vicarage for the church but now houses a pub!

St Andrew’s Church (stitch of two photos):-

Inside the church was an art installation by Keith Roberts MRSS, named Caporetto after the Great War battle also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo.

“Caporetto” installation information:-

Cherryburn was the birthplace of wood engraver and naturalist Thomas Bewick. The cottage and farmhouse there are now in the care of the National Trust. They are located in the village of Mickley, Northumberland.

Both a wren and a swan are named after Bewick.

Many of his engravings are on display.

There is a small printing press on the premises and you can purchase copies of his prints.

Cottage:-

Farmhouse:-

The site overlooks the valley of the River North Tyne:-

A memorial to the Boer War stands in a kind of square in Bellingham. Unfortunately a van was parked right in front of it so I didn’t get a good photo of its frontage.

From side:-

Dedication cartouche:-

Additional names:-

Also on display in the village is a gun captured during the Boxer Rebellion. It’s a heavy duty musket known as a Gingall:-

Bellingham is a village in Northumberland, 18 or so miles north of Hexham. Its name is pronounced Belling-jum.

Church of St Cuthbert – photo taken over a wall surrounding the church:-

Church interior:-

The church contains memorials for both World Wars.

Great War brass plaque:-

Second World War Roll of Honour:-

Seahouses is a village a few miles south-east of Bamburgh on the North Sea coast of Northumberland The Memorial is a stone obelisk on a rectangular plinth situated on a roundabout at the junction of Main Street and Seafield Road. The dedications are for North Sunderland Parish.

Great War dedication and names:-

Second World War dedication and names. Unusually there are more names on this plaque (19) than on the one for the earlier war (16):-