Category: World War 1

A gorgeous sunny day (17 May 2013), so we drove to Berwick for coffee. Then we drove west (could hardly drive east …) and crossed the Tweed at  The Union Bridge, Horncliffe. We visited Chain Bridge Honey Farm – www.chainbridgehoney.co.uk – for a superb lunch in their bus cafe and a look round their excellent displays. Well worth a visit. The bridge itself was built by Captain Samuel Brown in 1820, and has its own blog http://unionchainbridge.blogspot.co.uk (their postings are even more erratic than mine!). It is supposedly the oldest suspension bridge in the world still used by road traffic. Then...

The first Saturday of the autumn was a beautiful day. After a summer of wet weddings, Alison and Matthew had a wonderful afternoon. Once I had finished we drove north and ended up having coffee at The Breeze in Wooler – http://www.breatheglendale.com/Breeze.html. As we went in I said “look darling, that shop down there must be a second hand book shop, there are boxes of books outside”; by the time we came out the boxes had gone and the shop was shut. I was least popular husband. In the other direction there is a newsagent, with some books for sale....

Gareth the engine driver was fed (if you haven’t read the last blog, we’re on the South Tynedale Railway). Duncan, the engine driver’s supervisor, is my church secretary at Milbourne. Kieran in the signal box is a church musician. Richard on the engineering train is churchwarden at Kirkhaugh – he told me it is open and just a short walk from Kirkhaugh station. I watched the first train of the afternoon return south to Alston, and went for a walk.       A gorgeous bridge across the South Tyne – some details at www.bridgesonthetyne.co.uk/kirk.html. The church guidebook (written...