Decades after visiting the region where her grandad was born, long-forgotten memories began to surface
lookouts on the beach in Blyth, Northumberland, I think of my grandad George, who was born here and served with the Durham Light Infantry.
I imagine grandad, aged 17, walking along the beach and gazing up at the lookouts. The beach has since been given a dramatic makeover and now has some colourful huts along the front. But Blyth’s port, the hub of its industrial shipbuilding heritage, is visible in the distance., a historic country house hotel around half an hour’s drive west from Newcastle. I have come to this part of the country – of which I only have vague childhood memories – to find out more about my Geordie roots.
The famous Capability Brown gardens centre around a cascading water feature and sit adjacent to the gothic Alnwick CastleThe castle is closed when I visit, unfortunately, but it presides over the town, rather like Arendelle in the Disney film,The castles were – I learn when I visit the little Bailiffgate Museum, a “people’s museum” in Alnwick dedicated to telling the stories of the area – and how the Anglo-Saxons and Normans built so many castles to defend Northumberland from the Scots and the...
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