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Post by Vagabond on Jul 20, 2013 20:57:04 GMT
Some pics of my recent vist to the Lady`s Well at Holystone.  Long time since I was here, lots of trees have been felled since my last visit, the place now has a more `open` aspect, all to do with management of the woodland, more light, etc, more room to breathe.  Left the woodland path and now about to cross the field to the well, view to the east toward Rothbury.  The well is hidden in the trees centre left of image, nearly there. To be continued... |
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Post by Vagabond on Jul 20, 2013 21:28:29 GMT
 The Lady`s Well - difficult to get a decent shot owing to the position of the sun, though were some nice shady areas around the well, very welcome on a scorching hot day. Back at the car park I came under attack from one very large hornet and received two mosquito bites on my arms all in the space of a couple of minutes. The bites weren`t all that painful, but they itched a quite a lot and there was some swelling which has since gone down, leaving just two tiny scars, one on each arm. Could have been worse, the hornet (the size of it!!) was the scariest, least I escaped that! |
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Post by doglovermargaret on Aug 19, 2013 20:01:55 GMT
  Cragside is one of my favourite places to visit. w were last there in April this year. |
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Post by Vagabond on Aug 19, 2013 22:54:01 GMT
Very nice picture of Seaton Delaval Hall, north entrance, built 1718 - 1729, by Sir John Vanbrugh for Admiral George Delaval. In his book `Buildings of Northumberland` Pevsner describes the hall as "A sombre house of dark stone facing a bleak scene with the smoke of Blyth and the sea in the distance to the north." In the 1960`s medieval banquets were held in the hall, I went a couple of times. The hall fell into decline sometime afterwards, nice to see it being restored, back to its former glory. Legend says that the ghost of a lady dressed all in white can sometimes be seen in one of the windows of the north entrance. More on this anon.
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