HIGHLIGHTS – NORTH EAST ENGLAND

Above A Berwick street dressed for the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival  

Above The extensive coffee list in an independent cafe

Above Ruins on the Isle of Lindisfarne off the Northumberland coast Below A fine mural depicting writers past in Barter Books, Alnwick

Above The sun has yet to break through early morning mist en route to Ashington from Walkmills

Above ‘Bed & Brexit Ensuite’

Above Miners’ homes in Ashington, Northumberland Below The main road and a side street

 

Below The pitheads at a closed colliery; Ashington was a centre of the coal industry

Above and below North East Organic Growers’ site near Bedlington

 

Above Phil of North East Organic Growers Below A memorial to the builders of Hadrian’s Wall, and Tyneside beyond, at Wallsend

Below A pawnbroker begins, or ends, a parade of shops

Above A midrange motorboat moored before the Gateshead Millennium Bridge  

Above and Below Newcastle by night

Below A variety of people outside one of Tesco plc’s 3,400 plus stores

 

Above Johannes, in Durham city centre, who seems to have posed before Above A statue in Miners’ Hall, Redhills Below The headquarters of the Durham Miners’ Association whose annual Miners’ Gala attracts in the order of 100,000 people