On 'looking up' Morpeth Castle... only a 'Gatehouse' done up as Holiday Accommodation left. Oh Well.
Still, sometimes people's interests can surprise!
On a 'Horse Holiday' in Allendale in 90s, a group of 'Girlies' went off 'to see Hadrian's Wall. Came back 'Full Of Themselves'! Couldn't have cared less about the Roman Wall... THEY HAD SEEN 'THE TREE' upon which Kevin Costner had parked his b*m in Robin Hood P o T! Yes, That 'iconic' Tree! LOL! 

Apparently, Harrison Ford has been rootling around Nothumberland... maybe Alnwick Castle... for an upcoming 'Indiana Jones' Film. Might be worthwhile following up any locations?

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 20 July 2021, 05:38:28 AM
Apparently, Harrison Ford has been rootling around Nothumberland... maybe Alnwick Castle... for an upcoming 'Indiana Jones' Film.

They've been filming that on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and bits of Glasgow have been standing in for New York.

Quote from: Raider4 on 20 July 2021, 06:26:46 AM
They've been filming that on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and bits of Glasgow have been standing in for New York.

Now, there's a Wow! lol!

Funny I forgot this Castle and Hall at Belsay, (about 6 m SW from Morpeth?).. I've never visited, although 'just up the road'. Mother has been round gardens and mentioned a 'quarry' that one year/month was 'full' of Foxgloves. Have intended to visit 'sometime', but just never got round to doing.  
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/belsay-hall-castle-and-gardens/

Website links to other places of interest.

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 15 August 2021, 02:44:15 PM
Funny I forgot this Castle and Hall at Belsay, (about 6 m SW from Morpeth?).. I've never visited, although 'just up the road'. Mother has been round gardens and mentioned a 'quarry' that one year/month was 'full' of Foxgloves. Have intended to visit 'sometime', but just never got round to doing.  
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/belsay-hall-castle-and-gardens/

Website links to other places of interest.

Thanks for the tip HH - I may well have overlooked this. The pele tower looks nice & ticks the "medieval" box. The fact it has a tea room and a second hand bookshop tips the balance in favour of "we need to visit this place" - especially as there will doubtless be things to distract the rest of the family.

Cheers,

Geoff

Quote from: Elliesdad on 15 August 2021, 03:11:44 PM
Thanks for the tip HH - I may well have overlooked this. The pele tower looks nice & ticks the "medieval" box. The fact it has a tea room and a second hand bookshop tips the balance in favour of "we need to visit this place" - especially as there will doubtless be things to distract the rest of the family.

Cheers,

Geoff

Glad to be a help.  In some previous years, there were occasionally, 'Jousting', etc. events there... though not 'regular' 'site' happenings. Might be worth a check when things get sorted out?
Hope all enjoy Hol, anyway. Keith.

Have not been to Corbridge for many years... but after a visit by an fb friend, found this place has opened up.
https://www.visitcorbridge.co.uk/pele-tower-pub-opens/

Quote from: Heedless Horseman on 21 September 2021, 04:47:57 AM
Have not been to Corbridge for many years... but after a visit by an fb friend, found this place has opened up.
https://www.visitcorbridge.co.uk/pele-tower-pub-opens/

The pele tower looks nice. I prefer ruins though and the improvements for the pub may rather spoil its appeal for me.
Worthy of consideration though.

Geoff 

Well, hadn't heard about it before, so thought I'd mention.
Sigh! Maybe someday... I might get to Normandy,  Brittany... or Orkney... or the ancient  sites in S UK. I DID visit some but was too young! What I 'REMEMBER' about Stonehenge... was a warm can of coke and a soggy cheese sandwich! LOL!!!

Holidays, when I was a teenager, consisted of being packed into the car with my parents and siblings and trundling around Britain, staying with relatives or in guest houses.

Not as exotic as the holidays schoolfriends took in Torremolinos or Ibiza or the French Alps but it did let me experience a huge slice of British history and geography.

Stonehenge, Avebury, West Kennet, Silbury, Kit's Coty House and Little Kit's Coty House, Bryn Celli Ddu and many others were part of the fabric of my late childhood and teen years.

In early adulthood I graduated to the likes of Knossos and Phaestos, Ostia Antiqua and the amphitheatre in Arles.

Then I had kids and was back to packed cars, relatives' houses and British antiquities.

Is that what they mean by The Circle Of Life?

More like the Circus of Life in my experience.

I suppose, sometime soon, I will become one of the "old people" that we always used to gripe about when we were younger.

Quote from: Leman on 05 October 2021, 04:18:35 PM
More like the Circus of Life in my experience.

That would explain why there are so many clowns, right enough!

Quote from: Raider4 on 19 July 2021, 07:32:37 AM
Barnard Castle isn't far away. Good place for a day trip, I hear.

Don't you need to require an eye test to visit here?

Quote from: Orcs on 05 October 2021, 07:39:27 PM
Don't you need to require an eye test to visit here?

No. You just need to SAY you need to test your eyes (whilst maintaining a straight face).

Quote from: Elliesdad on 05 October 2021, 08:38:49 PM
No. You just need to SAY you need to test your eyes (whilst maintaining a straight face).

No, no no. Driving there is the eye test. Bonus points for doing it on your wife's birthday.

Quote from: Orcs on 05 October 2021, 07:39:27 PM
Don't you need to require an eye test to visit here?

Mrs Westie cracked a similar joke when we were passing the sign to Barnard Castle on the A6 to Penrith yesterday! 

Who are we to question the words of our leaders and their acolytes? We are but the plebs/drones at the "bottom of the food pile".
I don't know whether I'm reassured (or not) that they merrily assume we will merely accept whatever nonsense they say.

Curious, Elliesdad...how did it go? 

Although the holiday cottage (an old hunting/fishing lodge I believe) has a Morpeth postal address it is sufficiently so far away from a decent internet connection to qualify as "the middle of nowhere". We did visit some decent ruined castles so a big 👍👍👍 from me. But organising people to be "up and ready to go" at an agreed time was very difficult. Barter Books was, as ever, excellent and for once I spent less than I thought I would.
On the way home the roads were diverted which - s*ds law, wouldn't you know - sent us past a nice ruined castle barely 10 miles from where we were staying. Un signposted, of course ☹️.
That'll be one for next time...
Cheers,
Geoff