Coast and Country.

Views of the coast and country.

Your photographs of Northumberland are brilliant! Thanks for pointing me
toward your website. My wife and I loved England and can't wait to get
back. Now that you have given us a glimpse of Northumberland, a visit
there will definitely be in our plans for our next trip. Until then I'll
revisit your site often.

Terry Hillard USA.

Image: berwick upon tweed

Royal Border Bridge, Berwick Upon Tweed.

Image: Wallington Hall, Northumberland.

Wallington Hall, Northumberland.

Image: Hadrian's Wall, Northumberland.

Hadrian's Wall Country.

Image: Tosson Lime Kiln, Northumberland.

Country view from Tosson Lime Kiln, Northumberland.

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
William Shakespeare.

Image: Rothbury from the River Coquet.

Rothbury from the river Coquet.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another.
The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
Henry Van Dyke, Fisherman's Luck, 1899.

Image: Rothbury from the River Coquet.

Rothbury by the riverside.

Science has never drummed up quite as effective
a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
W. Earl Hall.

Image: St. Mary's Island. Whitley Bay. photo.

The country habit has me by the heart,
For he's bewitched forever who has seen,
Not with his eyes but with his vision, Spring
Flow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun.
Vita Sackville-West.

Image: St. Mary's Island.

Dark skies at the coast, St. Mary's Island. Whitley Bay.

Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Elizabeth Bowen.

Image: Waves crashing over Tynemouth Pier.

Rough at the coast, Waves crashing over Tynemouth Pier.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me.
I like weather rather than climate.
John Stienbeck.

Image: A couple walk hand in hand on Tynemouth Pier.

Calm at the coast, a couple walk hand in hand along Tynemouth Pier.

If I had a flower for every time you made me smile,
I'd be walking in an endless garden.
Anon.

Image: lighthouse at the end of the Pier.

The light at the end of the Pier. Tynemouth.

A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.
William Henry Davies.

Image: Stan Laurel.

Monument erected to the memory of Stan Laurel in Dockwray Square, North Shields. This is where Stan lived as a young boy.(1897-1902). His father was the manager of the Theatre Royal, Prudhoe Street, now demolished.