My Northumberland

I feel blessed to live in such a beautiful part of the country, and also enjoy getting out and about with my trusty camera, which was a gift off my wife when i started with full blown Tourette Syndrome plus in 2009 hope you enjoy my images

Berwick upon Tweed is a great place lots of history, beautiful scenery all year round Images taken from Tweedmouth across the Tweed

Follow the Tweed from Berwick down to Spittal look across the Tweed estuary toward the pier to my knowledge was constructed around 1810 And a lighthouse was added in around 1826 , this image includes the old wave breakers recently uncovered by the ever shifting sands

And this is another image taken from the same position which includes one of our children, who are fed up with being my unpaid photographic models, so now i have to catch them unawares,, Cocklawburn Beach If we take a walk south past the promenade towards the footpath over the cliffs, this will bring us to Cocklawburn Beach which is another unspoiled gem of Northumberland.

. This is a great place for families with a very shallow beach and plenty of rock pools to explore, plus its a great place to hunt for fossils, this is our local beach, where we can spend hours with our children in a safe unspoiled beach

The above image of the giant tree stock, has been a permanent feature of Cocklawburn beach for a good few years now since it was washed up in one of our big winter storms

Holy Island , Lindisfarne Castle is linked to the mainland by a causeway. And is cut-off twice each day by the North Sea and covers the road, making it impossible to cross, and has been the down fall of many a fool hardy motorist thinking they can race the tides.

Lindisfarne Castle been around from about 1550 onwards, but the island as had a more turbulent history since AD. 793. After being sacked by the Vikings.

Heading down to Bamburgh and to the Castle, another one of our Northumberland gems, the area is basically free from commercialism, apart from a couple of gift shops a deli and tea rooms and a few pubs, but it’s not exactly Blackpool ,but it is a place you will want to stay and explore ,historical and breath-taking scenery

The castle has been photographed many times as it stands so majestically on the rocky out crop,so I have always been interested in getting a different shot of the castle,

And found it viewing the castle from the south, there was a strip of poppies growing wild by the side of the road, so I put myself in the middle of them and took this shot trying to create the illusion of fields of poppies heading up to the castle

Head in land from Bamburgh towards on the B6348 and B1341 towards Chatton you come across neolithic cup and ring marks on top of the hillside overlooking Chatton and the Cheviot’s.