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Fancy a leisurely trip up the beautiful river Coquet in about 1900? Seeing the sights along the way from the collier-packed harbour of Amble to the wilds of Philhope and Makendon close to the river source. On the way you will glimpse the ever-imposing Warkworth castle from the river,  Rothbury racecourse , young ladies fishing […]

              Alnwick Bowling Club is celebrating almost 150 years of operation with an image in the new 2026 “Old Alnwick in Photographs” calendar. The page for May 2026 shows club members and their wives gathered on their “new green” in 1894, although the club was actually founded in 1877, 148 years ago, now making it

Heritage at the Heart of the Community – This is Alnwick Bailiffgate Museum & Gallery is pleased to announce that over 5 years the museum and gallery will be receiving £374,395 to fund our “Heritage at the Heart of the Community – This is Alnwick” project. The project will over the next five years allow

After months of frantic knitting Mary (Dudley’s wife) has finally put away her knitting needles! The Mice have all been dressed by Hilary and are now on their way to new adventures around our lovely town of Alnwick. 20 have found homes in various shops and offices around town, they will form part of our

Last summer, while we were waiting to hear about our OOT project, we acquired a grant from the Community Foundation to run a traditional music and dialect project in Upper Coquetdale. Three local first schools, Rothbury, Thropton and Harbottle were keen to get involved and we appointed James Tait, local musician, Rothbury resident, and writer

After weeks of synchronising diaries, Hilary and I finally had a date earlier this year to meet the “world famous” Stella Tennant. We were early. Even taking into account an unscheduled visit to the pretty market town of Duns where we definitely did not want to be, we eventually managed via common sense and sat

It seems that the difficulty of retaining a good fruit and veg merchant in Alnwick marketplace is not as recent as we thought. Problems seem to go back almost 200 years from the evidence of this poster. One can only assume that Earl Grey-whose enormous estate would have employed many gardeners- thought that selling off

Just seen this new book in the shop. It looks really fascinating. The write-ups say this… Sarah Reay lives in Belsay, Northumberland. At the end of 2016, her grandfather’s story from the Great War was published, The Half-Shilling Curate, A Personal Account of War & Faith 1914-1918. It is now in its 3rd edition. In 1915,