The Old North-East Part 1: A Walk in Historic Newcastle

in #photography7 years ago

With a daughter at university in the north-east, I’ve been a pretty frequent visitor to Newcastle-upon-Tyne over the last few years. Normally my trips focus on the museums and galleries – highly recommended – and the pubs – unmissable! – but earlier this summer I took a different tack, and followed the city’s medieval walls into its history.

Alley-mouths and street-corners host collisions of ancient, old, and modern...

... darkness and sunlight.

The walls date back in parts to Newcastle’s strategic role protecting England’s northern frontier against the Scots – and before that, protecting Rome’s frontier as a lynchpin of Hadrian’s wall.

The fortifications still loop round the city centre, skirting its Chinatown in the shadow of St James’ Park football stadium.

Following the wall, we stumbled on a sheltered churchyard, its centuries-old gravestones dappled by leafy light.

The Eighteenth Century dead maintaining their silence in the heart of the city's traffic-roar...

In Part 2, I take the road north to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne.

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