#county durham

[venetianwindow]

20240325. 【🚞】

Easter, prelude: A sunny day out in County Durham.

I took a weekend off for a bit of much-needed leisure before launching into work again. The sun has at last graced England with its presence and I had to make the most of it.

Auckland Castle was beautiful, and wonderfully restored. Greatly interesting to learn about its history as well as that of its many bishops.

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[henk-heijmans]

Consett, County Durham, England, 1970s - by Don McCullin (1935), English

#Don McCullin #England #County Durham #Consett

[colonellickburger]

Graham Smith. ‘Pregnant, watching over her children on a good day – a day when the prevailing west wind was blowing north’ Blackhill, Consett, County Durham, England 1977

#Graham Smith #County Durham #England

[glorianas]

durham, county durham, england, july 25th, 2023

#my photos #durham #county durham #england

[onarangel]

The Bowes Museum is an art gallery in the town of Barnard Castle, in County Durham in northern England. It was built to designs by Jules Pellechet and John Edward Watson to house the art collection of John Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier, and opened in 1892.

It contains paintings by El Greco, Francisco Goya, Canaletto, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher, together with items of decorative art, ceramics, textiles, tapestries, clocks and costumes, and objects of local historical interest. Some early works of Émile Gallé were commissioned by Coffin-Chevallier. There is an eighteenth-century Silver Swan automaton, which periodically preens itself, looks round and appears to catch and swallow a fish.

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#Bowes Museum #art gallery #Barnard Castle #County Durham #England #art #1892 #decorative art #ceramics #textiles #tapestries #clocks #costumes #museum #architecture #UK

[celticculture]

​📷simon knott

#escomb saxon church #county durham #ireland #📷simon knott

[vox-anglosphere]

An unusual view of Durham Cathedral, taken from the north

#Durham Cathedral #River Wear #County Durham #Anglican #church towers #mediaeval #sacred space #English cathedrals

[kvetch19]

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#upland #moorland #Hunstanworth #county durham

[supertrainstationh]

Snowbound Tramway by Terry Pinnegar Via Flickr:

#Beamish #Museum #County Durham #Tram #Gateshead #Grimsby & Immingham #flickr #trainspam #tramway

[bikepackinguk]

Day Fifteen

Not a bad day's travelling today!

Woke behind a bale of hay in a field with a view of the sun rising over the sea behind Saltburn and was struck by how fortunate I am to be out here doing this. Not every day you get to go on this kind of trek!

After a coast downhill to Marske-by-the-sea, has a nice easy ride along the coast up to Redcar to restock on water, before beginning the leg through Middlesbrough.

Honestly, most of the Middlesbrough run wasn't too fun. The cycle paths, whilst traffic-free and far better than Hull, were very grimy and rife with stones and rocks and made for a very dirty ride, with my legs and bike thoroughly covered in crud.

After a ride alongaide the River Tees and crossing at the Tees Barrage Bridge, there's a long leg alongside the busy A19 and through Billingham before switching off to NCN Route 14 over to the coast again.

After more work through another very hot day, the coast is rejoined at Seaton Carew, and the nice promenade can be followed all the way along to Hartlepool, where I had a nice dither and rested the legs for some lunch, as well as taking in aome sightseeing around the Headland.

After a nice break, the trail is hit again and there is a simply lovely route out northwest of Hartlepool through a nature reserve, where I was treated to a wonderful sight of a pond absolutely teeming with tadpoles!

This trail is long and flat and felt effortless after the previous days' hills, and despite taking it a little easy the miles were soon eaten up, looping back around for a wonderful miles-long descent into Seaham.

I feel the dithering has helped a lot today not only to give the muscles a bit of a rest, but to ensure I don't overrun and end up hitting Sunderland, from which we have a good chunk of urban areas to get through. But from here it should be perfect to make an early start of it and get across the River Tyne.

With today's travels we say goodbye to Yorkshire! I bid it a very fond farewell, its hills have been quite a challenge at times but also absolutely beautiful, and everyone I've met has been wonderful.

We have also almost gone through the whole of County Durham in today's ride! Which is understandable given not too much coastline relatively, but it's been very enjoyable nonetheless for a great ride.

And with that, the sun is getting low, so I'll bid you all goodnight once more.

#bikepacking #bicycle touring #yorkshire #county durham

[balladof-bignothing]

feeling a strong desire to go to beamish and relive my most cherished childhood memories of watching the historically dressed live actors wander around as if it were the 1900s… :’)))

#i want #no i need #to go back to beamish #I hope other people know what I’m talking about #beamish #county durham #beamish museum #20th century

[izzysdaydreams]

Visited Beamish museum yesterday.

1820s:

1900s:

1950s:

Trams and Buses:

Ignore my reflection in some of them, I'm useless at taking photos haha

#beamish #museum #1900s #1950s #1820s #county durham

[4eternal-life]

Colin Jones  /English, 1936 – 2021  

Seaham, Co. Durham 1963 Silver gelatin print30.5 x 38.1 cm © Colin Jones

https://www.michaelhoppengallery.com/artists/52-colin-jones/overview/

© MICHAEL HOPPEN GALLERY

#colin jones #train #co. durham #railway #county durham #photography #black and white #mu photo #mu #michael hoppen gallery #photo gallery #xyz photo

[waywardnova]

About: The True Tale of the Sockburn Worm

So the story can be found in two places. It’s online (here: https://www.silversunbooks.com/post/monsters-masquerades-issue-6) and a print version of the magazine is on amazon (here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1913786323?&linkCode=sl1&tag=josijaff-21&linkId=2297ab50332fcde6cd3f3cf0faed7f8e&language=en_GB&ref_=as_li_ss_tl)

Ok so I may have said I’d write about my other stories over the next few days, but I’m indecisive. So I’m gonna write about my first short story now instead.

So the ‘True Tale of the Sockburn Worm’ was published in issue 5 of Indie Bites which was themed all around monsters and masquerades. When I actually wrote the story I hadn’t planned on publishing it, my original intention had been to just write my weird little stories and show them among my friends. But then I stumbled across Indie Bites on twitter and decided that since the story closely matched the theme of the magazine issue that I should submit it. A few months later I go an email saying it had been accepted! And after a few more weeks a few changes had been made and it was published! I still remember how excited I was to have my very first short story published

But what is the legend of the Sockburn Worm? Spoilers for the story below.

So the ultra short version of the original tale is that an 11th century knight called Sir John Conyers kills a ‘worm’ (otherwise known as a wyvern) who is stalking his families land in Sockburn, County Durham with a falchion. Most retellings then focus on the falchion and how there was a ceremony of the prince-bishops of Durham receiving and then giving back the sword when they were first appointed. 

I like that little legend, though I was bothered with the lack of detail given to the fight itself. So I ended up creating a retelling of it from the perspective of Sir John Conyers. In the short story Sir Conyers is an alcoholic man who boasts of his past deeds while chugging pints of beer. We meet him in one such retelling where he gradually gets drunker and gets details wrong, such as the suddenly appearing-and-disappearing Marie. This is all done from the perspective of Sir Conyers speaking directly to the audience.

So the main ‘thing’ of the story is playing around with the standard knights tale by way of an unreliable narrator. The whole point of Sir Conyers is that the reader is never sure when he’s telling the truth. So you’re left doubting the whole of the tale even while he insists that its the truth. I’ll readily admit that it’s not the ‘deepest’ of short stories but I still enjoy the inversion. Though I am pretty biased in favour of it.

The editing process did definitely benefit the story though, with the main two changes being a lame joke being taken out plus the insinuation against the prince-bishop being significantly changed to something tamer. 

Looking back on it is strange. I’ve only been writing for 5ish months now, but it feels like I’ve already developed a lot since I wrote this. But I still enjoy it, it’s a more light-hearted piece that’s steeped in the history of my home county.

Also, I have a fun fact about the story. It came around as I stumbled across the Sockburn Worm while looking for folklore creatures of County Durham for a novel idea I had. I still plan on writing that novel, so maybe Sir John Conyers will make a return one day ;)

And so ends all my thoughts on ‘The True Tale of the Sockburn Worm’. For anyone who has read the story, thank you and I hope you enjoyed it (and I hope you read the other stories in the magazine too!)! Also I gotta thank the editor, Asha, who suggested some great changes to the story that made it much better. Hope you all have a great day!

#fantasy #short story #wyvern #sockburn worm #indie bites #fuck the lambton worm #fantasy fiction #just realised I said so way too much #fiction #county durham

[janealexandra]

Bollihope Burn, Durham

#Bollihope Burn #county durham #north east england #nature photography #trees #woods #green space #disused quarry #river #lake #sheep #animals #plantlife #dandelion #daisy #daisies #flowers

[warrenwoodhouse]

Keys To The Past

This site offers well written and well researched topical information regarding archaeological sites and excavations throughout the North East of England, County Durham and Northumberland.

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