Liverpool

Derby Houses

Lunt Village Road

TG at Cavern Club

English Pub

Liverpool & Lunt Village.

Well we left Newcastle with heavy heart, friends we made & relatives we found, plus relatives that I have met again had treated us so well,

After a quick run down the A1 we arrived at West Derby Premier Inn our home for 3 days. The first day we went around Liverpool poor, Browny hasn't walked so far for ages, We took a tour on the Duck round the streets of Liverpool & splashed down near the docks. This was great until it run out of power exitting the water leaving us half in the water, eventually the driver got it out but then blocked the road, much to the anger of motorists.

Then we went to a street where the Cavern Club was, this is now a memorial to the Beatles. The pubs, the signs are all Beatles memorabilia.

The next day was a trip out to Lunt Village where we checked the Church & Pub. It is a quaint little village near Formby.There is a place in there with a not so nice name, we didn't find it & didn't want to ask!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We believe the sign keeps going missing.

Liverpool

English Countryside

Barges at Rest

Tudor Style

It was with heavy heart we left Newcastle & the family who treated us so royally as well as farewells to the friends we made at The New Northumbria Hotel, nobody could have taken us under their wing & gone so far out of their way as they did. We will look back over all our memories for years to come.To any travellers to Newcastle we thoroughly recpmmend it
After a drive from Newcastle down the A1 M1 we are now in Liverpool home of the Beatles& also a great city in its own right.It is an impressive city with old combined with modern. we visited the Cavern Club in a street which seems to a memorial to the Beatles.The Beatles Museum followed by a beer in The Beatles Hotel with its photos 7 newspaper clippings of the Fab4.
I haven't had time to Download pics yet but hope to soon. To you who have been waiting for postcards please bear with us we just don't seem tp get a spare minute, but hopefully in the next couple of days.Next installment we promise Pics
Before this we did a tour in a Duck around the city & then a splashdown in the Dock area, 1PROBLEM the duck had an engine failure & we were stuck half way up the ramp, after a spee we were able to get up but stalled again blocking the road

Newcastle

27 Bertha St Ferry Hill

Bertha St Ferry Hill

Durham Castle

Tower Durham Cathedral

Durham Cathedral

Durham Countryside

The Relies

Durham, what a county, what people & what attractions. After a reunion lunch at our hotel it has been nonstop,poor Browny hasn;t walked so far for ages.
At the reunion, people met for the first time while others caught up after years apart. Now we have visited some attractions including Beamish moseum with its old English village, farm house & miners village with restored miners cottages.
Here the memories flooded back, We walked into 1 cottage where a woman was making a rug using old cut up rag, this took me back to a young age when Mum & Grandmother always had a frame set up and at any oppertunity they would work on it.
To Brandon & Ferry Hill with its family history, to see the house where Mum lived before mugating to Australia. To Durham with its Castle & magnificentCathedral. The Cathedral defies description, over 1000 years old. Towers that reach for the sky, a roof that is at least50 feet above you held up by ornate pollars, its carvings &The wondrous memrobillia of Cuthbert, I could go on but finally to say the spiritual feeling & the awe it brings affected Browny. The one disappointment was no Photos.
There have been Meals with relations which became other reunions.
Next Blog will have more pics when we download browny's camera

Moving On

PART 2


After a few days in London sampling various foods & recovering from Tour (it was hectic) We headed up to Wisbeech to Shorty's cousin where we were royally welcomed . A party haad been organised & we had a ball. Karen's friends were so friendly & a great night was had by the fossils Next day we all went to Boston UK not USA to watch Karen & her friends “Run for Life” a charity event. We were proud of the girls. Then on to an English Pub for a lunch, (Yorkshire Pudding etc ).

The Party Group

Dave Cooking The Barby

Karen & Shorty

The 4 Runners

Then next day to Sandringham &Hunstanton for a lunch. The beach was shingles& the tide was out for miles???

We then headed to Newcastle where the staff at our Hotel couldn't do enough for you, nothing is a trouble.
On our road up we were supposed to stop in Sherwood Forrest, but our GPS didn't show us where so straight through. We did go through some quaint English Villages & through some beautiful countryside

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Edinburgh Castle

Chester Building

We were impressed with Chester& its Roman Heritage

English Countryside

We still can't get over how much open space

Barges on Welsh Canal

Balmoral Castle

Foggy London

We have moved on & after a few days in London recovering from the bus tour We went to Norfolk where we spent a few very Enjoyable days with Shorty's cousin. We leave for Newcastketomorrow to meet other relatives.

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