steve roberts Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 The coast around Berwick, Lindisfarne etc is really good - wild. If you like castle there is Bamburgh Castle - used in more then a few films, its still standing, open to the public and lived in. About 10 miles south west of Bamburgh is Chillingham castle, again lived in, open to the public. We first went to Chillingham castle about 35 years ago and it was just being revitalised, then about 10 years ago we visited again and it looked brilliant but still being worked on, by now it should be back to how it was originally. If you want a trip arond the farne islands, go to Seahouses/North Sunderland and boats sail from there. Seahouses is nice and quiet place. Probably have a museum in Coldstream (about 8 miles south west of Berwick), probably at Darlington a railway museum, on the way to Scunthorpe you pass by Harrogate, nice spa town with Aunt Bessies tea Room (but expensive). You will be skirting the north Yorks moors as well, Whitby is nice if you can get to it AND of course that is Heartbeat country - Goathland is the village used in the tv series - interesting visit. There is loads to do/see Fabulous part of the country...holidayed in that area on a number of occasions. Was at the NYMR only this last week viewing 'The Royal Scot'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruffdiamond Posted March 30, 2017 Report Share Posted March 30, 2017 Love it up there. if you go to Chillingham, the cattle tour is very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProperSport Posted April 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 Well that was a throughly enjoyable trip , covered over 900 miles in 4 days and saw some truly stunning parts of the UK including Bakewell , Eyam , Pease Beach , Holy Island , Bamburg , Seahouses etc etc and the weather was glorious.. Starting with Sheffield , lovely facilities at Owlerton ( even popped into the Casino next door ! ) but the lack of over taking and the Berwick team who couldn't gate for toffee meant a very one sided fixture and a complete hammering and as a neutral not much of a match but a decent crowd , nice food and a good start , Edinburgh a lovely warm welcoming set of fans and a good bar , eating and club shop merchandise but again the meeting was very one sided versus Scunthorpe and the home riders of Masters , Wells and the impressive first time seen Pickering together with the Riss brothers made it again a tad non event for the neutral but left feeling the racing was a tad better than Sheffield and was glad to see Auty get up after his crash , next was Berwick and that is a very different track , huge bends and a narrow entrance into the straight but saw some good racing ( the round the boards from Bridger was superb and the over take from Doolan from 3rd to 1st ) and a closer meeting and another close up view of the Aussie Pickering made me think just how good is this lad going to be , Masters was at times held and shoulders together with Wells above the rest and the Burger was the best at Berwick , nice array of merchandise and met Havvy who was as welcoming as always ( Cheers Gary ) and went home having enjoyed this meeting and another good crowd including a good following from Edinburgh and lastly onto Scunthorpe , best racing of the four with some superb over takes , a nasty looking crash from Williamson ( who I think was ok ) , some good riding from Auty to grab the win by the scruff of the neck and a good welcoming crowd ( Speedway fans are like no others - stand on your own and get chatting like you've known somebody for years ) , facilities not the best ( couldn't see any Merchandise for sale / programme a bit naff ) but the club house when fully operational looks good , got home 10pm Sunday and already planing my next trip of four later in the year .... Chris 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve roberts Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 (edited) Well that was a throughly enjoyable trip , covered over 900 miles in 4 days and saw some truly stunning parts of the UK including Bakewell , Eyam , Pease Beach , Holy Island , Bamburg , Seahouses etc etc and the weather was glorious.. Starting with Sheffield , lovely facilities at Owlerton ( even popped into the Casino next door ! ) but the lack of over taking and the Berwick team who couldn't gate for toffee meant a very one sided fixture and a complete hammering and as a neutral not much of a match but a decent crowd , nice food and a good start , Edinburgh a lovely warm welcoming set of fans and a good bar , eating and club shop merchandise but again the meeting was very one sided versus Scunthorpe and the home riders of Masters , Wells and the impressive first time seen Pickering together with the Riss brothers made it again a tad non event for the neutral but left feeling the racing was a tad better than Sheffield and was glad to see Auty get up after his crash , next was Berwick and that is a very different track , huge bends and a narrow entrance into the straight but saw some good racing ( the round the boards from Bridger was superb and the over take from Doolan from 3rd to 1st ) and a closer meeting and another close up view of the Aussie Pickering made me think just how good is this lad going to be , Masters was at times held and shoulders together with Wells above the rest and the Burger was the best at Berwick , nice array of merchandise and met Havvy who was as welcoming as always ( Cheers Gary ) and went home having enjoyed this meeting and another good crowd including a good following from Edinburgh and lastly onto Scunthorpe , best racing of the four with some superb over takes , a nasty looking crash from Williamson ( who I think was ok ) , some good riding from Auty to grab the win by the scruff of the neck and a good welcoming crowd ( Speedway fans are like no others - stand on your own and get chatting like you've known somebody for years ) , facilities not the best ( couldn't see any Merchandise for sale / programme a bit naff ) but the club house when fully operational looks good , got home 10pm Sunday and already planing my next trip of four later in the year .... Chris Sounds great! Back when I used to follow 'The Cheetahs' Good Friday usually involved possible two meetings (home and away), away to Swindon on the Saturday and Reading on Easter Monday...that awful 3TT event. The worse race formula in speedway in my view! Edited April 14, 2017 by steve roberts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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