Warkworth Castle

A Northumbrian Odyssey

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June 2nd 2006
Part VIII 2nd June - Friday Black pudding for breakfast today…we are being so spoilt on this trip! Our first mission today was to go to Cowpen to find 14 Wanley Street where Thomas Wake - coal miner, lived with his family in the 1881 census. Thomas is from Linda’s mother’s mother’s family. We found the street and only a few houses were remaining - the rest had made way for a supermark ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more