L. Robson & Sons Ltd. is a fourth generation family business specialising in the traditional method of oak smoking kippers and salmon. Situated in Craster, a small fishing village on the Northumberland coast, the company still cures the fish in the original smokehouses which are over 130 years old.
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Craster Kippers
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Holy Island
Holy Island has long been a jewel in the crown of Northumberland with a rich past that now draws thousands of visitors and pilgrims to the Island in search of a connection with the religious past, an abundance of birdlife or the isolated tranquillity of the Island away from the village.
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Howick Mesolithic Hut
Amateur archaeologists John Davies and Jim Hutchinson discovered Mesolithic flint artefacts eroding from a cliff-edge at Howick, Northumberland. This prompted a detailed investigation of the site by archaeologists from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne during the summers of 2000 and 2002. The remains of a Mesolithic hut were discovered revealing evidence of three distinct structural phases
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St Cuthbert
St. Cuthbert has a great many associations with northern England and southern Scotland, but he is very much seen as a Northumbrian saint. -
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A Historic Rescue
Residents and visitors travelling between Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay one sunny day in August 1999 would have met with a most unusual sight. A restored lifeboat built in 1887 was being pulled along the road by horses and men in a re-enactment of a similar event which had taken place over 100 years earlier.
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John Wesley - Preacher
One of the principal founders of the Methodist Church, John Wesley, was born at Epworth in Lincolnshire in 1703. He travelled widely throughout England covering over 250,000 miles either on foot of horseback and is said to have preached over 40,000 sermons, often in the open air.
Photo:Alan Staniforth 2006 ©Alan Staniforth
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Rockets and Rescues
Formal nineteenth century efforts at saving life from shipwreck around Britain's coasts took two distinct forms. Firstly, there was the provision of lifeboats through the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and, secondly, there was the provision of rocket and mortar units whereby lines might be launched to stranded vessels by means of which the crew might be drawn ashore.
Photo:Anon. 1900 ©East Lothian Council -
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