Northumberland Quotes

The enormous consumption of coals in the arts and manufactures, and in steam navigation, has excited the fears of ... exhaustion of our mines. These apprehensions, however, may be allayed by the assurance [of] the highest mining and geological authorities, that the coal fields of Northumberland and Durham alone are sufficient to supply [the present demand] for 1700 years, and ... the great coal basin of South Wales will ... supply the same demand for 2000 years longer.

I like where I lived in Alnwick; I always tell people about it. There's so much to do there, even though it's so small and quaint.

I have all sorts of country clothing because we live in Northumberland as well as London. You need good quality gear.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

Bread did not have its usual nourishing power and strength because the grain was not nourished by the warmth of summer sunshine. Hence those who ate it, even in large quantities, were hungry again after a little while. There can be no doubt that the poor wasted away when even the rich were constantly hungry.... Four pennies worth of coarse bread was not enough to feed a common man for one day. The usual kinds of meat, suitable for eating, were too scarce; horse meat was precious; plump dogs were stolen. And, according to many reports, men and women in many places secretly ate their own children....

I grew up in the north of England, in New Castle, which is where Hadrian's Wall starts on the east coast of England and then goes across to the west.

I just love when I'm playing Northumberland and I'm on the back nine and I see the water and the link bridge.