A photograph I took of a long-abandoned farmstead on the bleak moors west of Edmundbyers, in NE England.
The 1911 census records 24-year-old Alexander David Peacock at this property. A lecturer in zoology, he was renting the property at the time as a retreat from life in Newcastle.
I reckon that if you were looking for a place to get away from it all, then this splendid isolated location would perfectly fit the bill, although I think that roof might need some attention first!

#england #durham #northpennines #abandoned #monochrome #photography

Hope for Dunlin as Rare Wading Birds Found Breeding in Pennines

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewspost.co.uk/hope-for-dunlin-as-rare-wading-birds-found-breeding-in-pennines/

I'm staying in a campsite in my tiny tiny campervan , on my way up to Scotland. The campsite is near the North Pennines, on a farm. It's a tiny campsite, and it's a working farm, with horses right next to where I'm set. Really lovely!

#camping #campervan #farm #horses #northpennines

I've started walking south of the Tyne with some friends who live in Yorkshire, today's walk was great but the highlight undoubtably fantastic views of 4 black grouse on an inbye field. They looked like they were lekking, flashing tail feathers and wings, but I thought they only did that at dawn?

#Walking #Hiking #NorthPennines

📣 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟎𝐭𝐡 : 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐧 (𝐨𝐤𝐫 𝟏𝟒) 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐭 #𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 #Hexham #NorthPennines

#Newcastle #Carlisle

New server naming scheme idea: old local miners’ names for different rock/mineral layers.

Leadbitter, Lonage Old Engine and Ellen’s No 2, for example

#NorthPennines #sysadmin

Finally got access to a copy of Geology of the Northern Pennine Orefield and it's going to be a good (if hard) read. Refreshing to see a field in which a book written in the 1940s, using data from the 1880s, is still largely up to date (in contrast with *anything* in the modern tech industry). Hopefully it'll inform my walks in the North Pennines a bit better

#NorthPennines #geology #limestone