Fascinating project. I have some ancestors from the Bowes and Middleton-in-Teesdale area, and would love to visit here. Until then, this virtual tour of the North Pennines is stark and fantastic.
This calls to mind a wry observation my late grandmother used to make:
"With all the diseases and troubles in the world, it would be better never to have been born. But who has that kind of luck? Not one in a million!"
I was one of the first crop of Gmail users: got an invitation from the IT guy where I was working around early 2004.
Fascinating project. I have some ancestors from the Bowes and Middleton-in-Teesdale area, and would love to visit here. Until then, this virtual tour of the North Pennines is stark and fantastic.