Last month in Berwick
Jul. 23rd, 2021 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustA month ago - a month and a day, and it feels like much longer - we spent a day in Berwick, and I took lots of pictures, and posted just one of them here.
But there's more. Each time we visit Berwick, we seem to see a different aspect of the town: sometimes it's the shops (which used to be all about rhe charity shops, but is gradually moving upmarket), once we made a circuit of the town wall, once we majored on the trail of locations painted by L.S. Lowry - here's Dewar's Lane, for example:
This time we - but that would be telling!
From the car park by the Youth Hostel, it's uphill into the centre of town:
Via the Maltings Arts Centre, where we stopped for coffee, then on to the Town Hall - also featured on the Lowry Trail, but today I was more interested in the view out from under the portico:
There was one visit when this who arcaded space had been taken over by a bookshop, but they'd moved on. Today everything was quiet. The newsagent / bookseller on the opposite corner advertiased that for 75p they would laminate my vaccination certificate; I wish I'd taken them up on that! Higher up the main street, we visited one of Berwick's two secondhand bookshops, then crossed the street to follow this elegant waymark:
It feels like taking a shady path through woodland, very peaceful and spacious, until you realise that the town wall towers above you on your left; and gradually the view opens out, the wall emerges from the sshadow:
and then the land falls away and you see the river below you - and so we came to the point I posted last time:
I don't know what that building is; it looks like a church, but the maps don't show a church there. We followed the path above the river, back to our starting point in Bridge Street.
Here's the view out of the car park. The fox sculpture must surely be connected to Slightly Foxed, the wonderful bookshop just along the street: it was closed at the time, and it's now up for sale - I do hope it passes into good hands. There's the Green Shop, always worth a visit when we're in town. Behind me, the cafe where we sat in the shade and ate a sandwich lunch, and considered where to go next.
The map showed a beach - that was news to me, I didn't know Berwick had a beach! But carry on along Bridge Street, and then straight ahead, and there's an arched gate in the town wall, and the mouth of the Tweed spreads out in front of you... We never did get to the beach, because we were distracted by the jetty:
How could we resist walking out along it, looking back all the time at the old houses backing onto the town wall? Have an almost absract view of that paintwork:
And of course, at the far end of the jetty:
The Tweed is famously home to a large number of swans. I was more pleased to catch this one last view of a heron:
But there's more. Each time we visit Berwick, we seem to see a different aspect of the town: sometimes it's the shops (which used to be all about rhe charity shops, but is gradually moving upmarket), once we made a circuit of the town wall, once we majored on the trail of locations painted by L.S. Lowry - here's Dewar's Lane, for example:
This time we - but that would be telling!
From the car park by the Youth Hostel, it's uphill into the centre of town:
Via the Maltings Arts Centre, where we stopped for coffee, then on to the Town Hall - also featured on the Lowry Trail, but today I was more interested in the view out from under the portico:
There was one visit when this who arcaded space had been taken over by a bookshop, but they'd moved on. Today everything was quiet. The newsagent / bookseller on the opposite corner advertiased that for 75p they would laminate my vaccination certificate; I wish I'd taken them up on that! Higher up the main street, we visited one of Berwick's two secondhand bookshops, then crossed the street to follow this elegant waymark:
It feels like taking a shady path through woodland, very peaceful and spacious, until you realise that the town wall towers above you on your left; and gradually the view opens out, the wall emerges from the sshadow:
and then the land falls away and you see the river below you - and so we came to the point I posted last time:
I don't know what that building is; it looks like a church, but the maps don't show a church there. We followed the path above the river, back to our starting point in Bridge Street.
Here's the view out of the car park. The fox sculpture must surely be connected to Slightly Foxed, the wonderful bookshop just along the street: it was closed at the time, and it's now up for sale - I do hope it passes into good hands. There's the Green Shop, always worth a visit when we're in town. Behind me, the cafe where we sat in the shade and ate a sandwich lunch, and considered where to go next.
The map showed a beach - that was news to me, I didn't know Berwick had a beach! But carry on along Bridge Street, and then straight ahead, and there's an arched gate in the town wall, and the mouth of the Tweed spreads out in front of you... We never did get to the beach, because we were distracted by the jetty:
How could we resist walking out along it, looking back all the time at the old houses backing onto the town wall? Have an almost absract view of that paintwork:
And of course, at the far end of the jetty:
The Tweed is famously home to a large number of swans. I was more pleased to catch this one last view of a heron:
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