northumbrian : light

By RobinDown

Hunstanworth ...

... inspired by a tweet from Dan Jackson, I headed south into County Durham again, on the Scrambler:
Co. Durham was among the saddest of the ‘sad shires’ of WW1 (with the Durham Light Infantry alone losing 13,000 men killed), but the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Hunstanworth in the North Pennines was lucky, and is the county’s only ‘thankful village’.  
The church is also home to a hand-blown organ by Gray & Davison which was on display at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (see extra).

And, because it's Monday, playing on Radio Sandhoe today: Flanders & Swann - The Gas Man Cometh

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