[Illustration] Northumberland Yesterday and To-day by Jean F. Terry, L.L.A. (St. Andrews), 1913. _To Sir Francis Douglas Blake, this book is inscribed in admiration of an eminent Northumbrian._ Contents INTRODUCTORY. NORTHUMBERLAND YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY CHAPTER I. The Coast of Northumberland CHAPTER II. North and South Tyne CHAPTER III. Down the Tyne CHAPTER IV. Newcastle-upon-Tyne CHAPTER V. Elswick and its Founder CHAPTER VI. The Cheviots CHAPTER VII. The Roman Wall CHAPTER VIII. Some Northumbrian Streams CHAPTER IX. Drum and Trumpet CHAPTER X. Tales and Legends CHAPTER XI. Ballads and Poems [Illustration: Bamburgh Castle.] List of Illustrations Bamburgh Castle. _From photograph by J.P. Gibson, Hexham_ The Priory, Tynemouth. _From photograph by T.H. Dickinson, Sheriff Hill_ Untitled Hexham Abbey from North West. _From photograph by J.P. Gibson, Hexham_ The River Tyne at Newcastle (showing Swing Bridge Open). Untitled Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Untitled North Gateway, Housesteads and Roman Wall. _From photograph by J.P. Gibson, Hexham_ Untitled Alnwick Castle. _From photograph by J.P. Gibson, Hexham_ The Wreck of the “Forfarshire”. _From illustration kindly lent by B. Rowland Hill, Newcastle_ Drawing of boat Sketch Map Of Northumberland. _From a Drawing by C.H. Abbey_ INTRODUCTORY. The following book makes no pretensions to be a mine of deep historical research or antiquarian lore; its object will have been achieved, and its existence to some extent justified, if haply by its aid some of the dwellers in this northern county of ours, with its past so full of action, and its present so rich in the memorials of those actions, may pass a pleasant hour in becoming acquainted through its pages with the happenings which have taken place in their own particular fields, their own streets, or by their own riverside. I am aware that many learned volumes on this subject, representing an enormous amount of patient labour and careful research in their compilation, are already in existence. To such this little book can in no sense be a rival; but there must be many people who have not a superabundance of time, to enable them to dig out the information for which they wish, from these various sources; nor can they always make these volumes their own, to be consulted at leisure.