Reef Hotel Blyth

ATTRACTIONS

Blyth is in Northumberland, a county that borders Cumbria to the west, County Durham to the south, Tyne and Wear to the southeast, the Scottish Borders to the north and has nearly 80 miles of North Sea coastline. It is an area of uncrowded golden sandy beaches, stunning countryside set amongst two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the rugged Northumberland National Park. There are more castles in Northumberland than anywhere else in England and the Holy Island of Lindisfarne is the birthplace of English Christianity.

St Mary's Lighthouse & Visitor Centre

St. Mary's Lighthouse is on the tiny St. Mary's Island, just north of Whitley Bay on the coast of North East England. The small rocky tidal island is linked to the mainland by a short concrete causeway which is submerged at periods of high tide.

While it no longer functions as a working lighthouse, it is easily accessible (when the tide is out) and is open to visitors and has a small museum, a visitor's centre, and a cafe.

The lighthouse and adjacent keepers' cottages were built in 1898 by the John Miller company of Tynemouth, using 645 blocks of stone and 750,000 bricks. It was built on the site of a monastery where a small sanctuary light would have acted as a guide to passing ships. The lighthouse was decommissioned in 1984.

North Tyneside Council now operates the Lighthouse as a visitor centre, through the Libraries and Museums service.

Woodhorn

World class artworks
and interactive sculpture

The Pitman Painters

Feast your eyes! (East gallery)
If a picture speaks a thousand words, these pitmen's paintings talk more eloquently than any photograph. See for yourself. A palette of passion has vividly rendered the human story of colliery life. Today the Ashington Group is acclaimed worldwide, yet back in the 1930s none of them would have dreamed that a few evening classes would bring them international renown.

for details visit http://www.experiencewoodhorn.com/

Berwick Museum and Art Gallery

Discover the historic town of Berwick, looking and listening to the sights and sounds of the past.

Find out about Berwick’s heroic Mediaeval story

Wonder at the treasures collected by millionaire Sir William Burrell

See an ever-changing programme of temporary exhibitions

for details visit http://www.berwickmuseum.org.uk