On the last day of the tour we left The Victoria Hotel after breakfast for three locations down the coast finally leaving Northumberland. After the three stops we left for our overnight stay in Rainton at the Bay Horse Country Inn.
The Victoria Hotel in Bamburgh on TripAdvisor
Good location but we lost sleep due to noise
We stayed at the hotel for a photography tour of Northumberland and East Lothian. The service in both the restaurant and the bar was excellent, the menu was becoming repetitive after 5 evenings but the breakfasts were always great!
Car park down the side road was easy to find and park.
Our room looked over the back of the hotel and our sleep was disturbed every night by delivery trucks going to the nearby shops. (Room 9). The bedside table was too high and having banged my head, bruised my arm I had to resort to using a pillow to protect my head! The shower was a menace as it ran cold and then scalding hot, potentially very dangerous…
COVID related: the hotel should have made it easy to change towels during a 5 night stay
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea
After parking we headed for the promenade and there out in the bay we could see the statue that we had come to photograph.
Along the promenade was a replica of the statues so we could see them close up.
Once we had found our chosen spot this horse and rider appeared on the beach.
The Couple
The statue is installed over a breakwater in the bay and is by the sculpture by Sean Henry. The figures are five metres tall and made out of bronze.
The promenade was busy…
Relaxing was the order of the day in the cafe below the promenade.
The replica of The Couple Statue was still drawing attention as we passed.
My last view of the bay at Newbiggin-by-the-sea was of two fishing boats leaving the beach.
From my two guide books Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is on page 57 of The Photographer’s Guide to Northumberland and on page 204 of Photographing Northumberland.
Cambois Beach
Our second stop on the way South was Cambois beach. We were there to photograph a massive outfall pipe. To get to the pipe we walked along the footpath that ran alongside the beach.
While I was sitting on the pipe I chatted to passers by and learnt that the pipe had been used by the man and some of his work mates to reproduce the image of the steel workers perched on a girder high above New York.
On the way back to the car park I found this pattern on the glass in the shelter on the path.
From my two guide books the outlet pipe is on page 58 of The Photographer’s Guide to Northumberland and Cambois Beach ison page 218 of Photographing Northumberland.