By Donald Clegg Don entered this verse in the Morpeth competition for dialect poetry - and won the cup for a second year along...

Strange but true By Donald Clegg 2012 Aa was workin’ in the garden, Aa remember varry plain ‘Cos it was the only day this yeor when i...

Northumberland, Forestry, Kielder, mechanisation, tree harvesting By Clive Dalton & Donald Clegg The first harvest When the first trees ...

Donald Clegg (Image at left from The Northumbrian Magazine) Don organising his squirrel feeder Donald Clegg was born at Rochester in Redesda...

Northumberland, farming, humour, dialect, Daft Laddies, history, 1950s By Donald Clegg Don's watch by H Samuel's of Newcastle...

Daft Laddies, humour, military service, history, 1950s By Donald Clegg Caad wintors in Korea Korean winters can be severe, and even in Septe...

Northumberland, farming, humour, dialect, Daft Laddies, floods, camping , history, 1950s By Donald Clegg Picture shows the gate into the ...

Northumberland, farming, humour, dialect, military service, morse code, Korea, history, 1950s By Donald Cleggg The King wants a Daft Ladd...

Northumberland, farming, history, dialect, humour, machinery, ploughing , plough sock(shares), 1950s By Donald Clegg Rocks Not all a Daft L...

Northumberland, farming, history, humour, Daft Laddie, machinery, dialect By Donald Clegg Set hor ganin & loup off It’s well known th...

Northumberland, farming, history, dialect, daft laddies, farm machinery, bracken cutting, 1950s By Donald Clegg Dead bracken, smothering ...

Northumberland, farming, humour, dialect, Fergie tractor, Daft Laddies, history, 1950s By Donald Clegg Hareshaw Head Farm, farmed in the 1...

Northumberland, farming, humour, dialect, Daft Laddies, tractors, haytime, history, 1950s By Donald Clegg The little grey Fergie that revo...

Northumberland, farming, Daft Laddies, humour, dialect, learning , history, 1950s By Donald Clegg A steep larnin curve In the first few m...

Northumberland, farming, Daft Laddies, humour, learning By Donald Clegg True Daft Laddies But the true “Daft Laddies” on farms were always...

Northumberland, farming, daft laddies, humour, history, dialect , 1950s By Donald Clegg & Clive Dalton Farming for profit or for li...

Northumberland, farming, daft laddies, history, humour, dialect, history, 1950s By Donald Clegg Startin larnin Young lads who had ambition...

Beestin's puddin By Clive Dalton The hoose cuw Before the days of supermarkets, fridges, powdered and tinned milk, every ootbye far...

By Don Clegg One traveller who regularly visited the Kielder-Falstone area during the 1920s was know as “Dick the Cadger”. He came from the...

By Donald Clegg Image: the source of the North Tyne river, on the Scottish border by Clive Dalton, c1961 Phillip, wor youngest, thowt it wa...