Ashington

While no-one underestimates the social deprivation in some areas of South-East Northumberland, many look askance at the portion of the cake allocated to places such as Ashington, Cramlington and Blyth.

HX News and Sport 2009

While no-one underestimates the social deprivation in some areas of South-East Northumberland, many look askance at the portion of the cake allocated to places such as Ashington, Cramlington and Blyth.

HX News and Sport 2009

While no-one underestimates the social deprivation in some areas of South-East Northumberland, many look askance at the portion of the cake allocated to places such as Ashington, Cramlington and Blyth.

HX News and Sport 2009

While no-one underestimates the social deprivation in some areas of South-East Northumberland, many look askance at the portion of the cake allocated to places such as Ashington, Cramlington and Blyth.

HX News and Sport 2009

This is no flimsy successor to the engineering masterpieces associated with all three rivers: the history of pioneering art in northernmost England embraces the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Ashington painters, the engravings of Thomas Bewick and the wild, apocalyptic landscapes of John Martin.

In Praise of … Gateshead | Editorial 2011

Adamson was born in Ashington, the Northumberland colliery town that was famous for producing footballers, notably Jackie Milburn and the Charlton brothers, Jackie and Bobby.

Jimmy Adamson obituary 2011

This time around, Mr. Hall has given us a fictionalized version of the real-life story of the Ashington Group of Unprofessional Artists, a bunch of Depression-era miners who took a course in art appreciation and subsequently became famous painters (though only briefly so — they're forgotten today) while continuing to dig coal.

They Can't Dance (So Don't Ask) Terry Teachout 2010

He also owed a debt of gratitude to his mother – there are famous photographs of the two of them kicking a ball about in the back yard of their terraced miners' cottage at Beatrice Street, Ashington.

Great dynasties of the world: The Charltons 2011

None of the members of the Ashington Group, by contrast, were much more than gifted amateurs (you can see some of their work by going to www. ashingtongroup.co.uk).

They Can't Dance (So Don't Ask) Terry Teachout 2010

Gary McCann's d é cor, which mainly consists of life-size reproductions and projections of canvases by the actual members of the Ashington Group, is as simple and effective as Mr. Roberts's plain, blunt direction.

They Can't Dance (So Don't Ask) Terry Teachout 2010