My guided walk around Ryhope, Heritage Open Days 2022
Saturday September 10, 2022 is a day I will remember for a very long time. I led a guided walk around the ex-pit village of Ryhope as part of Heritage Open Days 2022. Ryhope is the village where I grew up and lived for most of my life, and it's now where I set my historical, bestselling novels, published by Headline. The books are standalone and you can read them in any order. Our group met outside of The Top House pub at 11am and 30 people turned up for the walk! My friend, and tour guide, Paul Lanagan interviewed me en route. At each stop on our walk, Paul asked me questions about the locations and how they make their way into my novels. We walked past pubs, shops, houses, the old pit site, the miners' hall, the rhubarb field, the old Co-op, it was wonderful. Here are just a tiny selection of some of the pictures taken on the walk. This is the Albion Inn where we ended the walk and had lunch. This pub stars in my debut novel Belle of the Back Stre...