Hoppers Do It Together
Oh I do Like to be Beside the Seaside Blackpool is a famous Lancashire seaside town on the northwest coast. It is the home of the wild stag/hen night, Pleasure Beach rides, trams, the illuminations, the Tower, Madame Tussauds, a zoo and so much more. Located twenty-seven miles north of Liverpool and forty miles west…
Heeding Out to Dunston Dunston is a small district on the western edge of the city of Gateshead, or the Heed as it’s known locally. It sits on the southern bank of the River Tyne and the Metrocentre is just over half a mile to the west. This is where we would be heading for…
Up in Them Thar Hills Following our rare midweek trip to Murrayfield (Hopper Tales #74), this weekend we were back to the Northern League and Tow Law Town FC. Tow Law, (pronounced ‘Ow!’ the same way as if you hit your thumb with a hammer and have an aversion to cursing) is a small town…
Off the Rails The third week of our new season, already and we were heading to Shildon, a small town in County Durham. Shildon is a town built on the back of the Industrial Revolution and in particular, the construction of the railways. To this end, Shildon is the home of the Locomotion Museum, which…