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National Geographic : 1950 Aug
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A Stroll to London Quaffing Ale or Carrying Mail, the Local Postman Makes His Daily Rounds At Newbiggin's Street Head Inn the cycling courier pauses for morning "elevenses" with three cronies. The author found him there on her first visit to this Yorkshire "pub." And "when I returned six weeks later to the same delightful hostelry," she writes, "there was the same postman in the same seat, apparently quaffing the same tankard of ale!" (Page 188.) Climbing through the hills from Bardon Mill, I joined the Wall at Housesteads, the most famous of the excavated forts (Borco vicus), now the property of the National Trust.* At Housesteads all the layout is seen, from the commander's colonnaded hall to the shops and temples of the camp followers even the "murderer's room" where a skeleton was found with the knife blade still fast in the victim's ribs. Close by is the armorer's forge, with his bunker of fuel and supply of arrowheads for a morrow which has lasted close on two thousand years! The views over the Border mountains from the Wall are spectacular, but gale warnings were out on the day of my visit, and an icy hurricane almost blew me over the precipitous crags. I was forced to clamber down, pitying the exiles from sunnier skies who had stood watch on such bitter ramparts. Next morning the wind had dropped, but heavy rain was falling. For the first time I had to accept the kind offer of a lift. The young driver of a confectioner's van took me * See "Preservation of England's Scenic and His toric Treasures." by Eric Underwood, NATIONAL (GO GRAPHIC MAGAZINE, April, 1945. 183
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