Yesterday was the Northumberland Gathering, an annual festival held in the pretty market town of Morpeth, 15 miles north of Newcastle. It was much smaller than I expected - without the miles of bunting strung across the main streets you wouldn't have known there was anything happening at all until you got to Carlisle Park, where a dozen or so people re-enacted a 16th century battle and Morris dancers, Northumbrian folk singers and a Canadian rapping the Canterbury Tales performed on a raised circular platform by the playground and paddling pool.
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