Northumberland Lights Festival 2007 - Fireworks, Music and Lights
A spectacular event, the Northumberland Lights Festival, was held in the old quarry of Walltown Crags a few days ago. This is a beautiful area for walking and is on the line of Hadians Wall. The Victorians extensively excavated the area and there is now a dramatic formation of crags which formed the backdrop for the show.
The show commenced with a walk from the entrance up. We passed strange eerily lit sculptures until we arrived in the central part of the quarry. There we stood with many others listening to the intro music while we waited for the main show to commence. - The lighting, of all sorts of colours and shapes were projected onto the craggy rocks, Majestic fireworks ricoched around the quarry as they exploded in amazing lights over us, the fire works were to the front of us and behind us, seeming to respond to each display, ,at one stage, what appeared to be blazing braziers were swung around the heads of brave volunteers hugging the cliffs, electronic music accompanied the display and all the fireworks, music and lights were synchronised to good effect.
We would recommend going to next years show organised by Northumberland National Park, especially as its very close to our bed and breakfast - about 3 miles away. You can walk or cycle but there are buses from local destinations serving the site and all timed to ensure the scheduled train and bus services can be caught by the show goers.
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