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John Martin, the painter of biblical destruction, was born in Haydon Bridge. At 1A Ratcliffe Road is the cottage once owned by Monica Jones . There she and Philip Larkin would spend many holidays. One of his best later poems' Show Saturday' is dedicated to the 1973 Bellingham Show, which they attended. They also went to the tar barrel ceremony in Allendale, and dined out in Blanchland . It was a record of Tommy Armstrong's 'Trimdon Grange Explosion' which Larkin heard at the cottage that prompted him to write his own late poem 'The Explosion'. Haydon Bridge Railway Station is situated on the Tyne Valley Line . |
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