Written by Peter Donaghy and John Laidler and published by Sigma Press in 2015, contains clear, easy to follow and comprehensive directions. Read her blog by clicking here.(Opens in a new window). Joy has written an excellent blog, highlighting her experiences and adventures on their walking challenge – from Sources to Sea. Joy Hornsby, Phil, Helen and their dog, Chance have walked the River Tyne Trail in stages. Subsequently, one was installed near the meeting of the North and South Tynes near Warden. In March 2016 marker stones were erected at the finishes of the walk at both Tynemouth and South Shields. The source of the South Tyne at Tyne Head in Cumbria already had a similar monument. ![]() In October 2013 a Chinook helicopter from RAF Odiham lowered two four-metre-high stones, weighing 5 tonnes each, to establish an obelisk marking the source of the North Tyne at Deadwater Farm close to the border between Northumberland and Scotland. In March 2012, Brian, together with three friends, carried out the original pilot walk from each of the two sources of the River Tyne to the sea at Tynemouth and South Shields. He believed that such a walk would generate interest in the charity and have particular relevance for people affected, in one way or another, by cancer. ![]() Former businessman Brian is the founder of the charity, Daft as a Brush Cancer Patient Care. The idea for this walk, from the sources of the Tyne to where the river reaches the sea, was the brainchild of Brian Burnie.
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