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Morpeth in General

Newest Review: ... Friday and Saturday night also appears to be the time when the volume is turned up to 11 in "Vinyl", the nightclub in question. No doubt to serve as a siren call to the monosyllabic knuckle-scraping patrons who view conversation merely as an impediment to well established drinking and mating rituals. Our room was on the second floor near to the rear of the hotel. Even through several sturdy layers of floors and walls however, the migraine inducing clamour from below kept us awake until almost two in the morning. It was the sort of rhythmic, repetitive rhythm and bass thump that was indiscernible in any way as music, but somehow m... more

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Morpeth in General: A hotel to be avoided! (513 words)
by - written on 09/06/09 (Very useful, 34 readings)
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To paraphrase the late, great Grouch Marx; I had a wonderful stay in a first class hotel...but this wasn't it! Two nights in an atmospheric 17th Century coaching Inn in a tranquil Northumbrian market town sounds like just the ticket to unfurl the knotted brow and loosen the Gordian knots of tension in the shoulders. Unless that hotel is The Queen's Head in Morpeth, which just happens to be slap bang above the most god-awful nightclub either side of Hadrian's Wall. We stayed on a Friday and Saturday night...Friday and Saturday night being the traditional choice for a weekend away falling, as they usually do, at the end of the working week. Unfortunately Friday ... Read the complete review

Morpeth, In All It's Glory. (1106 words)
by - written on 26/06/01 (Very useful, 195 readings)
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I live just a few minutes from Morpeth in a little village called Pegswood ( I know it says Newcastle on my user profile but to be fair, nobody has heard of Pegswood have they ) so I do all most of my shopping and what not in Morpeth. Its great for a night out, and it boast some impressive pubs and clubs which you will read about later on. One few bad things about Morpeth is that there are a lot of retired Tory snobs who think they are better than everyone (apologies to the Tory’s out there who are not snobs, but believe me, it's true about there being a lot of Tory snobs in Morpeth. And Also there is no Recognised hight street retail ... Read the complete review