Talk:Morpeth, Northumberland

Structural issues
Can I nominate the following paragraph for the most out-of-place sentence ever.

Today the town is a thriving local centre. It is a commuter town for Newcastle upon Tyne, and benefits from excellent transport links ... its railway station has direct trains to London taking a little over three hours. Several fatal rail crashes have occurred at Morpeth. The school facilities are also highly rated, ...

Tyrhinis 21:25, September 1, 2005 (UTC)


 * Fair comment - I came across the page about the rail crashes but it was previously not linked from the Morpeth article, which of course it needed to be. At the time, I didn't have much time to do anything other than include a quick link - and the most obvious place was next to the only mention of railways. Reading all the positive stuff before and after, it does look a bit out of place.  I'll look at including it in a slightly less "sudden" manner! Halsteadk 11:58, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Added a photo Farmer erik 01:06, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Surely the most out-of-place sentence ever is this cheesy specimen: "It was a very sad/bleak day in the history of such a prestigious old town but it showed the courage and love that this community has for one another and has made everyone more friendly towards each other."93.158.79.70 (talk) 15:48, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Why is Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, the victor in Battle of Trafalgar, not mention in the paragraph "People associated with Morpeth"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.177.253.226 (talk) 19:15, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

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Improvements to this article
I will be making improvements to this article so that it can meet the GA article criteria. I have already created an image montage and removed some unsourced claims. Please message me if you are planning to review for GA. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 11:36, 13 October 2018 (UTC)

Off topic, up tower, but local editors might have a view
Hello Morpethists! Obviously I'm thinking of people like and  but all comments are welcome, natch. Yes, this is offtopic for here but I think you might be the right people to ask ... please have a quick look at Cockle Park Tower and its recent edit history and let me know – perhaps at Talk:Cockle Park Tower rather than here? – if you think I have been stupid there? Or, even better, if not stupid!? – Thanks and best wishes DBaK (talk) 10:40, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi, I don't really know much about this Cockle Park Tower, but I've taken a quick look over your edits and the sources and your edits look very helpful to me. Dreamy Jazz may know more about this. Cheers, -- SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 15:50, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the helpful response. Much appreciated. Cheers DBaK (talk) 10:01, 21 February 2019 (UTC)
 * , sorry for the late reply. Looks good. I have seen it before, but don't know about it. Thanks, Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 12:01, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you! Hoping to go and have a look at it over the Easter holiday ... our great, great, great grandfather was born there in 1772 so might be interesting. Maybe he left us a note or something? Cheers DBaK (talk) 21:04, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Questionable lead image
Is there any good reason why the lead image for this article is a road sign pointing to a property 12 miles distant from Morpeth? - your work? What's the story here? --Tagishsimon (talk) 06:15, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , i think it was because it was an interesting image to me which was taken in morpeth (the sign is on one of the main roads in morpeth) and there wasn't many suitable images allowing the lead image to be licensed freely (had to be landscape and an image which would still look fine a lot smaller). No particular need for it to be this image (I could change it using the original project files I used to create the image, in a couple of days time when I am back to my computer). If you have any suggestions, feel free to suggest them. If not, I'll see what I can find to replace it when I'm back at my computer. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 16:51, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks DJ. I see the issue; Morpeth isn't over-blessed with a collection of images, other than yet another building the same colour as the last building. Perhaps File:Morpeth, Northumberland (14447107850).jpg by way of colour & impressing on the reader that the town has a river? Poor unphotographable town; it must look at Category:Alnwick and seethe ;) --Tagishsimon (talk) 17:28, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * , I could probably take some more photographs of the town given some time. I'll go with your suggestion; the rowing boats in morpeth are a particularly important thing to some of the locals. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 22:39, 18 December 2019 (UTC)
 * done. Also now is a PNG image for better quality. Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me &#124; my contributions 20:17, 19 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Good job, DJ; thank you. Much improved. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:05, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Caption/explanation for the rowing boats in lead image perhaps for non-Morpeth people, e.g. "Wansbeck river at Carlisle Park"? Helmardine (talk) 11:16, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Agreed, and done - also the imagemap extended to provide a link beneath the boat image ... DJ, please feel free to amend any and all of this should you wish. --Tagishsimon (talk) 11:35, 20 December 2019 (UTC)