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Sobernow - I have the fortunate combination of a partner who rarely goes out (he doesn't have many friends in this area and is generally happy to stay in watching football or stuff on BBC4, or playing his jazz CDs in peace as I hate them!), lots of friends, mainly NCT group, locally, and family living locally for extra babysitting. On Pub Quiz nights I don't go out until 9pm so have already cooked dinner and helped put kids to bed, so no guilt there! But I do go out quite a lot, I'm very lucky.
I did get asked last week by the other members of the quiz team why I was jotting so many of the questions down. They probably thought I was very sad saying it was to put on a website for people I don't even know! I do enjoy sharing them with you all though!

NOT a pub quiz question - I'm trying to enter a competition and am stumped. Does anyone know the answer to these:

1. Which famour 19th century author did a reading in Berwick-upon-Tweed?

2. Which world renowned artist frequently visited Berwick? [maybe Hogarth or John Martin??]

Usually doing a trawl through Google comes up trumps but I'm having no joy. Help!!

Your artist was Lowry:

1L.S.Lowry (1887-1976) was a regular visitor to Berwick after his mother's death in 1939. Two pictures of Berwick were included in his first London exhibition. Indeed such was his interest in the town that he considered buying the prominent 'Lions House' on the ramparts in the late 1940s. But the house was found to be suffering from dry-rot and the recent sale of some pictures made him reconsider a move further north.'
(Courtesy of www.exploreberwick.co.uk)

Jodee, and it's very possible it was Charles Dickens who did a reading in Berwick, as he toured very widely compared to his contemporaries. What's the prize? A holiday in Berwick? It is the most gorgeous place.

There's a bit here which says that Dickens stayed at the King's Arms Hotel in 1861 when he gave a reading in the Assembly Rooms attached to the hotel.

The hotel has a balcony with a statue of him by the way.

Thankyou thankyou thankyou, Gill, Marina and Azzie!!! I thought I had gone through all the Berwick sites, must have missed lots. Yes, the prize is a weekend away, I've never visted that part of the country so keeping my fingers crossed.

Thanks again all