Photos of locations in David Wardhaugh books and extracts from novels

Staiths Gateshead Staiths Gateshead on a sunny morning.

Wellington Street Arches

The Christmas Card a short story 24 December 1968 evening   Harry pulled the front door of his flat closed and climbed upstairs. With a...

The Christmas Card a short story 24 December 1968 morning   Part 2   Harry threw back the bedcovers and got out of bed. He tiptoed across...

novels by David Wardhaugh. Murder mysteries with a supernatural twist

A steam train at Beamish museum in Gateshead

Lydia Eves was living an anonymous life in post-war Newcastle, until an adversary from the war broke into her apartment on King Street....

In Finding the Past, in 1964, Adam Turner questions the priest at St Joseph's church, Gateshead. The picture is the church as it is today.

Rabbit Banks Gateshead

Wellington Street in Gateshead is a primary location in the Adam Turner novels. Many businesses have operated out of the units over the...

Lily's wool shop on Wellington Street in Gateshead features in the first Adam Turner novel, Finding the Past, set in 1964. A great murder...