 Hello, thank you for joining me. It's early one morning just south of Tyne and Weir and today is the day of the IFA Road Run around to Tyne Valley and Northumberland. My larder is parked just down there. I've got here a bit early because this is where we're meeting. The reason I got here early because I just had to come up this hill to have a look at this. You can see it everywhere and I just had to come up and have a look. It's like a replica of the Parthenon. It's called the Penshaw Monument up inside because it's so big. I mean I've not been to the Parthenon so it's probably quite small compared to the Parthenon but when you're here it feels really big. It's owned by the National Trust so this is first time I've been to a National Trust place for a while, although if you may have seen some of the videos I made in lockdown, I talked about National Trust passports. There's no shop or anything so I can't actually get a stamp in my National Trust passport but it's just so impressive. Looks like at night it's all lit up so what we're going to do we'll find our way in so it's high on this plinth. There are some steps to take us up into the monument so have a look at that and look at the views. Before we go in there's a trig teller here so for those who don't know what trippler is they use for OSNAT so each one of these all line up with another trig teller and this one and this one are obscured by trees and this one is obscured by the monument but I could see another hill which I think probably was the hill with the other trig puller on so here is the monument. Got these steps just here. Take us inside and once we get inside you can see what a vast space it is. So there's no roof on it, it's open to the elements but I think it's a really impressive building and great place to start the IFA road run. It looks as though in this column here, unfortunately we can't go up here but it looks like there's a staircase probably as far as staircase you can see there's a door and there's a little window there so there must be a small staircase going up. It'd be great to get on the roof and walk all around the top but I don't know if that's ever possible but I just really think it's a really impressive building as I said I've never been to the Parthenon in Greece I'd love to do it one day but in the meantime I'm quite happy to be up here and enjoying the view. So what I've got to do now for the IFA road run basically I've got to keep an eye out when I start to see a load of Thrabant and Larders appearing down there I'm going to make my way down there so we're even meeting we're meeting down basically at the bottom of this hill or possibly in the country park across the road so I'm going to walk back down get in the car and we're going to drive all round Northumberland in a big convoy so I'll show you Northumberland from the Eastern Block car rally. So as I come down from the Penchon Monument just a little bit of history it was built in 1844 as a monument to John Lampton he was the Earl of County Durham who had died four years earlier it's a hundred feet long and I think it was a replica of the Parthenon it's actually a replica of the Temple of Pesius in Athens and also Penchon Monument and here so as we come out here is where my Larder is waiting and a couple of them two straight motorbikes have turned up so they're we taking part in the rally today so I'm going to get in the Larder and we're going to go all around Northumberland I'll give you one last view of them. So here we are at the country park now across the road from the monument you might just be able to see the monument there above the trees the trees kind of obscure the view so as for the other cars that are joining us for this rally we have some Larders at the double it's Larder that's the saloon it's also Larder Reaver it's a 1600 SLX it's like the most luxury Larder Reaver sold in Great Britain we've got some Trevants free Trevants a Skoda in the middle and we'll go that side we can have a look and a moment ago when we got to the foot of the hill of the monument there was those two Eastern Block motorbikes I don't know too much about motorbikes so apologies I'm not going to be able to tell you what they are but here's those two motorbikes so we'll get the back views of the Larders here we have a tune from shades of yellow Trevant Skoda Google Wagon Trevant that doesn't have sides and I don't know if they're joining us off they're just here but that's quite a nice thing to see and it looks like we haven't had anything to do with it so that's it so quite an exciting thing to see so what's probably going to happen now a few more cars probably will arrive and as I said we're going to go for a huge drive for that 150 mile road trip all around the time valley and Northumberland before we get going now there's one person I want to introduce you to so majority of us are driving some are passengers some are sharing a drive but one passenger we have today in this motorbike is Olive Olive hello hello Olive I'm just putting you on YouTube I hope you don't mind so this is Olive she rides in the sidecar of this motorbike so she's going to enjoy 150 mile round trip around Northumberland after a spectacular drive across the Moorlands we've come fairly high up and I noticed we were going along by an old railway line which is here and if we turn around here we have the old parkhead station and quite a few recent block cars are mixed in with various other cars so we'll go down have a look at what which cars have come up here and because the old parkhead station is now a tea room so I've I've been driving this leg it was a really really nice drive I really enjoyed it and I might not drive the next leg and so I might be able to get a few shops of cars going along from the car but I've been obviously in my larder and it was quite nice because in the wing mirrors I could see another larder behind me some of the trams which are also coming this way so it's been quite an exciting drive oh we had so down where we started we had larders at the dub at the triple here we have skoders at the double so that's quite a nice ride it's been old um must have been old miners carriage when they'd taken miners on a narrow gauge railway down into the mine this railway would have been a standard gauge railway I believe this was just a good station it's all northeastern territory so before our next leg off the journey I'm going to go and get a cup of tea I'm just going to film this a bit arrived in hexon there's my larder with a trebant and a walk burger steak there's a few more of the cars down there and um we have another larder there and there's the one more larder over here so I was just thinking I wonder when the last time you could have come to a Tesco's walked around the car park and seen three larders it's um quite unusual to say to to say the least I should think at some point probably in the 1990s was the last time and you know you'd have seen more than one larder I mean because now it's very rare to see a larder anywhere and it's um you see me or one of the other larders out and about so we've got various trebants some skoders what I'm going to do though we're here in hexon never been to this town before I've passed through on the train for the past what I'm going to do I'm going to have a quick explore around hexon I'm going to put that in a separate video so do look out for that I'm going to explore hexon and show you around get lunch as well and then we're going to continue our 150 mile road trip around time valley northumberland we've arrived at Kilda water some of the other convoy just arriving it's a trevant arriving there's the uh Zaffer jet just parking up a few trebby's over there warburg I'll park next to the other larder because I'm really enjoying the opportunities that always go to park next to another larder and the blue skoda the blue skoda blue larder they go nicely together here's the yellow trabida warburg and um it's not part of our convoy but there's a rather nice rover just happens to be here as well there's the rest of the convoy the skoda warburg larder and the kubelwagen trebant as for where we've come to we have come to killed a water which is a very very large reservoir so I'm just about to show you that then we're gonna we've had a very very scenic drive really nice scenery up from hexon to here so it's really enjoyable drive this is where I've ended up look at that vastness of water stretching out across there it's a man made reservoir I could see the dam down the end as we came into here so this is where we've come for our afternoon break we're then going to continue back towards a new castle we've got one more place um that I certainly intend to stop so um you'll see where that is in a moment well we've just arrived at our final stop it's six o'clock we've been going since 10 o'clock this morning there's another larder now we've been driving around the northeast the time valley so there's only really one logical place to finish it angel of the north let's go and have a look I've never been here before seen it from the train a few times um and when I went to Newcastle a few years ago I could sit in the distance but I never visited it I wouldn't go as far as saying it's the first time a larder has been to Angel of the North but probably the first time you know this many eastern block cars have turned up at Angel of the North. There's put an electric charging station in it's not going to be much used to us a lot though and uh Skoda. So yeah quite exciting for all these eastern block cars to turn up here at Angel of the North and look at that for a cameo a traby an angel of the north as it uses some sort of sculpture perhaps somewhere more like um in Germany or Poland or Hungary but now we are here up in Gateshead and um here this really just completes what's been a great great low trip around um Northumberland and the time valley it's been really good fun so we've done about 150 miles today and um it's all been great and this is where we're finishing it so I'm just going to walk up to the Angel of the North have a look and um then I think um I might just jump in the larder drive to a metro station perhaps get a metro into Newcastle but I won't put that in the video I'll just be my relaxing after all this driving around today so here it is we're kind of approaching it sideways on it's pretty big go just down here so you can get a little I know I'm looking very silhouetted but so is the Angel of the North how big it is so we started at one monument and now we're finishing it possibly the most different monument to what we started at and um yeah I can't get it in one screen it's just too big we've got up close see what it looks so it looks like up close I've always wondered let's have a look so here we are literally I'm at the foot of Angel of the North you can just see the arms or the wing the wings yeah it's Angel of the wings hanging out both sides it's amazing so that really does conclude the road run of um the northeast and the time valley I hope you enjoyed this video thanks very much for watching um you never know you might be out driving one then if you see a load of ladders and trebants driving around then it's probably us a lot off on another one of our road trips because we will do these again later on in the year and for years to come we'll do similar road trips so thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like subscribe and comment from Angel of the North