Seaton Del aval, Saint Mary's Island with its 

 Lighthouse, and Tynemouth. 



The Sixth Meeting of the year was held on Thursday, 

 21st September, when over forty members and guests 

 assembled at Seaton Delaval Station, on the Blyth and 

 Tyne branch of the North Eastern Railway. The district 

 selected had never before been visited by the Club, and is 

 one very little known even to the Northumbrian members. 

 Through the good offices of Canon Walker, permission had 

 been obtained from Lord Hastings' agent to inspect Seaton 

 Delaval Hall, with its adjuncts and grounds, in the fullest 

 manner. The fine Norman domestic chapel adjacent to the 

 hall, recently given to the Church of England by Lord 

 Hastings, and now a parish church, was also thrown open ; 

 as was also the mausoleum (designed after a Greek temple) 

 begun by the last Lord Delaval to entomb the remains of 

 his only son, but never completed. The grounds have been 

 embellished after the Italian style, with straight avenues of 

 trees planted in 1717, by lofty obelisks, around which local 

 tradition has gathered many ridiculous tales of the Delaval 

 witch, and mythological figures of stone or plaster or lead. 

 Mr Benjamin Morton, of the Trinity House service, and 

 one of our members, who conducted the party, has furnished 

 the following account of this part of the day's proceedings, 

 and a still more full and valuable account of the lighthouse 

 on St. Mary's or Bates' Island. 



