Author &
Pre-digital photographer

 I am an explorer, writer, mother and photographer.  
I grew up in the Welsh border town of Hay-on-Wye.  My family migrated to Northumberland in 1955.  
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Out in the fresh air, walking or on my bike, in Britain and overseas, with like-minded others, my books, articles and pre-digital era photography tell the stories.

~ Bridget Gubbins

Hay Girl  

the girl from the book festival town

 
Three books in one, writing in her childhood name Bridget Ashton
 
Hay before the Bookshops or The Beeman’s Family
Hit the Road, Gals
Cold War, Warm Hearts 

Read them all together in this NEW combined trilogy 

Read about each of them in new separate editions below
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First of the Hay Girl trilogy


Hay Before the Bookshops

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The Beeman's Family


"This account of a post-war childhood is as compulsive as any page-turning thriller! The author captures beautifully the now-vanished world she grew up in, to create a book that is both a memoir and a fascinating piece of social history. The diaries of her poetic mother add another intriguing dimension to the tale."

    Barbara Fox
     Author of Bedpans and Bobby Socks; Is the Vicar in, Pet?


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Second of the Hay Girl trilogy

Hit the Road,

Gals
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Travel back in time to the vibrant 1960s... 

"The further back Bridget Ashton delves into her immature apprenticeship as a latter-day Freya Stark or Egeria, the sharper her pen; the more ironic, funny and daring her writing becomes. With Hit the Road, Gals, she hits her stride, as if there is not a moment to be lost on life’s wondrous yellow brick road."

    Max Adams
     Author of the King in the North, The Wisdom of Trees
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Third of the Hay Girl trilogy


Cold War, Warm Hearts

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"The warmth of the author’s reception did not surprise me, nor the events, activities and people. What hit me ‘out of the blue’, so to speak, is the crystal clear, utter honesty of her prose, which arches over the events and physical happenings and reach deeply into the reader’s soul, dragging back events, memories, places, colours, smells, loves, beauty, kindness and ugliness.

     Henry Gulyas
     Refugee from Hungary 1956


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morpeth history books
  2011 ~ 2018

An epic 7 book series on the history of Morpeth

Over 2011 to 2018, with GMDT (Greater Morpeth Development Trust) and some of the books funded by the Heritage Lottery fund, Bridget has written seven books covering different aspects of Morpeth's illustrious if at times somewhat murky past.

Morpeth has had its full share of medieval history - a Royal market charter, the kings' wars, child birth at the castle, a hated king, the illegal hunting and killing of deer in the king's forest, a wicked sheriff and a child marriage...it is all there.

Together her books will stand the test of time as enduring social records of life in the town perhaps not widely known or written about in the way Bridget has done.    
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ALL BOOKS

druridge bay books   
1991 ~ 1997

The fight against a nuclear power station at Druridge Bay, Northumberland

From 1978 to 1989, people in Northumberland and from across the North East battled against the government’s plans to put up to three nuclear power stations at Druridge Bay. The full story was summarised in the Druridge Bay Campaign’s first publication, Generating Pressure. 

From 1989 onwards, campaigners took on Ready Mixed Concrete and Nuclear Electric.  RMC was removing sand from the beach by the lorry load.  King Canute and shareholder pressure was used against them.  At the same time, petitions, actions, and government lobbying continued for the land prepared for nuclear power stations to be returned to  local ownership.  Power at Bay tells how both aims succeeded in 1996. 

Tide Lines is an inspiring collection of poetry and art by local and nationally renowned writers and artists, that celebrates Druridge Bay.

ALL BOOKS

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BRIDGET GUBBINS

bridgetgubbins@btinternet.co.uk
2 Old Bakehouse Yard
Morpeth
Northumberland
NE61 1AS
07914 689986
www.bridgetgubbins.co.uk