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Rob Cowen: The North Road

Name: Rob Cowen: The North Road
Start: 2025-06-12T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-12T18:00:00+01:00
Location: JRW Hogg & Thorburn Marquee

Rob Cowen retraces the A1, uncovering the road’s history, people and meaning in a rich, personal journey across Britain.

Thursday, 12 June 2025

5:00pm ‐ 6:00pm

JRW Hogg & Thorburn Marquee
Harmony Garden and Orchard, St Mary's Road, Melrose, TD6 9LJ

https://tikt.link/robcow

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At the heart of Rob Cowen’s book is a highway and its history, The A1; The Great North Road. Four hundred miles of ancient trackway, Roman road, pilgrim path, coach route and motorway that has run like a backbone through Britain for the last 2,000 years. In this profoundly personal book, Cowen follows this ghost road from beginning to end through history, place, people, and time. It is an epic, magisterial piece of writing, hard-won and beautifully expressed as the story of the great road comes vividly to life.