Morpeth used to have a very lively night scene, but sadly that's no more and it's now just a collection of pubs with a little bit of music on in the background.
Me and my husband went there with some friends to see in 2015, and while it was pretty quiet we did have a laugh.
We went for the pub crawl method, starting of in The Electric Wizard which is their local Wetherspoons. Wetherspoons is a cheap pub chain, specialising in cheap food by day and cheap drink by night. It's a popular place to start the night off and to give you an idea of how quiet Morpeth is we easily got a table for 6, in fact we did in every pub.
After Wetherspoons we went to the White Swan, the Black bull, the joiners, back to the black bull, up to the square to say Happy New Year and then back to the Black bull before going home. As you can tell the Black Bull was our favourite, followed by the White Swan and Electric Wizzard. The Joiners is ok, but it's more of a local pub, with strange stuffed dead animals above the bar, and we thought it pretty expensive compared to the others, it also took me ages to get served.
In Morpeth people go up to the square in front of the clock tower a few minutes before midnight. There was quite a crowd considering the pubs weren't that busy. There people count down the last few minutes and wish each other Happy New Year.
I wouldn't rush back to Morpeth as I didn't think it was that cheap or special, but it's a nice enough place to go if you want a quiet drink at new year.
Morpeth clock tower
Morpeth square and clock tower
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