Berwick is famous for being a Scottish town in England, and whose football team "the wee 'gers" play in the Scottish League. It should also be famous for its main shopping street - Maryport - which is probably the most dangerous road crossing known to pedestrians. Berwick is a slightly faded seaside resort, some of whose restaurants are grossly overpriced and some of whose restaurants remain in a rather splendid 1950s timewarp. I like it. There is one street - Bridge Street - which includes a "green" shop, called The Green Shop, a music shop called The Music Shop and an excellent bookshop called The Bridge Street Bookshop. Very literal in that part of the world. Unfortunately the Anytown high street chains (on that dangerous Maryport) have taken away most of the footfall, leaving the street stranded away from what is now the main thoroughfare. The painter LS Lowry drew, then painted Bridge Street as it was in the 1930s. Bustling. Some of the shops have the old shopfrontages you can see in the Lowry painting, but the shops he drew that promoted Berwick Cockles are very sad looking. And so Bridge Street Bookshop is off to be Bridge Street Bookshop at the Townhouse, taking over the shop space and the cafe at the old town hall, right at the end of the row of national chains. I wish it well but am rather sad it has had to move. Berwick Cockles are the local sweetie, since you ask. And the Kings Arms Hotel has a statue of Dickens in full flow, addressing the crowds in the Old Assembly Hall where he spoke once or twice on his reading tour. Next: Hawick.