On hearing of the terrible trouble he had caused he hurried back home. As you walk up towards Penshaw Hill can you spot and lambs or calves? If not it might be because they've been eaten!Ħ. They sent all their bravest men to try and kill it, but the worm gobbled them up. Once they discovered the giant worm they realised where they had gone. Soon the local people noticed lamb and calves and even little children going missing. It had geet big teeth, a geet big gob and geet big googly eyes! it left the well and went to live in the river. As the years passed by the worm grew and grew, until it was too big for the well. On the way he passed a well and decided it might be a good place to get rid of the worm. He warned him not to throw it back or he would suffer a terrible fate. John was about to throw the worm back when an old man appeared. Can you spot and fishermen today? What do you think they will catch?ģ. He fought for ages to land his catch but rather than a fish, all he had caught was an ugly little worm, no bigger than his thumb. After a day of not catching any fish John was about to give up, when he got a bite. Can you spot the top of Lambton Castle sticking out from a large area of trees? This is where our story starts when a young boy called John Lambton missed church to go fishing on the Wear.Ģ.
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