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HOMEPAGE for all of Phil and Molly's Pics North East of England - Scenes in the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, County Durham & Northumbria (Northumberland)

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 Interesting places to visit, places to stay, good walking areas

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The Newcastle Bridges from the Baltic Arts Centre

The bridges over the River Tyne in Newcastle-Gateshead (right-left!)

1. Newcastle-upon-Tyne-Gateshead area (1) River Tyne Bridges and Quays

2. Newcastle-Gateshead area (2) The Sage Theatre and Concert Hall & Baltic Arts Centre Gateshead

3a. Walking Hadrian's Wall near Crag Lough * 3b. Housesteads Roman Fort

4. Durham (1) Durham Cathedral (County Durham)

5. Corbridge Town - River Tyne Bridge, Streets & St Andrew's Church

 6. The Roman Fort of VINDOLANDA

7. Bardon Mill Pottery & Beltingham - St Cuthbert's Church, the village and walk

8a. Seaham Harbour, beaches and St Mary's Church Old Seaham

8b. A coastal walk from Seaham Harbour to Salterfen Rocks

9. Escomb Saxon Church, Co. Durham

10. Durham (2) Grey but enjoyable days in the City of Durham

11a. Trip to 'Locomotion' PART 1 National Railway Museum at Shildon via Darlington Station

11b. 2nd trip to Locomotion PART 2 The NRM and Shildon's Railway History

11c. Live Steam at Shildon NRM

12. Hexham (1) A historic market town in Northumbria

13. Circular walk to Cotherstone from Barnard Castle (Co. Durham) on the River Tees

14. Newcastle area (3) Some buildings in the centre of Newcastle, Eldon Square and the Central Station

 15. Newcastle-Gateshead (4) Some 'artwork' and the Laing Art Gallery

16. A visit to the medieval village of Blanchland

17a. Hexham (2) The Abbey - external and internal architectural features

17b. Hexham (3) The Abbey - other features

18a. Wooler & Cheviots walk - Happy Valley, North Middleton, Careyburn Bridge, Old Middleton Town

18b. The east stain glass window of St Mary's Church, Wooler

19. Kirknewton Church and a Cheviots Hillfort Walk in Northumberland

20a. Ford Village - Lady Waterford Hall and the Wall Paintings

20b. Heatherslaw Mill, Narrow Gauge Railway * 20c. The Duddo Standing Stones

21. Circular Northumberland Cheviots walk from Careyburn Bridge to Broadstruther

22a. Rothbury * 22b. Brinkburn Priory and Longframlington Church

23. Newcastle-Gateshead area (5) The Angel of the North

24. Allendale Town and Circular Walks from Allendale

25. Darlington & St Cuthbert's Church

26. HEAD of STEAM -Darlington Railway Museum

27. Sunderland (1) River Wear Bridges, Monkwearmouth Station & Museum

28. Sunderland (2) St Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth

29. Sunderland (3) National Glass Centre, River Wear & Harbour Views

30. Sunderland (4) St Andrew's Church, Roker

31a Jarrow (1) Bede's World * 31b Jarrow (2) St Peter's Church, Monastery

32 Sunderland (5) The Winter Gardens

33a. Hartlepool (1) Tourist Information Centre, Panoramic Views from Christ Church & town buildings

33b. Hartlepool (2) The Maritime Experience - Historic Quay - Museum of Hartlepool

33c. Hartlepool (3) PSS Wingfield Castle and Jackson Dock

33d. Hartlepool (4) HMS TRINCOMALEE

33e. Hartlepool (5) Some General Harbour and Marina Scenes

33f. Hartlepool (6) St Hilda's Church

33g. Hartlepool (7) The Tall Ships Race 2010

34. St Edmund's Church, Sedgefield

35a. Tynemouth (1) Town, Castle & North Pier 35b. Tynemouth (2) The Priory & more Sea Scenes

36. Belsay Hall, Gardens and Belsay Castle

37. Newcastle area (6) The Black Gate and Castle Keep & Museum

38. Newcastle area (7) The Cathedral

39. Newcastle (8) The Hancock Museum

40. Newcastle (9) Bessie Surtees House

41. Newcastle-Gateshead (10) More Churches, Medieval Walls & Tourist Information Centre

42a. Holy Island (1) Museum, Lindisfarne Priory and St Mary's Church

42b. Holy Island (2) Walking, Lindisfarne Castle and St Aidan's RC Church

43a. Norham (1) The Castle * 43b. Norham (2) Village and St Cuthbert's Church

. 44a. Berwick-upon-Tweed (1) Town Buildings, Streets & Quay * 44b. Berwick (2) Churches

44c. Berwick-upon-Tweed (3) The Fortifications and Walls * 44d. Berwick (4) River Tweed Walk

44e. Berwick-upon-Tweed (5) River Tweed Bridges * 44f. Berwick (6) YHA Youth Hostel, cafes, pubs

45. Ninebanks Hostel & the Mo Hope (Mohope) Valley

46. The Town of Haltwhistle and Holy Cross Church

47. The Village of Whitfield, Northumberland

48. Allenheads, North Pennines

49. Aydon Castle, Northumberland

50. Halton Tower and Chapel, Northumberland

51. The WEARDALE RAILWAY

52. Newcastle (11) The Discovery Museum - History of Tyneside

53. Newcastle (12) St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral

For Alston and North Pennines see The Yorkshire Dales Pages Index

Newcastle pages 1 2 14 15 23 37 38 39 40 41 52 53

 

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE & GATESHEAD

There is a nice cafe, with an appropriate artistic atmosphere of paintings and sculpture, in Laing Art Gallery in Higham Place in the centre of the great City of Newcastle. This a nice gallery and a really interesting exhibition of the City of Newcastle. There are many 18th and 19th century paintings by local artists.

The 'John Lewis Cafe' in the John Lewis store serves good food and a good refuge from tramping round shops! It is situated in the large Eldon Square Shopping Centre and apparently has good 'baby facilities'!

There is a good bar and bistro in recently magnificently refurbished Theatre Royal in Grey Street were we saw a wonderful performance of the comic production "The Thirty Nine Steps". The Theatre Royal is a grade 1 listed building in Grey Street, with the huge column dedicated to Earl Grey at the top of Grey Street.

Hadrian's Wall


Newcastle-upon-Tyne is a historic busy, bustling and interesting University city to visit or work in and there seems to be ample jobs available. Plenty of places to stay, so accommodation is no problem with lots of hotels. There museums (Hancock Museum, Newcastle Museum of Antiquities, Shefton Museum of Greek Art and Archaeology, Great North Museum to open in 2009, Centre for Life-Discovery Museum), art galleries (Hatton Gallery, Laing Art Gallery, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art), heritage centres, churches and theatres (Newcastle Theatre Royal, Live Theatre, Tyne Theatre, Peoples Theatre, Newcastle Arts Centre) to visit and it seems to have become a favourite venue for trips to night clubs and discos, though a wild nightclub was never my scene! The Baltic Arts Centre, Millennium Bridge, the giant arches of the Tyne Bridge and there is plenty of live music e.g. at the Sage Theatre and Concert Hall above the Gateshead Quays, which provide a wonderful backdrop to walking by the River Tyne. Newcastle can be readily reached by road, rail, flights and coach. There are many interesting historic sites to see not too far to travel to, particularly the Roman sites like Vindolanda and Housteads Forts and Hadrian's Wall. The Geordies (as the 'Toon' army) passionately support their Newcastle Football Club despite the ups and downs of recent years! I hope the site provides a series of pictures and images that make you want to visit the City of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. More details and links to follow. There are lots of bed and breakfast to stay at, with hostels and self-catering holiday cottages in the surrounding countryside of Northumbria and the Northumberland National Park, the Border Forest Park and Kielder Forrest water, walking and other outdoor facilities on offer. For those can afford it, lots of properties for sale or rent, but property prices for 1st or second homes are rising as everywhere else, particularly in attractive villages. South of Newcastle is the lovely city of Durham and its great Cathedral but watch out for out of the way treasures like the Saxon church at Escomb and other Roman sites like Corbridge. North of Newcastle is the wild coast of Northumbria. West is Hadrian's Wall.


The towers of Durham Cathedral viewed from the cloisters.

Durham Cathedral

 

The Weardale Railway



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