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1. The Newcastle-upon-Tyne river and bridges 2. The Sage Theatre and Concert Hall, Newcastle-Gateshead 3. A trip out to Hadrian's Wall 5. Corbridge Town - part 1 - bridge and streets 6. Corbridge Town - part 2 - St Andrew's Parish Church 7. Beltingham - part 1 - St Cuthbert's Church 8. Beltingham part 2 - the village and a walk 9. Escomb Saxon Church, Co. Durham 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 north-east of England is as varied as anywhere in the country with much to offer the tourist with lots of interested places and buildings to visit whether in the City of Newcastle or the surrounding coast and countryside of County Durham and Northumbria ('Northumberland') * page updated April 22nd 2008 * EMAIL Phil Brown * digital images-photographs-pictures-photos-webshots-views-snaps-snaphots-scenes-pics-blogs © Dr W P Brown 2007 * If you are interested in using any of the photographs email me, but any image used must involve permission and acknowledgement * * Phil & Molly's 'Docs Pics' Index of all the holiday-walking-touring holidays in England, Ireland and Scotland * Yorkshire Dales-East Cumbria-North Pennines walking landscape scenes and notes * Whitby and surrounding area scenes and notes * York - scenes around the City * The River Esk Valley and North York Moors walking Landscapes * Fragments of Archaeology and History on the North Yorks Moors * Helmsley, Coxwold, Kirkbymoorside & Rievaulx Abbey Scenes * Pickering in Ryedale, North Yorkshire Scenes and notes * Lastingham, Hutton-le-Hole,Appleton-le-Moors Scenes * Malton in Ryedale & Howardian Hills Scenes in North Yorkshire * Sutton Bank National Park Centre (walks on North Yorks Moors) * North East England - Newcastle upon Tyne City, County Durham, Northumbria Scenes * Cleveland (NE England) Scenes * Northern England-selected views * Ireland - Dublin - scenes & notes on our 'tourism' * Ireland - Dublin - selected Irish 'tourist' holiday views * Ireland - selected Irish views from walking-touring holidays * Ireland - Irish Landscape holiday Scenes and Notes * Midlands Scenes of England * Archaeology sites from miscellaneous walking holidays * Paris Scenes and Notes * South West of England Scenes * A Scotland-rail trip * Cameos of London Town - Snapshots of the City of London * Can you identify? * Tea Rooms, Cafes, Pubs and B&B's, Hostels etc. * Domestic and rural animal Scenes * Nature scenes * Geological-Rock Scenes * The excellent Esk Valley Lealholm Hall holiday cottage near Whitby * Peter M. Hicks - Northern landscape artist-painter * Peter Rushforth, The sadly missed novelist ("Pinkerton's Sister") * Music * See also www.lealholmhall.co.uk/ and www.petermhicks.co.uk/
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