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These detailed walks provide fascinating facts and stories about historical events in Newcastle, Gateshead and surrounding areas
This walk is an ideal introduction to Newcastle, its history and culture.
Climb the 164 steps of this monument in the centre of the city and let Newcastle City Guides show you the sights.
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We are a group of enthusiastic, well-trained volunteers who, with NewcastleGateshead Initiative, share a passion for the history, heritage and culture of our great city.
The links below highlight our entertaining and fully researched historical walks around Newcastle, Gateshead and surrounding areas.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Old hospitals for the poor, the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Doctor Gibb, “Dirty Dick’s” and Lucozade are just some of the medical topics you will hear about on this fascinating tour.
South Shields
Renowned for its rich maritime history, this walk takes us along the riverside to find relics of its industrial past.
Newcastle upon Tyne
This walk looks at the role Newcastle played as industry and innovation flourished in the 19th century. Find out where Stephenson built locomotives, where Swan first demonstrated his electric light bulb and how Armstrong and Parsons established...
Newcastle upon Tyne
Climb the 164 steps to the top of Grey’s Monument on a tour with Newcastle City Guides. The Monument is named after the 2nd Earl Grey, Charles Grey, who hailed from the North East and was British Prime Minister in the 1830s
Newcastle upon Tyne
This walk takes a look at some of the many visitors who have come to Newcastle over the centuries, and explores where they stayed, what they did and how they were welcomed.
Jesmond
Explore this 19th century private cemetery – the resting place for many of Newcastle’s eminent citizens.
North Shields
See where industry and fishing once thrived and discover a hidden WW2 structure, the notorious ‘Jungle’ and a famous ‘Wooden Dolly’.
Jesmond
A tour of Sir Andrew Noble’s purpose built (1882) Real Tennis Court, including an exhibition display of the game by a professional, and an explanation of the rules. Real or Royal Tennis was the sport of Kings and today’s lawn tennis is a relative...
Gateshead
Gateshead was a Victorian boom town and, by the time the town hall was built, had become a town of great contrasts, where civic pride vied with slum dwellings. If you lived in central Gateshead, no matter in how fine a house, slums were less than...
Newcastle upon Tyne
John Wesley visited Newcastle many times in the latter half of the 18th century. This walk takes us through parts of the town he would have known, with reminders of buildings with which he was associated, some of which are still standing, others...
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