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Welcome to Newcastle City Guides website.
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.
To keep up to date with our activity, sign up here for regular information.
For more information please contact us by email: info@ngi.org.uk
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Click on each link to discover more about our range of walking tours for the coming season.
CITY HIGHLIGHTS DAILY WALKING TOURS
This walk is an ideal introduction to Newcastle, its history and culture.
NEWCASTLE CITY GUIDES - SEASON TICKETS
Season tickets offer access to over 40 different heritage walks throughout the year, as well as the City Highlights tours which run daily during the summer. The tickets cost £30 for adults and £25 for concessions. Season tickets make a fantastic gift for anyone interested in the history, heritage and culture of NewcastleGateshead.
NEWCASTLE CITY GUIDES: CITY TOURS 2018 BROCHURE
Download the City Tours 2018 brochure, or read online.
These detailed walks provide fascinating facts and stories about historical events in Newcastle, Gateshead and surrounding areas
Climb the 164 steps of this monument in the centre of the city and let Newcastle City Guides show you the sights.
As part of this annual event in September we will be leading additional walking tours.
If you’ve ever thought “I’d like to do that”, then here’s some things you ought to know.
Looking for something a bit different? Experience the sounds of a wartime air raid and, follow a guide underground to discover Victoria Tunnel's role as a colliery waggonway. Tours run regularly throughout the year. See the Victoria Tunnel website for tour times.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
This walk celebrates the women who campaigned for the vote. Find out where Emily Wilding Davison was arrested in Newcastle and how Newcastle women met, marched, and behaved badly, to win the vote.
Gateshead
Bensham was Gateshead's first suburb, but how did it begin and why? How has it changed? Roll back the years and discover something of Bensham's unique but often very hidden history.
Newcastle upon Tyne
This walk follows a well-trodden path as it winds around town. Learn about the history of these streets and why they have names such as Darn Crook or Newgate.
Tynemouth
A circular walk via Northumberland Park providing an interesting insight into Victorian social history in Tynemouth.
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
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
Come along to hear about where the poor of Newcastle lived and worked.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyneside, with its long tradition of radical politics, has welcomed many individuals and groups fighting for equal suffrage. This walk looks at some of the men before 1900 who gave Newcastle its reputation as a centre of radicalism.
North Shields
From the origins of a small fishing port to the growth of a town, this walk takes us around the top part of North Shields. Discover why coal caused conflict, where a Hollywood legend spent his youth and how he is now remembered.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Join us for a tour of this fascinating area. We look at the history and redevelopment of the valley with bridges towering above and a burn down below.
The latest edition of the Newcastle City Guides City Tours brochure
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.
As part of this annual event in September we will be leading additional walking tours. Watch this space for further details.
If you’ve ever thought “I’d like to do that”, then here’s some things you ought to know.
These detailed walks provide fascinating facts and stories about historical events in Newcastle, Gateshead and surrounding areas
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