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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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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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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 visits places associated with some of the wonderful women who have graced Newcastle and its history. Some were intellectuals, some were pioneers, and some were the “little women” behind great men. All, however were brave and each has a...
Newcastle upon Tyne
Music hall was one of the most popular forms of affordable entertainment in the Victorian period.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Explore the intriguing mixture that is Newcastle including the medieval Castle, religious houses, 18th century fashionable houses and buildings for the town's élite, prestige commercial buildings and our fine 19th century railway station.
This walk...
Newcastle upon Tyne
This walk takes a circular route in and around the magnificent Grade I Central Station with access to the world’s first locomotive works.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Find out on this literary tour and explore where his theatre group performed, where he carried out his celebrated readings and what he would have seen on his visits.
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
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