newcastle stuff

A Mock Tudor house on Sandhill

The old building behind Bessie Surtees House on Sandhill isn't as old as it looks.

Slits in the wall of a Newcastle church allowed bricked-up anchorites to watch the services.

A soldier was executed after being made to play a game of dice to decide his fate.

America’s most-wanted cat burglar carried out a daring robbery on a jewellery shop in Newcastle.

The old Crystal Fountain pub on the corner of Cross Street and Fenkle Street has a tragic and violent past.

The Swing Bridge is a triumph of Victorian engineering, but there appears to be a flaw in its design.

A huge crowd gathered in 1845 to watch a clown sail down the River Tyne in a wash tub pulled by four geese.

Black bullets were Geordie miners’ favourite sweet, but the most famous brand is no longer made here.

It was finders keepers when a hoard of treasure was found in rubbish taken from the Grey Horse on the Quayside.

Marion Morrell shot her famous lover dead in public, but had she intended to kill herself instead?

Menageries were a popular and cruel entertainment, but sometimes the animals got their revenge.

The Burnt House caught fire three times and a lodger was sentenced to death for being gay.

The animal dealer from Newcastle who sent half a million cats to the Western Front.

Doric House sat on a toilet in St Nicholas Street for almost half a century.

Newcastle Corporation’s mission to clean up its citizens resulted in this lovely building at Gallowgate.