Elswick goes downhill Curiosities One of the steepest streets in Newcastle's was also its least romantic.
A Mock Tudor house on Sandhill Curiosities The old building behind Bessie Surtees House on Sandhill isn't as old as it looks.
Room With A View Curiosities Slits in the wall of a Newcastle church allowed bricked-up anchorites to watch the services.
The Human Fly Curiosities, Crime America’s most-wanted cat burglar carried out a daring robbery on a jewellery shop in Newcastle.
Swing Bridge mystery solved Curiosities, Lost Buildings The Swing Bridge is a triumph of Victorian engineering, but there appears to be a flaw in its design.
A quacking day out Curiosities A huge crowd gathered in 1845 to watch a clown sail down the River Tyne in a wash tub pulled by four geese.
Exotic beasts in the Haymarket Curiosities Menageries were a popular and cruel entertainment, but sometimes the animals got their revenge.
Monkey business on Clayton Street Curiosities The animal dealer from Newcastle who sent half a million cats to the Western Front.
The hooss on the netty Curiosities, Lost Buildings, Old Newcastle Doric House sat on a toilet in St Nicholas Street for almost half a century.