Newcastle upon Tyne

The architecture in Newcastle is quite remarkable due to being built in the Victorian era and when most architects were obsessed with Gothic Revival, but most buildings are of a Classical design set in gently curving street.
Central station designed by John Dobson a Victorian architect is an amazing building and when it was completed in 1856 it cover more than 15 acres.

Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron was born here in 1750 he took command on Nelson\'s death at Trafalgar in 1805.

There is an interesting signpost to ‘Make em Rich’ on an unclassified road off the Great North Road, near Stannington, some 14 miles north of Newcastle.

There is another interesting signpost, this one also on the Great North road leading to ‘Wide Open’.