Newcastle is a fascinating beautiful city with a culture and traditions that backs the past 2000 years. History of Newcastle upon Tyne is such that it exhibits many interesting monuments. You can explore the island and find Hadrian’s Wall and many castles studded across the landscape. The Romans built around the first bridge over the river Tyne and is surrounded by the scenic beauty of Northumbria. Due to the bridge built by Romans, Normans built a wooden fort and the first New castle was created in1080.This was later replaced in stone the existing one of the finest example of Norman architecture.
During medieval times Newcastle developed into an essential trading region and was one of the famous regional centers. At the time of Queen Elizabeth Newcastle was exporting the black gold that is the coal. At 19th century the town was the centre of development all the commercial activities and industries had innovated stature. There are locomotive large concrete structures by the Stephenson family, starting of steam turbines, electric supply and building of armaments. Due to the success of the time beings there were rebuilding’s of the city centre ,the eminent officials such as developer Richard Ganger town clerk John Clayton and architect John Dobson were responsible for many of the fine streets and buildings of the period During this time Newcastle was the place the most popular one to go for goods shop , large department stores and is still today.
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