Newcastle Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
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Top Places to visit in Newcastle:
Newcastle Memorial Walk, Merewether Beach, Nobbys Head and Breakwall, Blackbutt Reserve, Christ Church Cathedral, Fort Scratchley, Newcastle Beach, Myall Lakes National Park, Hunter Wetlands Centre, Newcastle Art Gallery, Horseshoe Beach, Dudley Beach, The Lock-Up, Hunter Stadium, Queens Wharf Tower
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Get Carter film locations part 16 : Wallsend ferry landing
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My analysis of the 1971 British cult crime thriller Get Carter. Carter takes the ferry across the Tyne back to Wallsend on the northern bank where he had left the car he had taken from Glenda.
Get Carter is a 1971 British crime film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine as Jack Carter, a gangster who sets out to avenge the death of his brother in a series of unrelenting and brutal killings played out against the grim background of derelict urban housing in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The film was based on Ted Lewis' 1969 novel Jack's Return Home, itself inspired by the real life one-armed bandit murder in the north east of England.
The film was Hodges' first as a director; he also wrote the script. The production went from novel to finished film in eight months, with location shooting in Newcastle and Gateshead lasting 40 days. It was produced by Michael Klinger and released by MGM. Get Carter was also Alun Armstrong's screen debut.
In 1999, Get Carter was ranked 16th on the BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century; five years later, a survey of British film critics in Total Film magazine chose it as the greatest British film of all time. Get Carter was remade in 2000 under the same title, with Sylvester Stallone starring as Jack Carter, while Caine appears in a supporting role. This remake was not well received by critics.
Initial critical reception was poor, especially in the United Kingdom: soulless and nastily erotic...virtuoso viciousness, sado-masochistic fantasy, and one would rather wash one's mouth out with soap than recommend it. The American film critic Pauline Kael, however, was a fan of the film, admiring its calculated soullessness. A minor hit at the time, the film has become progressively rehabilitated via subsequent showings on television; with its harsh realism, quotable dialogue and incidental detail, it is now considered among the best British gangster films ever made. In 2004, the magazine Total Film claimed it to be the greatest British movie in any genre.
There are two slightly different versions of this film. In the opening scene of the original version Gerald Fletcher warns Carter that the Newcastle gangs won't take kindly to someone from The Smoke poking his bugle in. This was later redubbed for American release in a less pronounced Cockney accent (not by Terence Rigby) with won't take kindly to someone from London poking his nose in, as tape previews in the US had revealed that many Americans did not understand what The Smoke and bugle meant in this context. Smoke is slang for London, in reference to its reputation as a foggy city, while bugle is slang for nose. The line I smell trouble, boy is also edited out.
Places from the film not shown here but still standing in October 2010:
Dryderdale Hall, near Wolsinghamd - current up for sale at GBP1.6m
Newcastle's West Road Crematorium
Oxford Galleries in Newcastle - I should have filmed this as it is very easy to get to!
Post Office in Hebburn
I state that Cliff Brumby's house in northern Durham is still standing. However it was knocked down to redevelop the site.
Cast:
Michael Caine as Jack Carter
John Osborne as Cyril Kinnear
Ian Hendry as Eric Paice
Bryan Mosley as Cliff Brumby
George Sewell as Con McCarty
Tony Beckley as Peter the Dutchman
Glynn Edwards as Albert Swift
Terence Rigby as Gerald Fletcher
Godfrey Quigley as a work colleague of Frank Carter's
Alun Armstrong as Keith
Bernard Hepton as Thorpe
Petra Markham as Doreen
Geraldine Moffat as Glenda
Dorothy White as Margaret
Rosemarie Dunham as Edna Garfoot
Britt Ekland as Anna
John Bindon as Sid Fletcher
Kevin Brennan as Harry
Ben Aris as Architect
John Hussey as Architect
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4 Days in UK - London, Newcastle, Tynemouth, Beamish, Alnwick, Bamburgh, Holy Island
Newcastle upon Tyne commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, 8.5 mi (13.7 km) from the North Sea.
Tynemouth is a town and a historic borough in Tyne and Wear, England at the mouth of the River Tyne. Historically part of Northumberland, the modern town of Tynemouth includes North Shields and Cullercoats and had a 2011 population of 67,519.
Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum is an open-air museum located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, County Durham, England. The museum's guiding principle is to preserve an example of everyday life in urban and rural North East England at the climax of industrialisation in the early 20th century.
Alnwick Castle is a castle and stately home in Alnwick in the English county of Northumberland. It is the seat of the Duke of Northumberland, built following the Norman conquest, and renovated and remodelled a number of times.
Bamburgh Castle, on the coast at Bamburgh, Northumberland, England, is a Grade I listed building. Built on a dolerite outcrop, the location was previously home to a fort of the native Britons known as Din Guarie and may have been the capital of the British kingdom of the region from the realm's foundation in c.420 until 547, the year of the first written reference to the castle.
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England. It is also known just as Holy Island. It constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland. The island measures 3 miles (4.8 km) from east to west and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from north to south, and comprises approximately 1,000 acres (400 ha) (4 km2) at high tide.
0:08 Travel
1:48 London
5:55 Newcastle
11:45 Tynemouth
15:50 Beamish
30:35 Alnwick
35:33 Bamburgh
39:44 Holy Island
42:27 Credits
Music:
Piano Relax Music -NCM
Honor of Days by Twin Musicom -
Blue Skies, Silent Partner
Summer Smile, Silent Partner
Cinematic Inspirational Music Instrumental, Music by Sophonic Media -
BACK IN SUMMER by Nicolai Heidlas Music -
Tour of the Roman Baths on Galegos No Mundo
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The Roman Baths, Bath, England
Hadrian's Wall
Welcome to Hadrian's Wall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the UK's most iconic landmarks. Built under the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, the wall snakes 73 miles between Wallsend in the east and Bowness on Solway in the west.
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Hadrian's Wall- (Romans in England)
Two things that The Great Wall of China and Hadrian's Wall have in common. They both were built to keep the barbarians from invading their lands and overtime they both failed to do so. Join The Indiana James has he embarks on the journey to film Hadrian's Wall, the border of the Roman Empire at its greatest size, between present day England and Scotland.
Visit Hadrian's Wall
Stretching 73 miles (80 Roman miles) across the country from Wallsend in the east to Bowness on the Solway Firth Hadrian’s Wall was built under the orders of Emperor Hadrian in AD122.
Hadrian’s Wall became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, joining a list of places that are so special they are deemed important to the whole of humanity. Hadrian's Wall leaves a lasting impression on any who visit, including writer George RR Martin who used it as inspiration for his own Wall in the bestselling books and hit TV series, Game of Thrones.
Castle Keep, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK - 29th November 2012
The Castle is a medieval fortification in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, which gave the City of Newcastle its name. The most prominent remaining structures on the site are the Castle Keep, the castle's main fortified stone tower, and the Black Gate, its fortified gatehouse.
Use of the site for defensive purposes dates from Roman times, when it housed a fort and settlement called Pons Aelius, guarding a bridge over the River Tyne. In 1080, a wooden motte and bailey style castle was built on the site of the Roman fort, which was the 'New Castle upon Tyne'. It was built by Robert Curthose, eldest son of William I (William the Conqueror), having returned south from a campaign against Malcolm III of Scotland. The stone Castle Keep was built between 1172 and 1177 by Henry II on the site of Curthose's castle. The Black Gate was added between 1247 and 1250 by Henry III.
The site is in the centre of Newcastle, and lies to the east of Newcastle Central Station. The 75 feet (23 m) gap between the Keep and the Gatehouse is almost entirely filled by a railway viaduct, carrying the East Coast Main Line from Newcastle to Scotland. The Castle Keep and Black Gate pre-dated the construction of the Newcastle town wall, construction of which started sometime around 1265, and did not form part of it. Nothing remains of the Roman fort or the original motte and bailey castle. The Keep is a Grade I listed building, and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The Keep is owned by the City Council, which leases it to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, who manage it as a visitor attraction. The society is based in the Black Gate, and use it to house a library and as a meeting place.
This video begins with external views of the Keep, before going inside for views of the rooms, displays and internal architecture. There are then rooftop views of the castle keep structure, and views over the City of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and Gateshead. This includes Newcastle Central Station, Newcastle Cathedral, St. James's Park, The Tyne Bridge, The River Tyne, Sage Centre, The High Level Bridge, The Swing Bridge, The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Baltic Flour Mills, Grey's Monument.
Buses at: Wallsend Forum (08/09/17)
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Buses at: Wallsend Forum
All buses run on this road Stagecoach and go north east run here.
Stagecoach Newcastle ~ Enviro 400
Go North East ~ Scannia Omnicity
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Hadrian's Wall Path
A scenic walk along Hadrian's Wall Path - From Bowness on Solway to Wallsend. Some 84 miles long.