Bolling Hall, Bradford
The Bolling Hall that stands today perched overlooking the city of Bradford - and now  incongruously in the middle of a housing estate - was build in 1370 and extended in the 15th century. Before this time, the manor consisted of wooden framed buildings.

Bowes Railway Museum, Gateshead
The  Bowes Railway (Springwell Line) opened in January 1826 and was planned and laid out by George Stephenson (the famous Gadgie - see Stockton & Darlington  Railway and “The Rocket“) to serve Springwell Colliery which at the time was in  the process of being sunk. It was intended that the railway was to work by using a combination of steam and gravity powered inclines. Stephenson intended to use  some of his own patented locomotives to work the flatter sections of the line. The Bowes Line opened a year before Stephenson’s famous Stockton & Darlington Line. The Springwell Line did not hit the headlines like it’s much publicised contemporary for the simple reason that it was not a public passenger  line. The Springwell Line continued to operate in almost the same way until 1974 - a testament to the success of the original concept.

Busby Stoop Inn, Thirsk
The Busby Stoop  Inn, at Kirby Wiske - a village near Thirsk in North Yorkshire - takes it odd name from the 18th century owner Thomas Busby and the hangmans gibbet across the  road from where Thomas Busbys remains were displayed after he had been hung for  the murder of his father-in-law in 1702. Since then, his ghost has appeared many  times with his head lolling and a rope around his neck. Outside the inn a noose  still dangles from a gallows arm.

Caphouse Colliery, Wakefield
The  National Coal Mining Museum for England is located at Caphouse Colliery, on the  western edge of the Yorkshire coalfield, where mining has been carried out for  centuries.

Castle Keep, Newcastle
The Castle of  Newcastle Upon Tyne stands on a steep sided promontory overlooking the River  Tyne. The site has been occupied for nearly 2000 years, with flint flakes and a stone axehead found in archaeological excavations testament to much earlier prehistoric activity.

Chillingham Castle, Alnwick
The castle was originally a monastery in the late 12th century. In 1298, King Edward I, or "Edward Longshanks", stayed at the castle on his way to Scotland to battle a Scottish army led by William Wallace. A window was specially installed for the  king, a rarity in such buildings at the time.

Cleveland Ironstone Mine,  Skinningrove
History of the area: Skinningrove was in the manor of  Loftus during the Saxon times and was held by Earl Siward, who Shakespeare immortalised as Macbeth. It passed to Hugh de Abrincis, Earl of Chester after the Norman Conquest but soon after this the land came into the estates of  William de Percy who in 1133 erected Handale Priory which is situated approximately 2 miles to the south and was “staffed“ by Nuns of the Benedictine Order until the dissolution in 1544. Other landowners have included the Stewart  and the Moore families and also Sir Lawrence Dundas, who was an ancestor of the Earl of Zetland.

Darlington Railway Museum, Darlington
The Stockton and Darlington Railway was opened on  September 27th 1825 with the prime purpose of transporting coal from the south  west Durham collieries around Shildon, West Auckland and Witton Park, to the River Tees at Stockton, for shipment to the south of England.

East Riddlesden Hall, Keighley
East Riddlesden Hall is one of West Yorkshire’s many historical sites. East Riddlesden Hall itself was built in the 1640s by the local Murgatroyd family.

Heugh Gun Battery
The Heugh (pronounced  "Yuff") Gun Battery is a site of great significance in terms of both history and  poignancy. As a surviving 19th century coastal battery, complete with WW1 and  WW2 modifications, it stands as a memorial to a means of engagement now largely relegated to the pages of history books by modern warfare techniques and technology. Indeed, as the location of the only shore-to-ship combat in the  whole of the UK during the Great War (not to mention the first homeland military  casualties of that conflict), it is a place that should stimulate the hearts as  well as the minds of all who visit.

Lumley Castle, Chester-le-Street
Lumley Castle, standing four square against the winds as it has done for over 600 years, makes a charming picture especially in the autumn when the reddened leaves of the vine covering the south front are in their full beauty. Up to the  20th century, the green pastures sloped gently down to the River Wear uninterrupted by the busy road to Sunderland, the east front overlooking the  deep ravine through which flows the Lumley beck.

Manhattens Bar,  Stockton-On-Tees
Manhattan's Bar stands at the top end of Stockton-On-Tees high street and is a public house that has changed it's name a  number of times over recent years. It has been known as Number Nines and then  Fitzgeralds before taking on its current name in the Summer of  2005.

North East Air Museum, Sunderland
The  North East Aircraft Museum, formerly the Northumbrian Aeronautical Collection,  began life in 1974 as a small group of vintage aircraft enthusiasts meeting very informally at Sunderland Flying Club to exchange views and information on their  chosen interest.

Preston Hall Museum, Stockton-on-Tees
Join NGI and Most Haunteds Richard Felix at  this one off investigation at Preston Hall Museum on the 22nd February 2008.

The Golden Fleece, York
The historic Golden Fleece is one of the oldest coaching inns in the ancient city of York.  Early records show that the inn was about in 1503 and between this time and 1557 it was owned by the Merchant Adventurers. The Adventurers were responsible for  the wool trade, at the time York was one of the major providers outside London.  Over time the Inn became a coaching station for travelers between York - Manchester - Liverpool, with many couriers operating out of there. In the 19th century it was a popular lodging place for people having business at the local courts of law. An advertisement from 1836 states:

The Old Well Inn, Barnard  Castle
Barnard Castle is built on the site where an ancient Roman road fords the river Tees this is now spanned by a stone bridge. The street know as Galgate (post Roman origin) follows the line of the Roman road - it’s name is  connected with the town’s gallows which were en-route. The parish church - St Marys was founded in the 12th century.

The Punchbowl, York
Originally called  Eburos by the Romans (which is commonly believed to have something to do with a yew tree), the name was corrupted in the 6th century by the newly arrived  Anglo-Saxons into "Eoforwic" meaning "wild boar settlement", because apparently the Anglo-Saxons had some difficulty distinguishing trees from pigs. Then the Danes took over, and then some Norwegian Irish Vikings, and by medieval times the name York was finally used, although some people insisted on calling it Yerk.

The Schooner Hotel, Alnwick
The  Schooner Hotel is situated in Alnmouth, a small village on the coast of Northumberland. The village lies at the mouth of the river Aln and was once a  thriving seaport. It was to this harbour that ships from across the globe would  come carrying cargoes of grain and coal. Schooners themselves were fast and  handy vessels used for either fishing or trading, mainly with the Baltic States.