And it's not the only local attraction to come so highly rated either, as Tyneside's own Victoria Tunnel, an underground ...

Swan continued to develop his invention and in 1880 his friend William Armstrong's house at Cragside, near Rothbury in Northumberland, was the first private home to be lit by electric light bulbs.

Tonight will continue to be dry with a mix of areas of cloud and clear intervals for a time. However, it will cloud over towards dawn, with the chance of the odd spot of rain moving in from the ...