{"id":8569,"date":"2003-05-26T22:24:29","date_gmt":"2003-05-27T04:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wend.ca\/?p=8569"},"modified":"2020-06-19T22:52:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T02:52:03","slug":"a-day-in-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=8569","title":{"rendered":"A Day in Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day started with breakfast in a bar \/ rave \/ artist type place where all the staff looked like they were recovering from a rough Newcastle party night. The bar was a work of art; and in the centre of it all was a little bubble thing that could easily be mistaken for a hot box<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Grey’s Monument<\/h3>\n

After breakfast we wandered around and explored all the intriguing buildings, streets, monuments and sights that Newcastle has to offer. We roamed Granger Street and then Grey Street in search of a coffee shop and found a whole circle of them just by Grey’s Monument<\/a> The monument was erected right in the center of some of the best examples of Victorian architecture seen in the North. Most were designed and built in the 1830s by John Dobson and Richard Grainger, the two architects who were famous for their Victorian work. The monument itself is named after a Geordie, Earl Grey, who was Prime Minister from 1830 to 1834 and after whom the tea is named.<\/p>\n