{"id":188287,"date":"2010-01-16T14:46:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T19:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1046553"},"modified":"2010-01-16T14:46:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T19:46:45","slug":"newcastle-interesting-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/188287","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Interesting Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><u>Facts about Newcastle Upon Tyne.<\/u><br \/>\n<i><br \/>\nPlease feel free to add to this or make corrections.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Bainbridges was the first department store in the world<\/p>\n<p>The High Level bridge was the first road and rail bridge in the world<\/p>\n<p>Mosley Street was the first street in the world to be illuminated by elctric lights<\/p>\n<p>The Millenium Bridge was the first tilting bridge of it&#8217;s kind when it opened<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle&#8217;s Grey street was voted &#8216;The U.K&#8217;s best street&#8217; in 2002 beating London&#8217;s Oxford street and regent street chosen by voters of Radio 4<\/p>\n<p>St James&#8217; park is the biggest inner city stadium in the UK<\/p>\n<p>St James&#8217; park has the largest cantilever roof in Europe<\/p>\n<p>Jimi Hendrix was once a resident of Newcastle living in Heaton off Chillingham road.<\/p>\n<p>The ship yards at Wallsend once made 25% of the world ships.<\/p>\n<p>Stan Laurel lived in North Shields, North Tyneside, 10 Minutes from Newcastle and went to Kings School in Tynemouth.<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle&#8217;s bustling nightlife has given Newcastle the reputation of being the 8th best party city in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In a  poll of office workers and students it was voted the best city in England for work and study (i&#8217;m sure this was 2008)<\/p>\n<p>The Silverlink has the UK&#8217;s biggest business park<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle has the most Georgian buildings anywhere in the country outside of bath and &#8211; *this needs correcting and updated as I have forgot the whole fact*<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facts about Newcastle Upon Tyne. Please feel free to add to this or make corrections. Bainbridges was the first department store in the world The High Level bridge was the first road and rail bridge in the world Mosley Street was the first street in the world to be illuminated by elctric lights The Millenium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":954,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}