Aal aboot Newcastle by David Simpson explores the history, growth and development of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Newcastle is not your average northern city, visitors and locals are often surprised by what they find, whether it’s the elegance of Grey Street, the timber-framed houses of Sandhill, the charming cathedral of St Nicholas or the magnificent Tyne bridges.

Explore the medieval walls and visit the castle on the site of a Roman fort as you discover the origins and history of the city’s streets before heading out to Byker, Benwell, Jesmond, Eslwick, Heaton and Gosforth and the many places that make up Newcastle upon Tyne

Aal Aboot Gateshead by David Simpson explores the borough’s history from Roman times to the present, through its suburbs, streets, buildings and characters of note.

Discover Gateshead’s origins as ‘the head of the goat’ and explore the Tyne from Blaydon to Bill Quay and the little rivers of the Team and Derwent. Find out about Friar’s Goose, the Windmill Hills, Shipcote, Shipley, Saltwell and Gibside and admire the famous modern icons of the Angel, The Sage, BALTIC and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.

Aal aboot Geordie by David Simpson is a beuk aboot Geordie language and culture.

We gan reet back te’ arly times te’ find oot where it aal began, se’ torn wor pages and tyek a keek te’ find oot aboot the burr, the bairns, the borns and the broon. Larn hoo te’ tell yer yuff from yer hoff, yer lonnen from yer chare and yer bank from yer laa, as we gie ye the laa doon on the toon and mair.

Alang the gate, ye’ll larn aboot wor history ower the yaars and we’ve hoyed in a few Geordie sangs amang the pages for ye te larn

Explore many fascinating parts of NewcastleGateshead ranging from historic remains of Roman and Medieval periods to the more recent emblematic Gateshead Millennium Bridge and riverside Batlic and The Sage Gateshead.

Peter Donaghy and John Laidler

The Way links places associated with the life of the 7th century saint, Cuthbert. From Melrose Abbey to Holy Island (Lindisfarne). 100km (62 miles). Tough, light and 100% waterproof.

Compact and light - the map itself weighs just 60 gms - a third of the weight of a laminated map, and much less bulky. And you can fold or refold it time and again, or stuff it in your back pocket and it wont fall to pieces. Shows the entire route on one sheet.

Information on finding accommodation, camping and food. Directions to the start. Also Ranger Service contact numbers and enlargements of towns/villages showing facilities available and tips on weather and clothing.

Full colour, fold-out map showing the 172-mile route running northwest from Tynemouth near Newcastle through unspoilt Northumberland and the Kielder Forest before turning southwest to Carlisle and the Lake District to the coast at Whitehaven.

An alternative return route for the Sea to Sea (C2C).

The route follows:
National Route 10 between Tynemouth and Cockermouth
National Route 71 between Cockermouth and Workington
National Route 72 between Workington and Whitehaven

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding and off-road cycling.

Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs and visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths and bridleways.

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding and off-road cycling.

Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs and visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths and bridleways.

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding and off-road cycling.

 Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs and visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths and bridleways.

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding and off-road cycling.

Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs and visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths and bridleways.

 Hadrian’s Wall Path is the National Trail of some 84 miles (135 km) linking Wallsend, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with Bowness-on-Solway on England’s west coast.

The Path shadows, for its greater part, the historic line of Hadrian’s Wall; it lies within a landscape of dramatic contrasts, starting amid bustling, redeveloped Newcastle and finishing on the lonely shores of the Solway Firth. This is the complete, official guide for the long-distance walker or the weekend stroller.

National Trail Guides are the official guidebooks to the fifteen National Trails in England and Wales and are published in association with Natural England, the official body charged with developing and maintaining the Trails.

The "Discover Series" of Sustrans official cycle route maps provide clearly mapped cycle routes on traffic-free paths, quiet lanes and traffic-calmed roads. They feature easy to read contours and route profiles. They offer visitor information and detailed routes through towns. They come in a splash-proof plastic sleeve.

This is the Official Route Map covering 170 miles of the National Cycle Network (and other cycle routes), stretching the length of Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site in the North of England.

It was more just a wall: it was a whole military zone designed to control movement across the northern frontier of the Roman province of Britannia.

Great earthwork barriers survive, along with the remains of forts and temporary camps; watch-towers and fortified gates; civilian settlements, temples, cemeteries, bath-houses, roads and bridges. Stretching across the spine of England from the North-East coast to the Irish Sea, the line of the frontier extends for over 100 miles through every type of landscape: from the streets of urban Tyneside, through arable fields; along the crags of the wild Whin Sill; to the sands of the Solway, and down the coast of Cumbria. Drawing upon the extensive expertise and unrivalled archives of English Heritage, and those of its partners, this map depicts the fruits of modern archaeological research: in field survey, geophysics, excavation, and the analysis of aerial photographs.

Using Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 data - the ideal scale for walkers - this new map shows with great clarity all the elements of Hadrian's Wall, and distinguishes between those features that are visible and those that have been levelled through time. A brief text explains the remains on the ground, and how to use the map to find them - including the museums and the best places to visit. This World Heritage Site is now more accessible than ever before, so see the landscape through new eyes.

This A-Z map of Newcastle Upon Tyne is a full colour, single sided, foldout street map covering an area extending to:

• Dinnington
• Seaton Burn
• Dudley (part)
• Whitley Bay
• Tynemouth
• South Shields
• Castletown (part)
• Washington (part)
• Sunniside
• Blaydon
• West Denton
• Newcastle International Airport

Also included is an inset map covering Throckley and Newburn and a large scale city centre map of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

This A-Z map of Newcastle upon Tyne is a full colour, paperback street atlas featuring  pages of continuous street mapping.

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding and off-road cycling.

Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs and visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths and bridleways.

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking, horse riding and off-road cycling.

Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels, pubs and visitor information as well as rights of way, permissive paths and bridleways.

The 1950s: a decade that started with post-war austerity and rationing and ended with teenagers and rock ’n’ roll. Newcastle United won the FA Cup no less than three times, car ownership more than doubled and jobs were easy to get. Television was causing a sensation and the opening of Newcastle airport gave the region unprecedented access to the wider world. Truly we'd never had it so good. That'll be the Day floats you back to 1950s Newcastle, to the Queen's Coronation visit, Bill Haley's groundbreaking gig at the Odeon, jiving, jazz clubs, flouncy petticoats, tin baths in the kitchen, teddy boys, tough times and good times. More than 70 people who lived, worked and studied in the city have contributed their memories to this nostalgic portrait of an exuberant decade. From stockings to skiffle and roller skates to rag week, the book paints a vivid picture of a time when everybody smoked and ladies never wore trousers to work. A lot has changed over the last fifty years and That'll be the Day contains a vast array of evocative photographs that show a city that is both familiar and very different from the way it is today. Contributors to That'll be the Day include Johnny Handle, who traces his musical roots and John Steel, who remembers the beginnings of a career that would lead to the formation of The Animals. “Eric [Burdon] couldn’t really play the trombone”, he recalls. That'll be the Day is a prequel to the bestselling books It’s My Life: 1960s Newcastle and All Right Now! 1970s Newcastle. Anna Flowers of Tyne Bridge Publishing said: “After the runaway success of our books on Newcastle in the 60s and 70s, we just had to turn the clock back to the 50s. In 2012 we celebrated the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and the 1950s have really grabbed peoples’ interest. That'll be the Day is a perfect souvenir of that decade.” Out now!

 Pevsner Architectural Guides Newcastle and Gateshead (Paperback)

This limited edition hard-back book charts the rise of NewcastleGateshead as a cultural capital.

Who Wants to Be a Geordie? (Paperback)