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A large-scale mural bursting with energy, depicting Roker Lighthouse.

Possible parametric art outside Hartlepool College of Further Education.

A BAC Jet Provost T5 (serial XW405) outside the Hartlepool College of Further Education, shown banking to starboard.

A large Corten Steel artwork of lovers' hands entwined, by Ray Lonsdale.

A sculpture in Hartlepool paying tribute to Ridley Scott and Tony Scott.

Large-scale mural depicting the heritage of the area, close to the Wearmouth Bridge.

Collection of four sculptures on Durham University’s South Road campus, each celebrating history, science, and art.

A colossal costard of a Miner made of Corten Steel by Ray Lonsdale, located in Seaham.

An imposing Georgian/Victorian footbridge for the gentry to preamble in order to take the spaw waters.

Photogenic museum with geological interest and eclectic items dating to Georgian times.

Large heritage mural in Horden, County Durham, by Durham Spray Paints, depicting a miner holding a safety lamp to mark 125 years of mining in the village.

A former Library building with an eclectic mix of art, maritime, social, and natural history elements.

Two unconnected historical finds in a snug corner of Lawe Top. They are a pair of brick built beacons, and two replica Russian cannons captured from the Crimean War (1853-1856).

A library designed to look like the pages of a book being fanned, with curious exhibits and a viewing terrace overlooking the River Tyne.

Three art installations based on international pilgrims and journeys.

Whitby’s historic piers and lighthouses tell the story of the town’s maritime past, from Tudor stonework to 19th century beacons.

A diatom scupture by Andrew McKeown in Saltburn. Art with a bit of marine biology!

No murder of Corvids, but a navigational aid for ships.

A statue to commemorate the 18th-century explorer and navigator who changed the western perceptions of world geography.

Lifesize wire sculpture of an adventurous lady who was the first female skipper of a fishing boat up north.

A garden to look like a bombed house, as a memorial to the 1914 coastal attack.

The jaw bones of a whale as a reminder of the whaling industry of Whitby.

A scrap metal statue of Henry Pease - Saltburn’s founding father.

Twice life size figures by Ray Lonsdale depicting workers involved in the Wearside industries.

A bronze statue of Queen Victoria outside Scarborough Town Hall.

Twice life size Corten Steel figures by Ray Lonsdale along the River Wear.

A pedestrian and cycle bridge that forms the shape of the mathematical symbol for infinity.

A multipurpose construction with bridges and a barrage for tidal defence. Also nature and adrenaline activities in the area.

A real Iron Ore mine which has now been converted into a museum.

Public art of a brick boat which was created by locals and is also a lovely rockery.

Metal art exhibit depicting wind and an equatorial sundial on East Shore in Seaham.

Lifesize statue of a female welder from the World War II era by Dr Ron Lawson on the banks of the River Wear in Sunderland.

A grand library ornamented in wood dating to the 17th century with the scent of bibliosmia and a museum with skulls, weapons, and finds from local excavations.

A tribute to the incandescent lightbulb invented by Sir Joseph Swan on Swan House Roundabout.

An Edwardian Baroque-styled multi-purpose building feature artworks.

17 street murals around Spennymoor and a case of ‘there is more to these than meets the eye’.

A new social history museum adjacent to a grand Georgian manor house telling the history of the area.

A Corten Steel sculpture by Ray Lonsdale to honour the Herring Girls.

A Church without parish dedicated to the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket

An art gallery located in the former Christ Church in Hartlepool.

An imposing church that can be seen for miles at Hartlepool Headland.

A grade II drainage portal with a rustic tally house which was used to explore and drain ground in Allendale for mining.

The only museum dedicated to the history of science fiction in the UK with lots of amazing memorabilia on show.

This former prestigious rectory is one of the oldest domestic houses in England and is haunted!

A memorial to the mining past depicting a miner with a pickaxe, working in a narrow seam.

A gas-fired beacon installed for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.

A huge miner’s helmet and cap lamp hung on a peg rack created by Father and son Ray and Sam Lonsdale in homage to the area's mining heritage.

Public gardens with sunken trees, an Italian rock in the fountain, and the stunning backdrop of a former 18th-century rectory.

Four mural sites depicting the cultural history of Houghton le Spring, created by local artists.

Dating from the late 12th century, St Michael and All Angels' Church is the parish church of Houghton-le-Spring and contains the tomb of Bernard Gilpin.

A nature reserve which was an old mining area with remains of a monolithic winding engine house.

A Miner kneeling testing the air with his safety lamp, by Ray Lonsdale.

Attractive murals back to back on a brick wall in a former cemetery now a small park in Durham.

Figure of newspaper cartoon character Andy Capp cast in bronze.

Based in Cumbria, Carlisle Castle that had the most sieges and also the last siege in Great Britain.

A former Royal Air Force site with lots of planes and ghosts.

A well-kept park with Victorian and Edwardian Features, modern works such as spiders and mosaics, plus the poignant ‘Heroism of the Silent Gun’ Boer War memorial.

A large-scale Miners Lamp to honour the Bowburn Colliery and the wider Durham coalfields.

Lifesize Durham Light Infantry soldier atop a plinth with his rifle.

An arresting piece of steel art by Stanson Art (Ron Lawson) and Mark Burns Cassell commemorating the coal industry in the area.

A former gentleman’s Georgian residence and now a museum in a park nestled along the river Tees.

A unintentionally concealed 90 foot tall way marker marking north for astronomers at Durham University one mile south.

A model of the Grey Heron that frequents the area.

Sculptures and decorations from old buildings that were demolished to make way for Eldon Square.

Individual artwork creations, on opposite sides of the main road in Ushaw Moor.

A noticeable Norman Church commanding a hill in Easington Village.

An art/science installation involving audience participation and sunshine.

When art meets mathematics you get a geometric granite sculpture.

Carved statues in distress near the Bill Bryson Library in Durham University.

An abundance of art in a striking eco friendly/ green building.

A World War I memorial of a six foot soldier, with his rifle lowered, taking a drink from his canteen by Ray Lonsdale.

A stunning church providing a backdrop for Durham Market Place and a lively place in which to worship.

Mural of the Fair Slayer By Smug.

A small Cathedral but perfectly (almost) formed with a celestial ceiling.

Victorian Park alongside the River Eden with contemporary and traditional artwork, statues, and musical instruments.

A stunning mural depicting the release of a yellow canary which references the area's mining days and has significance for the future.

Discover history on Hartlepool's maritime history with some unusual and macabre pieces.

Designed and built as a museum in the style of a French Chateau and housing 22 galleries. Famous for the amazing kinetic art of the Silver Swan.

All that would have been dock life around the 18th century and complete with one of The Admiralties Frigates, The HMS Trincomalee.

A splendid feast of medieval lookalike architectural delights, and other things.

Five bronze life-size swans in various stages of flight that look naturally interwoven with each other.

A local nature reserve with a modern history of regeneration from marshland to bog due to the end of water mills.

A mural of miners on the side of The Volunteer Pub in the St Johns area of Seaham.

A gem of a market place with interesting sculptures, some secret creatures, and a timeline.

An attractive folly of several styles making a pleasant sitting arrangement along the River Tyne.

Relief sculpture around a metro ventilation shaft.

A juxaposed scene, with chaldron wheels, industrial remains, and an old jetty against a backdrop of organic appeal.

Yes, a 20 foot high desk lamp in green that was part of the Lumiere festival.

A mural depicting history and noteworthy people and places of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Saint George slaying the dragon atop a granite and portland stone pillar in the middle of old Eldon Square

A life size reminder of The Vaux Brewery wagons and Dray horses by Ray Lonsdale.

The site preserves the only First World War battle site in Blighty.

A Victorian park with many fine features, sculptures, and modern-day art installations including reference to Lewis Carroll.

Something for all ages, from dinosaurs to mining, shipbuilding, glass, art, natural history, and an arboretum!

Former golf course with far reaching scenic views, a café with a model of an early steam engine by Stephenson.

A serene sculpture by Ray Lonsdale, positioned eloquently by The Cenotaph in Murton, near Seaham.

A pleasant green with many fine views of magnificent landmarks of North and South Shields.

A curvaceous staircase in wood, metal and concrete by Thomas Heatherwick.

A blue carpet made out of crushed glass outside of the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle. Part of an urban art project and created by Thomas Heatherwick.

This peninsula has several pleasing aspects such as a lighthouse, a cannon and the goddess Nike atop the war memorial.