Portal : North East England/Did you know
Newcastle's Mosley Street was the first in Britain to be lit by electricity .
The 1971 gangster film Get Carter (starring Michael Caine ) was filmed in the North East and features Gateshead 's former Trinity Square car park .
In the UK, every packet of Nestlé Rolos is made at Fawdon in Newcastle.
A total of seven bridges link Newcastle Quayside and Gateshead Quays : Gateshead Millennium Bridge , Tyne Bridge , Swing Bridge , High Level Bridge , Redheugh Bridge , Queen Elizabeth II Metro Bridge and King Edward VII Bridge .
The design of the Gateshead Millennium Bridge is so energy efficient that it uses just £3.60 of electricity each time it opens.
"She Loves You " was composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney in The Imperial Hotel in Jesmond , Newcastle.
Tyneside playwright Lee Hall first performed the hugely successful Billy Elliot as a reading at Newcastle's Live Theatre .
Charles Algernon Parsons developed the steam turbine in 1884 in Newcastle. This revolutionised the generation of electricity.
Newcastle Breweries , famous for its Newcastle Brown Ale , began in 1890, but were acquired in 2008. Brown Ale however, is no longer produced on Tyneside.
The Humphry Davy mining lamp was invented in Sunderland .