Salford Lads Club

Salford Lads Club opened in 1903 as part of a national youth club movement. These clubs aimed to deter young men from street gangs by providing them with positive alternative activities. The club was founded by industrial philanthropists James and William Groves. It included a work bureau for boys aged 13 and over. The Hollies practised here in the 1960s, but it became famous in the 1980s, featuring on the inner cover of The Smiths’ album ‘The Queen is Dead’ and their video for ‘Stop me (if you’ve think you’ve heard this one before)’. Grade II Listed.

Orgreave, South Yorkshire

The site of the ‘Battle of Orgreave’ is a field that lies next to a British Steel Corporation coking plant. Pictured is local resident Jay Stocks: “I use the colliery regularly – walking over it to take my son to his karate class. It is just a nice place to walk the dogs.”

Liverpool Docks, Liverpool, Merseyside

Bessemer converter, Sheffield

Grade II Listed

Castlerigg stone circle, Keswick, Cumbria

Castlerigg is one of Britain’s earliest stone circles, built around 3000 BCE as a trading place or religious centre for the Neolithic people who grazed their flocks in the high central fells each summer. It was safeguarded under the first Ancient Monuments Protection Act in 1882. It is a feat of Neolithic engineering as much as it is a spiritual setting: the stone circle is about 30m in diameter and was originally made up of 42 stones. Several of the stones align with the midwinter sunrise and various lunar positions. Scheduled Monument.

Victoria Quarter, Briggate, Leeds

This glamorous shopping precinct was designed by Frank Matcham in the 1890s to replace meat market slaughterhouses and slums. These Grade II* listed arcades were restored in the early 1990s. The restored arcade enabled the arrival of a number of stores making their out-of-London debuts, including Harvey Nichols in 1997. This was the first provincial move for the department store; for a time Leeds was described as ‘The Knightsbridge of the North’.

Tyne Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne

The Tyne Bridge was, at the time it was built, the largest single span bridge in Britain. It has since become a defining symbol and iconic landmark of the North East. It was built by the Middlesbrough firm, Dorman Long, who also built the Sydney Harbour bridge. Grade II Listed.

Salts Mill, Saltaire, Bradford

Saltaire is an industrial village and an outstanding example of 19th century philanthropic paternalism. Its founder, Sir Titus Salt, strongly believed in the value of industrial social welfare, influencing the development of urban planning and social reform. Salt opened the textile mill and the surrounding town in 1851. Saltaire Mill closed in February 1986. It was first protected in 1966 by Historic England and it became a Unesco World Heritage site in 2001. Grade II* Listed.

Tees Transporter Bridge, Middlesborough, North Yorkshire

The Tees transporter bridge is the longest working transporter bridge in the world. Despite being hit by a bomb during Second World War, the bridge is still fully functioning. It was opened in 1911 and remains an iconic structure for Teesside as a monument to the region’s expertise in steel production and engineering. The bridge connects Middlesbrough, on the south bank of the River Tees, to Port Clarence, Stockton on the north bank, and carries a suspended travelling ‘gondola’ to allow tall ships to pass below. Grade II* Listed.

Fulwell Acoustic Mirror Fulwell, Sunderland

The mirror was built during the First World War to protect the British from invasion. It was constructed after a Zeppelin dropped a bomb over the Wheatsheaf area of Sunderland in April 1916, leaving 22 people dead and more than 100 injured. The mirror reflected sound detected by a microphone in front of the dish to an operator who could alert the authorities of approaching Zeppelins. It is an enduring monument to local communities’ experiences of the First World War. Scheduled monument.

Jarrow Town Hall, Tyne and Wear

The foundation stone of Jarrow Town Hall was laid in 1899 by Lady Palmer, wife of Sir Charles Palmer of Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company. ‘Palmers’ was the main employer in Jarrow before it collapsed in 1933. Grade II Listed

Durham Cathedral, County Durham

Durham Cathedral represents great leaps in design and engineering. The cathedral, a place of worship and home to Saint Cuthbert’s shrine, was constructed between 1093 and 1133 and is the oldest surviving building with a stone vaulted ceiling of such scale in the world. It marks a turning point in the history of architecture as the first successful use of the pointed arch. It is a landmark that represents the beginning of Gothic architecture. Grade I Listed.

Woodhorn colliery, Ashington

Woodhorn Colliery was a coalmine for over 80 years. At its peak almost 2,000 men worked there and it produced 600,000 tons of coal annually. Production stopped in 1981. It became a museum in 1989. The museum holds 80 paintings of the Ashington Group which was largely made up of coal miners who first came together in 1934 through the Workers Education Association. They depicted scenes of everyday life within the mining community. Scheduled Monument

Flamborough Head lighthouse, East Riding, Yorkshire

This is the oldest surviving complete lighthouse in England. It was built in 1674 after more than 170 ships had been wrecked off the headland in 36 years. The fire on the top was never lit and the lighthouse was never lived in. It was built by Sir John Clayton and intended as a profitable business. Clayton went bankrupt after it was built; consequently it was never used. Scheduled Monument.

The Casbah, Liverpool

This world-famous club is in the basement of a house in Liverpool. The Beatles helped to paint the walls and ceilings with spiders, dragons, rainbows and stars and, as The Quarrymen, played on its opening night. The club was an important venue for many Merseybeat bands in the early 1960s, providing a place to perform when many venues were closed to their type of music. Historic England listed the building in 2006, noting: “We know of no other survival like it in Liverpool or indeed anywhere else.” Grade II Listed