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A picture of Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum

Threlkeld

in the county of Cumbria

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Tyne & Wear Historical Facts

1 Interesting and historical facts about Tyne & Wear.

The first house to use a lightbulb

The house of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (inventor of the incandescent light bulb) in Gateshead was the first in the world to be lit by a lightbulb.

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