After walking back down from the bridge and towards the entrance to Jesmond Dene, I was excited to go to the 'Pet's Corner' petting zoo which I have some prominent memories of as a child.

Jesmond Dene is a public park in the east of Newcastle ... The park is now owned by Newcastle city council and has a free petting zoo known as Pets Corner, which was redeveloped in 2011.

When he sold up in 1883, Armstrong gifted Jesmond Dene – complete with the remains ... instead of wild boar there are potbellied pigs in the petting zoo. There are also miles of footpaths ...

Carlton Reid, a Friend of Jesmond Dene, was walking through the Dene on ... which escaped from the petting zoo on Friday (December 1) after snow damaged their enclosure. Four days on, and the ...

Armstrong was a self-taught engineer and deployed his ordnance skills and tools to shape Jesmond Dene in Newcastle in the 1860s. Dene is a regional term for a ravine with a stream, in this case ...

Jesmond Dene, in Newcastle, is home to one of the last remaining real tennis courts in the world. Tucked away among the council nurseries at the top of Jesmond Dene is a building of historic ...

In October 2014 Jesmond Dene House (above) in Newcastle was chosen by the Good Hotel Guide 2015 as one of the best boutique city hotels in the UK. Having stayed there in September, I'm not at all ...