- ... that St Mary's Church, Whitby (pictured), was the setting for a scene from Bram Stoker's Dracula?
- ... that Butchers Wheel, a cutlery and tool factory in Sheffield, could only be accessed through a single, guarded door?
- ... that disputes between rival railway companies during the building of the Cleveland Railway became so intense that they led to a "battle" on the River Tees?
- ... that a large fragment of the Northumbrian Easby Cross was over 1,000 years old when it was found built into a wall in a field?