My visit to New Castle was in the month of November, when gray skies matched the gray of the buildings.

It was the beauty of the bridges that caught my eye, but it was the stone of the factories and the industrial depots that stayed with me.

I visited a cold industrial space that had been transformed into an exhibition space for artists, where the industrial past of New Castle has become intermingled with the new energy of creative culture.

But the legacy of true hard work is what carries this city in my mind. This is a lived in city, a worked in city, a city whose glamour is in the solidity of buildings built for hard work.

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