the classic Tyne Bridge (the prototype for the Sydney Harbor Bridge).
Ahem, the Tyne Bridge was indeed finished before the Sydney Bridge, but it was started afterward. It finished earlier because it's much smaller.
As the BBC says:
The Tyne Bridge was designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson who based their design on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which in turn derived its design from the Hell Gate Bridge in New York.
However, Newcastle's a great place. I spent three months working on a rig in South Shields once - friendliest people in the whole of UK & Ireland.