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The Nelson Museum in 2012 The Nelson Museum was a small museum housed in a Grade II listed Georgian Merchant's house on South Quay in Great Yarmouth , Norfolk . It was formed from the collection of local agriculturalist Ben Burgess, who was a lifelong collector of Nelson related artefacts.
The Gateshead and District Tramways commenced services on 22 October 1883 with steam-hauled tramcars operating on three routes centred on Gateshead High Street. In 1897, British Electric Traction took ownership of the company [2] and the Gateshead and District Tramways Act of 1899 authorised the modernisation and electrification of the system.
Time and Tide: The Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, located in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK, is a maritime and fishing museum in Great Yarmouth and established in 2005. It is situated in a former Victorian herring curing factory known as Tower Curing Works, and is now part of Maritime Heritage East, a partnership of over 30 maritime museums in the East of England.
The council is based at the Civic Centre on Regent Street, which was purpose-built for the council and was completed in 1987. [24] Old Town Hall: Council's headquarters 1870–1987. Prior to 1987 the council had been based at the Town Hall on West Street, which had been completed in 1870 for the old Gateshead Borough Council. [25]
Saltwell Park is a Victorian park in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Opened in 1876, the park was designed by Edward Kemp and incorporates the mansion and associated grounds of the Saltwellgate estate owner, William Wailes, who sold his estate to Gateshead Council for £35,000. Upon opening, it became known as "The People's Park". The park ...
Wardley and Leam Lane is a local council ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. This ward covers an area of around 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2 ), and has a population of 8,327. [ 18 ] As of April 2020, the ward is served by three councillors: Anne Wheeler, Linda Green and Stuart Green. [ 19 ]
Whickham South and Sunniside is a local council ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. This ward covers an area of around 5.6 square miles (14.5 km 2), [5] and has a population of 8,313. [6] As of September 2020, the ward is served by three councillors: John McClury, Jonathan Charles Wallace and Marilynn Ord. [7]
This list of museums on the Isle of Wight, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.