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The City of Newcastle is a local government area in the Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. The City of Newcastle incorporates much of the area of the ...
[324] [325] Newcastle's city status was transferred to the enlarged borough at the same time. [326] From 1974 until 1986 the city council was a lower-tier district authority, with Tyne and Wear County Council providing county-level services. The county council was abolished in 1986, since when the city council has again provided both district ...
Citizens of Newcastle upon Tyne who volunteered and served with the British Army in the South African War: August 1901. Newcastle United Football Club: May 1993. The Royal Shakespeare Company: October 1997. The Sage Group plc: December 2000. Greggs plc: September 2009. The Little Sisters of the Poor: February 2017.
[8] [9] Newcastle's city status was transferred to the enlarged borough at the same time. [10] From 1974 until 1986 the city council was a lower-tier district authority, with Tyne and Wear County Council providing county-level services. The county council was abolished in 1986, since when the city council has again provided both district-level ...
The city's first hospital, Newcastle Infirmary opened in 1753; it was funded by public subscription. [33] A lying-in hospital was established in Newcastle in 1760. [34] The city's first public hospital for mentally ill patients, Wardens Close Lunatic Hospital was opened in October 1767. [35] In 1771 a flood swept away much of the bridge at ...
Newcastle usually refers to: . Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom; Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
Newcastle Civic Centre, Haymarket. Haymarket is the northern edge of the city centre bordered by Spital Tongues and Jesmond to the north west and north east respectively. It is the location of Newcastle Civic Centre, Newcastle University, Northumbria University, Haymarket bus station and the City Pool, and is mainly a business area.
The earliest cities (Latin: civitas) in Britain were the fortified settlements organised by the Romans as capitals of the Celtic tribes under Roman rule.The British clerics of the early Middle Ages later preserved a traditional list of the "28 Cities" (Old Welsh: cair) which was mentioned in De Excidio Britanniae [c] and Historia Brittonum.