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The town of Gateshead was an ancient borough, having been granted a charter in 1164 from Hugh Pudsey, the Bishop of Durham. [5] The borough's functions were relatively limited until 1836, when it was made a municipal borough under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, which standardised how most boroughs operated across the country.
Gateshead (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ t s (h) ɛ d /) is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England.It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
The Glasshouse is an international centre for musical education and concerts on the Gateshead bank of Quayside in northern England. Opened in 2004 as Sage Gateshead and occupied by North Music Trust [1] The venue's original name honours a patron: the accountancy software company The Sage Group.
The Gateshead Kolel is a prominent institution of Jewish higher learning located in Gateshead, UK. [1] Established in 1941 by Rabbi Eliyohu Eliezer Dessler , the Kolel provides advanced Torah study programs for Jewish scholars and students, focusing on traditional Jewish texts and teachings.
The building remained the headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead until the council moved to Gateshead Civic Centre in Regent Street in 1987. [3] The town hall was occupied by the Microelectronics Applications Research Institute ('MARI') who established their head office in the building from 1987 to 2001. [ 12 ]
Folkworks is a non-profit organisation based at The Glasshouse (formerly The Sage Gateshead) and a part of the North Music Trust. It runs many workshops, summer schools and festivals to promote and encourage the furtherance of folk music .
Gateshead College is a further education college in the town of Gateshead, England. It offers further education for 16-18 year olds as well as higher education, apprenticeships, part-time adult learning and training for employers.
Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council elections are generally held three years out of every four, with a third of the council being elected each time. Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (which styles itself "Gateshead Council") is the local authority for the metropolitan borough of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear , England .