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The North East Coast Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art, Newcastle-on-Tyne, May-Oct. 1929. Frank Graham for Newcastle City Council . ISBN 0-85983-175-2 .
The Town Moor is an area of common land in Newcastle upon Tyne. It covers an area of around 1,000 acres (400 ha), [1] making it larger than Hyde Park and Hampstead Heath combined. It is also larger than New York City's Central Park (843 acres).
Royal Mining Engineering Jubilee Exhibition: Area: now Exhibition Park, Newcastle and Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne: Visitors: 2 092 273: Location; Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: City: Newcastle upon Tyne: Timeline; Opening: May 1887: Closure: 28 October 1887
The North East Coast Exhibition was a world's fair held in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear and ran from May to October 1929. [1] Held five years after the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley Park , London, and at the start of the Great Depression the event was held to encourage local heavy industry .
Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (/ nj uː ˈ k æ s əl / ⓘ new-KASS-əl, RP: / ˈ nj uː k ɑː s əl / ⓘ NEW-kah-səl), [5] is a cathedral city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is England's northernmost metropolitan borough, located on the River Tyne's northern bank opposite Gateshead to the south.
In 1974 the county borough was replaced by a larger metropolitan borough within the new county of Tyne and Wear. [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 ...
The museum was re-launched as Discovery Museum in 1993 at which time the Turbinia was moved from Exhibition Park. [2] In 2004 the £13 million redevelopment of the museum was complete [2] and the following year the venue attracted 450,000 visitors. [6]
It also overlaps with the 26th and 27th districts of the New York State Senate, and with the 65th and 66th districts of the New York State Assembly. [5] With New York's original Chinatown making up a significant portion of its population, the district has a higher proportion of Asian Americans than any other district in Manhattan. When she was ...