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Blyth Lifeboat Station is located at the Port and seaside town of Blyth, in the south east corner of the county of Northumberland, approx. 13 miles (21 km) north of Newcastle upon Tyne. A lifeboat was first stationed here by the Ridley Estate Trust in 1908, but operated for only two years.
Blyth was the administrative centre for the borough of Blyth Valley, until the borough was abolished in structural changes to local government on 1 April 2009. [28] Blyth Valley—which also included Cramlington and several villages—was 70 square kilometres in size and, according to the Registrar General's Population Estimate for mid-2005, it ...
Bede Academy is a 3–18 academy in Blyth, Northumberland, England. Opened in September 2009, it is run by the Emmanuel Schools Foundation. [6] It was one of the first all-through academies to be set up in the United Kingdom, and the first in the North of England. [7] [8]
In 2008, the college changed its name to The Blyth School, Community College. The school offers a range of subject choices, from history to childcare, to languages to electronics. The school has shown improved results in recent years, and was higher than some other schools in the Northumberland GCSE results league table for 2011 [1] and 2012. [2]
Cowpen / ˈ k uː p ən / is an area of Blyth and former civil parish, now in the parish of Blyth in the county of Northumberland, England. It is just east of the A189 road. The Ward population taken at the 2011 census was 4,466. [1] In 1911 the parish had a population of 21,295. [2]
On 2 March 1883 the Blyth Shipbuilding & Dry Docks Company Ltd. was registered as a limited liability company. It built cargo liners, tramp steamers and colliers. The fifth ship built at the yard was for the shipping company Stephens and Mawson of Newcastle. Daniel Stephens eventually became a Director, and then the Chairman of the company. [1]
[1] [2] The project was the UK's first offshore wind farm, following the Vindeby in 1991 and Tunø in 1995, as well as being the largest offshore turbines erected in the world at the time. [ 3 ] It helped pave the way for more than 2700 bigger offshore turbines installed in British waters since then.
The new regiment was equipped with BL 5.5-inch medium guns and had its headquarters at the Army Reserve centre at Barrack Road in Newcastle upon Tyne. [4] In 1976, it was redesignated as a Field Regiment and re-equipped with the 105mm light gun. Around 1990, the regimental headquarters moved to Napier Armoury in Gateshead. [4]