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Shipley was a rather enigmatic person about whom little is known. He was born in Gateshead, near High Street. He was a solicitor in the Newcastle firm of Hoyle, Shipley and Hoyle. From 1884 until his death, he leased Saltwell Park House, now known as Saltwell Towers. Shipley's main passion was art and collecting paintings.
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.
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Outer wall, William IV public house, High Street, Gateshead. [29] 1995 Born and bred in Gateshead, [30] Ridley was a coal miner who was less notable in his lifetime than his brother [31] but is now remembered as composer and performer of the Blaydon Races. The plaque is located on the site of his former home. [32] William Wailes
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.
High Spen is an old mining village in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, historically part of County Durham, England.First recorded in 1379 as a small hamlet called ‘Spen’, the settlement grew in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries with the growth of coal mining in the region.
Hence the Northern General Transport Company was formed and its first depot was built at Picktree Lane, Chester-le-Street in 1913. Gateshead Tramways was a subsidiary of British Electric Traction. The first motor bus service was from Chester-le-Street, via Birtley, to Low Fell, where
This site occupies land adjacent to the Dunston Staiths on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead.. The Staiths is a large, multi-level timber structure built out onto the river on a curved platform, originally built to load bulk materials, (particularly coal), from railway carriages on railway tracks into merchant vessels moored alongside.