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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).
The Royal Mining Engineering Jubilee Exhibition was held in 1887 (delayed from planned 1886 opening) at Newcastle's Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne and Bull Park (renamed the Exhibition Park later in 1929. [1]
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 .
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 ...
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.
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]
The town council, which became a city council in 1882, [10] failed to maintain the building properly and the tower had to be demolished in the 1930s. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] By the middle of the 20th century condition of the town hall had deteriorated to such an extent that the council was forced to relocate to modern facilities at Newcastle Civic Centre ...