What is Gateshead?

Its a lot of things… This is a series of word lists – I’m not pretending they are comprehensive, but would welcome additions if you think I’ve missed places, things events etc…

Well its certainly not Newcastle…. its

The Angel of the North, The Baltic and The Sage. The Metro Centre, The Gateshead International Stadium, Gateshead FC, Get Carter Car Park and the Dunston Rocket.

Its urban, rural, suburban, cosmopolitan, commuter.

Metro, buses, trains and trams.

Rivers, boats, rowing and bridges

River Team, River Tyne….

The Blaydon Races

Allerdene, Barlow, Bar Moor, Bensham, Beacon Lough, Bill Quay, Birtley, Blaydon, Blaydon Burn, Bottle Bank, Carr Hill, Chopwell, Chowdene, Clara Vale, Crawcrook, Crookhill, Deckham, Derwent Haugh, Dunston, Eighton Banks, Felling, Fellside, Friars Goose, Greenside, Harlow Green, Hedgefield, Heworth, High Spen, Kibblesworth, Lamesley, Lobley Hill, Low Fell, Lyndhurst, Old Ford, Pelaw, Riverside, Rowlands Gill, Ryton, Saltmeadows, Saltwell, Sheriff Hill, Shipcote, Silver Hills, Springwell, Sunniside, Swalwell, Teams, Team Valley, Wardley, Whickham, Windy Nook, Winlaton, Winlaton  Mill, Wrekenton,

Industrial and Post-Industrial

Brickworks, Cement Works, Chemical Works, Coal, Engineering, Farms, Glassworks, Iron works, Mills, Paintworks, Potteries, Quarries, Railways, Rope-making, Ship Building, Steel.

Allhusen Chemicals, Atlas Rivet Works, Boiler Cover Works, Bensham Brickworks, Clockmill Brickworks, Davidsons Glass, Derwent Brickworks, Dolly Pit, Dunston Coal Staiths, Dunston Engine Works, Dunston Colliery, Dunston Saw Mills, Ellison Glass Works, Fanny Pit, Felling Drops (Coal Shoots), Grease Works, Holzapfel’s Paint works, Hope Pit, Marble Works, Mossheap Quarries, North Eastern Railway Works, Oil and Bitmo Works, Norwood Brickworks, Paper Mills, Pelaw Brickworks, Photographic Dry Plate Works, Pipewellgate Bottle Works, Pipewell Foundry, Redheugh Colliery, Redheugh Engine Works, Redheugh Manure Works, Redheugh Sheet Iron and Steel Works, Sheriff Hill Pottery, Shipbreaking Yards, Sowerby Glass, Teams Glass Works, Teams Hemp and Wire Rope Works, Team Valley Paper Mills, Tyne Bolt and Rivet Works, Tyne Nail Works, Tynevale Brickworks, Upper Heworth Quarry, Victoria Engineering Works, Wardley Colliery, William Pit, Wire Rope Works,

Nature reserves, bike trails and footpaths

Axwell Park, Bill Quay Farm, Black Hill, Blackburn Fell, Blackman’s Wood, Blaydon Burn, Bleach Green, Carrhill Reservoir, Cattyside Wood, Chickens Wood, Channels Wood, Clockburn Wood, Colway Plantation, Coxclose Wood, Crookoe Wood, Crosslane Meadows, Dents Hole Ferry, Eels Wood, Eslington Park, Fugarfield Wood, Gas Works, Haghill Wood, Heworth Windmill, Hill Head Wood, Lady Park, Lands Wood, Lamsley Pastures, Longacre Wood, Low Horseclose Wood, Martin’s Wood, Milkwellburn Wood, Miller’s Park, Miller’s Wood, Norman’s Riding Wood, Ousebrough Wood, Pottery Lane,