 Dunston Power Station, 1971
 Dunston Staiths, 2006. Photograph by Graham Soult Dunston was originally an independent village on the south bank of the River Tyne. It has now been absorbed into Gateshead in the English county of Tyne and Wear. Much of Dunston forms part of the Gateshead inner-city regeneration area. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1532x980, 157 KB)Picture taken in 1971 from Scotswood File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 980 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Dunston Staiths in 2006. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 960 pixel, file size: 980 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Dunston Staiths in 2006. ...
The Tyne looking west and upstream from the Newcastle bank towards the Gateshead Millennium Bridge The Tyne Bridge across the River Tyne between Newcastle and Gateshead. ...
This article is about Gateshead, England. ...
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Tyne and Wear is a metropolitan county in the North East of England around the mouths of the Rivers Tyne and Wear. ...
The Dunston area is serviced by the Dunston railway station, along the Tyne Valley Line. Dunston railway station is a railway station in Tyne and Wear, northern England. ...
The Tyne Valley Line, also known as the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway (N&CR), is a railway line in northern England. ...
Dunston is now split into two distinct areas separated by the A1 dual carriageway. Much of the area south of the A! is known as Dunston Hill. Sign at Junction 1 of the A1(M) at South Mimms in Hertfordshire The A1 is the longest numbered road in the UK at 409 miles (658 km) long. ...
To the west of Dunston is the site of an advanced power station, now demolished. The site is now home to the MetroCentre, the largest shopping and leisure centre in Europe[1]. Another Dunston landmark is the Derwent Tower, commonly known as the "Dunston Rocket", a tower block that was once the highest in Gateshead, and was designed by the Owen Luder Partnership and completed in 1973.[2] Luder also designed the Trinity Centre Multi-Storey Car Park in Gateshead town centre. MetroCentre is the largest shopping and leisure centre in the UK. It has been cited as the largest centre in Europe but the Cevahir Shopping centre in Turkey is now the largest in Europe Worlds 20 Largest shopping Centres. ...
Trinity Centre Multi-Storey Car Park is an iconic concrete structure in Gateshead. ...
On 6 June 1993 the IRA attacked a gas holder in the nearby area of Low Team. The damage was limited and no one was injured.[3]
Dunston Staiths Dunston is particularly known for its wooden Staiths (or Staithes), first opened in 1893 as a structure for loading coal from the North Durham coalfield onto ships. In the 1920s 140,000 tons of coal per week were loaded from the Staiths, and they continued to be used until the 1970s. They were finally closed and partially dismantled in 1980. Metung Wharf on Bancroft Bay, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia A wharf is a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, roughly parallel to and alongside navigable water, where ships are loaded and unloaded. ...
Metung Wharf on Bancroft Bay, Gippsland Lakes, Victoria, Australia A wharf is a fixed platform, commonly on pilings, roughly parallel to and alongside navigable water, where ships are loaded and unloaded. ...
The staiths were restored and reopened for the National Garden Festival held in Gateshead in 1990. Following similar events in Liverpool (1984), Stoke on Trent (1986) and Glasgow (1988), the Garden Festival occupied a large area of Dunston and Team Valley. Though other parts of the Garden Festival site, such as the Eslington and Norwood areas of Team Valley, gained an immediate spur for regeneration, the area around the Staiths remained derelict and inaccessible for the whole of the 1990s. The National Garden Festivals were part of the cultural regeneration of large areas of derelict land in Britains industrial districts during the 1980s and early 1990s. ...
Team Valley is traditionally the heavy industrial area of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England. ...
Today, the staiths are reputed to be the largest wooden structure in Europe [4], and are protected as a Listed Building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...
A Scheduled Ancient Monument is defined in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 and the National Heritage Act 1983 of the United Kingdom government. ...
In 2002, work began on a development of stylish riverside apartments and houses designed by Wayne Hemingway. Known as Staiths South Bank, this development celebrates the area's heritage as well as improving the setting for the historic structure. Unfortunately, in the early hours of 20 November 2003, a section of the Staiths was destroyed by fire [5]. As a result, access onto the Staiths themselves is not possible, but the structure can be viewed from the new riverside walkway constructed as part of the Staiths South Bank development. In 2005 Gateshead Council commissioned a study into possible options for the Staiths' restoration. Wayne Hemingway Wayne Hemingway (b. ...
Trivia Footballer Paul Gascoigne[6] and singer Brian Johnson grew up in Dunston, as well as a Maltese International Rugby Player, Ryan Robson. Paul John Gascoigne (born 27 May 1967 in Gateshead, England), often referred to by his nickname Gazza, is a former English football player. ...
Brian Johnson (born October 5, 1947 in Dunston, Gateshead, England) (He however lived in North Shields throughout the 1970s and 80s ) is a singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist for the Australian hard rock band, AC/DC. He currently lives in Sarasota, Florida. ...
External links
References - ^ MetroCentre
- ^ SINE Project: Derwent Tower
- ^ Damages bid over bombing arrests
- ^ Sitelines archaeology project: Dunston Staithes
- ^ "Coal heritage goes up in flames" (from BBC News)
- ^ English-Football.org.uk: Paul Gascoigne
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