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Killingworth, formerly Killingworth Township, is a town north of Newcastle Upon Tyne, in North Tyneside, United Kingdom. This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ...
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Built as a planned town in the 1960s, most of Killingworth's residents commute to Newcastle, or the city's surrounding area. However, Killingworth itself has a sizeable commercial centre, strong bus links to the rest of Tyne and Wear, several schools, a medical centre and library, which provide for the town's community up to a point. However, the town has no hospitals, and is not on the Tyne and Wear Metro network; also, the town's leisure centre (which contained a swimming pool) was declared to be on unsafe foundations, and was closed in 2002, with a replacement leisure centre opened in May 2007. A new town, planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was designed from scratch, and grew up more or less following the plan. ...
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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. ...
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The Tyne and Wear Metro is a light rail metro system based around Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland, in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England. ...
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Nearby towns/villages include Killingworth Village (which existed for centuries before the Township was built), Forest Hall, West Moor and Backworth. Killingworth Village or often referred to as simply Old Killingworth or Killy Village is a small village east of Killingworth, north of Forest Hall in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, North East England. ...
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Culture
- Killingworth was used in the filming of the sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? in 1973/1974. The Agincourt estate, built in the early 1970s and containing some of Killingworth's first privately-owned houses, was seen as a suitable location for the new home of the young couple Thelma and Bob, while Terry Collier works at a factory (filmed at the Killingworth industrial estate). Although Killingworth is not mentioned in the series, its presence can be seen as reflective of the times.
- In an episode of the architecture series Grundy's Wonders on Tyne Tees, John Grundy deemed Killingworth's former British Gas Research Centre [1] the best industrial building in the North East.
- Being at the edge of the original Town Moor, Killingworth has a lot of recreational land, such as the playing fields used by local schools and the Killingworth Arms Football Club. In 1996, several Newcastle United players, and the then-manager Kevin Keegan, opened a tarmacced football area in the west of Killingworth.
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Bob and Terry in Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? was a hit British sitcom broadcast between January 1972 and December 1974, as the colour sequel to The Likely Lads. ...
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Grundys Wonders is an Tyne Tees Television architecture programme presented by John Grundy, which began in 2000. ...
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The Town Moor is a large area of common land in Newcastle upon Tyne. ...
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Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born February 14, 1951 in Armthorpe, South Yorkshire, England)[1] is a former English football coach and one of the all-time greatest players. ...
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History of the Township Construction of Killingworth, a new town, began in 1963. Intended for 20,000 people, it was a former mining community, and was formed on 760 acres of derelict colliery land near Killingworth Village, which had existed since the 18th century and earlier. The building of Killingworth Township was undertaken by Northumberland County Council, and was not sponsored by the Government. It was assigned "New Town" status in the 1960s in a similar fashion to the nearby town of Cramlington. A new town, planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was designed from scratch, and grew up more or less following the plan. ...
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Killingworth Village or often referred to as simply Old Killingworth or Killy Village is a small village east of Killingworth, north of Forest Hall in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, North East England. ...
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Northumberland is a county in northern England. ...
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The small town of Cramlington in the county of Northumberland is situated nine miles north of the provincial city of Newcastle Upon Tyne in the north east of England. ...
Unlike that town, Killingworth's planners adopted a radical approach to town centre design, resulting in a development of relatively high-rise buildings in an avant-garde and brutalist style, and won awards for architecture, dynamic industry and attractive environment. High-rise is a 1975 novel by J. G. Ballard. ...
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This new town centre consisted of pre-cast concrete houses, 5- to 10-storey flats, office blocks and service buildings, shops, and car parks, interconnected by ramps and walkways. These made up a deck system of access to shopping and other facilities, constructed on the Swedish Skarne method of construction[2]. However, the walkways become dangerous and have since been demolished. Concrete being poured, raked and vibrated into place in residential construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...
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Killingworth in the early 1960s was originally called Killingworth Township, but after 40 years the Township was dropped and everyone calls it Killingworth or Killy.
Around 1964, during the reclamation of the derelict pit sites, a 15-acre lake south of the town centre was created; spoil heeps were levelled, seeded and planted with semi-mature trees. Today, swans, ducks and local wildlife live around the two lakes which span the main road into Killingworth. The lake is kept well stocked with fish and an angling club and model boating club use the lakes regularly. Land reclamation is either of two distinct practices. ...
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Housing
Garths Killingworth originally consisted of local authority houses. The first houses at Angus Close, owned by the local authority, were built to house key workers for the British Gas Research Center. The rest of Killingworth's estates were cul-de-sacs named "Garths" - all numbered, i.e. Garth One, Garth Two, Garth Three etc. Hong Kong Housing Authority (香港房屋委員會) (HA) is the main provider of public housing in Hong Kong. ...
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The houses in the Garths were built of concrete and had flat roofs, but around 1995 the Local Housing Association modernised the Garths in West Bailey (the west of Killingworth): they added pitched roofs to the flat-roofed homes, renewed fencing, built new brick sheds, and relocated roads and pathways. Along with this they changed several Garths' names and replaced them with names of lakes, birds and trees. The lowest remaining numbered Garth is Garth Four (the highest is Garth Thirty-Three in East Bailey).
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Highfields, first privately-owned homes Killingworth has grown since the early 1960s, with the addition of new privately-owned homes, Highfields Estate was built in the 1970s and was named after battles e.g. Flodden, Agincourt, Stamford, Culloden, etc. Combatants England Scotland Commanders Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey James IV †Strength 26,000 approx 30,000 approx Casualties 1,500 dead 10,000 dead Western side of the battlefield, looking south-south-east from the monument erected in 1910. ...
Combatants Kingdom of England Kingdom of France Commanders Henry V of England Charles dAlbret Strength About 6,000 (but see Modern re-assessment). ...
Combatants Norwegians, Northumbrian rebels, Scots Anglo-Saxon England Commanders Harald Hardråde†Tostig Godwinson†Harold Godwinson Strength Uncertain, possibly 7500 men or more Unknown Casualties Unknown, reportedly very heavy Unknown The Battle of Stamford Bridge in England is often considered to mark the end of the Viking era in England. ...
Combatants British Army Jacobites Commanders William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender Strength 8,000 ca. ...
Blocks of flats The "Towers" (apartment blocks) were built in the 1970s. Tenanted by the local authority, they were made of dark grey concrete blocks, and were named Bamburgh Tower, Kielder Tower, etc. They had integrated walkways and alleys, but, not widely popular, they were demolished in the 1980s, and two new estates of privately-owned homes were built by Cussins Homes and Barratt Homes. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Town centre
History of commerce in Killingworth
 The Killingworth Centre, 2 May 2006 The first two shops built in Killingworth in the 1960s were Moore's and a small confectionery shop, situated between Garth Six and Angus Close and next door to the West House pub, but these shops were demolished in the 1970s. Image File history File linksMetadata Killingworth_Centre1. ...
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The original town centre was built in the 1960s. The boxer Henry Cooper declared the shopping centre open while standing on the steps of the Puffin Billy pub. The centre included a large department store, Woolco, which sold groceries, car parts, and even incorporated a tyre service bay. The shopping centre also included Dewhurst butchers, Greggs bakery, and newsagents, but it was demolished in the 1980s. Are number of people are named Henry Cooper: Henry Cooper (boxer) Henry Cooper (U.S. Senator) Henry Cooper (VC) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
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In the 1980s and 1990s, the Morrisons shopping complex (containing the Morrisons supermarket) was the commercial centre of Killingworth, while the former Woolco site stood as wasteland for more than a decade. Then, in the early 2000s, the Killingworth Centre, a modern shopping mall, was built on the former Woolco site. It contains Morrisons (which relocated - its former building is now the Matalan clothing store), the Card Factory, Centre News newsagent, Trims For Him barber, Supercuts hairdresser, Thorntons chocolate shop, a chemist, Peacocks clothing store, Jobcentre Plus, Bowes Mitchell Estate Agents, Travel Agents, Wilkinsons, Deichmann shoe shop, Catalogue Bargain Shop, Peter's Bakery, an optician, Kodak photographic shop, bookmaker, DVD Hire/Sales, and McDonalds. For the band, see 1990s (band). ...
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Matalan is a discount clothing and homeware store in the United Kingdom. ...
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The Killingworth Centre also incorporates a covered bus station which is served by Stagecoach in Newcwcastle, Arriva, Go-North East, Northumbria Coaches and Classic Buses. Stagecoach North East is a major operator of bus services in North East England. ...
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Raised above the car park is the Killingworth Health Centre which has a doctors' and dentists' surgery. A Dentist and Dental Assistant perform surgery on a patient. ...
The White Swan Centre site
 White Swan Centre, 8 May 2006 This is a large white building in the town centre.
Originally, a building owned by Merz & McLellan, built in the 1960s, stood here. This office block contained 100,000 square feet of office space and employed 600 professional and clerical people. Constructed by Northumberland County Council, the building towered over Killingworth and could be seen for miles around.
Over the years, the office space became vacant and, like the former Woolco site, it was disused through the 1990s. Then the building was reduced in height, remodernised, reopened and renamed the White Swan Centre. It incorporates the Killingworth Library, North Tyneside Council Rent and Rates Office, Education Centre, Coffee Shop, Fitness Centre, and Conference Rooms. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Merz & McLellan was a British electrical engineering consultancy founded in Newcastle in 1902 by Charles Merz and William McLellan. ...
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Schools Killingworth is also home to three primary schools (Bailey Green, Moor Edge and Amberley) and a high school, George Stephenson High School. In recent years Killingworth moved from a three tier education system consiting of, First, Middle and High schools, to the current two tier system. Primary or elementary education is the first years of formal, structured education that occurs during childhood. ...
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Public houses Killingworth has two public houses (and there are two more in Killingworth Village). Killingworth Village or often referred to as simply Old Killingworth or Killy Village is a small village east of Killingworth, north of Forest Hall in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, North East England. ...
- The West House, originally called the West House Inn, is in West Bailey. It was built from a derelict farmhouse and barn, in the style of an old Northumberland inn.
- The Station public house is on the industrial estate to the west of the town. It was originally next to the Killingworth railway station, which was demolished some years ago. The railway still runs by the Station pub, with a level crossing within 50m of the pub.
- Killingworth Working Men's Social Club (in East Bailey) was built in the 1970s and located next to the Town Centre.
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References - ^ http://www.northtyneside.gov.uk/regeneration/docs/north%20west%20demographics.pdf
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