Gateshead books and maps

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Gateshead books and maps

Gateshead books: Travel Guides
	Gateshead Street Guide: Byker,Dunston,Felling,Hebburn,Team Valley & Wrekenton Price: £1.99 Publication: May 25, 2004

Gateshead books: History & Heritage
	Gateshead History and Guide This title contains a collection of old images and new with information into the town's history. Price: £13.49 Publication: April 2004
	Gateshead: Architecture in a Changing English Urban Landscape Gateshead has often been overshadowed by Newcastle, its northern neighbour across the River Tyne, yet its history is full of fascinating insights into the way in which a northern industrial town experienced the 19th and 20th centuries. This book explores this period of great change through a study of the town's everyday historic landscape. The story of industry includes the legacy of railway engineering and the construction of the Team Valley Trading Estate, a nationally significant example of a state-sponsored attempt to engineer economic change. Gateshead's growth brought new civic responsibilities and the borough's public buildings - town hall, libraries, schools and hospitals - illustrate how services were provided. Dominating the landscape, however, is the housing built for the town's fast-growing population, and this tells a rich story of changing lifestyles, from the highly distinctive 'Tyneside flats' of the 19th century to post-war high-rise blocks. The book concludes with a discussion of the conservation of the historic environment in a new period of great change. Price: £7.99 Publication: August 5, 2004
	Tyneside: A History of Newcastle and Gateshead from Earliest Times No one who has visited Tyneside can fail to feel the warmth of what is arguably one of the strongest regional identities in Britain. In the bustle and racket of the centre of Newcastle, on the quaysides of Gateshead and in the river towns, people chat, talk readily to strangers and show none of the deadpan, dystopian anonymity of other conurbations in Britain. And they are proud. Not strutting, precious or overblown to one another, but cheerfully proud of their coal-lit corner of the wind-battered North-east. The story of Tyneside offers good reason for the pungency of that pride. It is an epic story, an immense tale dating from the very beginnings of human society in Britain to the everyday dramas of the present age. Tyneside begins as early as historic records allow, starting with the pioneers who came to live in the North East after the end of the last ice age. Because of the sparseness of prehistory, the story of Tyneside starts out wide, taking in almost all of what is now Northumberland, scouring the ground for traces of how lives were lived 10,000 years ago. But thereafter the focus sharpens with the building of the Emperor's Bridge, the Pons Aelius, not far from where the High Level Bridge spans the river. The Romans left written records, names, lists and some opinions (not flattering) and many of them are revealed in this absorbing book. Once the geographical scope of this story settles, Tyneside moves into the centre of the narrative and stays there. And by Tyneside, the authors mean the riverside neighbourhoods comprising Blaydon, Newburn, Newcastle, Whickham, Gateshead, Wallsend, Jarrow, South Shields, North Shields and Tynemouth, though the story sometimes strays as far afield as places like Ponteland and Whitley Bay. Tyneside is the intriguing tale of a unique, magical and dynamic place and the remarkable people who made it. Price: £14.00 Publication: October 7, 2005

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