Gateshead (GB)

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Gatesheads original Post office on Nelson Street. Later converted to a Lloyds Bank. Currently up for development along with Swinburne House and other Victorian buildings. On the opposite side of Nelson street is the Blue plaque of The Old Dispensary on the corner of Nelson Street north, it was originally a villa built in the early 19th century. Prompted by the outbreak of cholera in 1831, the building was purchased for use as Gateshead Pharmacy from 1832 to 1946.
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1801 3d rated (should have been 4d for 30 miles) cover to Alnwick.
1801 showing Gateshead Horse-shoe despatch mark and indistinct Alnwick straitline receiver.

Gateshead is a large town in North East England and principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, situated on the southern bank of the River Tyne.

It is connected to Newcastle upon Tyne by seven bridges.

The town is known for its architecture, including The Sage, the Angel of the North, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

Gateshead might have been the Roman-British fort of Gabrosentum.

There has been a settlement on the Gateshead side of the River Tyne, around the old river crossing where the Swing Bridge now stands, since Roman times.

The first recorded mention of Gateshead is in the writings of the Venerable Bede who referred to an Abbot of Gateshead called Utta in 623. In 1068 William the Conqueror defeated the forces of Edgar the Ætheling and Malcolm king of Scotland (Shakespeare's Malcolm) on Gateshead Fell (now Low Fell and Sheriff Hill).

During medieval times Gateshead was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Durham. At this time the area was largely forest with some agricultural land. The forest was the subject of Gateshead's first charter, granted in the 12th century by Hugh du Puiset, Bishop of Durham. An alternative spelling may be "Gatishevede", as seen in a legal record, dated 1430.

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Gateshead

1903 Code 3 barred cancel

Meter cancels

Meter cancel Gateshead 2003

Gateshead Railway Stations

Gateshead 1903 Double circle and bars with Maltese cross used at the station.
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Gateshead c.1890 Double circle and bars with Maltese cross used at the station.

Gateshead railway station served the town of Gateshead, England between 1844 and 1981.

It was situated on the northern and western sides of the triangular junction to the south of the High Level Bridge which connects Gateshead with Newcastle upon Tyne.

There were two portions to the station on different routes; at times they were known as Gateshead East and Gateshead West.

The station was opened by the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway on 18 June 1844. The Team Valley Line from Gateshead to Durham via Chester-le-Street opened to passengers on 1 December 1868, and on that day, a second pair of platforms at Gateshead opened to serve that line; these were known as Gateshead West, and the original pair became Gateshead East.

Town Sub-Offices

Askew Road

Used Telegraph code Gateshead A

Bensham

Bensham Road

Brunswick Street

Chowdean / Chow Dene

Coatsworth Road

Used Telegraph code Gateshead B

Deckham Hill

Duncow / Dun Cow

Dunston

Felling

Felling Shore

Heworth

High Dunston-

High Felling

Moved to Beacon Lough office on closure.

High Street

Used Telegraph code Gateshead C

High West Street

Low Fell

Low Team

Used Telegraph code Gateshead K

Pelaw

Prince Consort Road

Used Telegraph code Gateshead D

Rectory Road

Rodsley

Saltwell Road

Sunderland Road

Windy Nook

Wrekenton