List of Gateshead blue plaques

Columns: Subject | Location | Year | Description
William Clarke | Adjacent High Fell Club , Old Durham Road , Sheriff Hill | 2005 | In 1864 , Clarke founded Clarke Chapman at the South Shore of the River Tyne . By 1903 the company was the second largest employer in Gateshead . From 1873 Clarke lived in a 20-room mansion called 'The Hermitage ' , which was built on the same land as the wall on which his commemorative plaque is appended | Sir Vincent Litchfield Raven KBE | Site of former Greenesfield , near High Level Bridge | 2011 | Raven was an engineering genius who was the chief mechanical engineer at the North Eastern Railway where his successes in steam engineering ultimately frustrated his own visionary work on the possibility of electric trains | Sister Winifred Laver MBE | Gateshead Evangelical Centre , Derwentwater Road , Gateshead | 2011 | Birkenhead born Laver was a Methodist missionary who worked with the sick , starving and poor of Gateshead through the Vine Street Mission in Teams which she instituted in 1916 . For her work she was awarded the Freedom of Gateshead | Carter 's Well | Adjacent Carter 's Lodge , west side of Durham Road , Low Fell | 1995 | Public well which was the principal source of drinking and cooking water in Low Fell until the latter part of the 19th century . Restored in 1994 | Madeleine-Hope , Ruth and Sylvia Dodds | Boundary wall of Home House , Low Fell | 2005 | The Dodds sisters were renowned public figures during the early part of the 20th century - authors , local politicians and founders of the Little Theatre . They lived at Home House for their entire lives . Plaque unveiled by Joe Mitchinson , Mayor of Gateshead , on 19 October 2005 | William Henry Brockett | King James Street ( off Old Durham Road ) , Gateshead | 2010 | Brockett founded the first Gateshead newspaper , The Gateshead Observer , in 1837 . He was editor of the paper from 1860 until his death in 1867 . He was also heavily involved in local politics ; he was a local councillor , alderman and Mayor of Gateshead in 1839-40 | Sir Joseph Wilson Swan | Underhill , Kells Lane , Low Fell | 2005 | Swan was a chemist and physicist who invented the incandescent light bulb , demonstrating this to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1880 . His home at Kells Lane , where his blue plaque is now appended , was the first in the world lit by electric light . Swan also revolutionised photography by his patented bromide paper

Example questions:
What happened to the site of the Gateshead plaque for Carter 's Well because of the Local Government Act 1972 ? | When did the railway station at the site of the Gateshead OBE blue plaque open ? | Where did the man with a Gateshead blue plaque on Sheriff Hill spend his apprenticeship ? | Who designed the park where the Gateshead blue plaque for William Wailes resides ? | What did the man honored by a Gateshead blue plaque at 19 Primrose Hill contribute to the field of geology ?

Answers:
it was formally incorporated into the newly formed Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead | 1868 | Longbridge 's Iron Works | Edward Kemp | He pioneered the use of radiometric dating of minerals