List of Gateshead blue plaques

Columns: Subject | Location | Year | Description
Katherine Githa Sowerby | Entrance to The Drive , Durham Road , Low Fell | 2009 | Sowerby , described by The Spectator in 2013 as a playwright , suffragette and Fabian , was the daughter of a noted Gateshead glass maker and grew up in the town . Despite having been a forgotten playwright during much of her life and after her death in 1970 , she is best known for her critically acclaimed play Rutherford and Son | High Level Bridge | East side of the central pier , High Level Bridge | 2008 | Opened in 1845 , the High Level Bridge linking Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne over the Tyne was the first bridge in the world to combine road and rail travel . Designed by Robert Stephenson , it is now a Grade I listed bridge | High Level Bridge Lamps | West side of the central pier , High Level Bridge | 2008 | Plaque commemorating the original lamps which still span the length of the bridge . A £171,000 project to restore these and convert them from gas to electric was completed in 2008 as part of a wider £40m bridge restoration project . The completed work was awarded a Grand Prize Europa Nostra Award in 2009 | Tyne Bridge 75th Anniversary | West side of South Tower , Tyne Bridge , Hillgate | 2003 | Plaque commemorating the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Tyne Bridge - a steel and granite symbol of the Tyneside 's industrial heritage described by the BBC as one of the great bridges of the world - by George V in 1928 | Arthur Holmes | 19 Primrose Hill , Low Fell | 2005 | Born in 1890 , geologist Holmes recognised that the earth was billions , rather than millions , of years old . His textbook Principles of Physical Geology is seminal work in the field and he was the first Professor of Geology at Durham University , where they have named a Geological society in his honour | William and Catherine Booth | 15 Woodbine Place , Bensham | 2005 | William Booth came with his wife Catherine to Gateshead in 1858 where he was appointed minister to the Gateshead Methodist circuit . His preaching at the Bethedsa Chapel was immediately successful and it was not uncommon for 2,000 people to fill the chapel and hear him preach . He left Gateshead for London in 1861 and in 1865 the Booths founded The Salvation Army

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