List of Gateshead blue plaques

Columns: Subject | Location | Year | Description
Dr. Alfred Cox OBE | Westview House , Bensham Road , Bensham | 2011 | Dr. Cox was influential in improving public health in the borough and helped found the Gateshead Queen Victoria Nursing Association and the Gateshead Medical Association . He left the area in 1908 to work for the British Medical Association , where he was appointed Medical secretary in 1912 ; a post he held for 19 years | Felling mining disasters | Mulberry Street , Felling | 2012 | Unveiled to commemorate the 200th anniversary of an explosion in John Pit at Felling Colliery which killed 92 men and boys . Plaque is situated at a site corresponding with the original entrance to the colliery and was unveiled after a parade by local residents and schoolchildren | Felling mining disasters ( 2 ) | Boundary wall , St Mary 's Church , Heworth | 2012 | Unveiled to commemorate the 200th anniversary of an explosion in John Pit at Felling Colliery which killed 92 men and boys . A memorial for those who died is on the church grounds . Plaque was unveiled after a parade by local residents and schoolchildren | George Geordie Ridley | Outer wall , William IV public house , High Street , Gateshead | 1995 | Born and bred in Gateshead , Ridley was a coal miner who was less notable in his lifetime than his brother but is now remembered as composer and performer of the Blaydon Races . The plaque is located on the site of his former home | William Wailes | Saltwell Towers , Saltwell Park | 2005 | Wailes was a native of Newcastle upon Tyne who became one of the leading exponents of stained glass in England . His work can still be seen today in cathedrals at Chichester and Newcastle upon Tyne as well as at the restored Saltwell Towers ; a fairytale mansion which he designed for him and his family in the mid 19th century | Blaydon Races | Shibdon Road , Blaydon-on-Tyne | 2012 | Plaque unveiled to celebrate 150th anniversary of the first running of the original Blaydon Race , along with a sculpture from Andrew Mckeown and the renaming of a train at Newcastle Central Station | William Shield | Hood Street/Market Lane , Swalwell | 2009 | Shield , born 1748 , was a popular composer whose most notable work was the light opera Rosina , which continues to give rise to claims in several places that he , rather than Robert Burns , is the original composer of Auld Lang Syne - indeed , school children present at the plaque unveiling sang a rendition of the song

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