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Best and Worst in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear*

Gateshead, Tyne and Wear Triumphs and Tragedies

Favourite Building

• In Dunston (a suburb of Gateshead), Derwent Tower (THE ROCKET) has to be the most famous land mark in Gateshead. As its nickname suggests it soars into the sky with a certain late 1960's concrete flair. Whilst visiting the tower look out for the Clavering Social Club and the hoards of Charvas kikin aboot.
• eerrrrmmmmmmm
• The International Stadium, home of the best club in England (after Sunderland).

Demolish It Now Building

• The Gateshead Angel of the North, either paint it with black and white stripes of pull it down.
• Gateshead Car Park
• They have eventually taken notice of us and are going to pull down the concrete eye-sore that is Trinity Square Indoor Market and the multi-storey car-park HOO-RAY!!!
• Gateshead Car Park
• How about the entire of town centre Gateshead and Bensham...awful
• The town centre is dire.
• Gateshead car park looks like a 1950's b-movie monster, everything else in Gatesheads so-called town centre
• The flats on the approach flyover to the Tyne Bridge. Barns Close Flats. All other flats in Gateshead.
• That monstrosity of a multi storey car park in the town centre.
• Metro centre another Charva and jock hang

The Best Things

• THE redevelopement of Gateshead quayside which you can watch live via their webcams at: WWW.TYNEBRIDGEWEBCAM.COM
• The brand spanking new "Gateshead Millenium Bridge" which can be see live via the web address below.
• Living in Newcastle's shadow means you can always escape Gateshead by diving north across the Tyne.
• The best thing about Gateshead is the people of Gateshead. They are simple, unsophisticated, sociable, and direct. Journalists from London papers should be forced to live in Gateshead for a year before they start telling us about Britain, then they wouldn't be so bloody cynical about the human spirit. The view from the top of Bensham up the Tyne to Dunston and Blaydon. Saltwell Park. The Geordie dialect. Rugby League! Haway Thunder!
• iF u go up to Bensham there is the best views of Newcastle City Centre u can get
• Gateshead has produced some of the finest engineers in the world from the traditional shipyard associated industries and also from the broad based manufacturing of the Team Valley Trading Estate, supplemented with sound engineering training via Gateshead Technical College. As an exiled Teams lad now living in true blue Hampshire (New Forest,Ted Heath is a local at the pub 14.5 paces from my door)I can tell you all, I remind the Southern Folk that we are superior.
• The Gateshead Angel, cos Newcastle hasn't got it. The Blaydon Races.

The Worst Things

• Everyone living south of Chester-le-Street believes the Metro Centre, the Angel of the North and the new bridge belongs to Newcastle, FOOLS!!!!
• Living in Newcastle's shadow means no one ever does anything in Gateshead. There is no entertainment, its all run down, poverty stricken and crime ridden, Western Gateshead (Whickham, Rowlands Gill etc) are genuinely the only non-awful areas.
• parochialism. sexism.
• The metro centre can get a bit busy sometimes and if u go shopping go to newcastle instead, never ever go there on Christmas eve, think pamplona bull festival with turkeys and ull understand
• The town centre being a complete joke Stupid mickey mouse sports in the International Stadium. As if anyone cares about Rugby league.
• charvas tryin to ride Mx bike, my broken wrisr (bike accident)

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Last updated: 2007-08-17