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430. Hadrian's Wall ( Latin: Vallum Hadriani, also known as the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Aelium in Latin) is a former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. [1] Running from Wallsend on the River Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west of what is now ...
Wallsend Volunteer Rifle Corps. Willington, Tyne and Wear. Categories: Towns in Tyne and Wear. Unparished areas in Tyne and Wear. Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside. Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata. Wikipedia categories named after populated places in England.
Peko-Wallsend was founded in 1961 when Peko Mines merged with Wallsend Investments. In 1962 Peko-Wallsend purchased Toll Transport. In January 1968, Peko-Wallsend acquired a majority shareholding in the Mount Morgan Mine. In May 1979, Sims Metal was acquired. In December 1979, Peko-Wallsend acquired a 25% stake in the Ranger Uranium Mine.
Tyne Metropolitan College is a General Further Education College located in the borough of North Tyneside (one of five metropolitan districts that make up the Tyne and Wear conurbation) and predominantly serves the borough of North Tyneside and the wider hinterland including the Newcastle City Region, Northumberland and South Tyneside.
Wallsend. (1943) Wallsend was a 2,905 GRT cargo ship which was built in 1943 as Empire Buttress for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). Completed in July 1943, she was sold postwar and renamed Wallsend. In 1959 she was sold to Liberia and renamed Bordagain, a further change of ownership in 1967 saw her renamed Daring.
Wallsend Racecourse is a former racecourse near the suburb of Wallsend, New South Wales, Australia. The early years [ edit ] The first Jockey Club meeting was held on Wednesday and Thursday, 26 and 27 December, 1868.
The constituency was created in 1997 by the merger of the bulk of the former seat of Newcastle upon Tyne East and parts of the former seat of Wallsend. It was represented throughout its existence by Nick Brown of the Labour Party, who served as Government Chief Whip from 1997 to 1998 and again from 2008 to 2010.
