Gateshead

Gateshead is a town of England in the suburbs of the town of Newcastle.

Geography

Gateshead is on southern bank of the river the Tyne, beside Newcastle upon the Tyne. The climate is rainy there as in close Scotland and Ireland.

Education

  • Gateshead college

  • Gateshead yeshiva
  • Gateshead yeshiva ketana
  • Gateshead boarding school
  • Gateshead sunderland talmudical college
  • Gateshead collel harabonim
  • Gateshead sundeland collel
  • Gateshead beis hatalmud collel
  • Gateshead beis hmidrash lemorot

Economy

The population is for almost the whole of middle-class as in Newcastle. Unemployment is strongly present and of vandalism follows itself from there.

In 1997, the Metro Centers of Gateshead is classified in first position of the shopping malls of Europe for its surface. With 140000 m2 of surface, it shares this first place with in particular Creteil Sun or Marseilles Grand Littoral, in France.

History and culture

After the First World War, the rabbi Eliahou Dessler was the founder of the orthodoxe Jewish community of Gateshead: he founded the collel harabonim of Gateshead, first in his category in Europe, as well as Gateshead beis hamidrash lemorot, orthodoxe Jewish school for young girls. Today the orthodoxe Jewish community of Gateshead is flourishing and comprises more than thousand five hundred people in addition to the two miles pupils come from many countries (France, the United States, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Israel, the United Kingdom).

Gateshead is one of the organizing cities of the International festival of Animation and Video games Animex.

Sport

The footballers Chris Waddle and Paul Gascoigne were born in Gateshead, just like the rugby player Andrew Springgay.

Gateshead International Stadium accommodated the Coupe of Europe of the nations of athletics in 1989 and 2000. Gateshead also accommodated the Championnats of Europe of swimming in 1993 and the Championnats of the world of cross-country race in 1983.

To see

  • the Center of Contemporary art BALTIC, and sculptures gigantic that are the Ange of North, or Taratantara, sculpture created by Anish Kapoor
  • Gateshead leisure center
  • Gateshead library
  • Gateshead school synagog founded at the beginning of last century
  • Music Center Norman Foster
  • the Pont of Millenium

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