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Newcastle Civic Centre, Haymarket. Haymarket is the northern edge of the city centre bordered by Spital Tongues and Jesmond to the north west and north east respectively. It is the location of Newcastle Civic Centre, Newcastle University, Northumbria University, Haymarket bus station and the City Pool, and is mainly a business area.
Newcastle is home to the only Baháʼí Centre in North East England; the centre has served the local Baháʼí community for over 25 years and is located close to the Civic Centre in Jesmond. Newcastle was a prominent centre of the Plymouth Brethren movement up to the 1950s, and some small congregations still function.
Newcastle Civic Centre is a municipal building in the Haymarket area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. [1] Designed by George Kenyon , [ 2 ] the centre was built for Newcastle City Council in 1967 and formally opened by King Olav V of Norway on 14 November 1968. [ 3 ]
Newcastle City Council granted planning permission in 2017 for an 82-metre-tall (269 ft) residential block to be called Hadrian's Tower on Rutherford Street in Newcastle city centre, [2] which became the new tallest on its completion in 2020.
[8] [9] Newcastle's city status was transferred to the enlarged borough at the same time. [10] From 1974 until 1986 the city council was a lower-tier district authority, with Tyne and Wear County Council providing county-level services. The county council was abolished in 1986, since when the city council has again provided both district-level ...
Spital Tongues is a district of Newcastle upon Tyne, located due north-west of the Newcastle City Centre.Its unusual name is believed to be derived from spital – a corruption of the word hospital, commonly found in British place names (e.g. Spitalfields) - and tongues, meaning outlying pieces of land. [1]
English rock band The Rolling Stones performed at the City Hall with American R&B duo Ike & Tina Turner and English rock band The Yardbirds on 1 October 1966. [14] The rock band The Who appeared at the City Hall in October 1967, [15] and the local R&B band The Animals reunited and performed for a one-off performance at the City Hall in 1968. [16]
The main campus is situated at Rye Hill, close to Newcastle city centre, and there are four satellite sites belonging to the College's School of Engineering. Newcastle Aviation Academy is located next to Newcastle International Airport. [29] and Newcastle College Rail Academy is located in Gateshead. The Energy Academy is based in Wallsend and ...