Gateshead Garden Festival
- Gateshead Garden Festival
The Gateshead Garden Festival was the fourth of the United Kingdom's five National Garden Festivals. Held between May and October 1990, in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, it lasted 157 days, and received over three million visitors.[cite web | title=The Life of the Dunston Staiths | publisher=George Wimpey | url=http://www.ignite-ne.com/ignite/Documents-hvstr.nsf/0/F584B7A2645E0F2F802572D60046BE5F/$file/Lifedunstonstaiths.pdf | format=PDF | date=2007-05-01 | accessdate=2008-08-17] Many of the attractions were educational, and included "Woodlands – Past, Present and Future", "Bodyworld", "Discover the Nature of Change" and "Visit to the Centre of Electricity".][cite web | title=Review: Science and engineering al fresco | publisher=New Scientist | url=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12717276.100-review-science-and-engineering-al-fresco-.html | date=1990-07-28 | accessdate=2008-08-17] Other attractions included public art displays, a ferris wheel, and dance, music, theatre and sporting events.]The festival site was created over a two year period, on 200 acres of derelict land, previously the site of a gasworks, a tar works, a coke works and railway sidings.
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* [http://pixec.fotopic.net/c268200.html Pictures from the Garden Festival]
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