Laing Art Gallery

Newcastle upon Tyne / Royaume-Uni

The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, is located on New Bridge Street. The gallery was designed in the Baroque style with Art Nouveau elements by architects Cackett & Burns Dick and is now a Grade II listed building. It was opened in 1904 and is now managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. In front of the gallery is the Blue Carpet. The building is Grade II listed.The gallery collection contains paintings, watercolours and decorative historical objects, including Newcastle silver. In the early 1880s, Newcastle was a major glass producer in the world and enamelled glasses by William Beilby are on view along with ceramics , and diverse contemporary works by emerging UK artists. It has a programme of regularly rotating exhibitions and has free entry. The gallery's collection of seminal paintings includes John Martin's dramatic The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as important works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edward Burne-Jones ,, Isabella and the Pot of Basil from 1868 by William Holman Hunt, and Ben Nicholson. Local paintings include pictures by Ralph Hedley. There is also an extensive collection of 18th- and 19th-century watercolours and drawings, including work by J. M. W. Turner and John Sell Cotman.

Hatton Gallery

Newcastle upon Tyne / Royaume-Uni

The Hatton Gallery is Newcastle University's art gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is based in the University's Fine Art Building. The Hatton Gallery briefly closed in February 2016 for a £3.8 million redevelopment and reopened in 2017.

Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne / Royaume-Uni

The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne is a historical library in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and the largest independent library outside London. The library is still available for both lending and as a free reference library.

Jesmond Dene House

Newcastle upon Tyne / Royaume-Uni

Jesmond Dene, a public park in the east end of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, occupies the narrow steep-sided valley of a small river known as the Ouseburn, flowing south to join the River Tyne: in north-east England, such valleys are commonly known as denes: the name 'Jesmond' meaning 'mouth of the Ouseburn'.Lord Armstrong and his wife, of the now-demolished Jesmond Dean house nearby, first laid out the park during the 1860s. The design is intended to reflect a rural setting, with woodland, crags, waterfalls and pools. Lord Armstrong gave the park to the people of Newcastle, and it is now owned by Newcastle City Council. The current Jesmond Dene House adjoining the dene was the mansion of Armstrong's business partner Andrew Noble. It is now a luxury hotel.The iron-constructed Armstrong Bridge spans the south end of the Dene and hosts Jesmond Food Market every first and third Saturday of the month. The building of a replacement road and tunnel, the Cradlewell By-pass, was the subject of a road protest camp around 1993, due to the destruction of many 200-year-old trees. Jesmond Dene contains a free-entry petting zoo known as "Pets' Corner", which has been a popular family attraction since the 1960s.Jesmond Dene is home to Newcastle's oldest religious building, St Mary's Chapel. The chapel, now in ruins, was once a site of much significance, attracting a great number of pilgrims.The park is supported by a group called 'Friends of Jesmond Dene' which provides funds for small projects to improve the park. There is also a group of Volunteer Rangers which carries out physical work tidying the paths, picking up litter, cutting back shrubs and other maintenance tasks. The dawn chorus of Jesmond Dene has been professionally recorded and has been used in various workplace and hospital rehabilitation facilities.In 2011, the field area and pets corner were redeveloped. The redevelopment included a new road and a bridge over the Ouseburn river.In 2012, during excessively wet weather, a landslide occurred on the east side of the Dene, near the Old Mill. The landslide covered several footpaths running along the hillside. The paths are currently still closed as the cost of re-opening them would be excessive. In July 2014, the Old Mill in the Dene was vandalised with graffiti tags, which has since been removed.On 1 April 2019, control and upkeep of Jesmond Dene, along with other Newcastle parks, was passed from Newcastle City Council to a newly created charitable trust, Urban Green Newcastle.

Discovery Museum

Newcastle upon Tyne / Royaume-Uni

The Discovery Museum is a science museum and local history museum situated in Blandford Square in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It displays many exhibits of local history, including the ship, Turbinia. It is managed by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.

Royal Victoria Infirmary

Newcastle upon Tyne / Royaume-Uni

The Royal Victoria Infirmary is a 673-bed tertiary referral centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The hospital is part of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is a teaching hospital for the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Great North Museum: Hancock

Newcastle upon Tyne / Royaume-Uni

Le Great North Museum: Hancock est un musée d'histoire naturelle situé à Newcastle upon Tyne, en Angleterre. Il a été fondé en 1884 par le propriétaire des arsenaux d'Elswick, le milliardaire William George Armstrong, sous le nom de Hancock Museum. En 2006, il a fusionné avec la Hatton Gallery de l'Université de Newcastle pour former le Great North Museum , en prenant officiellement le nom de Great North Museum: Hancock. C'est sous ce nom que le musée a rouvert ses portes au public en mai 2009 après d'importants travaux de restauration des salles et du mobilier de style victorien. Le musée et l'essentiel de ses collections sont propriété de la Natural History Society of Northumbria, et il est géré par le consortium de Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums pour le compte de l'université de Newcastle.

Université de Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne / Royaume-Uni

Newcastle upon Tyne , souvent appelée Newcastle, est une ville britannique, située en région de l'Angleterre du Nord-Est, dans le comté métropolitain de Tyne and Wear, dont elle est le chef-lieu, sur la rive nord du fleuve Tyne. La ville, dirigée par un lord-maire, a une population d'environ 302 820 habitants , ce qui fait d'elle la première ville du Nord-Est de l'Angleterre, devançant sa voisine Sunderland, et la 24e d'Angleterre. Newcastle est le centre de l'agglomération du Tyneside, cinquième agglomération la plus peuplée d’Angleterre. Avant 1974, la ville fait partie du Northumberland. Les habitants de Newcastle sont appelés Novocastriens et Novocastriennes en français, ou Novocastrians ou informellement et plus communément Geordies en anglais.