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The Bill as presented in November 1971 pruned back the southern edge of the area, and gave it the name "Tyneside".
Mar 2, 2018 · The origins of the historic traditional counties of North East England and the ‘artificial’ counties of Cleveland, Tyne and Wear, Humberside and Tees Valley.
It opened in the summer of 1980, and extended from Tyneside to Wearside in 2002 when the Sunderland line was opened by Her Majesty the Queen. The Tyne & Wear Metro was Britain’s first light rapid transit system, it marked its 40th anniversary in 2020, and remains an integral part of our region’s transport system.
May 29, 2018 · Tyne and Wear was one of the six English metropolitan county councils that existed from 1974 until their abolition in 1986. The Redcliffe-Maud Report of 1969 followed the royal commissions of 1937 and 1963 in suggesting a single local authority for the industrial area of Tyneside, but the Heath government added the Wearside borough of Sunderland.
May 20, 2014 · ‘Tyne & Wear’ was the name given to the new creation (born, ironically, on 1 st April 1974), it being officially known as a ‘metropolitan county’.
Aug 9, 2024 · The boroughs north of the River Tyne (Newcastle upon Tyne and North Tyneside) are part of the historic county of Northumberland, while those to the south (Gateshead, South Tyneside, and Sunderland) belong to the historic county of Durham. From 1974 to 1986 Tyne and Wear was an administrative unit.
City of Sunderland. Gateshead. North Tyneside. South Tyneside. from Local (local) The County Flag of Tyne & Wear. Abolished - Tyne and Wear County Council. April 1, 1986. Tyne and Wear County Council was abolished in 1986, just 12 years after its creation. It was one of 6 metropolitan county councils abolished by the Local Government Act of 1985.
