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New page: Wallsend is an industrial town lying on the north bank of the River Tyne in north-east England, between Newcastle upon Tyne and North Shields. Wallsend is so named because ...
Wallsend is an industrial town lying on the north bank of the [[River Tyne]] in north-east [[England]], between [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] and [[North Shields]]. Wallsend is so named because it marked the eastern terminus of [[Hadrian's Wall]], and the town grew on the site of a Roman fort, [[Segedunum]]. It became a singificant coal mining centre in the eighteenth century, and in the latter nineteenth and twentieth centuries shipbuilding was a very major industry: the [[Mauretania]] was built at Wallsend. The last shipyard, Swan, Hunter & Co., closed in the early twenty-first century.
== Famous people from Wallsend ==
Gordon Sumner (Sting), rock musician.
[[T. Dan Smith]] (Thomas Daniel Smith), city politician (known as 'Mr. Newcastle', he implemented a major redevelopment of Newcastle city centre and was head of the regional development agency for north-east England, before being gaoled for corruption in the [[Poulson Affair]]).
== Famous people from Wallsend ==
Gordon Sumner (Sting), rock musician.
[[T. Dan Smith]] (Thomas Daniel Smith), city politician (known as 'Mr. Newcastle', he implemented a major redevelopment of Newcastle city centre and was head of the regional development agency for north-east England, before being gaoled for corruption in the [[Poulson Affair]]).