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Joseph Wilson Swan was born in 1828 at Pallion Hall in Bishopwearmouth ( now part of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear ).

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He later became a partner in Mawson's, a firm of manufacturing chemists in Newcastle upon Tyne.

This company existed as Mawson, Swan and Morgan until 1973, formerly located on Grey Street in Newcastle upon Tyne near Grey's Monument.

The premises are now owned by the Swedish fashion retailer H & M and can be identified by a line of Victorian-style electric street lamps in front of the store on Grey Street.

Swan lived at Underhill, a large house on Kells Lane North, Low Fell, Gateshead, where he conducted most of his experiments in the large conservatory.

The house was later converted into a private fee paying, grant aided co-educational grammar school named Beaconsfield School.

Here, students could still find examples of Swan's original electrical fittings.