Two of her 12-inch guns were remounted in the Tyne Turrets.

* Tyne Turrets 12-inch guns operational at the mouth of the Tyne 1921-26.

Hogg, R., " The Tyne Turrets: coastal defence in the First World War ", Fort ( Fortress Study Group ), ( 12 ), 1984, pp97-104

When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

His limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle upon Tyne, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Stirling, and Perth.

When Mr Gladstone visited the North, you well remember when word passed from the newspaper to the workman that it circulated through mines and mills, factories and workshops, and they came out to greet the only British minister who ever gave the English people a right because it was just they should have it ... and when he went down the Tyne, all the country heard how twenty miles of banks were lined with people who came to greet him.

When Mr Gladstone appeared on the Tyne he heard cheer no other English minister ever heard ... the people were grateful to him, and rough pitmen who never approached a public man before, pressed round his carriage by thousands ... and thousands of arms were stretched out at once, to shake hands with Mr Gladstone as one of themselves.

In 2005 the last 3, 000 bottles produced in Newcastle were given commemorative labels " 121 years of brewing history, last bottles produced at Tyne Brewery April 2005.

This was furthermore the time the Air Kruise cross-Channel services, as well as all Dragon Airways, Lancashire Aircraft Corporation and Manx Airlines operations from Newcastle upon Tyne, Blackpool and the Isle of Man were transferred to Silver City's new Northern Division to streamline BAS's fragmented airline operations.

Its original 1753 building at Forth Banks near the river Tyne were inadequate and impossible to expand.

Cromwell meanwhile, leaving George Monck with the least efficient regiments to carry on the war in Scotland, had reached the river Tyne in seven days, and thence, marching 20 miles a day in extreme heat with the country people carrying their arms and equipment the regulars entered Ferrybridge on 19 August, at which date Lambert, Harrison and the north-western militia were about Congleton.

Accordingly, Truro, St Albans, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne and Wakefield were all officially designated as cities between 1877 and 1888.

That done, the King dispatched Percy's head to York, where it was impaled on one of the city's gates ; his four quarters were sent to London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Bristol, and Chester before they were finally delivered to his widow.

There were four further live performances of the work with the Dresdner Sinfoniker in Germany in September 2005 and one at the Swan Hunter ship yard in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2006.

His quarters were sent to Chester, London, Bristol and Newcastle upon Tyne.

As Easington Colliery closed in 1993, the mining scenes were filmed at the Ellington and Lynemouth colliery in Northumberland, with some filming in Dawdon and Newcastle upon Tyne.

Production began in 1993 at two primary sites: Elswick, Tyne and Wear and Barnbow, Leeds, although over 250 subcontractors were involved.

Indeed, Maerdy in the Rhondda Valley along with Chopwell in Tyne and Wear were two of a number of communities known as Little Moscow for their Communist tendencies.

This type of transport spread rapidly through the whole Tyneside coal-field, and the greatest number of lines were to be found in the coalfield near Newcastle upon Tyne.

In the United Kingdom, for example, shipyards were established on the River Thames ( King Henry VIII founded yards at Woolwich and Deptford in 1512 and 1513 respectively ), River Mersey, River Tees, River Tyne, River Wear and River Clyde – the latter growing to be the World's pre-eminent shipbuilding centre.

Flooded shopping malls were evacuated, Newcastle Central station was shut, as was the Tyne and Wear Metro, and main road routes were flooded leading to massive tailbacks.

An arbitrary cut-off point of 15 August 1917 was chosen and the names of 34, 984 UK missing after this date were inscribed on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing instead.

The Yorkists crossed onto the south bank of the Tyne on the night of 12th / 13 May and were by the morning of the 14th in a position to attack Hexham.

Originally along the Great North Road, it then moved to the Tyne Tunnel, causing some of the roads in Zone 1 to now be in Zone 6, and some were renumbered.

As trade on the Tyne prospered there were several attempts by the burghers of Newcastle to annex Gateshead.

The two advanced south to face Ragnall, and this led to a battle somewhere on the banks of the River Tyne, probably at Corbridge where Dere Street crosses the river.

Also extant are two pageants from a New Testament cycle acted at Coventry and one pageant each from Norwich and Newcastle upon Tyne.

They have a fierce local rivalry with Sunderland, and the two clubs have engaged in the Tyne – Wear derby since 1898.

The crest includes elements from the coat of arms of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne ; the two sea horses representing Tyneside's strong connections with the sea, the castle representing the city's Norman keep.

The original show followed the friendship of two working class young men, Terry Collier ( James Bolam ) and Bob Ferris ( Rodney Bewes ), in Newcastle upon Tyne in the mid 1960s.

The River Tyne can refer to two rivers in the United Kingdom:

Within two years it was expected that coding would be used in Aberdeen, Belfast, Brighton, Bristol, Bromley, Cardiff, Coventry, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newport, Reading, Sheffield, Southampton and the Western district of London.

The river flows for 35 miles from its origin, where two streams meet approximately a mile west of Blanchland, to Derwenthaugh where it flows into the River Tyne.

The title refers to the city's five bridges spanning the River Tyne ( two more have since been built ).

The Tyne Tunnel is the name given to two two-lane toll vehicular tunnels under the River Tyne in North East England.

Only three examples of this coin are known to exist: two discovered on the River Tyne in 1857, and one discovered in January 2006.

However as far back as 1974, Yorkshire Television and its North East neighbour, Tyne Tees Television, formally created Trident Television, a merged entity of the two companies.

In series two, he is working for a Newcastle upon Tyne gangster, Ally Fraser, to whom he is in debt.

In 1974 and following a reverse takeover Yorkshire Television was effectively merged with its neighbour Tyne Tees Television, when the two were brought under the control of Trident Television Limited, a company formed in 1969 to deal with the problem of effective ownership of the Bilsdale transmitter and the allocation of airtime.

This time around, the two stations were integrated to a far greater extent — following the takeover, 292 jobs were axed at the two broadcasters, including 185 at Tyne Tees ( over half the workforce ), with a further 150 lost the following year.

Similarly Tyne Tees had to lose over 100 episodes of Blockbusters and two episodes of Prisoner: Cell Block H. Other programmes were also affected.

Tyne Tees is named after two of the region's three primary rivers.

In 1978, The Economist reported that a group called Northumbria Television, partially financed by local firms Bellway Holding and Swan Hunter, applied to the IBA to take over the franchise from the " tired " Tyne Tees for the two and a half years until the scheduled franchise renewal in 1981.

Tyne Tees's original studios were located on City Road, Newcastle upon Tyne and were converted from two furniture warehouses purchased by the company.

Tyne Tees operated two sub-regional news programmes for the latter part of its life.