Saltwell Park
Magnificent, Multiple Award Winning, Municipal Park

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Main Entrance, Saltwell Park
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  Date Unknown
Saltwell Park Listed Main Pillars and Gates Ref:  GL003097



Saltwell Park. Rooftop beyond is likely to be Ferndene, the home of Robert Stirling Newall


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Saltwell Park
Wrongly entitled Park House. Park House was miles east of here. This building is Saltwell Towers
Then
Now
March 2015.
The Primosole Bridge is a near copy of the original bridge and its name and inscription along the bridge commemorates the soldiers of the DLI who died at the original Primosole Bridge in Sicily  during WW2


Saltwell Towers and South African (Boer War) War Memorial, Saltwell Park, c1905
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  C1905
Saltwell Park Old Picture Ref:  GL003089
 War Memorial unveiled by Sir John French Nov 1905.
Then




The Dene Bridge, Saltwell Park, c1910
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  1910
Historic Photograph Ref:  GL003086
Then

Now
March 2015

The Lake, Saltwell Park
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  Date Unknown
Old Saltwell Park Lake History Picture Ref:  GL003093
Then

Now
March 2015


The Lake, Saltwell Park, Gateshead
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  Date Unknown
Saltwell Park Lake Old Picture Ref:  GL003105
Then
The peripatetic Bandstand has been in three different places...here, shown above

Now
March 2015. Bandstand now in Saltwell Grove section but....



Lake and Bandstand, Saltwell Park
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  Date Unknown
Saltwell Park Lake old Photo Ref:  GL003090

This very bandstand is now in the Park in the Town of Beamish Living Museum





Another postcard of Saltwell Park lake. This bandstand is not the one at Beamish Museum




Pavillion and Promenade, Saltwell Park
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  Date Unknown
Reference Number:  GL003102


Promenade, Saltwell Park
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  Date Unknown
Reference Number:  GL003098



Promenade, with Pavilion and Statue, Saltwell Park
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  Date Unknown
Reference Number:  GL003087






Pavillion, Saltwell Park, 1956
Photographer:  Walton, C.R.
Date:  1956
Reference Number:  GL003101
Item Description:  Used as Saltwell Park Café until demolished in 1958


The Maze, Saltwell Park, Gateshead
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  Date Unknown
Reference Number:  GL003106


West Lodge, Saltwell Park
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  Date Unknown
Reference Number:  GL002464


Ye Olde Salt Welle and West Lodge, Saltwell Park G/H
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  Date Unknown
Reference Number:  LS000002

Then

Now
March 2015


A retired and modified Vickers Viscount 701 airplane was in situ in the boating lake area from 1982 to 1993. The aircraft had its wings cut short and was marked "Saltwell Airways".


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