Felling, Tyne and Wear
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Felling is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England. Historically part of County Durham, the town became part of the metropolitan borough of Gateshead in 1974. It lies on the B1426 Sunderland Road and the A184 Felling bypass, than 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Gateshead, 1 mile (1.6 km) south east of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 10 miles north west of the City of Sunderland. In 2011, Felling had a population of 8,908.
View into Central Felling
Felling Colliery, where two disasters in the space of eighteen months saw over a hundred men and boys killed.
The coal staithes at Felling Shore.
The clean-up begins after the Felling derailment in 1907, which cost two lives and saw eight more seriously injured.
Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead
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The Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It includes Gateshead, Rowlands Gill, Whickham, Blaydon, Ryton, Felling, Birtley, Pelaw, Dunston and Low Fell. The borough forms part of the Tyneside conurbation, centred on Newcastle upon Tyne. At the 2021 census, the borough had a population of 196,154.
Angel of the North
Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead
Old Town Hall: Council's headquarters 1870–1987