Gateshead
Properties and events in Gateshead
Before heading out for your Heritage Open Days visit, please check entries for last-minute changes.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art: Building History and Behind the Scenes Tour
Join us for an exclusive behind the scenes look at Baltic. You'll learn about the history of the building and the regeneration of the Quayside area.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art: Quayside Tour
Explore the NewcastleGateshead Quayside and local history as Baltic Crew take you on this relaxed tour.
Behind the Scenes with Progressive Players @ Little Theatre Gateshead
Have a tour of the only theatre to be built and to open during WW2. The Little Theatre Gateshead was built as a permanent home for the Progressive Players by the influential Dodds Sisters.
Dunston Staiths
Enjoy panoramic river views from this iconic, Grade ll listed, scheduled monument on the River Tyne at Dunston, Gateshead. Refreshments available from nearby Staiths Café.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Household Waste Recycling Centre & Waste Transfer Station Site Tour
This is a chance to see inside a Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) and Waste Transfer Station (WTS). Residents of Gateshead, Sunderland, and South Tyneside, join us to learn about what happens to your general waste and recycling.
St Cuthbert's Church Blaydon
St Cuthbert's will be open with special displays from the Blaydon and Winlaton History Society and Blaydon Photographic Society. Talk by Val Scully at 2pm Saturday. Refreshments available.
St Mary & St Thomas Aquinas Church Stella
Display of historical vestments. Pugin stained glass windows. Lovely gardens to walk around.
The Banqueting House with a Grand Panorama
Nestling in the forest, The Banqueting House stands in a grassy clearing looking down towards an octagonal pool and the Derwent Valley, in the highest part of Gibside Park, near the Column of British Liberty and Gibside chapel.
The Lost History of Bensham Grove Settlement
Come and see our beautiful jewel of a house in urban Gateshead. Regency and Victorian history and now inter war heritage in the form of an educational settlement. Help us decide on the last of our history trail in the form of an attic restoration.