North East Coast Exhibition

World's fair exhibition held in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1929

North East Coast Exhibition

Main avenue of the exhibition

Overview
BIE-class| Unrecognized exposition
Name| North East Coast Exhibition
Location
Country| United Kingdom
City| Newcastle
Coordinates| 54°59′02″N 1°36′54″W﻿ / ﻿54.984°N 1.615°W﻿ / 54.984; -1.615
Timeline
Opening| 14 May 1929
Closure| 26 October 1929

The North East Coast Exhibition was a world's fair held in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear and ran from May to October 1929.[1] Held five years after the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley Park, London, and at the start of the Great Depression the event was held to encourage local heavy industry.[2]

## History

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It was opened on 14 May by the then Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII)[3] in what is now Newcastle's Exhibition Park. When it closed on 26 October over 4 million people had attended (with an average of 30 000 visitors per day)[3]

Several buildings were constructed in an Art Deco style to the designs of the official architects W and TR Milburn of Sunderland who had substantial experience in the fields of theatre and cinema design. Henry Kelly Limited of Newcastle were the builder and construction costs were £114,000. The main buildings were the Palace of Engineering, the Palace of Industry, the Palace of Arts, the Festival Hall, Garden Club, a stadium of 20,000 capacity and the Women's and Artisans' sections. There was also an Empire Marketing Board Pavilion which was government sponsored and, unlike the other buildings, designed by government appointed architects.[4]

## Legacy

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Entrance to Exhibition Park

The exhibition grounds are now a public park, the Newcastle's Exhibition Park used in the 1960s for the Tyneside Summer Exhibition.[2] One of the art deco pavilions, a single storey steel framed concrete clad building, originally the Palace of Arts still stands, and is listed.[5] After the exhibition it was used as a science museum, in the 1960s was part of the Tyneside Summer Exhibition and at one stage, extended to house the Turbinia[6] (currently residing at the Newcastle Discovery Museum) and still later became the Newcastle Military Vehicle Museum [7] in 1983 until it was closed in 2006, due to fears about the building's structural safety[citation needed]. It was put up for sale in November 2011.[8] The building was purchased by Shepherd Offshore Ltd in 2012 with the intention that it would be used to house a carriage museum.[9] This did not go ahead and planning permission was granted to Wylam Brewery in September 2015 to develop a micro-brewery and events space. £1.8m was spent on refurbishment and the venue opened in May 2016.[10]

## See also

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* British Empire Exhibition

## References

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1. ^ "11-608 North East Coast Exhibition of 1929". Retrieved 7 March 2012.
2. ^ a b "Newcastle Exhibition Park". Retrieved 7 March 2012.
3. ^ a b "Exhibition Park". Newcastle City Council. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
4. ^ Manders, Frank; Brown, Jill (1989). The North East Coast Exhibition 1929 - A Photographic Celebration. Newcastle: Newcastle upon Tyne City Libraries and Arts. p. 3\. ISBN 0902653-72-5.
5. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1355325)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
6. ^ "Exhibition park". Retrieved 7 March 2012.
7. ^ "03_02_housingregenEXPO_2004.pdf" (PDF). Retrieved 7 March 2012.
8. ^ "Newcastle's Military Vehicle Museum for sale - Chronicle Live". 3 November 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
9. ^ "Newcastle's Military Vehicle Museum future secured". BBC News. 11 May 2012.
10. ^ "Date set for Wylam Brewery opening at Newcastle's Exhibition Park". 8 April 2016.

## External links

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* "Spencer & Dower Chartered Architects | The palace of Arts | 1929". Retrieved 8 March 2012. pictures of the Palace of Arts from the exhibition, in 1929, and modern day

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List of world's fairs in Ireland and Great Britain

Kingdom of Great Britain|

* First Exhibition (1760)

United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland|

* Exposition of British Society
* Exhibition of Industrial Arts and Manufacturers (Birmingham, 1849)
* Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations (London, 1851)
* Irish Industrial Exhibition (Cork, 1852)
* Great Industrial Exhibition (1853) (Dublin)
* Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester 1857
* 1862 International Exhibition (London)
* International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (Dublin, 1865)
* Annual International Exhibition (London, 1871–1874)
* Dublin Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures (1872)
* International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (Dublin, 1874)
* International Fisheries Exhibition (London, 1883)
* First International Forestry Exhibition
* International Inventions Exhibition
* Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886)
* International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art
* Royal Mining Engineering Jubilee Exhibition
* International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry
* American Exhibition (1887)
* International Agricultural Exhibition (Kilburn, 1879)
* Royal Jubilee Exhibition
* International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry (Glasgow 1888)
* International Exhibition of Science, Art & Industry (Edinburgh 1890)
* Greater Britain Exhibition
* Glasgow International Exhibition (1901)
* Cork International Exhibition
* Naval, Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition
* Imperial Austrian Exhibition
* Irish International Exhibition
* Franco-British Exhibition
* Imperial International Exhibition
* Japan–British Exhibition
* Coronation Exhibition
* Festival of Empire
* Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry
* Latin-British Exhibition
* Anglo-American Exhibition
* Bristol International Exhibition
* Universal Exhibition (Nottingham)
* International Rubber, Tropical Products and Allied Industries ExhibitionInternational Exhibition of Rubber and Other Tropical Products

United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland|

* British Empire Exhibition
* North East Coast Exhibition
* Empire Exhibition, Scotland
* Festival of Britain
* Millennium Dome
* UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK

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