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General History of Gateshead

* Vestiges of Old Newcastle and Gateshead by J. R. Boyle (1890)

* Wrekenton and Eighton Banks by Jane S. Davis (1908)

* Old Gateshead by A.C. Lyall (1920)

* The Story of Gateshead Town by D. Lumley (1932)

* History of Low Fell by Madeline Hope Dodds (1966)

* History of Gateshead by Frank W. D. Manders (1974)

* A Short History of Gateshead (Schools version) by Ian Carlton (1974)

* Gateshead in Times Past by Frank W. D. Manders (1979)

* My Village, Sheriff Hill by John Harrison

* Gateshead Perambulations by Desmond O'Donnell (1990)

* The Changing Face of Gateshead by Trevor Ermel and Eileen Carnaffin (1992)

* Gateshead A Pictorial History by Robert Woodhouse (1992)

* Old Gateshead by Alan Brazendale (2000)

* Gateshead Through Time by Nick Neave (2010)

Transport in Gateshead

* The North Eastern Railway by W. W. Tomlinson (1914)

* The Tramways of Gateshead. George S. Hearse (1965)

Gateshead Churches

* St. Mary`s, Gateshead by E. Smith (1949)

* St. Thomas, Eighton Banks by Rev. Colin Eastwood (1986)

* The Church at the Crossroad - St. Andrew`s, Lamesley by Derek Bell (1998)

* The Church on the Bank - St. Helen`s, Low Fell by Sid Atkinson (2003)

* The St Mary's Story by Anthea Lang (2009)

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