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Saltwell Park, one of the largest and finest municipal Parks in the North of England, remains a very popular traditional park.
This video shows the Park in full swing back in 1944.

The Park was not the earliest public park in Gateshead. In 1857, in an editorial in the Gateshead Observer, Windmill Hills was suggested as the site of a public park. In May 1861, the owners of the Windmill Hills land, the boroughholders of Gateshead, approached the Town Council. Ten acres were offered on the understanding that they be made 'a place of agreeable resort and recreation for the public in general'. The land was formally handed over on the 18th November 1861. The main factories closed for the day and there was a general holiday in the town.

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