Gateshead Garden Festival
gateshead garden festival fourth united kingdom five national garden festival held may october gateshead tyne wear lasted day received three million visitor attraction included public art display ferris wheel dance music theatre sporting event site comprised four area norwood riverside dunston eslington park several mode transport provided around site monorail ran norwood eslington narrow gauge steam railway dunston redheugh road train covered entire site ferry across river tyne dunston staiths newcastle quayside also provided festival site created twoyear period acre km derelict land previously site gasworks coal depot coking plant cost reclaiming redeveloping land around £ million evening chronicle reported around cubic metre cu ft discarded coal coke acre km removed area capped layer limestone … nearly two million tree shrub bulb planted enough turf laid cover domestic lawn three tonne grass seed sown five thousand previously unemployed people trained role festival festival ended much site replaced housing reflecting festival th anniversary evening chronicle noted also held kick started process resulted baltic centre sage gateshead millennium bridge