Editing Gateshead (section)

===Former===
[[File:Ancien Hôtel Ville Gateshead 5.jpg|thumb|The [[Old Town Hall, Gateshead|Old Town Hall]]]]
In 1835, Gateshead was established as a [[municipal borough]]<ref name=gBoroughHist1974>{{cite web | url = http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/f55bf2c6-3190-4ba0-b5cd-100c8c6e856f | title = Gateshead County Borough | quote = In 1974, under the 1972 Local Government Act Gateshead County Borough merged with... to form Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (see MD/GA). | website = nationalarchives.gov.uk | publisher = Tyne and Wear Archives | access-date = 23 November 2016 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161123133043/http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/f55bf2c6-3190-4ba0-b5cd-100c8c6e856f | archive-date = 23 November 2016 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> and in 1889 it was made a [[county borough]], independent from [[Durham County Council]].

In 1870, the [[Old Town Hall, Gateshead|Old Town Hall]] was built, designed by John Johnstone who also designed the previously built [[Newcastle Town Hall]].<ref name=":0">{{cite book|title=Discovering NewcastleGateshead|last1=Donaghy|first1=Peter|last2=Laidler|first2=John|publisher=Sigma Leisure|year=2012|isbn=978-1-85058-913-6|pages=27}}</ref>  The ornamental clock in front of the old town hall was presented to Gateshead in 1892 by the mayor, Walter de Lancey Willson, on the occasion of him being elected for a third time.<ref name=":0" />  He was also one of the founders of Walter Willson's, a chain of grocers in the North East and Cumbria.<ref name=":0" />  The old town hall also served as a magistrate's court and one of Gateshead's police stations.<ref name=":0" />