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Gateshead Historical Facts

1 Interesting and historical facts about Gateshead.

The first house to use a lightbulb

The house of Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (inventor of the incandescent light bulb) in Gateshead was the first in the world to be lit by a lightbulb.

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