Royal Mining Engineering Jubilee Exhibition
Royal Mining Engineering Jubilee Exhibition | |
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Bandstand from the exhibition as shown in 2017 | |
Overview | |
BIE-class | Unrecognized exposition |
Name | Royal Mining Engineering Jubilee Exhibition |
Area | now Exhibition Park, Newcastle and Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne |
Visitors | 2 092 273 |
Location | |
Country | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
City | Newcastle upon Tyne |
Timeline | |
Opening | May 1887 |
Closure | 28 October 1887 |
The Royal Mining Engineering Jubilee Exhibition was held in 1887 (delayed from planned 1886 opening) at Newcastle's Town Moor, Newcastle upon Tyne and Bull Park (renamed the Exhibition Park later in 1929.[1]
Summary
Over two million people attended, and the fair made money. It was opened in May 1887 by the Duke of Cambridge and closed 28 October 1887.[2]
There was a two-storey refreshment pavilion,[3] a two thirds size[citation needed] replica of the old Tyne Bridge, gardens, a theatre and art galleries.[1]
References
External links
- Image of the replica Tyne Bridge
- Bandstand
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List of world's fairs in Ireland and Great Britain
- First Exhibition (1760)
Great Britain and Ireland
- Exposition of British Society
- Exhibition of Industrial Arts and Manufacturers (Birmingham, 1849)
- Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations (London, 1851)
- Irish Industrial Exhibition (Cork, 1852)
- Great Industrial Exhibition (1853) (Dublin)
- Art Treasures Exhibition, Manchester 1857
- 1862 International Exhibition (London)
- International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (Dublin, 1865)
- Annual International Exhibition (London, 1871–1874)
- Dublin Exhibition of Arts, Industries and Manufactures (1872)
- International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures (Dublin, 1874)
- International Fisheries Exhibition (London, 1883)
- First International Forestry Exhibition
- International Inventions Exhibition
- Colonial and Indian Exhibition (1886)
- International Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art
- Royal Mining Engineering Jubilee Exhibition
- International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry
- American Exhibition (1887)
- International Agricultural Exhibition (Kilburn, 1879)
- Royal Jubilee Exhibition
- International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry (Glasgow 1888)
- International Exhibition of Science, Art & Industry (Edinburgh 1890)
- Greater Britain Exhibition
- Glasgow International Exhibition (1901)
- Cork International Exhibition
- Naval, Shipping and Fisheries Exhibition
- Imperial Austrian Exhibition
- Irish International Exhibition
- Franco-British Exhibition
- Imperial International Exhibition
- Japan–British Exhibition
- Coronation Exhibition
- Festival of Empire
- Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry
- Latin-British Exhibition
- Anglo-American Exhibition
- Bristol International Exhibition
- Universal Exhibition (Nottingham)
- International Rubber, Tropical Products and Allied Industries ExhibitionInternational Exhibition of Rubber and Other Tropical Products
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- British Empire Exhibition
- North East Coast Exhibition
- Empire Exhibition, Scotland
- Festival of Britain
- Millennium Dome
- UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK