Wallsend

American  

[wawlz-end] / ˈwɔlzˌɛnd /

noun

1. a city in Tyne and Wear, NE England, near the mouth of the Tyne River.

2. a type of coal widely used in Great Britain, especially for domestic purposes.

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Wallsend British  

/ ˈwɔːlzˌɛnd /

noun

1. a town in NE England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear: situated on the River Tyne at the E end of Hadrian's Wall. Pop: 42 842 (2001)

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Example Sentences

The River Tyne's most famous shipyard, Swan Hunter in Wallsend, shut in 1993.

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The Grammy-Award-winning singer-songwriter grew up in Wallsend, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and tells me he is "very proud" of his Tyneside roots.

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"We didn't have any books in the house", he tells me by email, but "I was fortunate in the 60s to have had access to Wallsend library".

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As a young Wallsend local, he tells me his love of music was fostered when he saw the virtuoso Spanish classical guitarist Andrés Segovia perform with the chamber orchestra that was then still called the Northern Sinfonia, at Newcastle's City Hall aged 14.

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Rebecca, a university chaplain from Wallsend, North Tyneside, said she had been to mass to prepare for the game.

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