Gateshead Quay Act 1855
WHEREAS certain Streets, Roads, Passages, or Places called Church Walk and Hillgate in the Municipal Borough of Gateshead (in this Act called "the Borough") are ill-constructed and inconvenient, and the Dwelling Houses and other Buildings situate therein are unhealthy, whereby Disease has been engendered, and Annoyance and unnecessary Expenditure occasioned to the Ratepayers and other Inhabitants of the Borough: And whereas an Explosion and Conflagration lately occurred in a Street called Hil...