A VICTORIAN park has been nominated for an award.
Gateshead Council's £10m five-year restoration of Saltwell Park has been shortlisted for a Civic Trust Award.
The work transformed the park and returned its landscape to the way it would have looked at the end of the 19th Century.
Saltwell Park is Grade II-Listed and Garden of Special Historic Interest and contains 12 listed buildings, the main one being Saltwell Towers, the former fairytale mansion at the heart of the park. Last November, the Society of Chief Architects of Local Authorities (SCALA) named Saltwell Towers as its Civic Building of the Year.
Saltwell Towers re-opened to the public in 2004 after undergoing a £3m, five-year restoration scheme which turned the former roofless shell into the Saltwell Park Visitor Centre, a modern visitor facility within the Victorian mansion.
The winners of this year's awards will be announced at a ceremony at Lord's Cricket Ground on March 29.
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