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Heritage Pubs Trail
01 – Mechanics Arms
02 – Lambton Arms
03 – Railway/Waterfront
04 – Locomotive/Steamboat
05 – Alum House
06 – Old Highlander
07 – Coach and Horses
08 – Bridge Hotel
09 – Scotia
10 – Ship & Royal
11 – Criterion
12 – Stag’s Head
Heritage Pubs Trail 2 – Pier, Marine, Look Out, Harbour Lights
Listed Buildings
Locally Listed Buildings
Memorials
Parks
North Marine Park
South Marine Park
Schools
Holy Trinity Schools – Jane Carr
Shops
Akins Bakery
China Craft
Structures
Piers
History
2 – Roman South Shields
3 – Medieval (Blank)
4 – Post Medieval
The Siege of South Shields – 1644
5 – 19th Century
A 19th Century Epidemic of Infanticide
6 – Early 20th Century (Blank)
7 – World War 1
North East Fishermen WW1
8 – 20th Century Between The Wars
Amelia Earhart or South Shields Yemeni Sailors?
9 – World War 2
Air Raids
Air Raids – Deaths
Air Raids – Street Names
Dig For Victory
Evacuation
Evacuation – A Teacher’s View
Fishermen Fighting the Nazis
Merchant Navy Deaths WW2
Rationing
1 – Timeline
Industry
Glass
Cookson Family
Salt
Shipyards
Pushing The Boat Out
Exhibit Cases
Ship Models
Wall Gallery
People
Did You Know?
Famous People
Annand, Richard “Dickie” VC
Baker, Maxine (Documentary Film Maker)
Chapman, Lady Hélène
Chapman, Robert (Sir)
Daniel, Francis
Erickson John (Historian)
Flagg, Amy
Graber, Sheila (Artist)
Ingham, Robert (MP)
Kirkpatrick, John Simpson
Kirkup, James (Poet)
Messent, Philip John
Moore, Derek William (Mathematician)
Peel, Dolly
Robson, Henry Howey VC
Winterbottom, Thomas
Wouldhave, William
Famous Visitors
Garibaldi
Geordie Culture
Geordie Humorous Stories – Jane Carr
Geordie Sayings – Jane Carr
Geordie Words – Dorfy
Geordie Words – Jane Carr
Poetry
Ford, Jim
Shields in Art
South Shields Union Banner
Local Characters
Daglish, William Australian convict
Hutchinson, John (Pilot/Garibaldi)
Local Heroes
Army
Ford, Jack (the real one!)
Ford, James (RAMC)
Hall, William (Cavalry)
Band, John Morrell (RANR)
Ford, Kitty (Nurse)
Merchant Navy
Blenkinsop, Joseph (B.E.M.)
Coffey, Ben and Grey, Percy (MN)
Hackston, George (MN)
Logan, Donald Alexander (MN)
Loughton, Douglas (MN)
Pells, John (North Sea Pilot)
Richardson, Edward Henry (MN/RNVR)
Royal Air Force
Bainbridge, Roland Barnsley (RAF)
Baser, Wylie (RAF)
Berndsson, Mauritz Bernard (DFM, DFC)
Eltringham, Alfred (RAF)
Falconer, Sidney Godfrey (RAF)
Henry, Bert Llewellyn (RAF)
Mason, Donald Lawson & Philips, Ralph (RAF)
Purdy, Thomas (RAF)
Williams, Walter Chantler (RAAF)
Winter, Douglas Cyril (RAF)
Yeoman, Harold (RAF)
Royal Navy
Walker, James and Berry, Alexander, Franklin Expedition (RN)
Scott, James (ARP)
Local History Heroes
Blower, Janis (Journalist/Author)
Carr, Jane Elizabeth (Dialect Writer)
Dorfy (Journalist/Dialect Writer)
Hodgson, George B (Journalist/Historian)
Mulhern, Mike
Local Success Stories
Barbour, John
Barbour, Margaret
Chipchase, Robert Life Raft Inventor
Cox, Shaun Maturin
Johnson, Alan
Migration
German Pork Butchers
Frederick Seitz
List of German Butchers
One German Pork Shop Through Time
Yemeni
Postcards
Working People
Women at Work
Parkin, Verda (Hairdresser)
The Younger Sisters (Munitions)
Places
Marsden
Visitors to Marsden
Mill Dam
Riverside
1 Ferry Street
2 Thrift Street
3 Long Row
4 Wapping Street
5 Comical Corner
6 Shadwell Street
7 Pilot Street
Town Centre
King Street
Ocean Road
Old Town Hall
Sport
South Shields Amateur Rowing Club
Transport
Buses – Gas Buses
Motor Buses
Omnibus – Horse Drawn
Railways
Roads
Trams – Electric
Trams – Horse Drawn
Trolley Buses
Listed Buildings
Listed Buildings 01 1, Beach Road 2022
Listed Buildings 02 King Street 105 to 107 2022
Listed Buildings 03 11, Beach Road 2022
Listed Buildings 04 16, Barrington Street 2022
Listed Buildings 05 17, Beach Road 2022
Listed Buildings 06 Wood Terrace 1 to 7 2022
Listed Buildings 07 21 And 21A, Beach Road 2022
Listed Buildings 08 23 Mill Dam 2022
Listed Buildings 09 Beach Road 2022
Listed Buildings 10 27 Mill Dam 2022
Listed Buildings 11 29, 31 And 33, Beach Road 2022
Listed Buildings 12 3 And 3A, Beach Road 2022
Listed Buildings 13 34 And 38, Horsley Hill Road, Cottages 2022
Listed Buildings 14 37 57 Beach Road 2022
Listed Buildings 15 5, Beach Road 2022
Listed Buildings 16 5 Westoe Village Fox 2022
Listed Buildings 17 6 Westoe Village 2022
Listed Buildings 18 King Street 67 to 69 2022
Listed Buildings 19 Greens Place 68 to 69 70 2022
Listed Buildings 20 Westoe Village No7 2022
Listed Buildings 21 Greens Place 81 2022
Listed Buildings 22 Greens Place 83, 84, 85 2022
Listed Buildings 23 Westoe Village 9 10 Spindlestone Neuk 2022
Listed Buildings 24 Alum House 2021
Listed Buildings 25 Bandstand In West Park 2022
Listed Buildings 26 Barclays Bank King Street 2022
Listed Buildings 27 Boundary Wall Immediately To South Of Church Of St Peter 2022
Listed Buildings 28 Boundary Wall To Numbers 1 To 22 (Consecutive) Fronting Road 2022
Listed Buildings 29 Boundary Wall To Numbers 23 To 39 (Consecutive) Mariners 2022
Listed Buildings 30 Westoe Village 15 Briary Ravensworth 2022
Listed Buildings 31 Brinkburn Farmhouse 2022
Listed Buildings 32 Gazebo Horsley Hill_Rd 2022
Listed Buildings 33 Lifeboat Canopy 2022
Listed Buildings 34 Westoe Village Chapel House 2022
Listed Buildings 35 Harton Chapel 2022
Listed Buildings 36 Church of St Hilda 2022
Listed Buildings 37 Church of Saint Michaels 2022
Listed Buildings 38 St Peters 2022
Listed Buildings 39 St Simons Church 2022
Listed Buildings 40 St Stephens Church 2022
Listed Buildings 41 Cleadon Water Tower Combined Engine And Boiler House 2022
Listed Buildings 42 East Beacon Lawe Top 2023
Listed Buildings 43 Entrance Building Of The Former Theatre Of Varieties 88 King 2022
Listed Buildings 44 Entrance Gates To Harton Cemetery 2022
Listed Buildings 45 Brittania Railings 2022
Listed Buildings 46 Westoe Village Former Talbot Memorial House 2022
Listed Buildings 47 Four Gate Piers Immediately To West Of Church Of St Hilda 2022
Listed Buildings 48 Westoe Southgarth Wall Heritage 2022
Listed Buildings 49 Westoe Village Ivy House 2022
Listed Buildings 50 Jubille Memorial 2022
Listed Buildings 51 Lifeboat 2022
Listed Buildings 52 Lloyds Bank 2022
Listed Buildings 53 Lodge To Harton Cemetery 2022
Listed Buildings 54 Mariners Cottages North 2022
Listed Buildings 55 Mariners Cottages North Copy 2022
Listed Buildings 56 Marks and Spencer (Boyes now) 2022
Listed Buildings 57 Town Hall 2022
Listed Buildings 59 Old Town Hall 2022
Listed Buildings 60 Railings And Piers To The Municipal Buildings Fronting Onto Broughton Road 2022
Listed Buildings 61 River Tyne, River Police Offices 2022
Listed Buildings 62 St Bedes 2022
Listed Buildings 63 Roman Fort 2022
Listed Buildings 64 South Pier, South Shields 2022
Listed Buildings 65 Museum 2022
Listed Buildings 66 South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House 2022
Listed Buildings 67 South Shields War Memorial 2022
Listed Buildings 68 Westoe Village Southgarth 2022
Listed Buildings 69 St Hilda’s Colliery Head Stocks 2022
Listed Buildings 70 St Marys Memorial 2022
Listed Buildings 71 Stag’s Head Public House 2022
Listed Buildings 72 Statue Of Queen Victoria 2022
Listed Buildings 73 Sundial To South West Of Church Of St Hilda 2022
Listed Buildings 74 Britannia Public House 2021
Listed Buildings 75 19 Westoe The Chase 2022
Listed Buildings 76 Old Marine School 2021
Listed Buildings 77 The Former Mercantile Marine Offices Customs House 2022
Listed Buildings 78 Scotia Public House 2020
Listed Buildings 79 The South Groyne 2022
Listed Buildings 80 Westoe Village 17 to 18 White House 2022
Listed Buildings 81 Trow Rock Floating Platform 2022
Listed Buildings 82 Trustee Savings Bank 2022
Listed Buildings 83 Victoria Hall 2022
Listed Buildings 84 Museum Railings 2022
Listed Buildings 85 War Memorial Outside St Hilda’s Church Front 2022
Listed Buildings 86 West Beacon Lawe Top 2022
Listed Buildings 87 Westoe Village Westoe Hall 2022
Listed Buildings 88 Westoe Terrace 62 to 64 Dean Road 2022
Listed Buildings 89 Westoe Village Meadowcroft 2022
Listed Buildings 90 Westoe Villas, 1 to 4 Wood Tce 2022
Listed Buildings 91 Cleadon Water Tower 2022
Listed Buildings 58 Parks 2022
Photos:
Terry Ford
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