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South and North Shields needed to stop the flow of sand that threatened shipping. In 1854 the first foundations were laid of the North and South Piers. They were both completed in 1885. [6] In the 1870s, from 1874 to 1876, St Bede's Catholic Church was built in South Shields. An engineering problem was encountered in managing the new piers.
Most of the Asians in South Shields are Bangladeshi, with the Beacon and Bents ward that covers South Shields town centre, had 9.9% of the population registering as that ethnicity. The Bangladeshi community is the third largest in Tyne and Wear , after Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland with 1.7% of the town's population being Bangladeshi or ...
In the first half of the 19th century, the Catholics in South Shields had to travel to North Shields to go to Mass. St Cuthbert's Church there was the closest church to them at the time (it was demolished and rebuilt in the 1970s). [4] In 1832, a Sunday school was started in the Mill Dam area of the town.
One page that is dedicated to celebrating photography from history is Old-Time Photos on Facebook. This account shares digitized versions of photos from the late 1800s all the way up to the 1980s.
The Customs House is the main feature of the Mill Dam Conservation Area of South Shields and sits on the south bank of the River Tyne. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The original building, built from 1863-1864, was designed by architect and surveyor of the borough T. M. Clemence. [ 3 ]
The church, the parish church of South Shields is said to be on the site of a chapel founded by St Aidan circa AD 647 and placed in charge of St Hilda. Some restoration work was carried out in 1675 by Robert Trollope. In 1753 a north aisle was added to the church.
The residual structure of the Marsden lime kilns. The company built the twin-track South Shields, Marsden, and Whitburn Colliery Railway, leaving the North Eastern Railway line at Westoe Lane, South Shields and travelling to Marsden via two intermediate stations. [1]
Arbeia was a large Roman fort in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England, now ruined, and which has been partially reconstructed. It was first excavated in the 1870s. All modern buildings on the site were cleared in the 1970s. It is managed by Tyne and Wear Museums as Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum.