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South Shields was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1850 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. It became a county borough in 1889 with the passing of the Local Government Act 1888 , and remained as such until 1974 when it became part of the Metropolitan Borough of South Tyneside in the (now former) county of Tyne and Wear .
Despite a skilled local workforce, for many years South Tyneside had the highest unemployment rate in mainland Britain, [34] although between December 2002 and December 2008 unemployment in South Shields fell by 17.8%, [34] and that of South Tyneside by 17.7%, [34] the best performance in the North East region over that time period.
Postcard of Westoe, 1904. The earliest recorded mention of Westoe is in 1072, which refers to a group of seven farms. [2]In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the village of Westoe was around one mile south of South Shields [3] (which was then part of County Durham until the formation of Tyne and Wear under the Local Government Act 1972), and was gradually absorbed into the urban sprawl ...
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.
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 old town hall. The first town hall in South Shields was commissioned as a manorial courthouse by the Dean and Chapter of Durham in the Market Place in 1768. [2] The design included arcading on the ground floor to allow markets to be held, steps leading to a door on the first floor on the north side and Venetian windows on the first floor on the other sides. [2]
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John Readhead and John Softley founded the business in 1865 in South Shields as Readhead and Softley. [1] The first ship they built was a small collier called Unus. [1] Swan Hunter bought the company in 1967 after publication of the Geddes Report which recommended rationalisation of shipbuilding on the River Tyne. [2]