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A view of the town. Before 1820, South Shields was a predominantly ... South Shields plays host to an annual free summer festival and each autumn the town is the ...
Tyne Dock is a neighbourhood within the town of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, on the south bank of the River Tyne.It takes its name from the large dock on the river which was opened in 1859 [1] by the North Eastern Railway [2] (and acquired by the Tyne Improvement Commission in 1938) to handle Tyneside's coal exports. [1]
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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]
Whitburn Colliery: aerial view with Souter Lighthouse and Marsden Village beyond it to the north. Whitburn Colliery was a coal mine located about three miles south of South Shields, North East England , located on the North Sea coast.
The Marsden Grotto, locally known as The Grotto, is a gastropub located on the coast at Marsden in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England. It is partly dug into the cliff face and fronted with a more conventional building opening onto the beach. The pub is one of the very few "cave bars" in Europe, another being Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in ...
It joined the network as a terminus station on 24 March 1984, following the opening of the fifth phase of the network between Heworth and South Shields. The original Metro station was closed on 8 July 2019 and was resited around 100 m (330 ft) to the south-east. On 4 August 2019, the station reopened as part of the new South Shields Interchange.
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.