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- South Shields Athletic AFC played at the Athletic Ground on Mowbray Road, adjacent to the Bents Cottages, and was formed in 1897, and has the credit of being the first ‘real’ football club to bear its home town name.
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South Shields (/ ʃ iː l z /) is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England; it is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. The town was once known in Roman times as Arbeia and as Caer Urfa by the Early Middle Ages. In 2021 it had a population of 75,337.
History of South Shields. The first settlers of the South Shields area were the Brigantes, although there is no evidence they built a settlement at South Shields. The Romans built a fort there to help supply Hadrian's Wall. Many ruins still exist today. The fort was abandoned as the empire declined.
Historically South Shields was part of an Anglo-Saxon district called Wirralshire – the name of the coastal land between the Tyne and Wear. South Shields has an Anglo-Saxon or medieval name referring to ‘Scheles’ – temporary fishermen’s huts, sheds or shelters on the south side of the Tyne.
South Shields Corps of Loyal Volunteers raised. 1803: Great Press Gang raid in South Shields. 1806: Mail coach began between South Shields and York. 1810: Templetown Colliery opened. 1812: Last “Press” for seamen in South Shields. 1814: First steam packet Perseverance between South Shields and Newcastle. 1816: Mill Dam Lake filled up. 1821
Oct 11, 2024 · The town, founded by the Convent of Durham in the 13th century, was a centre of the salt and glass industries in the 17th and 18th centuries. The first British self-righting lifeboat (for aiding ships in distress in the region) was launched there in 1790.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The first Arab Seamen’s Boarding House opened in the Holborn area of South Shields in 1909. During the First World War, more Yemini merchant sailors were recruited at Aden , so by the end of the war, almost a quarter of merchant sailors living in South Shields were from Yemen.
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South Shields is celebrated as being the port in which the lifeboat was originated, the first boat placed here, designed and built by Henry Greathead, of South Shields, being successfully used for the first time 30th January, 1790, in the rescue of some mariners who were wrecked in the oiling.
