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- South Shields, town and North Sea port, South Tyneside district, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Durham, northeastern England. It lies on the south side of the mouth of the River Tyne near the site of a Roman fort.
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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.
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.
Oct 11, 2024 · South Shields, town and North Sea port, South Tyneside district, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Durham, northeastern England. It lies on the south side of the mouth of the River Tyne near the site of a Roman fort. The town, founded by the Convent of Durham in the 13th.
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Jan 7, 2021 · South Shields' Roman Fort, Arbeia, is a long-established Tyneside visitor attraction. But back in 1875, the excavation of the fort, which is today situated on Baring Street, made national...
- The Old New Town
- Customs House and Ferry
- Museum and Town Centre
- Man with The Donkey
- Salt Making
- Chemicals and Glass
- Shipbuilding and Coal
In 1768 during the reign of George III South Shields, with its small chapel dedicated to St Hilda, was still little more than a long narrow street or track running alongside the Tyne. The street was adjoined by a collection of lanes and side roads and was bordered by hills of ballast created by the offloading of visiting ships. South Shields was in...
From the Templetown area near Tyne Dock, the Tyne flows northward before curving around the Lawe and heading east out into the sea. In this respect South Shields might be described as a headland bounded by the North Sea on one side and the Tyne on the other. Central to the riverside area is the Old Customs House in the Mill Dam area. Until around 1...
Moving ‘inland’ from the South Shields ferry terminal we find the market place and Old Town Hall of 1768 along with St Hilda’s church on the probable site of an Anglo-Saxon monastery. Extending east from the market place is the now pedestrianised King Street, where notable buildings among the shop fronts are two former Victorian theatres standing s...
Returning to Ocean Road in the centre of South Shields and close to the museum is a memorial by South Shields sculptor Robert Olley, featuring a man with a donkey. It rather surprisingly recalls one of Australia and New Zealand’s greatest heroes. His name is John Simpson Kirkpatrick and he was born to Scottish parents in South Shields’ Bertram Stre...
In 1489, a Lionel Bell of South Shields obtained a 60 year lease from the Prior of Durham for making salt near St Hilda’s church. Here he built two large salt pans where sea water was heated with vast quantities of coal to produce salt. These were the earliest known salt pans in South Shields and may mark the beginning of salt making here – one of ...
As well as salt, the export of coal had become an important industry at South Shields by the early 1600s, with a fee paid to Newcastle of course. Glassmaking and chemical manufacturing became important in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Fishing was another older established industry concentrated to the east of the church with salt making dominating...
South Shields shipbuilding was started in 1720 by a noted gentleman called Robert Wallis in Pilot Street. Newcastle Corporation, as fiercely protective of its shipbuilding as it had been of its coal trade, objected to the development and warned Wallis that his first ship would be seized and considered the property of Newcastle from the moment it wa...
Mar 24, 2024 · Featuring 160 archive photographs and postcards, the book recalls locations that have radically changed or disappeared, showing not only industries and buildings that have vanished, but also ...
Following the departure of the Romans, around 400AD, the area that is now South Shields is thought to have been called ‘Caer Urfe’, a name incorporating a Welsh or Ancient British word for a fort.
