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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.
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]
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 ...
After two title winning seasons in the Northern Alliance, and an appearance in the quarter-finals of the FA Vase in 1976, Shields joined the Wearside League winning the league at the first attempt in 1977 and completing a league and cup double by winning the Durham Challenge Cup against Consett at Roker Park, the first county cup win for the ...
Temple Memorial Park was given to the people of South Shields by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1946 to recognise their contribution to winning the war at sea in the Second World War. [1] The park was named after William Temple , the former archbishop of Canterbury , and was opened by his widow Mrs Frances Temple on 12 July 1961.
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St Bede's Church is a Catholic parish church in South Shields, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It was built from 1874 to 1876 in the Gothic Revival style of architecture. It is located on Westoe Road, south of Crossgate near the town centre. In 2016 it was designated a Grade II listed building. [3]
South Shields tram 35 on the Tyne Dock to Pierhead Route. South Shields Corporation Tramways took over the horse-drawn tramway network owned by the South Shields Tramways Company in 1906 and after a programme of modernisation and electrification, opened for service on 30 March 1906