{"id":24744,"date":"2017-10-20T19:49:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T19:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=24744"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:35:21","slug":"newcastle-c19th-housing-impressive-north-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=24744","title":{"rendered":"North Shields in the sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24840 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0850th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like North Shields. Its impressive collection of buildings on Howard Street, and along from the ferry to Fish Quay and beyond are ample reason to praise it as one of the most attractive districts of North Tyneside.<\/p>\n<p>I came to know it gradually, firstly Howard Street in fading light at the end of a long day in Hebburn, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay. Then in bright sunshine three days later one afternoon when the walk East from the ferry along New Quay, past the former Northumberland Arms (aka the Jungle) and then the former Porthole and Golden Fleece (now architects offices) to Union Quay showed the area at its best.<\/p>\n<p>Later up the steps to High Town past the High Light and up Howard Street in the evening sunlight watching the DFDS ferry leave for Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Another look at North Shields<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Z3FcTrxq9T\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/northumberlandia.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/31\/deepest-tyneside-a-trip-around-north-shields\/\">Deepest Tyneside: a trip around North&nbsp;Shields<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Deepest Tyneside: a trip around North&nbsp;Shields&#8221; &#8212; northumberlandia\" src=\"https:\/\/northumberlandia.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/31\/deepest-tyneside-a-trip-around-north-shields\/embed\/#?secret=pVkEXb1bxq#?secret=Z3FcTrxq9T\" data-secret=\"Z3FcTrxq9T\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Walking North Shields with old maps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tynemthcut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24747 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tynemthcutth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Above is a blue zoned map of C19th buildings I had intended to visit but events determined otherwise and the Northern half (<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0377.jpg\">except the large triangle<\/a>) remain unexplored.<\/p>\n<p>Of the others I discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0839.jpg\">Cardonell and Seymour Streets<\/a> (lower left) while driving home one evening from Tynemouth and stopped to check, indeed they were on my map. Of the remainder I visited William Street briefly when parked near the Metro station and walking down Borough Road from Railway Terrace.<\/p>\n<p>Howard and Saville Streets I saw at different times in different lights as the photographs below reflect.<\/p>\n<p>What follows now is not a guided tour of North Shields it is a collection of photographs from places I visited in the area over a couple of days, with comments.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>North Shields became known to me when planning this trip while I was trying to track down the location of this presumably fictional pub from <a href=\"\/?p=22158\">Our friends in the North<\/a>. I have asked a few locals, I think it was a film set but never mind, I learned a lot about the area by looking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/OFITN1964where.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22440 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/OFITN1964where.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Our Friends in the North 1964<\/p>\n<p>In the course of that search I learned about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gracesguide.co.uk\/Smiths_Dock_Co\">Smiths Docks<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merchant-navy.net\/forum\/merchant-navy-general-postings\/20005-jungle-north-shields.html\">Jungle<\/a> (the former Northumberland Arms now a mansion block), and the derelict <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Wolsington.jpg\">Wolsington<\/a>\u00a0on the other side of Smith&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>III<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s start where I began at the Southern end of Howard Street by Maritime Chambers in the fading light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0445.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24755 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0445th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maritime Chambers 1 Howard Street<\/p>\n<p>Then up Howard Street in the gloom &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0447.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24760 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0447th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0887.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24770 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0887th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and three days later in bright sunshine\u00a0past a lot of former shops and a couple of former banks &#8211; a retail street obscuring its earlier industrial life while retaining the elegance of the buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The Free Library on the corner of Howard and Saville Street &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0448.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24763 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0448th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and the Town Hall on the opposite corner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0452.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24835 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0452th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>IV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On my return visit I drove across town from Jesmond and Heaton in the sunshine via Wallsend when I passed this and stopped briefly to take a picture &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0838-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24774 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0838th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northeastmuseums.org.uk\/segedunum\">Segedunum the Roman fort<\/a> and viewing platform<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and a bit of research later revealed it to be not a control tower (<a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0343.jpg\">as I had thought in Hebburn<\/a>) but the viewing platform for a Roman fort.<\/p>\n<p>A little further on appeared the first of my housing research areas where I stopped to take some photographs and look at the terraces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0839.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24778 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0839th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cardonell Street mid-afternoon<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my photograph above but I became distracted talking to some local residents and omitted to photograph the back lane so please forgive me for the next two photographs which are courtesy of Streetview.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cardonnel-NShields.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24783 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cardonnel-NShieldsth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Side by side doors with a single window over, that one at left has been made over into a house because they&#8217;ve turned the l\/h entrance into a window.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cardonell-TFlats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24781 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cardonell-TFlatsth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The staircases in the back lane all point to Tyneside flats once more in this area of C19th housing, Cardonell, Seymour and Penman Streets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>V<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I parked in Railway Terrace near the Metro and walked down Borough Road with a quick look at William Street another in my marked areas of surviving C19th housing, photographs below:-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0840.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24790 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0840th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Paired doors with single window over &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24792 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0841th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230; rear external staircase down to yard point to Tyneside flats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0842.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24794 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0842th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>VI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I continued down Borough Road towards the river passing beneath a graceful arched steel viaduct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24800 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS1th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24802 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS2th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sorry for using Streetview some photographs I missed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24810 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS3th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0845.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24805 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0845th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The former Golden Fleece later Porthole now <a href=\"https:\/\/bharchitects.co.uk\/\">BH Architecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some archive photographs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2013-06-12-10-56-19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24859 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013-06-12-10.56.19th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Claim this photograph<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/PORTHOLE70S.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24865 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/PORTHOLE70Sth-e1508575725516.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/55877117@N05\/albums\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/55877117@N05\/albums\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/PORTHOLE70S2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24864 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/PORTHOLE70S2th-e1508575831529.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/55877117@N05\/albums\/\">https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/55877117@N05\/albums\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porthole-047.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24861 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Porthole-047th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Claim this photograph<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>VII<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turn right here for the ferry terminal &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24813 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS4th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Streetview<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24815 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS5th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Streetview &#8211; old entrance to Smith&#8217;s and ferry bus terminal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0888.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0888th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Not certain of location but definitely near Smith&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0893.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25275 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0893th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This was a pub until 2004 aka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/threads\/pubs-of-the-past-memories-of-times-gone-by-newcastle-and-the-north-east.1509827\/page-32?post_id=102481938#post-102481938\">The Chain Locker<\/a>. More notes -&gt;\u00a0The Crane House<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0846.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24819 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0846th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Tyne Ferry &#8211; one of mine<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24823 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS6th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Streetview &#8211; Northumberland Arms aka The Jungle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24827 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS7th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the ferry heading East once again facing former Golden Fleece \/ Porthole. &#8211; Streetview<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>VIII<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continuing East past the Porthole, at the corner of Bedford and Clive Street stands an impressive building dated 1874 about which I&#8217;d like to know more &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0856.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24880 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0856th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0857.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24882 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0857th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; let&#8217;s look at the 25 inch maps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.nls.uk\/view\/120934212#zoom=6&amp;lat=5423&amp;lon=1443&amp;layers=BT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24885 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/vlcm3u27.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That&#8217;s not much help &#8211; 25 inch Durham IV.1 1947<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.nls.uk\/view\/120934209#zoom=6&amp;lat=5261&amp;lon=1418&amp;layers=BT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24887 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/vlcm3u28.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nor is this one &#8211; 25 inch Durham IV.1 1915<\/p>\n<p>Nor was the 1898 but I won&#8217;t paste it here there&#8217;s no point. A Google search reveals:-<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Reflecting the topography, the handsome Grieves building at the corner of Lower Bedford Street was built in 1874 to the designs of F. R. N. Haswell, a prolific local architect. His work can also be seen in the Tynemouth and Preston Park Conservation Areas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my.northtyneside.gov.uk\/?originalUrl=https:\/\/my.northtyneside.gov.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/web-page-related-files\/new+quay+fish+quay+character+statement.pdf\"><em>New Quay and Fish Quay conservation area<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.fish-quay.com\/page\/heritage\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now we know.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>IX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0860.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24897 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0860th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pavotextiles.com\/\">North Shields heritage trail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further East is the Prince of Wales or Old Wooden Dolly, an information panel reproduced above details the history of the name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0858.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24895 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0858th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along Bell Street and now within sight of the High Light &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/vlcm3u29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24904 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0862th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and on to Fish Quay via an information panel from the heritage trail &#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>X<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0866.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24907 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0866th-e1508580887986.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pavotextiles.com\/\">North Shields heritage trail<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24922 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS11th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m using Streetview where I&#8217;ve missed a shot<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0870.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24918 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0870th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought it was a former shipping office I wasn&#8217;t far out see below, thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/my.northtyneside.gov.uk\/?originalUrl=https:\/\/my.northtyneside.gov.uk\/facility\/1008\">North Shields library<\/a> it has since been extended to the West as you can see from the photographs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25258 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/mission.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Click image above for full story<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0873.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24911 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0873th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Wm. Wright Ltd&#8217;s shop, which is something of a minor local institution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0867.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24915 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0867th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fish Quay and the Low Light<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0871.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24932 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0871th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pavotextiles.com\/\">North Shields heritage trail<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24941 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/NS12th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">At the far end of the Low Town<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0882.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24956 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0882th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The guns along the quay<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0876.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24935 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0876th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fiddler&#8217;s Green (left) &amp; Collingwood&#8217;s monument top right<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0878.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24689 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0878th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/northumberlandia.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/31\/deepest-tyneside-a-trip-around-north-shields\/\">Knott\u2019s Flats which loom like Prague Castle over the Black Middens<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>XI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s head back West a little and up to High Town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0869.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24952 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0869th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The High Light from Low Town<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24959 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0883th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0886.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24966 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0886th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_0884.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24962 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0884th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fish Quay and the Low Light from High Town<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/east.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25264 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/eastth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the High Lighthouse if you walk West past Dockwray Square &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/west.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25266 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/westth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; towards Howard Street &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/chambers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25262 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/chambersth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; you find yourself back where we started beside Maritime Chambers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24755\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0445th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Postscript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was a very partial visit. I didn&#8217;t touch the areas shown below and I didn&#8217;t walk Bedford Street the main shopping area although the one way system took me through it, behind a bus, on the way out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.singleaspect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Tynemthcut2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was genuinely sorry not to have had time to see the area where the workhouse stood and if there&#8217;s anything left of it (r\/h in image above) and to have seen the C19th housing N. of the station. But that will have to wait for another time and possibly not until 2019.<\/p>\n<p>I am left with a feeling of sadness that North Shields, much as I like it is to some extent a heritage park and as a former mariner would dearly wish that sufficient industry still existed to provide ample local employment.<\/p>\n<p>However, what remains has been well looked after and it is a lovely area to walk around and with friendly people. Every contact I had was without exception good humoured, friendly and useful. I look forward to going back.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Next time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permanent Link to Jesmond \u2013 schools, big houses, 4x4s, and students in Tyneside flats\" href=\"https:\/\/singleaspect.org.uk\/?p=25632\" rel=\"bookmark\">Jesmond \u2013 schools, big houses, 4x4s, and students in Tyneside flats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like North Shields. 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