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North Shields 800 Celebration Parade - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/02334657-58cc-4abe-8fbb-b61a1e0bed7e/Digital_FullCol_Hor+-+Copy+-+Copy.jpg What's On - North Shields 800 Celebration Parade - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/pop-up-cinema-and-the-beacon-centre monthly 0.5 2025-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b61e9213-7a86-4637-aa7f-5f6132212749/Video+Project+800.00_09_30_29.Still006.jpg What's On - Pop Up Cinema at the Beacon Centre - Make it stand out Image from My North Shields, produced by Write on the Tyne CIC and Wey Aye Man Drones. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/7iajyxq5bcgljo0gkt0pla88ktmyoz monthly 0.5 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9107354f-43bc-4ca0-9f53-4682a09cfe71/kitty+mcckay+lido+wall.png What's On - Exhibition: By the Lido Wall - Make it stand out Artist Kitty McKay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ce681bac-12ff-4c3e-996e-57f664a14c9f/RgPh5QQ5C5q5UnN8j6DC.webp What's On - Exhibition: By the Lido Wall - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9cb1a12c-c479-4470-a362-aea849709895/TNLHF_English_Acknowledgement_Stamp_Colour_JPEG.jpg What's On - Exhibition: By the Lido Wall - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/north-shields-800-telling-our-towns-story monthly 0.5 2025-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/89c406d7-bb40-4506-afc8-dc23f87f4c72/Detail+from+2+of+the+panels-+MAIN+IMAGE+copy.jpg What's On - North Shields 800: Telling Our Town’s Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/artist-talk-conrad-milne-with-local-historian-david-scholey-discover-the-stories-behind-the-north-shields-800-art-panels monthly 0.5 2025-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/89c406d7-bb40-4506-afc8-dc23f87f4c72/Detail+from+2+of+the+panels-+MAIN+IMAGE+copy.jpg What's On - Artist Talk: Conrad Milne with Local Historian David Scholey Discover the Stories Behind the North Shields 800 Art Panels - Make it stand out A preview of the artwork by Conrad Milne https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/nile-street-party monthly 0.5 2025-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/df22e9e3-e7d3-4a8b-8123-47b0110467c4/landscape+Nilestreet+for+NS800.jpg What's On - Nile Street Party - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/4aa67957-278a-4d08-a4f3-7d1eb761e31a/Nile+street+party+harlequin.jpg What's On - Nile Street Party - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/rnli-christmas-carol-service monthly 0.5 2025-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/83467abe-0cca-45cb-b4c1-82db5fd9582e/PXL_20220717_121024023.jpg What's On - 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From Our Streets to Our Seas: Tales of Heritage, Memory and Myth - Make it stand out Image by Richard Lister Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/093e78df-907c-4386-9dbf-5f077b3c97c7/North+Shields%2C+Step+by+Step%2C+1980s+%C2%A9Sirkka-Liisa+Konttinen.+Supplied+courtesy+of+SIDE++The+AmberSide+Collection.jpg What's On - From Our Streets to Our Seas: Tales of Heritage, Memory and Myth - Make it stand out North Shields, Step by Step, 1980s ©Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. 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From Our Streets to Our Seas: Tales of Heritage, Memory and Myth - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d066d50b-5a5c-418b-b3c4-59fd67573d9d/Community-Foundation-NE-RGB-2.png What's On - From Our Streets to Our Seas: Tales of Heritage, Memory and Myth - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/36364b27-4142-455f-a963-0fe8b615c33f/download.png What's On - From Our Streets to Our Seas: Tales of Heritage, Memory and Myth - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/our-shields-our-stories-portrait-heritage-day-at-the-linskill-centre monthly 0.5 2025-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/61bf6dc3-7617-48b8-a15d-d4b3ec498a94/Linskill_Cenre.jpeg What's On - Our Shields, Our Stories: Portrait & Heritage Day at the Linskill Centre - Make it stand out The Linskill Centre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/90e449d2-461a-4976-a69c-7fd8164ef612/LS_Portrait_Day_NS800.jpeg What's On - Our Shields, Our Stories: Portrait & Heritage Day at the Linskill Centre - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/characterbuilding monthly 0.5 2025-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/766ae22b-b794-4713-8437-363912334f8c/viz.png What's On - Character Building: Bring North Shields to Life in Comic Form - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/memorieshawkeyslane monthly 0.5 2025-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/07092fd6-fa1a-439c-87a4-278306814fd1/tq1hl3wlx6kjlrbnsb8n.jpg What's On - 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C Aware Cancer Signs and Symptoms and screening event - Make it stand out Fishermen in the North Shields fish market talking to the North Tyneside Stop Smoking service https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/381ab016-070c-47d2-ae60-25e0d203a576/Parish+Nursing+and+lung+health+session.jpg What's On - C Aware Cancer Signs and Symptoms and screening event - Make it stand out Lung health information and a model lung at a previous C Aware event in the fish market https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/dinky-dinosaur-train-rides monthly 0.5 2025-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1e78ffab-54cd-43d5-ab64-a4315d325c44/Dinky+Dino+1.jpg What's On - Dinky Dinosaur Train Rides - Make it stand out The dinosaur handlers at Stephenson Steam Railway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d187ecb0-af17-4ed6-b36b-aa181ac0da99/Dinky+Dino+2.jpg What's On - Dinky Dinosaur Train Rides - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b0aee249-52f1-48c7-97cc-36d2a8b69b6d/Dinky+Dino+3.jpg What's On - 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NXS800 - A Symphony in 8 Movements - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1748858895192-XS5P7TMS5MYMLTL8WCZL/501199860_18506796883019952_474933113336179291_n.jpg What's On - NXS800 - A Symphony in 8 Movements - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/dc7da69a-d91a-4929-a6a6-f397e584339f/501677956_18506796910019952_7473196886117948532_n.jpg What's On - NXS800 - A Symphony in 8 Movements - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d1b95168-2900-48f7-ab43-425eb7cab059/501275338_18506796892019952_5176262729840483192_n.jpg What's On - NXS800 - A Symphony in 8 Movements - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/6c8fb0bf-7df5-48ad-be6a-ec02eb72d71f/501092085_18506796907019952_4861250301471244398_n.jpg What's On - 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Cancer Signs and Symptoms Event and C Aware one year anniversary at North Shields Fish Quay - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/4b5e0125-ec2d-46b6-b506-7cd30f1ff2ab/20250327_114516.jpg What's On - Cancer Signs and Symptoms Event and C Aware one year anniversary at North Shields Fish Quay - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/dc4ab44d-c77d-4267-bd74-a155bce913f0/20250327_113256.jpg What's On - Cancer Signs and Symptoms Event and C Aware one year anniversary at North Shields Fish Quay - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e92a1ce4-8e50-43b3-81d9-eb6611d72555/Event+-+IMG_1303.jpg What's On - Cancer Signs and Symptoms Event and C Aware one year anniversary at North Shields Fish Quay - 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Strawberry Fayre and Past, Present & Future exhibition - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2c59bc3b-c856-416b-bf24-d20fe90ba0a0/columba+strawberry+fayre+2.jpg What's On - Strawberry Fayre and Past, Present & Future exhibition - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/registrars-open-day monthly 0.5 2025-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8bf8b693-9a20-4c9a-b3a6-60e936587fee/Picture2+%28002%29.jpg What's On - Registrars' Open Day - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/bio-blitz-event-1 monthly 0.5 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1740126858828-VUQQUP7MTA9DMMMWS2CL/Stephenson+Fiona+identifying+and+talking+about+sticky+picture+%281%29+%281%29.JPG What's On - 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Hunting for Mines with Alan Fidler - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-great-british-pub monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b2837a35-391a-425c-881c-b6b087a8d070/pubs.jpg What's On - The Rise and Fall of the Great British Pub - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/tynemouth-rnli-lifeboat-day monthly 0.5 2025-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e556e095-1861-4728-a4d9-747685338deb/PXL_20230716_113535679.jpg What's On - Tynemouth RNLI Lifeboat Day - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d0d9b88c-aab5-493f-8506-eeeefe9561ae/PXL_20220717_121024023.jpg What's On - Tynemouth RNLI Lifeboat Day - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/harvest-from-the-deep-by-pete-robinson monthly 0.5 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/216eee3d-e73a-4097-bd00-b8934f95e4a7/Harvest+from+the+Deep+Exhibition+poster+horizontal.jpg What's On - ‘Harvest from the Deep’ by Pete Robinson - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/hector-gannet-second-date-added monthly 0.5 2025-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/dfca6394-4e1c-4ae4-ad7e-e1812af4ddb6/Hector+Gannet+Instagram+Artwork+Extra+Date.jpg What's On - Hector Gannet - second date added - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/whats-on/gannin-shoppin monthly 0.5 2025-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/c55454d9-ee44-4315-a21b-52b8199104b6/banner+4+or+5+Bedford+st+Pickards.jpg What's On - 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North Shields to join the running for UK Town of Culture 2028 after a landmark year of community celebration - Make it stand out The Celebration Parade in December 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/25abd7c8-904b-4abc-ad69-6c4dfcf6cfc4/parade+of+boats+2.jpg News - North Shields to join the running for UK Town of Culture 2028 after a landmark year of community celebration - Make it stand out Parade of Boats in June 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bb7939bd-b669-4d78-8542-729f7e2c47b0/NS800+december+celebration+parade+1+%281%29.jpg News - North Shields to join the running for UK Town of Culture 2028 after a landmark year of community celebration - Make it stand out Spark! LED drummers at the Celebration Parade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/06c357b7-a9f4-44ce-b78a-aa94cb5f5e95/fish+quay+2.JPG News - North Shields to join the running for UK Town of Culture 2028 after a landmark year of community celebration - Make it stand out North Shields Fish Quay https://www.northshields800.com/news/zwpr63cmcrheg4u9v9srh2lq3jbxkj monthly 0.5 2026-01-09 https://www.northshields800.com/news/y0zmdoobxm8n3bk4mt44ppvuudbtzz monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/dd751882-b78d-43b3-b63f-8d00bd671d53/NS800+fact+of+the+day+112+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 1st, 1884 Work started on the creation of Northumberland Park under the surveillance of Borough Surveyor Mr Casimir Gomoszynski, giving work to 101 local unemployed men at the rate of half a crown a day (12½ pence). Paths were cut into the banks of the Pow Burn and were planted mainly with Sycamore; a lake was constructed and making the most of the valley that the Pow Burn had afforded, a sheltered park was created. This was completed in August 1885. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/12f0b5c6-cfaa-427a-adf7-69695c15124f/NS800+fact+of+the+day+212+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 2nd, 1851 Early this morning a fire broke out in the Union Street Theatre, on the junction of Lower Howard Street and Union Street and in less than three hours the entire building with its valuable scenery, properties and wardrobe were destroyed. The theatre was first opened on November 5th, 1783, by Mr Cawdell on the site of a building that had been used as a place of detention for prisoners taken during the French War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d5f8a1d1-3a2e-4921-bd4b-5e48a30f4ae1/NS800+fact+of+the+day+312+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 3rd, 1965 The Shields Weekly News reported that the Stag Line, North Shields had enjoyed its best trading year since 1957, with a net profit of £176,503 returned in the year ending October 31st. This compared with a profit of £17,268 the previous year and a net loss of £103,852 in 1963. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e699204c-f399-4649-82b0-29ee57cd6d34/NS800+fact+of+the+day+412.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 4th, 1849 The Providence lifeboat disaster happened almost within sight of the Old Low Light. Twenty crew were lost and only four survived. The rescue operation was watched by families on the south side. The importance of the disaster is that it resulted in significant changes in lifeboat construction including a competition to design a self-righting lifeboat and improvements to the river mouth, including building of the North and South piers. Pic – John Scott’s painting ‘Wreck off the South Pier’ shows Providence ten years later in another rescue and the construction work on the new North Pier is visible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/eaae13bf-cb88-432f-9cf1-7b2e7ec50ca1/Copy+of+NS800+fact+of+the+day+512.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 5th, 1864 Following the loss of 32 people from the stricken ships, SS Stanley and the schooner Friendship at the Black Midden Rocks and subsequent requests for the formation of a voluntary corps to be trained in the use of coast rescue equipment, local civic dignitaries called a public meeting. There was a huge response, resulting in the formation of the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade as a team who would be trained, ready and willing to assist HM Coastguard to save life from shipwrecks. Over 100 men signed up on the spot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/815a15d8-cd34-4d12-af18-9c51c4a544bf/NS800+fact+of+the+day+612.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 6th, 1872 This morning ‘a destructive fire’ broke out in a steam-ship biscuit manufactory belonging to Mr Ald Wascoe in Clive Street, North Shields. It was discovered by a policeman ‘on his beat’ (patrol area) and the fire brigade was soon on the spot. The manufactory was situated on a quay abutting the street in a densely populated area and the building and its contents were reduced to ruins. Mr Wascoe had got 50 sacks of flour on the previous day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/891d1953-a425-4d93-a3f9-8405ac32c789/NS800+fact+of+the+day+712+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 7th, 1831 ‘The cholera morbus (disease) commenced its ravages in Newcastle and the Mayor, Archbold Reed having received orders to send to the government daily reports of the state of health in Sunderland, South Shields, North Shields and Newcastle, ‘obtained every information in his power for that purpose’. Three days later, on December 10th, cholera ‘made its first appearance in North Shields from which day to March the 17th, 1832, the number of individuals attacked in North Shields, Tynemouth and Chirton was 250, of whom died 91 persons’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/aae2a4ef-e0a2-4c4c-b45b-408725b0198e/NS800+fact+of+the+day+812+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 8th, 1889 ‘The Maister’ - Thomas Haswell - headmaster of North Shields Royal Jubilee School, songwriter and composer died. The school was demolished in 1971 and a memorial to Thomas Haswell stands on the site, on the corner at the junction of Albion Road and Preston Road, North Shields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b740d9cd-13c3-4df0-b2af-7a5c2e26a98b/NS800+fact+of+the+day+912+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 9th, 1787 Birth of John Dobson at Chirton. He became the region’s most eminent architect, involved in almost 450 projects and perhaps best known for designing Newcastle Central Station and his work with Richard Grainger transforming the centre of Newcastle. He also designed 20 projects around North Shields, including five still standing in Northumberland Square and Howard Street. A blue plaque was installed on the Pineapple Inn, Chirton, the site of his birthplace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9a5141ad-a88c-46c3-8cc5-f8fb9d531ae4/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1012+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 10th, 1805 An extraordinarily high tide took place at Shields and the sea being very high caused the waves to break with great fury against the stone quay at the foot of Tynemouth barracks. Several of the wooden heads or breakwaters were torn from the front of the wall and smashed to pieces. The tide washed down the sentry box, near Clifford’s Fort, even though it was placed away from the water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3269a4d6-858b-46a2-8a2a-57dfd955a803/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1112+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 11th, 1933 The first landing in North Shields from an Icelandic trawler took place. The boat ’trialling’ the scheme was the ‘Hilmar’ out of Reykjavik. Twenty-five years later, in September 1958, Iceland extended its fishing limit from four to 12 nautical miles from the coast which would later be extended to a 200-nautical-mile limit. In the 1970s, this resulted in the so-called ‘Cod Wars’ that saw the Royal Navy sent to protect British fishing boats trying to break the exclusion zones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/dd646a1b-4e81-4068-8fda-68cea111f70b/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1212+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 12th, 1887 The birth of artist Victor Noble Rainbird at Sidney Street, North Shields. He lived most of his adult life in the town and there is a blue plaque outside his later family home at 71 West Percy Street. Victor attended the Royal Academy School in 1911, the only scholar from the North of England, where he was awarded the coveted Landseer Scholarship. Rainbird should have become a real name in the art world. Instead, he opted to enlist as a private soldier with the Northumberland Fusiliers during World War One and came back from that conflict a changed man. He is lovingly remembered by the folks of North Shields who in 2015 raised a considerable amount of money to place a commissioned gravestone on his then unmarked pauper’s grave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/c52c7736-b26e-4079-bd2e-2f4d08e3d982/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1312+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 13th, 1870 In a report by the Durham Mining Museum, William Oastler, aged 13, is listed as dying following an accident at Preston Colliery, where he was employed to drive the horses pulling the coal tubs on the main roadway underground. He was crushed by a horse crank and pump. Over the years, until its closure in 1929, Preston Colliery was a major employer in North Shields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2b25bf3e-3fd6-467a-abcb-2c90f5c912fb/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1412+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 14th, 1989 The Whitley Bay Guardian reports the theft of £1,248 worth of sweets from Welch’s factory at Norham Road, North Shields and damage totalling £160 during a break-in by ‘sweet-toothed burglars’. Their haul included 70 boxes of chocolate eclairs, 20 boxes of peppermint lumps and 10 boxes of assorted fruit sweets. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/93bc83b0-e113-4956-9c24-bc0766321346/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1512+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 15th, 1870 Died at his residence, Northumberland Square, North Shields after a short illness of little more than a week, Mr James Philip Dodd in his 67th year. He was much connected with education in the town since 1827 and before commencing an academy of his own, he was an assistant with his father-in-law, the late Rev W Leitch, who was the father of the Town Clerk. Mr Dodd was also one of the founders of the North Shields Mechanics’ Institution and a secretary of the Literary and Philosophical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e61c2741-d96d-4d76-a226-dbb3ccdaae24/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1612+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 16th, 1869 Shields Daily News: North Shields ‘Victoria Soup Kitchen’ distributed to the poor of the town 240 gallons of soup that day and a further 320 gallons the next. Allowing for a pint of soup per person that would have amounted to nearly four and a half thousand servings over the two days. The kitchen which was situated on Wellington Street also served dinners during its operation which began around 1850, It was still in operation in 1904. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1411b988-2a1a-4df2-998c-f0f4735b5cd0/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1712+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 17th, 1889 The death of Joseph Spence, a member of the influential North Shields Spence family, Quakers and businesspeople who contributed much to the town. He was buried in Preston Cemetery. With his well-known brother, John Foster Spence, he ran the family’s drapery, tailoring and general house furnishings business on the corner of Howard Street and Tyne Street. He was also involved with his brother in the establishment of the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade and was an active abolitionist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2d2c9ac4-0006-4ef8-896a-029ad84d9094/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1812+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 18th, 1872 The Tyne Lifeboat Society’s lifeboat, Northumberland, was struck by a large wave while attempting to reach the brig Gleaner which was in distress on the Tyne harbour bar in severe weather. James Watson and John Wheatley were two of the seven lifeboat crew who ended up in the water. Unfortunately, they were washed away and drowned. Their five companions were safely recovered. Thank you to Steve Landells for sharing this photograph of a model of the Northumberland from the TVLB Watch House Museum, Tynemouth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/6f66000f-bd45-4bd2-9387-9ff16aaa2781/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1912+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 19th, 1920 The death of Richard Irvin, who grew up at the Bull Ring on the New Quay and went on to become the head of a global business empire, arguably the largest of its kind in the world at that time. Based at North Shields and a pioneer in steam trawling, his many companies were all involved with fishing, including the well-known North Shields factory Tyne Brand. At a memorial service, the Rev A Fallon described him as ‘one of the most successful businessmen in the country’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/96881281-3ecd-49e6-84f0-2f85217c0698/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2012+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 20th, 1752 The right worshipful the mayor, aldermen and common council of Newcastle gave their assent to a request made by Edward Collingwood of Chirton esq. for leave to make a dock at the lower end of North Shields for careening and repairing of ships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a65871d7-c573-43be-8d9a-359ccea1cd6c/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2112+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 21st,1868 The official opening of the Scandinavian Lutheran Church, North Shields. It stood on Borough Road, below the Ballarat Pub on the junction with Gardner Street and was known locally as the Norwegian Church. It was frequented by large numbers of Scandinavian seamen sailing into the Tyne on ships carrying pit props and other goods from the Scandinavian and Baltic ports. The foundation stone was laid on 24 April 1868. Due to the much-reduced number of Norwegians coming to the river, the church was closed in October 1966. Many Norwegians married local girls and settled in the town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bfbfc4a2-ae2d-4a70-9144-1d5dd2dc0210/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2212+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 22nd, 1983 A new owner, Hugh Price, re-opened the Tynemouth Lodge Hotel, on Correction House Bank, Tynemouth Road, North Shields, which has been on its present site since the late 18th century. Next door to the old House of Correction and Justices’ Room, which was in operation from around 1780 to 1890, with visiting judges sometimes staying there and meals also being provided for prisoners. Mr Price still owns the Tynemouth Lodge, which has been in the Good Beer Guide for 39 years consecutively. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3faf317e-d53d-4534-9de9-b767d022fe32/_NS800+fact+of+the+day+2312+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 23rd, 1889 Inspector James Anderson of Tynemouth Borough Police was on night duty on the New Quay and in the Low Town. He was last seen in the early hours of December 24th. Evidence seemed to indicate that he fell into the river. His body was not recovered until January 25th,1890. Whether he was murdered or his death was accidental was never satisfactorily established. Inspector Anderson lived on Norfolk Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ddb4bfa0-9de9-40c8-90c2-5f7d6344a96b/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2412+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 24th, 1986 The closing service was held at All Saints' United Reformed Church in Verne Road, which had suffered from falling numbers and vandalism. The church had opened in 1954 as a ‘daughter church’ of St Columba’s Presbyterian Church, Northumberland Square. On its closure, its members ‘greatly enriched worship at Northumberland Square, with many of them performing important leadership roles’. The Square Building Trust built flats on the site, under the name of All Saints Court. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/be4193bd-3947-4b64-ad82-8001f2262613/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2512+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 25th, 1831 Escaped enslaved woman Mary Ann Macham arrived by stagecoach in North Shields having endured a treacherous and lengthy journey from Virginia, USA. She was met by daughters of the Spence family who became lifelong friends of Mary Ann. She later married James Blyth, enjoying 60 years of freedom. Following an exhibition at the Old Low Light Heritage Centre in 2019, highlighting her story, funding was raised for a memorial stone placed on her unmarked grave in Preston Cemetery. However, following the recent installation of a sculpture by artist Keith Barrett at the top of the new walkway to the fish quay, at the foot of Howard Street, future generations will more readily be reminded of Mary Ann’s bravery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1265b8a1-64d3-433c-9c25-04eb1cfaa04c/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2612+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 26th, 1873 The paddle tug Gipsy Queen sank on the Tyne after colliding with a sunken hopper barge. This resulted in the loss of four crew members and 14 workmen from Tyne Commissioners who were being taken from North and South Shields to their jobs upriver on dredgers to deepen the river and make it suitable for large ships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1db99748-0a6e-42de-a5c4-a1d428747df4/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2712++%281%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 27th, 1871 Charles J. Dillon, a well-known English actor-manager and great tragedian, appears at North Shields Theatre Royal in the character of Macbeth. Dillon had toured extensively to improve his reputation. He became actor-manager of the Theatre Royal, Wolverhampton in 1848. He acted at Sadler’s Wells, became manager of the Lyceum in 1856 and then manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1857. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/43f6e076-f4de-4490-8a38-90bf230ad7e0/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2812+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 28th, 1898 A foundation stone was laid by Mrs W R Yeeles for a building on 15 Waterville Road, to provide accommodation for the Psychical Research Society. The building was to be known as the Lewis Hall. The purpose of the society is to understand events and abilities commonly described as psychic or paranormal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/cd599f66-a8c3-4fdb-b749-e3b8d977f2a2/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2912+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 29th, 1900 Newcastle Weekly Chronicle reported the Christmas celebrations at Tynemouth Workhouse, when ‘about 620 people sat down to a substantial meal, consisting of roast beef and plum pudding’. This involved ‘56 stones of beef and 60 stones of potatoes’, in addition to 56 plum puddings. The dinner was presided over by Ald John Foster Spence, chairman of the Board of Guardians. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/35d5c4ab-1698-4b09-b68e-677a714ec820/NS800+fact+of+the+day+3012+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 30th, 1869 Workmen begin pulling down the old buildings at the Wooden Bridge Bank to allow the widening of the footpath. The attached section of map published in 1859 shows how tight the road was around that point. The area in question was once known as ‘The Dogger Letch’ because of its swampy ground. In the 17th century it was crossed by a wooden bridge connecting the present Clive Street to Liddell Street. A toll house was located nearby which was demolished in 1857. The wooden bridge is marked on the attached section of Wood’s 1826 map. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/11e115e2-f170-4ade-9e08-476a8c2d7f80/NS800+fact+of+the+day+3112.jpg News - Fact of the Day - December - Make it stand out December 31st, 1916 The Pilot Cutter Protector was sunk by a mine off the piers. All 19 crew members and pilots aboard were lost. The only body recovered was that of the oldest pilot, Robert Phillips, aged 72, who was pulled from the sea at King Edward’s Bay by his son Ralph, also a pilot, in March 1917. Ralph’s son was also lost in the disaster. The youngest victim was Benjamin Rumney, a cabin boy of Burdon Main Row, aged 16. The Protector was a 200-ton pilot cutter built in 1907 by J.P. Rennoldson & Sons in South Shields. Pictured are three of the men lost, from left to right: Robert Phillips, Ralph Phillips junior (his grandson) and John Hart Burn from North Shields. https://www.northshields800.com/news/fact-of-the-day-november monthly 0.5 2026-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/c4ad7250-ecd9-441f-9bf4-b0d820db239a/571134791_122178578804582516_7542438086321714554_n.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 1st, 1849 Having been granted a Charter of Incorporation, the first elections took place for the new municipal Borough of Tynemouth. Captain William Linskill became the first mayor of the new borough. There were three wards each electing six councillors – Tynemouth, North Shields and Percy. Tynemouth ward comprised Cullercoats, Tynemouth Village and the upper areas of North Shields east of Howard Street. North Shields ward was the Low Street/Fish Quay area below the bankside and the upper town west to Coach Lane. Percy ward covered the other areas of the new borough including, Chirton, Percy Main, East Howdon and Preston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/92ce2467-07c9-4b1a-9077-98cce95e2dcd/NS800+fact+of+the+day+211+%281%29+-+Copy.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 2nd, 1914 Following the epic rescue involving the wrecked hospital ship Rohilla, the Tynemouth lifeboat Henry Vernon, the first purpose-built motor lifeboat in service with the RNLI, returned to station. Captain Herbert Burton of the Royal Engineers stationed at Clifford’s Fort, who was in charge of the lifeboat and Coxwain Robert ‘Scraper’ Smith, who was in charge of the rescue received RNLI Gold Medals and the Empire Medal for Gallantry. Crew members James and John Brownlee and Tom Cummins each received Tynemouth Trust Silver Medals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bfaa99aa-7f77-4921-b17b-633880b5a849/NS800+fact+of+the+day+311++-+Copy.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 3rd, 1818 His imperial highness, the archduke Maximillian, cousin to the emperor of Russia, with his suite, on their tour to the North, honoured North Shields and Tynemouth with their presence. Accompanied by Nicholas Fairless and others, he visited the ancient priory and fortifications of Tynemouth, the North Shields Subscription Library, and the various manufactories, and expressed himself highly gratified, particularly with Mr Flinn’s improved harpoon guns, whale lances, and other instruments used in the Greenland fishery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/db70a1b1-c64e-4717-84b4-ad6c395dd124/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0411.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 4th, 1744 Trinity House letters: Secretary of Trinity House, Thomas Aubone, writes to Captain Middleton of Clifford’s Fort requesting him in future to prevent the firing of guns near the low lighthouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/6c35433d-8821-4481-98fb-94fff3546418/NS800+fact+of+the+day+511+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 5th, 1807 The Literary and Philosophical Society opened their new subscription library building in Howard Street (now the Registry Office), with a concert of vocal and instrumental music. Their collections moved in 1870, when the Mechanics Institute donated their building at the corner of Howard Street and Saville Street, creating the first public library on Tyneside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bf97d6fe-5652-442d-ae36-c76207666c6c/_NS800+fact+of+the+day+611++-+Copy.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 6th, 1907 The Rev, T.E. Crawhall, MA, Vicar of Tynemouth and chairman of the Tynemouth Secondary Education Committee laid the foundation stone for a new secondary school in Hawkey’s Lane. The Mayor, Councillor Ben Hewitt presided over the proceedings. The Municipal High School opened on November 8th, 1909, to accommodate 400 scholars and ‘pupil teachers’ (where older schoolchildren taught fellow pupils in the lower grades while continuing with their own learning). A new type of school was introduced which recognised the need for separate courses not only for academic achievement, but for commerce, industry and trade. Entrance into the school was by examination, and although a fee-paying establishment, 25 percent of the successful candidates were offered free places. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/69cca661-a91e-4824-9679-bfbea0af4310/NS800+fact+of+the+day+711.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 7th, 1941 Heroes of the Wilkinson Lemonade Factory air-raid shelter bombing, Clarence Burdis and George Newstead were at an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace to be presented with the George Medal by King George VI. Mr Burdis and Mr Newstead were leaders of the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) rescue party on the night of the bombing when 107 people, including 43 children were killed, in one of the worst single bomb death tolls outside London during World War II. Mr Newstead commented to the Evening News: “It was an outstanding experience in our lives … and apart from the object for which we went … well worth the trouble of the journey.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3ee32d7d-16af-4e71-8881-76152a4bc5b8/NS800+fact+of+the+day+811+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 8th, 1885 Oscar Wilde made his ‘much-delayed’ appearance in North Shields, when he gave a talk at the Theatre Royal, Prudhoe Street. Entitled ‘The House Beautiful’, the talk dealt with the interior and exterior of a house from a decorative point of view. In discussing the interior, he said he did not like linoleum or floorcloth, but recommended stone or imitation stone pavement. He would not have good pictures in the hall, because ‘to have good pictures there would be injurious; and as for bad pictures, they should be nowhere!’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/416d2bc9-824c-4ade-8ee4-6fb03436ebe8/NS800+fact+of+the+day+911+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 9th, 1874 The Mayor of the Borough of Tynemouth R W Surtees was presented with a massive solid silver epergne (a decorative table centrepiece) and a large silver tray as a memento of the birth of his son Stanley. ‘The articles were of a very handsome description and contained 360 ounces of solid silver’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7469a615-a0b9-4115-a540-5972fc99bcf7/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1011+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 10th, 1919 The Smith’s Dock Male Voice Choir held its first practice in the Smith’s Institute, Hawkey’s Lane, ‘when a most auspicious beginning was made’. ‘There was a splendid attendance despite the inclemency of the weather, and all present entered most enthusiastically into the singing, and showed signs of very great promise. There is every prospect of a most successful choir being established.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5c1b4bf0-3331-4579-b179-2d1e2ea101d4/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1111.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 11th, 2021 Adrian (John) Nichol, who was born and raised in Chirton, and John Peters published an updated paperback of ‘Tornado Down’. Their book was first published in 1992, describing how as RAF flight lieutenants during the Gulf War in 1991 they were shot down. They were captured in the desert, half a mile from their blazing Tornado bomber. This led to seven harrowing weeks of torture, confinement and interrogation, an ordeal that brought both men close to death. The original book was a best seller, described by the Daily Mail as ‘the most compelling story of the Gulf War’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1baa2ff0-ed99-4962-8ae8-dc1ecfd58ebb/574062426_122180121752582516_5022414823625869704_n.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 12th, 1856 Local media reports of an explosion the previous day on the Blyth and Tyne Railway at Percy Main depot. A ‘pilot’ engine was standing near to the railway workshops, ‘under steam, awaiting orders’ when it exploded with ‘fearful violence’. Fireman Joseph Percy ‘suffered a terrible death’, with several others having a narrow escape. The engine was ‘shattered to pieces’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/c88b420c-4514-4f89-a91b-c8f96e6b4e86/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1311+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 13th, 1954 ‘It was an Olympic scene in miniature’ when the Mayor of Tynemouth, Councillor Ada Southworth, lit the perpetual torch outside the main entrance of North Shields Youth Centre from another torch carried from Newcastle by relays of runners. The ceremony marked the inauguration on Tyneside of the YMCA-YWCA Week of Prayer and World Fellowship. A message from the Lord Mayor of Newcastle said the torch was ‘a solemn symbol of thanksgiving and renewed dedication by members of the North Eastern Division’. The Shields Daily News later reported that on the last stage of its nine-mile journey, the torch was carried by 18-year-old Kenneth Campbell of Vicarage Street, a member of the North Shields Youth Centre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e3ca878c-053b-444e-b1be-50cf5b319a7d/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1411+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 14th, 1901 In ferocious weather, Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade and coastguards were returning from another local rescue, when a small ketch, the Journeeks of Riga, Russia was seen trying to make the Tyne entrance. Unable to round the North Pier, two TVLB men used flags to guide her into King Edward’s Bay. Rescuers bravely entered the waves saving one man. Three bodies were later recovered. Michael Lowes (TVLB) was awarded the Tynemouth Trust Silver Medal, and all rescuers were awarded the Diploma and Medal of the Imperial Russian Society for Saving Life on the Waters. Thank you to Dave Bell, TVLB, for sharing this information https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/40ee7776-43ac-4c53-a79d-7d537a9efeee/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1511.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 15th, 1895 The lighthouses on North and South Piers are now both lit for first time. The Villiers lighthouse in Tynemouth castle grounds was removed in 1896, as the new lights from St Mary’s Island, the new Tyne piers and Souter Light at Whitburn now provided a secure and safe guide for mariners approaching the Tyne. In 1897, the North Pier was breached by severe storms and had to be realigned into its current straight-line structure. As part of this work, the North lighthouse was replaced in 1906. The replacement lighthouse stands 55ft high (17 metres) and visible 26 miles offshore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bf455667-24d3-478e-9ae1-3b4970bee927/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1611+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 16th, 1849 Following elections earlier in the month for the new municipal Borough of Tynemouth, a meeting of Tynemouth Town Council approved the design for the borough seal, sketched by Mr Kewney, a solicitor. The motto was “Messis ab Altis” or “A harvest from the deep”. On the same day the Tynemouth Watch Committee was formed as the body responsible for overseeing policing and public order in the borough. First Mayor of Tynemouth, Alderman William Linskill as Chairman, with Alderman Alexander Bartleman and eight councillors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/03713e04-a907-4fce-83ee-7d44eaebd817/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1711+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 17th, 1771 ‘The great storm and flood will sweep away every river crossing by bridge on the Tyne, with the exception of Corbridge. The medieval Tyne bridge in Newcastle with houses on, its length is swept away.’ Known as the Great Flood, this was one of the most destructive in British history, causing extensive damage and flooding in riverside towns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/18629c8d-45d2-44f2-add9-093320691f58/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1811+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 18th, 1910 On what became known as ‘Black Friday’, local suffragette and community activist Norah Balls, the daughter of a North Shields mariner, joined over 300 suffragettes in London, angry that Prime Minister Asquith had reneged on a promise to introduce a bill for partial female suffrage. They tried to force their way into the House of Commons to deliver a petition to the Prime Minister. She was arrested on three occasions, including for assaulting a policeman. In later life, Norah Balls, a councillor and magistrate, became involved in many other aspects of community life focusing on supporting and improving the lives of girls, women and families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/535e2572-d5a2-4a6e-928d-38322c08c3cc/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1911+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 19th, 1907 The first nautical cookery school introduced by the Shipping Federation Ltd on the North East coast was opened on Union Street, North Shields. The aim was to try and improve the health of the nation’s seafarers, specifically by ensuring better eating habits. Miss Effie E. Bell, MCA was appointed to run the school, where she gave cookery classes to sailors. To understand better what life was like afloat, she spent four months on a ‘tramp’ ship, at a time when such an undertaking by a woman would have been unheard of. She toured the country selling the idea to many leading ports. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b454c939-ac78-4882-a64b-978279eef80b/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2011+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 20th, 1900 The Blyth News reported on a ‘terrible explosion’ at Preston Pit a few days previously when four men were killed and ‘seven or eight’ were seriously injured. There had been no previous explosions at the colliery which had been working ‘for some 28 years’. The disaster happened during the sinking of a new shaft. There was no understanding about how the explosion happened. The dead men were aged between 24 and 36 years. An inquest later concluded that the deaths were ‘purely accidental and resulted from a cause which could not have been foreseen’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/057c29b7-5a6b-4002-ba8a-7de08ef7c3a9/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2111+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 21st, 1829 A meeting of the inhabitants of North and South Shields was held at the George Tavern, North Shields, with Robert Spence in the chair, when an association was formed to be called ‘The Shields East India Association’, for the purpose of opposing the renewal of the Honourable East India Company of London’s Charter (which was restricting trade into the sub-continent). A similar meeting had been held at the Turk’s Head Inn, Newcastle. This later resulted in the formation of ‘The Newcastle East India Association’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0237d761-9dc6-463d-844d-dbc2d8dcf2a5/Copy+of+NS800+fact+of+the+day+2211.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 22nd, 1887 Shields Daily News reported the “Melancholy Death of a North Shields Official”. The body of Mr H B Thompson, a 74-year-old staunch teetotaller, rate collector for Tynemouth Corporation, was discovered in his ground floor office at 55 Church Way after a fire was extinguished about 4am. It was his custom to sit in the evening in his ground floor office in front of his small fire smoking his pipe and reading the paper and it was assumed he may have fallen asleep and his pipe set fire to his papers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/417efa81-d616-46c9-9797-382e7903269a/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2311+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 23rd, 1852 A new graving dock was opened at Smith’s Dock, North Shields, capable of accommodating two vessels - one up to 222ft long and a smaller up to 120ft. This was Smith’s first venture into North Shields and happened soon after the establishment of the Tyne Improvement Commission, created to manage, maintain and improve the River Tyne. The company was originally established by Thomas Smith (trading as William Smith & Co) who bought a shipyard at St Peter’s, Newcastle in 1810, subsequently expanding into North Shields. Smith’s Docks (their North and South Shields, with River Tees yards combined) became the largest company of dry dock owners and ship repairers in the world, employing thousands of local people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/521b32e9-c940-485e-8f18-c1dbea2e1de7/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2411+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 24th, 1902 One of the oldest and best-known inhabitants of North Shields Chevalier Henry Anson Brightman, for 40 years the Austro-Hungarian Consul in the borough, passed away at his residence, The Moorings, Ayres Terrace, aged 87. Born in Great Yarmouth in 1815, he joined the Merchant Navy aged 14. After 18 years in the service, he retired in 1847 and settled in Shields. He was one of four men in the town who fought to wrestle control of the Tyne from Newcastle. He promoted the original Tyne Navigation Bill in 1849. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ea0bec4c-dcdd-44fe-8742-71f0011cf276/Copy+of+NS800+fact+of+the+day+2511.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 25th, 1997 The death of Dr Hastings Banda, formerly a doctor at Preston Hospital and a GP in North Shields, who later became President of Malawi, formerly the British colony of Nyasaland. He was in office for nearly three decades, from 1966 to 1994, having previously been Prime Minister for two years. He headed an austere, autocratic one-party regime, maintained firm control over all aspects of the government, and jailed or executed his opponents. He was declared president for life in 1971. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b962ce2b-e8d6-4d0c-a917-d0ef129a0563/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2611+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 26th, 1881 The Shields Daily Gazette reports that the dispute at North Shields between steamboat men (who towed sailing fishing boats out to sea) and the owners of the fishing boats, is continuing. If no settlement is reached today ‘the men will all turn out’. Following the passing of a resolution the previous week, they had all been working pending an agreement being reached. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0abefdb0-6ac5-4312-ab81-c7b06cd6fe6d/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2711+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 27th, 1952 The Evening News announced that a Pictorial Electrical Map would be installed in Northumberland Square next to the bus stand, enabling visitors to the town to press a button and quickly locate picture houses, hotels etc. Older residents of North Shields will well remember the machine (similar to the one in the photograph) which stood in position until its removal along with the bus stand to make way for the new Shields Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5ddd89b4-7ee6-45e6-9976-9178401698ec/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2811+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 28th, 1811 The birth of Isabella Reid, the third child of renowned North Shields Northumbrian pipe maker Robert Reid and his wife Isabella, who lived in Dortwick Street, in the Low Town. North Shields has been a centre of Northumbrian piping since the late 18th century. The keyed small pipes played today were first developed in their present form during the first half of the 19th century by Robert Reid, and subsequently by his son, James. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/76c6731d-a3bb-4cd7-885c-85c6e29e10cd/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2911.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 29th, 1864 Five days after 32 lives were lost, when the SS Stanley and the schooner Friendship were driven ashore on the Black Middens, during a fierce south-easterly gale, witnessed by hundreds of spectators who were powerless to help, a letter was published in the Shields Daily News, which led to the founding of the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade. The letter was signed by John Morrison of 54 Front Street, Tynemouth, proposing the formation of a voluntary corps to be trained in the use of the coast rescue equipment to assist the one officer and three coastguards at Tynemouth in the event of another wreck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/84cb9806-8710-4f32-b448-ee521b73da84/NS800+fact+of+the+day+3011+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - November - Make it stand out November 30th, 1869 St Andrew's Day. The new chancel at Christ Church, North Shields is dedicated, along with the complete reseating of the ground floor. https://www.northshields800.com/news/nt50mpkc8da5mbjewa470k02v43te3 monthly 0.5 2025-12-15 https://www.northshields800.com/news/woa8zrgld1nrzshtq0pe0yy7s1tkv3 monthly 0.5 2025-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2299008d-eebb-4524-ad2c-ea6d8490f9d0/20251212_181336+-+frame+at+0m0s.jpg News - Spectacular Parade Brings North Shields 800 Celebrations to a Close - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0fb754e9-2487-43ac-8937-79a929735a7d/20251212_181649.jpg News - Spectacular Parade Brings North Shields 800 Celebrations to a Close - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/613f7094-785f-491a-90c2-ea0cb3b4e88d/20251212_180646.jpg News - 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Historic Painting Restored for North Shields 800 Celebrations - Make it stand out Liddell’s The Royal Visit to the Tyne on display at North Shields Register Office https://www.northshields800.com/news/4qt0799mh66get1x92g4p5a3mqdl6g monthly 0.5 2025-12-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/586340d2-6026-4d22-88c8-de2620074e6a/IMG-20251203-WA0001.jpg News - Made in Meadow Well - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/52fcdf88-b709-4467-83ba-b0271c0ed70b/IMG-20251203-WA0015.jpg News - Made in Meadow Well - Make it stand out Around 80 people attended the event https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0f3c7bea-702c-4234-aab4-d440b67919ea/IMG-20251203-WA0007.jpg News - Made in Meadow Well - Make it stand out The North Shields buffet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0b7c888e-9ab8-4327-b9c8-efd7b5d624d5/IMG-20251203-WA0011.jpg News - 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Stunning textile map of North Shields to go on display - Make it stand out A fishing boat detail on the textile map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/cc2545d1-0974-4ac9-bde0-ddf5001a78bf/New+Low+Light%2C%2C+Stagline%2C+houses+.jpeg News - Stunning textile map of North Shields to go on display - Make it stand out The new Low Light, Stag Line building and houses on the map https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/6bac9208-b103-4693-ac60-4fb080e1ba28/Old+Low+Light+Heritage+Centre.jpeg News - Stunning textile map of North Shields to go on display - Make it stand out The Old Low Light Heritage Centre on the textile map https://www.northshields800.com/news/vcoanvb2dd6dj8d93unhddr1qrh0fp monthly 0.5 2025-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/13278a77-5722-4183-8269-81358bb307ee/Copy+of+20161202_180414.jpg News - North Shields 800 Celebration Parade: Grand Finale of Anniversary Year - Make it stand out Image: The Creative Seed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/be1568e1-d444-4209-8a66-ee01a28deed4/by+Pedro+Mendes+%281%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Celebration Parade: Grand Finale of Anniversary Year - Make it stand out Spark! LED drummers, image Pedro Mendes https://www.northshields800.com/news/40t76jtz54olcobar1pwk0flppxqo5 monthly 0.5 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/db86b8b6-0439-4ca4-afe1-ea2136a260e1/NS800+fact+of+the+day+110+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 1st, 1941 Overnight a German bombing raid caused the second highest loss of life and damage in the borough during the war. There were 61 deaths and many injuries, with severe damage on Bedford Street, Saville Street and to the Queen Victoria School. This was one of a number of raids from September 30th to October 2nd, with one falling on the corner of Bedford Street and Albion Road, damaging St Cuthbert’s Church, Presbytery, Schools and convent. A bomb also fell in the cemetery, severely damaging and disrupting graves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bdb63a9c-f90f-414a-9543-eb26616d123d/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0210+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 2nd, 1868 A new division of the Order of the Sons of Temperance was opened in the Temperance Hall on Stephenson Street. The number of pubs in the town in the 19th century and its reputation for inebriation, meant it would have had no shortage of potential members. The Sons of Temperance was originally a brotherhood of men who promoted the temperance movement and mutual support, starting in New York City in 1842, but quickly grew worldwide. Before the establishment of the Temperance Church on Stephenson Street, members met at Broadbent Hall on King Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8589387a-4c13-4662-b548-bf46a54cd331/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0310+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 3rd, 1871 The Shields Daily News announced that General Tom Thumb and his wife would visit the Albion Assembly Rooms in Norfolk Street ‘to give two entertainments’. Charles Sherwood Stratton (his real name) was an American entertainer and performer under circus pioneer Phineas T. Barnum. At his birth he was of average size but grew to only 25” tall (63cms). He originally shot to fame in the 1840s, and was watched by 50 million people worldwide, becoming a favourite with both Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln. Eventually he settled with his wife, Lavinia, in Massachusetts where he built a mansion complete with custom made furniture. He died suddenly at the age of 45 and more than 10,000 people travelled to see his body lying in state. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e87ec309-fd2f-482b-8b9d-3b7b1678dc1d/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0410+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 4th, 1884 The local media reported that Mr S B Siddall, proprietor of the New Princess Theatre in King Street, North Shields, provided a supper to employees who had helped with recent alterations to the building, after being granted an extension to stay open until 1am. “Full justice having been done to the good things provided, the band in the orchestra performed a selection of dance music and dancing was freely indulged in.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a3069881-0074-441b-939b-1da1bf76fdf0/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0510.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 5th, 1793 A party of 295 French Catholic refugees landed at North Shields quay and were dispersed around the North of England to various sympathetic communities. Three of the French priests undertook religious duties in the Milbourn Place chapel, which became a base for exiled French Catholic priests and laypeople who had been forced out of France by the French National Assembly in 1792. Later, when Napoleon became master of France, the refugees were allowed to return to their own country. In June 1802, a number embarked on the ship Traveller at Shields and sailed for Cherbourg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1dcf9b18-ff33-4626-95e5-3b9909251e36/Copy+of+NS800+fact+of+the+day+0610.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 6th, 1852 At a meeting of the town council it was agreed that the Mayor of Tynemouth, Mr Alexander Bartleman, be requested ‘to convene a public meeting at an early day of merchants, ship-owners and other inhabitants of the Borough’ to consider the development of a sailors’ home. This was to provide accommodation to the increasing number of seamen who were coming into the port due to increasing trade in the mid-19th century. Building work started in July 1854 and the Tyne Sailors’ Homes, on New Quay, were opened on Trafalgar Day (21 October) 1856. Today, there is a blue plaque on the building in memory of a Swiss sailor A Kesseli who lived in the homes and who was lost at sea in 1914. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/834babff-d765-487c-98f2-9e9ab524a76e/NS800+fact+of+the+day+710+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 7th, 1811 The Royal Jubilee School opened its doors, with Nicholas Jowsey as the first headmaster. Although he welcomed both male and female pupils, they were educated separately. The girls on the top floor, supported by the ‘ladies of the town’, with the boys below. Previously, there had been very little effort to educate poor people in North Shields. Some sectarian education was administered to a limited number of children as well as provision through the workhouse but nothing like that offered by this new school. A prominent headmaster of this school, Thomas Haswell, known as ‘The Maister’ was honoured with a memorial on the junction of Albion Road and Preston Road, the site of the school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b293b4e6-bdb5-46de-a25a-61df5dba149b/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0810.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 8th, 1717 Trinity House minutes: The keeper of the Low Light complains he is denied access to the Fort by the military when he needs to check the flow of the tides and the sundial. The significance is that the Low Light, which had become surrounded by Clifford’s Fort built as a coastal defence during the Dutch wars, was one of a pair of lights guiding ships through the treacherous mouth of the Tyne, so access was vital. Trinity House complained again in 1725 about the lack of access to the sundial and river at Clifford’s Fort. This was compounded by the construction of the Governor’s House and officers’ quarters within the Fort, both obscuring the light. Eventually, a new Low Light was in operation by 1810. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/79d1d0a1-d0c8-422b-b9e9-8c9cc602f852/NS800+fact+of+the+day+910+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 9th, 1929 The first family houses in Fern Avenue and Brighton Grove, off Hawkey’s Lane, built by the newly-formed Square Building Trust, were officially opened by the Mayor of Tynemouth Dame Maud Burnett, only four months after the building work started following a fund-raising campaign to improve poor housing conditions. The Trust was set up under the leadership of unsung hero, businessman and philanthropist Rowland Lishman, who was head of the men’s bible class of the then Northumberland Square Presbyterian Church – now St Columba’s United Reformed Church. After hearing a talk about the appalling conditions of some local housing, the congregation began selling ‘shilling bricks’ to raise money. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3b6bf571-338c-4ab5-aa2e-013c06992bc1/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1010+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 10th, 1894 John Foster Spence was awarded the Freedom of Tynemouth Borough for his lifelong devotion to the improvement of North Shields. A prominent Quaker, he ran a successful drapery business in Howard Street and became closely involved in the religious, social and political life of the town. For six decades he served the community, including as a councillor, Mayor, alderman and magistrate and was an active member of more than 70 local committees. He was a driving force behind the development of Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade and Northumberland Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/651d8e72-4fe0-4198-8a7c-3b135fcccfd3/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1110+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 11th, 1822 Morning Chronicle: The keelmen employed on the Tyne have refused to work over the past few days until ‘certain alleged grievances are removed’. These included restricting the loading of ships at the staiths to eight keels, an allowance in lieu of house rent and to be freed from responsibility for any damage they might do taking their keels up the river. The keelmen appear to have conducted themselves ‘peaceably’ except for a situation at North Shields a few days earlier when there was ‘mischief and plunder’. The keelmen worked on keels, large boats that belonged to the colliery owners and carried the coal from the banks of the river to waiting collier ships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/70291153-dbf8-45bf-99a3-049e4f388ace/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1210.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 12th, 1907 The long-established North Shields based Borough of Tynemouth Photographic Society opened its winter session with a social evening for a large turnout of members. The president, Mr W. Coats outlined the programme for the session. Although the current club was founded in 1903, indications are that an earlier version the ‘Shields (formally Borough of Tynemouth) Camera Club’ existed as far back as 1894. This wonderful organisation is now based at 106 & 107 Howard Street, and is as active as ever, running a very large programme of events throughout the year and continues to welcome new members with all levels of experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5b71226b-6427-4863-a6bb-8ef481bace26/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1310.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 13th, 1891 During one of the most violent storms on record, the schooner Peggy ran into the Tyne for shelter, striking the Black Middens. Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade (TVLB) and HM Coastguards, using ‘breeches buoy equipment’ were involved in the rescue operation. After four men were brought ashore, they realised there was still another man on board who had fallen and injured himself. Coastguard Hoare immediately volunteered to go out to the wreck in the breeches buoy and despite the horrendous weather, was able to grab the man by the collar so that he could be hauled to safety. He was later awarded the Albert Medal and the Tynemouth Trust Gold Medal for his bravery. The figurehead of the Peggy is on display in the TVLB Watch House and Museum at the Spanish Battery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/153a9967-bc11-4b32-8b30-5263f7da47b1/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1410.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 14th, 1819 There was a riot at New Quay, North Shields when the Mayor of Newcastle, Nicholas Reed, supported by troops, attempted to break the keelmen’s strike. The troops killed the man who was inciting the mob. Reed sought refuge in the Northumberland Arms and was later rescued by the arrival of Dragoons from Newcastle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e4e13380-fd38-4961-8848-e14f48473767/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1510.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 15th, 1903 Shields Daily News: The Technical and Nautical School, Union Street advertises a course of six demonstrations in “American Parlour Cookery” to take place in the Lecture Room on this day at 7 o’clock”. The same advertisement mentioned sailors’ cookery classes were held daily ‘in pursuance of the Newcastle Marine Committee’s recommendation’. North Shields played a large part in improving the health of seafarers, specifically by improving their eating habits. Miss Effie E. Bell. M.C.A. help found the Nautical School of Cookery, based in Union Street. She gave cookery classes to sailors to improve their diet so that they didn’t become subject to “dyspepsia and other evil effects of inferior cooking”, touring the country selling the idea to many of the leading ports including London, Liverpool and Cardiff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7d3ad1d3-e2fd-411f-8c1c-150399268ee0/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1610+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 16th, 1854 The Albion Assembly Rooms, Norfolk Street, North Shields were officially opened, the foundation stone having been laid on 23rd June 1853. It was built on the side of the Albion Hotel which stood in what is now the middle of Saville Street (there was no through road to Stephenson Street/Charlotte Street at that time). One of the finest buildings in the area, the Assembly Rooms consisted of ten bays and two storeys, tall Doric pilasters and arched upper windows. Used for important social functions, it also served as a music, orchestral and dance hall and a cinema. It was also the first known North East roller skating rink. It became the joint Albion Grill Hotel and Assembly Rooms until it deteriorated and eventually burned down in 1985. The Anchor Housing Laurel Court retirement property now stands on the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3a7b1d2c-4738-4f7e-bd55-7eb4b05925b0/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1710+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 17th, 1950 The Evening News reports that ‘Dainty’, 17-year-old film starlet Petula Clark, opened the Gaumont Cinema in front of a 1,000 strong audience. For 15 minutes she took the stage holding the audience in the palm of her hands, with everyone singing along with her. When finishing her set, she threw red and white carnations to her new fans. She continues to perform today in her 92nd year. She has the longest career of any British entertainer spanning more than 85 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5573c564-46fd-4b24-8ae9-5076f05ec7c7/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1810.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 18th, 1653 Following the compilation of ‘England’s Grievance Discovered’ by Chirton-based businessman Ralph Gardner, a Parliamentary committee recommends breaking the Newcastle monopoly over trade and exports from the lower Tyne estuary towns. A final hearing is set for December 13th, but Oliver Cromwell dissolves the ‘Long Parliament’, frustrating the hearing of the committee’s report. Newcastle will continue to exert ‘a malign influence’ over the trade and development of North and South Shields townships for a further 200 years until Parliament approves the creation of the River Tyne Commission, establishing an independent body to manage the river and its economy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b70a3617-0c5e-4cda-85cc-a190e1f137b3/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1910+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 19th, 1967 The late Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the new Tyne Tunnel which allowed motor traffic to cross under the River Tyne. The new tunnel meant the cessation of vehicular ferry services from North to South Shields. The now passenger-only ferries would run only from 6am to 10.30pm, ending the 24-hour service which had connected the two river mouth towns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ce388ae8-2334-4a58-a54b-b67366d223c4/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2010+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 20th, 1856 William Schaw Lindsay, MP for Tynemouth & North Shields, laid the foundation stone of the Northumberland Square Presbyterian Church. On the last Sunday of 1857, the congregation finally settled into the large new premises - now St Columba’s United Reformed Church - designed by Chirton born architect John Dobson, the North East’s most eminent architect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/eb46e74b-8dd0-44b6-9a2e-31b0249ff652/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2110+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 21st, 1805 Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood led the British fleet into action at Trafalgar. His wife and daughters lived at his house in Chirton but he never resided there being almost constantly away on service at sea. His monument at Tynemouth, was erected in1845, 40 years later, with guns from his ship HMS Royal Sovereign on the plinth. Nelson said: “See how that noble fellow Collingwood takes his ships into action.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/4503a83d-3fb3-4d89-bedd-e20aa8f404a5/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2210.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 22nd, 1958 A wooden dolly, depicting a fishwife with a basket, was unveiled in Northumberland Square, North Shields, where she stood as a centrepiece until 2022, when following repair after being vandalised, she took up residence in North Shields Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/f70caeec-c305-4635-8bbb-0d334a4f1665/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2310.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 23rd, 1950 The Evening News reported that Miss Grace Colman officially opened the Tynemouth Labour Party’s Autumn Fayre at their headquarters in Alma Place, North Shields. Grace Mary Colman was a British politician and a member of the Tynemouth Labour Party and Labour MP for Tynemouth from 1945 - 1950. Grace Colman taught at Ruskin College and the University of London. She was also an organiser for the Workers’ Educational Association. She was a cousin of Academy Award winning actor Ronald Colman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2cecf5a7-48e6-4f94-868a-b8e1951519fb/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2410.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 24th, 1982 North Shields Football Club entertained some top-notch visitors when Bobby Charlton’s All Stars played against Jackie Milburn’s North East Xl in a charity match at Appleby Park, attracting a crowd of 3,000. Bobby Charlton’s team, including some members of the 1966 World Cup winning England squad, lost 5-6. The event raised funds for several causes, including Guide Dogs for the Blind. Thanks to Trudi Thompson who researched the history of North Shields Football Club. Her book ‘Men from the North’, is on sale at the Old Low Light Heritage Centre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8e95e434-b474-4a5f-affe-c72ec0f0856c/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2510.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 25th, 1878 Alexander Anderson, the newly appointed Superintendent of the County Borough of Tynemouth Police, the most senior officer in the force, reported on the previous 12 months. The police had dealt with 914 persons for offences of drunkenness and disorderly conduct. [Whilst this might seem excessive by present day standards the figure was only half of what it had been in 1873]. The report also noted that 158 known thieves, 157 vagrants, 301 prostitutes and 682 habitual drunkards had been dealt with by the police. Taken from History of Tynemouth Borough Police written in 1969. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/42e2e26a-cdb0-484a-b472-e2d2878eb1bb/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2610+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 26th, 2015 The Tynemouth World War One Garden and Memorial, listing more than 1800 local men lost in the war - 1914-21 - was opened at the Linskill Community Centre. Unique in the UK, the memorial lists the casualties by their home address at the time of the war. In larger towns and cities, named war memorials were not created in the post-war period due to uncertainty that all the men and women lost would be accounted for, as there were no accurate or official records existing at the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/be8f2381-cf37-4c00-84b0-48045db37f2a/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2710.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 27th, 1861 Walter Shewell Corder, a Quaker, was born in Sunderland. He moved to North Shields in 1885 and, by 1887, was running two pharmaceutical businesses in the town. He soon realised the possibilities of treating fish processing waste and founded the North Shields Guano Works at the Low Lights on the fish quay. The smell from the works was appalling and on September 4th, 1895, the Shields Daily News reported that Mr Corder, a JP, had received a summons for having ‘caused a nuisance to exit from his premises’. Residents were called to give accounts of the effects the stench was having on them and Mr Corder was given three months to abate the nuisance. The smell from the works continued to cause problems well into the 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3508b589-c6f8-420a-8067-96562e1e7e73/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2810.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 28th, 1843 Newcastle Journal reports ‘a large concourse of people’ gathered to watch the safe return of the whaler The Lady Jane from the Davis Straits as she approached the harbour. The journey home had taken just four weeks after a ‘remarkably fine passage’ and all the crew were well. She had ‘nine fish (whales) and 60 tuns of oil’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/47925f92-4441-4cb1-b163-83abe7f2d0d8/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2910.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 29th, 1914 North Shields born Lt James Leach wins the Victoria Cross near Festubert in Flanders during the First Battle of Ypres at the beginning of the First World War. During the fierce battle, Leach, aged 22, with another soldier, took it upon themselves to retake a trench that had been captured. The presentation ceremony took place on January 13th, 1915 by King George V at Buckingham Palace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7a110962-d231-4c2c-97a5-f61a768ed6aa/NS800+fact+of+the+day+3010.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 30th, 1942 Thomas (Tommy) Brown helped in the recovery of German Enigma code books from a U-boat sunk by HMS Petard. Two other men were lost in the recovery of the precious code books that would help Bletchley Park to break the German naval code. Brown, a civilian member of the crew, was awarded the George Medal which was a closely guarded secret until the end of the war. Sadly, Tommy died in a fire at his home on the Ridges estate (now the Meadow Well) in March 1945. His heroism is remembered in a stained-glass window and room at the Saville Exchange, Howard Street and the newly created Town Square in Bedford Street is named after him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7748cf2b-fc99-488e-9794-ff2f9dc7a6f3/NS800+fact+of+the+day+3110+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - October - Make it stand out October 31st, 1914 The Tynemouth lifeboat Henry Vernon left North Shields bound for Whitby to help rescue passengers and crew on the hospital ship Rohilla, which hit rocks in treacherous weather enroute to Dunkirk to pick up wounded servicemen. The Shields crew encountered seas the size of mountains but once off Whitby managed to save the 50 remaining survivors (and the ship’s cat) from the wreckage. Of the 324 on board, there were 135 survivors. 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Photo by Wayne Bordoli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3b71e514-228c-411a-b8c6-f3259cce6519/tony-1.jpg News - Elevation: North Shields 800 murals photo gallery - Make it stand out 'The Chase' by Nina Valkhoff Located on Norfolk Street in between the Tynemouth Scouts and the Wooden Deli, to the rear of The Exchange theatre. 35 Norfolk St, North Shields NE30 1NQ What3Words = gently.bring.buddy Read the full story of this mural on I Love North Shields. Photo by Wayne Bordoli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8dd0312b-53ff-4105-af83-7d9c28fda0be/ILNS-7.jpg News - Elevation: North Shields 800 murals photo gallery - Make it stand out Nina Valkhoff with The Chase. Photo by Wayne Bordoli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/99be527d-9209-40da-9ef9-23808704db2a/markone87-4.jpg News - Elevation: North Shields 800 murals photo gallery - Make it stand out 'Spirit of Shields' by Mark One87 Located at North Shields Football Club Silkeys Lane, North Shields NE29 0SS What3Words = swim.device.comet Photo by Wayne Bordoli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5c81be54-8884-4e2e-8b4e-078c87ef352d/markone87+%281%29.jpg News - Elevation: North Shields 800 murals photo gallery - Make it stand out Mark Shields with Spirit of Shields. Photo by Wayne Bordoli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7f326372-8379-4fd5-b097-c471313642f4/marcus-5-3.jpg News - Elevation: North Shields 800 murals photo gallery - Make it stand out Glory by Marcus Reed. Photo by Wayne Bordoli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d421382c-d9f2-4ea3-bb70-7a3e9469af7c/marcus-17.jpg News - Elevation: North Shields 800 murals photo gallery - Make it stand out Marcus Reed with Glory. Photo by Wayne Bordoli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/feef5ee7-a635-4134-8a61-1080cc7946ed/AD-18.jpg News - Elevation: North Shields 800 murals photo gallery - Make it stand out 'North Shields No.4' by Anthony Downie Located on the residential gable end close to the Gunner Pub 10 Trevor Terrace, North Shields NE30 2DD What3Words = toxic.trying.single Read the full story of this mural on I Love North Shields Photo by Wayne Bordoli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/42530b62-5f01-4f4e-9f80-e7d8cc4095ac/adz-19.jpg News - Elevation: North Shields 800 murals photo gallery - Make it stand out Anthony Downie with North Shields No.4. Photo by Wayne Bordoli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/58387bd6-1128-489a-b5fa-0588d517a625/Rickyalso-1.jpg News - Elevation: North Shields 800 murals photo gallery - Make it stand out 'I Beg That Sound' by Ricky Also Located at rear of the Arbor Seven coffee shop 7 Brandling Terrace, Tynemouth, North Shields NE30 2AR What3Words = poster.lazy.slimy Photo by Wayne Bordoli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/cc1a7623-912f-4467-aa42-533ee7f76a5d/Rickyalso+%281%29.jpg News - Elevation: North Shields 800 murals photo gallery - Make it stand out Ricky Also with I Beg That Sound. Photo by Wayne Bordoli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8e6793e4-6829-4d73-b46f-a9e1846236ff/kmg+%283%29.jpg News - Elevation: North Shields 800 murals photo gallery - Make it stand out 'Oceanus' by KMG Located at rear of 55 Fisheries (big white building), Tanners' Bank, Tynemouth, North Shields NE30 1JH What3Words = bottle.spots.tape Read the full story of this mural on I Love North Shields Photo by Wayne Bordoli. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5e6dd65f-30ed-497d-ace4-95b52a31f6af/kmg+%282%29.jpg News - Elevation: North Shields 800 murals photo gallery - Make it stand out KMG with Oceanus. Photo by Wayne Bordoli. https://www.northshields800.com/news/6i8oe54lvoqfnoipgqecvk4oc29bsn monthly 0.5 2025-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/92c05903-d9b8-4567-a6b0-6c4edb7f06f4/Untitled+design.jpg News - North Shields 800 December Parade: Call for Participants - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/u7z0poc7nx5amw1aig1lakpvc4hqsp monthly 0.5 2025-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ef1db9b6-925f-4e1c-8a97-d14a854d0d30/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0109.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 1st, 1826 A public notice was displayed advising local people that the trustees of the school endowed by the late Thomas Kettlewell were now ready to receive applications, with preference being given to ‘orphans and fatherless children’. Thomas Kettlewell of Walker Place, North Shields, was a sailmaker who began a business at North Shields with a capital of £37 and built up a big enough fortune to ‘indulge his liking for philanthropy’. In 1819 he set aside land at the corner of George Street and Upper Toll Street for the building of a school, leaving most of his fortune when he died in 1824 to bring this to fruition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/10399415-f14b-4da6-b075-69b489ea87ae/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0209.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 2nd, 1838 The boiler of the steam tug Vivid belonging to a family named Greener of North Shields exploded in the Tyne. Two young men, sons of the owner, were dreadfully scalded and died shortly after in great agony. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/08bad24c-56e4-423b-8818-9af987ddd629/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0309.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 3rd, 1953 An old baptismal register was found under the organ at Salem Methodist Church, Linskill Street which recorded the baptisms of two brothers and a sister of Sir James Knott from the time when the family lived in that street. Trustees of The Knott Charitable Trust were informed about the find and donated £500 towards the church alterations. Salem Methodist Church was the oldest Free Church in North Shields, its foundations having been laid on New Year’s Day 1836. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ccd84b35-80c4-4192-8846-9f71b0ad6e71/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0409.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 4th, 1916 Two North Shields brothers William and Edwin Brown, serving in the Norfolk Regiment, were killed in action in France. Their commanding officer wrote to their mother: "It is with the deepest regret that I write to tell you that your two sons, William John Henry and Edwin Percival, were killed in action during the attack on Falfemont Farm on 4th Sept. Both were excellent officers, and they are a great loss to us, and the whole regiment feel with you most deeply in your great loss. Both were leading their men with great gallantry in the attack and were killed instantaneously.” Blue plaques were placed on the family home in Northumberland Square by the Northumbria World War One Commemoration Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/08734db4-6747-436a-88e9-b086d18eef38/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0509.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 5th, 1950 The Evening News: After 50 years' service on Tyne tugboats, 37 years as skipper, Mr Robert Hunter, of Chirton Lane, North Shields, retired. Among the best-known figures in Tyne shipping circles, Mr Hunter was in command of the powerful tugboat George V, the rescue tug for the Tyne area during the last war and towed 42 disabled vessels which had either been bombed, torpedoed or damaged in collision. He joined the firm of Redhead and Son, Newcastle, in 1911 as mate of the first tug George V, and two years later took over command. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a046839b-c96e-416c-8238-c5554a13ebf3/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0609+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 6th, 1902 The Shields Daily News carried an advert noting that language classes from Monsieur V. Mauboussin and Madame Mauboussin have now opened for ‘Ladies, Gentlemen and Children’, terms on application from 5 Coburg Terrace, North Shields. They also had premises on Howard Street. The Mauboussins held a ‘French Soiree’ each year hosted by a local dignitary and assisted by friends. The event would be attended by up to 400 people at venues in both North Shields and Tynemouth. The evening would include music performed in French by local residents, always concluding with the singing of ‘God Save the King’ and ‘La Marseillaise’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3db6b89f-b1ff-4d7e-8330-c0bea0c074b6/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0709+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 7th, 1874 Thomas Eustace Smith, MP for Tynemouth & North Shields, laid the foundation stone of a new Temperance church in Stephenson Street, which a few years later became a Congregational Church. He spoke warmly of ecumenism, at a gathering of 1,000 people. The church was built by Joseph Elliott and opened in May 1875. Stephenson Street Church began with the temperance campaign of the Wesleyan preacher, John Broadbent, at first from the steps of the library in Howard Street. Evidently Broadbent’s style was not to the liking of the existing Methodist establishment. In September 1870 the congregation met and re-formed itself as the “Evangelistic Temperance Church” and called the Rev Harry Vian Williams as its first minister, the entire congregation meeting him at North Shields railway station with hymn-singing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8103f696-d1c8-4fe0-9d1b-5267cb9d14c5/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0809+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 8th, 1831 At North Shields the coronation of King William IV is celebrated ‘with every demonstration of joy. The bells ring merry peals, guns are fired from Clifford’s Fort, and the ships in the harbour display a gay appearance being all decorated with flags. Each poor family is supplied with bread, beef and ale. £50 is distributed to scullermen in beef and bread and a large and respectable party dine at the George Tavern. The fish-women have a dinner in their market on the New Quay and get so merry that they foot it on the light fantastic toe before parting’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9f9a2fe5-7b67-4186-b9a8-7bc2b064fcc4/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0909+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 9th, 1870 The Rev Archibald Jack of North Shields died early this morning in his 82nd year. He came to North Shields in 1834 and ministered at St Andrew’s Church until about 1867 when age and infirmity led him to resign within a few months of his demise. He preached occasionally in chapels in the neighbourhood and was a man of very genial spirit and ever ready to fraternise with Christians of all denominations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5f830da4-6c93-4dc9-9a61-8cc1dbac6977/Copy+of+NS800+fact+of+the+day+1009+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 10th, 1939 The SS Goodwood was carrying coal from the Tyne to Bayonne. Robert Hilton Percival, born in North Shields, was a crew member. An early casualty of the war, the ship was hit by a mine laid by a U-boat. The captain was seriously injured, breaking both legs. He ordered his crew to save themselves but Robert refused and carried him to the ship’s side. Four other crewmen re-boarded to help and all six jumped together as the ship foundered and kept their captain afloat until they were picked up by lifeboats. Robert was later awarded the BEM for bravery but tragically died when his next ship was torpedoed, even before he knew of the award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3e40e39b-d9d2-4a4c-874f-1435e5f90b59/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1109+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 11th, 1905 Shields Daily News: An enquiry was held in the Town Hall to consider an application to borrow £3,000 for the conversion of the Union British School, Norfolk Street into a fire station, firemen’s barracks and offices for the health department. A previous application for £800 had already been granted for the purchase of the school. The new fire station replaced the earlier one which was part of the Town Hall which stood opposite. The building would eventually become the Bell & Bucket Pub and adjoining garages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/08ff8424-9719-4c5b-a0dd-c20fa859303c/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1209+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 12th, 1854 The foundation stone of the Northumberland Dock at Hayhole, near Howdon, on the Tyne, was laid by Joseph Cowen esq, chairman of the River Commissioners. As proof of the magnitude of the project – the dock, capable of berthing hundreds of ships of varying tonnages, covers an extent of nearly 73 acres, and cost nearly £200,000. The stonework forming the bottom of the dock is Cornish granite, some of the blocks weighing nearly 10 tons. The dock is from the designs of Mr Brooks, Engineer to the River Commissioners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/06e44528-10ac-4e96-81b8-3a23d6d04f16/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1309+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 13th, 1930 The F W Woolworth store opened at 12a Saville Street West. I wonder how many local girls reading this had a Saturday job at Woolies? Who were the lucky ones chosen to work on the ‘pick ’n mix’ sweet counter? The Woolworth chain was originally a division of the American F W Woolworth Company until its sale in 1982. It had more than 800 shops in the UK prior to closure, selling many goods including its own Ladybird children's clothing range. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/cffb945e-b8e4-4de4-a00a-8decb52b22ac/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1409+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 14th, 1765 The opening of a new theatre at North Shields by Thomas Bates. The first performance was given for the benefit of poor widows and orphans of seamen. The play was the celebrated tragedy The Distressed Mother, followed by a farce, The Spirit of Contradiction. The precise site not known but it was likely to be in the Low Town. Thanks to Nina Brown for sharing this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8a95b57b-415b-4ef5-a326-7ef74f35e90c/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1509+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 15th, 1652 Ralph Gardner’s son was christened ‘Ralph’. Ralph Gardner snr, a North Shields businessman renowned for his campaigning against Newcastle’s monopoly over trading rights, later publishing his famous ‘England’s Grievance Discovered' petition, was imprisoned at the time ‘in a tower above 36 feet high’ for refusing to close his brewery at North Shields. During his imprisonment he became a churchwarden of Tynemouth Parish Church (at that time St Mary’s Church, within Tynemouth Castle) where his son was christened. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1072dd80-c474-4ed4-9c30-93c042c8b2e3/_NS800+fact+of+the+day+1609+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 16th, 1962 The Duchess of Northumberland unveiled a stained-glass window in the Seamens Chapel of Christ Church, North Shields to commemorate the centenary of the Tynemouth lifeboat station. It shows three boats significant in the history of lifeboats in Tynemouth. At the bottom is the ‘Original’, the first ever purpose-built lifeboat, launched in 1790, in the centre is the ‘Constance’, 1862, the first RNLI lifeboat to be stationed at Tynemouth and at the top is the ‘Tynesider’, the lifeboat of the centenary year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7a941e00-68c7-43b9-918c-6ff34b0f2c79/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1709+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 17th, 1984 The new North Tyneside District General Hospital at Rake Lane opened its doors to patients. The first department to move in was maternity and over the following two weeks other patients and departments from Preston Hospital and Tynemouth Victoria Jubilee Hospital gradually moved in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a862b0d4-4587-48e4-b8f5-8f83a5fe8b69/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1809+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 18th, 1850 The preliminary inquiry into the sewage, drainage and supply of water and the sanitary condition of the inhabitants of the borough of Tynemouth by superintendent inspector, William Ranger, was opened at North Shields Town Hall. The inquiry report, published in 1851, found that North Shields ‘in 1849 and at the present time is in an infinitely worse and more filthy condition than in 1831 and 1832’. The incidence of and death rates from cholera were compared between the two time periods with the report concluding that despite an increase in population, no sanitary improvements had been made. It said the propagation of the disease ‘depends more on the construction of the streets and houses than on the worldly means of inhabitants’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/74f45b40-1bbb-4216-9f86-3a546a090f1d/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1909+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 19th, 1924 Death of North Shields born John Salmond who was very influential in New Zealand’s legal system. He was the eldest son of William Salmond, a Presbyterian minister and professor. The family lived on Newcastle Street in Shields before emigrating to Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1876. John later graduated from the University of Otago, before obtaining a scholarship to study at University College London, where he graduated in law and became a fellow. He was made a King’s Council in 1912, knighted in 1918, and appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/57ba8f60-ac0b-4cd5-93b0-42af98afce02/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2009+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 20th, 1923 The Shields Daily News reports that the first cargo of pickled herrings to be sent from Shields to Germany is going from the fish quay today. The vessel taking the cargo is the German steamer Oskar and she will carry 2,500 barrels. The despatch of this cargo is ‘of course in the nature of an experiment’ and will be of great interest for two reasons. The first is the desire to re-establish a very useful branch of the fishing industry at Shields and the second is in the hope it may help to relieve ‘the distressed section of the poor in Germany’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0952808d-3e46-4fd9-916a-5845f6361f91/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2109+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 21st, 1877 The Shields Daily Gazette and Shipping Telegraph reported that the former President and Commanding General of the Union Forces during the American Civil War, Ulysses S Grant, made his way down the Tyne on the steamer Commodore. The vessel pulled alongside the Wellesley training ship, where the boys had manned the yards, and in their loudest voices, sang ’Hail Columbia’. After a request to see the piers and the approaches to the harbour, the steamer landed the famous man on Corporation Quay, North Shields. An immense crowd had assembled to see him and again, the Wellesley boys, under the command of Captain Peacock, formed two rows of honour, which the General was led between to a carriage waiting to receive him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7668bfc2-d971-4bf7-9b88-2fe6efd36e3a/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2209+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 22nd, 1914 Thirteen North Shields men were killed during the first major loss of life for the Royal Navy in the First World War, with the sinking of three near obsolete cruisers, Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue by the German submarine U9. This attack resulted in the loss of almost 1,500 officers and other ranks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2e91bd22-a1ab-47ec-9aa0-843d1f8d6224/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2309+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 23rd, 1919 The Tynemouth Borough Surveyor reported to the Council that recently Northumberland Park was largely used as a playground for children, doing a great deal of damage. As a result, provision was made to appoint a park keeper whose duties were to patrol the park and restrain mischievous children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/27e930e0-3353-4bfe-b893-a6554e4d9803/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2409+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 24th, 2017 The Fisherman on Fiddler’s Green sculpture, a memorial to fishermen lost at sea, was officially unveiled on North Shields Fish Quay. Created by artist Ray Lonsdale after a fundraising campaign by North Shields Fishermen’s Heritage Project. It was inspired by retired fisherman Henry Howard who sadly died in 2023. It was following a conversation between Henry and his granddaughter, who asked why there was no memorial to lost fishermen at North Shields that the project started. Six years later, almost to the day, a life size sculpture of a herring girl sitting on a barrel holding a fish in each hand was unveiled on the fish quay, created by the same artist and again following fundraising by North Shields Fishermen’s Heritage Project supported by North Tyneside Council. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/745fdfe4-9470-4a96-84e1-f44856fa27c2/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2509++%281%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 25th, 1874 ‘The interesting ceremony of presenting to the Borough of Tynemouth the portrait of Mr Thomas Carr Leitch’ - who was the borough’s first Town Clerk - was performed by Mr Thomas Eustace Smith MP in the Town Hall, North Shields. ‘There was a numerous assemblage of ladies and gentlemen of the town’. So that Mr Leitch could have in his own home ‘some memento of the estimation in which he was held by his fellow-townsmen’, he was presented with ‘a silver urn of beautiful workmanship’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5cd51fc6-e0bf-4431-86b4-be5318e04796/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2609+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 26th, 1831 George Frederick Young, a London ship-owner and ship builder, who became one of two contenders in the borough’s first parliamentary election arrived at the Albion Hotel in North Shields where he was ‘received by a large and respectable body of gentlemen’. The following day he ‘attended a most numerous public meeting of the inhabitants, and, after declaring his political and commercial opinions, commenced his canvas’. After a sometimes difficult campaign, in 1832, he was elected as the Member for the Borough of Tynemouth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/16aceaeb-9773-4fbf-966d-3c09ad1463f9/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2709+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 27th, 1958 Dame Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, opened the new citadel for the North Shields Corps of the Salvation Army, in the former Scotch Church, Howard Street. Built in 1811, the church was the oldest non-conformist church in the borough. In 1949, the Scotch Church was united with the former Square Presbyterian Church in Northumberland Square and became St Columba’s Presbyterian Church. Major Cyril Hebdon, of the North Shields Corps of the Salvation Army, said the citadel would get off to ‘a flying start because it had been hallowed by the work which had previously been done there’. Thank you to Arthur Andrews for bringing this to our attention. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/50167157-5ee3-4ed0-b01e-f2a72770b7cf/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2809+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 28th, 1821 The death of North Shields man William Wouldhave, aged 70. Born in the Low Town’s Liddell Street in 1751, he was apprenticed as a housepainter, but more importantly was one of three men linked to the development of the purpose-built lifeboat. The other two were Lionel Lukin, of London, and John Greathead of South Shields. The story goes that Wouldhave submitted a model for a self-righting lifeboat to a public competition. Apparently, the committee judging the entries offered him half the reward which he refused to take. He walked out of the committee meeting leaving his model behind. Much of his design was adopted in the production of the first lifeboat. It has been suggested that his application was obstructed by his ‘poverty’ and ‘violent language’. Wouldhave’s only motive was a desire to prevent the loss of life from ‘some of the terrible and familiar scenes of shipwreck at the mouth of the Tyne’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/46306c63-3d11-475f-a84f-130ab67ba43c/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2909+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 29th, 1807 The foundation stone of a new High Lighthouse, which is to be erected near the centre of the front of Dockwray Square, North Shields, is laid by the brethren of Trinity House. The Corporation and Trinity House, Newcastle have agreed with Lord Collingwood for the purchase of another piece of ground in the angle of the Low Lights quay for the erection of a new Low Lighthouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/4d9a5f58-e079-4b0c-ad9c-810364f1c06c/NS800+fact+of+the+day+3009+.jpg News - Fact of the Day - September - Make it stand out September 30th, 1932 Shields Daily News reports improvements in the boot and shoe department at North Shields store, Hill, Carter and Co, which has been fitted with ‘latest modern equipment’. ‘The result a spacious, well-ventilated saloon, hosted with central radiators, furnished with a view to comfort, and capable of serving much larger numbers’. https://www.northshields800.com/news/our-shields-our-stories-portrait-amp-heritage-day-at-the-linskill-centre monthly 0.5 2025-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/55998f82-9ea2-4d38-9eb3-7d7ad7d32926/Linskill_Cenre.jpeg News - Our Shields, Our Stories: Portrait & Heritage Day at the Linskill Centre - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/ilovenorthshieldsautumn monthly 0.5 2025-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9cb1a12c-c479-4470-a362-aea849709895/TNLHF_English_Acknowledgement_Stamp_Colour_JPEG.jpg News - I Love North Shields - North Shields 800 Autumn edition - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/800-years-here-we-are-a-free-documentary-premiere-live-concert-and-brand-new-single-launch monthly 0.5 2025-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/86b4658f-3698-406d-baf7-9683d2d586a0/Here+We+Are+New+Version+Rough+070825.00_01_43_08.Still002.jpg News - 800 Years – Here We Are: a free documentary premiere, live concert and brand-new single launch - Make it stand out Liam Fender performing on North Shields Fish Quay https://www.northshields800.com/news/north-shields-community-projects-awarded-small-grants-to-celebrate-towns-800th-anniversary monthly 0.5 2025-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5c059bfb-d1df-41ec-be7f-392cfe3090e1/this+one.JPG News - North Shields community projects awarded small grants to celebrate town’s 800th anniversary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9cb1a12c-c479-4470-a362-aea849709895/TNLHF_English_Acknowledgement_Stamp_Colour_JPEG.jpg News - North Shields community projects awarded small grants to celebrate town’s 800th anniversary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/fact-of-the-day-august monthly 0.5 2025-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a8bb86a7-8afc-4cef-b305-7283634e9cfa/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0108+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 1st, 1884 A house in Dockwray Square was opened as a hospital with two beds. Demand was so great that steps were taken to begin building a properly equipped hospital. The house was used as an early base for the Tynemouth Infirmary and Benevolent Society. The foundation stone for the Tynemouth Victoria Jubilee Infirmary was laid at Hawkey’s Lane three years later. Then, in August 1889, the Shields Daily News reported the official opening of the hospital and that ‘the people of Tynemouth have good cause for congratulation over the happy completion of the scheme’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ac4d9329-2584-4397-bd36-7bd060990c7e/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0208+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 2nd, 1932 One of the many photographs from the Shields Daily News of the North Shields Carnival, a charity parade that took place annually for many years. This one featured several parade competitions, including trade exhibits, decorated pit ponies, ladies’ decorated bicycles. There were fancy dress costumes, a carnival king and queen, a ‘queen of beauty’, girls and boys decorated machines and jazz bands. It was noted that The Pearlies Hall on Northumberland Street and the British Legion Hall in Stephenson Street prepared food for the parade’s adults and the children of the visiting juvenile brass jazz bands. Those watching along the parade’s route ran into the thousands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/29a94af9-5608-4581-b52b-42656e52b1fd/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0308+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 3rd, 1886 Suffragette Norah Balls was born in Linskill Street, North Shields. The daughter of a North Shields mariner, she became an active member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), led nationally by Emmeline Pankhurst. She later became involved in many other aspects of community life focusing on supporting and improving the lives of girls, women and families and for many years served as a councillor and a magistrate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8baac2ce-9d93-4c76-befa-a71e53787c31/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0408+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 4th, 1914 A strike by North Shields women fish workers came to an end when war was declared. In June, the women had decided they had gutted fish for long enough on measly wages and walked out. They took the ferry to South Shields, 150 of them marching from the landing stage to Mile End Road, calling on the workers of Robertson’s, Brough’s and Fuller’s to join them. They were supported by James Wilson of the National Amalgamated Union of Labour who helped organise daily meetings, including at the Spence Assembly Rooms, North Shields. They were calling for sixpence (2.5p) an hour and overtime pay for evenings and weekends, which was refused with a spokesman from Robertson’s saying the demand was ‘outrageous’ and claiming they averaged 21 shillings a week in season (£1 05p today), compared to one shilling and sixpence a day in the potato fields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e6ed5b1e-d0de-4a1b-b039-3e1356af0879/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0508+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 5th, 1931 The last Tynemouth tram ran on this day when the company converted to motorbuses. The electric tram system opened in 1901 operating from New Quay, North Shields to Whitley Bay Links via Tynemouth and Cullercoats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d23be533-cbe5-4a3f-b171-7ebf70774ba8/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0608+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 6th, 1849 The Queen in Council grants the Charter to create Tynemouth Borough incorporating North Shields and surrounding districts of Preston, Percy Main, East Howdon and Chirton. The borough is coterminous with the existing parliamentary constituency boundary. People take to the streets to celebrate and, a few days later, shops close for the day to celebrate. During the same week, the borough comes formally under the Public Health Acts, empowering the council to prevent disease and remove causes of ill health with regulations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/172bf8c1-433d-482b-8583-5484ccf8f990/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0708+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 7th, 1849 The long talked about Tyne Regatta took place at the Low Lights, North Shields and the weather being fine, the sports drew together an immense concourse of spectators. Mr Joseph Straker was commodore and Mr Thomas Harbutt conductor. The amusements concluded the next day with a ball at the Golden Lion Inn, South Shields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/af44abc0-94a9-4670-9de8-71a1ce6fa903/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0808+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 8th, 1850 A general holiday granted by Captain William Linskill – ‘emancipator of the Tyne’ – to celebrate: ‘A new Conservancy Commission affording the strongest prospect for the honest and independent management of our noble river’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/75e547ae-6986-4464-bb0e-2dbb613bac7e/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0908+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 9th, 1949 The Evening News: The firm of D Hill, Carter & Company Limited will be 124 years old today. It was founded in 1825 by Mr. Dennis Hill. His first shop was in Bell Street with the opening of the better-known Union Street store three years later. At one stage it was the biggest department store in the borough, selling all sorts of merchandise, with a cafe and lift as part of the facilities. It employed many North Shields folk. The store was demolished in 1988 after being gutted by fire many years earlier. The Union Square apartments, built in 1997, now occupy the site of the former store. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d946ae97-4e02-41d8-9a55-f9df010fb9fe/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1008+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 10th, 1934 While carrying out alterations to the Dolphin Pub, Tynemouth, workmen unearthed a human jawbone of a man who was murdered in the 17th century pub of the same name. The lower jawbone was in remarkable condition, complete with molar teeth. It was believed to have belonged to an Excise man who was murdered by smugglers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/da7a83b1-fd27-4d52-a08a-20b6e8f52268/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1108+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 11th, 1885 Northumberland Park was opened by the Duke of Northumberland following a campaign by Alderman John Foster Spence. Spence saw an opportunity to provide much-needed employment for local people as well as an amenity for the community. He persuaded the Duke to grant land in Spital Dene, North Shields. Work began in 1884, and the remains of St. Leonard’s medieval hospital, founded around 1220, were discovered. 130 years later on August 11th 2015, following a major revamp and restoration, Northumberland Park was officially re-opened by the Duchess of Northumberland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/fb6a1c30-ddf6-46db-9600-2400c9c99963/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1208+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 12th, 1858 Shields Daily Gazette: “Sums awarded to the North Shields branch of the Shipwrecked Mariners’ Benevolent Society for shipwrecked men between June 26th and August 7th, 1858, amounted to more than £62 and the mid-summer annual grant to widows and orphans of the branch was just over £61.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/66a8da17-bf51-4b28-90b7-191f7318d48a/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1308+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 13th, 1907 Shields Daily News: The Central Palace of Varieties on Saville Street had engaged at ‘enormous expense’ America’s Greatest Tight Rope Artist, Texas Hattie. She was described as being one of the best tight rope performers on the music hall stage. Hattie was a young black artist who performed wearing a wide sailor’s hat and boasted being able to turn somersaults while playing a violin. Her performances across the whole of the country and abroad were many times greeted with standing applause. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/621b754a-a31c-4b26-ac4b-9380fc5dcb26/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1408+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 14th, 1920 The Newcastle Journal: “North Shields widows and orphans were entertained to a pleasant day’s outing’ at Seaton Delaval in the field adjoining the Queen’s Picture House, where 120 adults and 650 children had tea.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e10807dc-6540-498a-a679-a585c9e48cf6/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1508+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 15th, 1940 The Shields Evening News published a letter from the Mayor, Robert T Smith launching a local Spitfire Fund for Tynemouth and North Shields. This was part of efforts in towns and villages across the country to deter Hitler’s efforts to invade Britain by raising money to buy more Spitfires, setting a target of £6,000 per new aircraft. By the end of the month, the fund stood at £1,226 and by the end of September, £5,809. A ‘Mark Vb’, a type of Spitfire, bearing the Tynemouth Borough Coat of Arms was presented in November 1940 and served until October 31st, 1945. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/70a42211-0eb4-41ef-a2ec-d348ae754427/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1608+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out North Shields 800 - Fact of the Day August 16th, 1960 – The well-known folk song ‘The Shoals of Herring’ by Ewan MacColl was first broadcast by the BBC as part of the radio ballad ‘Singing the Fishing’. It tells the story of Sam Larner, a retired fisherman from Norfolk who spent his life hunting herring. MacColl carried out a number of interviews with Larner and used his words and experiences to craft the lyrics of the song. A verse of the song refers to landing the catch at North Shields quay: Well, we left the home grounds in the month of June And to canny Shields we soon was bearing With a hundred cran of the silver darlings That we’d taken from the shoals of herring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e529d2d3-8f6c-4907-961a-a2f5b83ddaea/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1708+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 17th, 1859 Following a scare about possible war with France, volunteer military units are formed. The Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery is recognised as the first Volunteer Artillery Force. They will later be granted the right to wear a uniform shoulder flash ‘Tynemouth’ in recognition of their history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/4c3b531f-b785-4473-860a-ad14ebe041a6/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1808+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 18th, 1863 ‘The one o’clock gun’ was fired for the first time from the Ballast Hill at Dock Road. This confirmed a telegraphically signalled time from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. Ships’ masters would set their chronometers by the sounding of the gun. This was vital for navigation and determining longitude in the days before radio, satellite communications and other navigational technology. 42 years later, on August 31st, 1905, it was fired for the last time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/19309007-2f79-4c31-8f06-a8c207aef391/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1908+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 19th, 1932 The Shields Daily News reports that work is underway on the Kennel Farm Building Estate, Hawkey’s Lane, North Shields which was recently acquired by Messrs. William Bower & Son for housing development. The 3.5 acre site would deliver 42 semi-detached houses. These are the current properties between Milton Terrace and Hawkey’s Lane (opposite the old High School and below the Co-op). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d98f56bb-a7b3-4162-ba0b-5c64fbcd09e6/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2008+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 20th, 1920 A public notice in the Shields Daily News called out to parents that if their daughter had a “commercial leaning” to give her the advantage of “sound training” at Lambert’s Commercial School. The notice said that the tutors were highly qualified specialists, the teaching individual and the progress rapid. The school was reopening on August 23rd, and students could enrol for classes in shorthand, typing, book-keeping, accountancy, banking, theory and practice of commerce, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin etc. Parents were urged to write at once to the principal at Camden Chambers, North Shields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0cdc0d91-377b-4344-a23c-1a2698d13db0/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2108+%28Bruce%29+%281%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 21st, 1884 The Prince and Princess of Wales (the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) visited the Tyne to perform the official opening of the Albert Edward Dock. There was much rejoicing as the Royal party sailed along the river in the steamer ‘Para-e-Amazonas’. The colourful scene as the Prince and Princess reached the Low Lights was recorded in a large oil painting by John Davison Liddell (1859-1942). Since 1998, the Albert Edward Dock has been the home of the award-winning Royal Quays Marina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b217262a-e40f-4166-a387-d6f58bdd7aeb/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2208+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 22nd, 1917 Tynemouth born Lieutenant Kenneth Gordon Garnett, aged 25, died almost a year to the day after being wounded in the neck and paralysed while acting as liaison officer at Delville Wood, France. He lay on his back in hospital following injury, first at Empire Hospital, Vincent Square, London and then at Lady Cornelia Wimborne's Hospital, Roehampton where he died. In hospital he was known for his ‘smiling cheerfulness’. For his military service he was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Military Cross, handed to him in hospital by the King. The son of Dr William Garnett, a former Principal of the Durham College of Science, now Armstrong College, Kenneth was a distinguished student at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took part successfully in rowing, including in the victorious boat race in 1914. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/6ac514f0-4bfd-4da2-b1c1-fdb64d8d4f9d/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2308+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 23rd, 1828 Under the recently enacted North Shields Town Improvement Act the first watchmen are appointed – a forerunner of the police. Their area of jurisdiction is from Tanners Bank, along the Low Street to the New Quay and up into the new town centre, and then back along Albion Road and Tynemouth Road to Tanners Bank. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e1bbd0f0-1249-4c57-9f89-bb529459353f/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2408+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 24th, 1662 - Black Bartholomew's Day The Great Ejectment of non-conformist clergymen from the Church of England, included the Revd John Lomax, who was ejected from Wooler, and came to North Shields as the first minister of the Protestant Dissenters who eventually formed the Scotch Church in Howard Street. The vicar of Tynemouth, the Revd Alexander Gordon, was also ejected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1440e117-635d-498e-a2b5-d3b6eb25ecce/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2508+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 25th, 1916 Rifleman Henry Dunn Hogg, aged 27, of Brannen Street, a lay evangelist in Derbyshire with the Church Army, was killed in action at Delville Wood on the Somme. His parents had lost another son, his brother Robert Henry Dunn Hogg, in April 1916, who left six children. Rifleman E E King, who wrote to Henry’s family after his death, said: "Our battalion was in action recently, and Harry was mortally wounded. He and I were constant chums all the time we were in the trenches, and we went over the top together; just as we had good hopes of getting clear of the enemy's heavy fire, Harry was hit by Shrapnel…….I stayed with him to do what little I could, such as to make him comfortable and bind up his wound, although we were covered by the debris from shells several times.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/58659f5a-bf1c-4b81-8f39-98254ec69434/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2608+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 26th, 1824 The lowest spring tides were recorded at Shields Harbour. Three pilots, Launcelot Burn (Jnr), Jacob Harrison and William Tully walked across the Tynemouth Bar from south to north. High tide that day had measured 24 feet 8 inches then fell to just 2 feet (72 cms approx). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/42947b1c-e672-444a-8192-75ba55a8c383/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2708+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 27th, 1859 The clock in the tower of Christ Church was set going for the first time. Christ Church was built in the mid-17th century and following delays caused by the Civil War and financial setbacks, it was finally completed in 1668, although it would later undergo many extensions, including the tower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/cc96c969-9471-4282-b062-2636d5c69bdf/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2808+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 28th, 1889 American aeronaut and parachutist Alma Beaumont provided great entertainment for North Shields when she made an ascent in a balloon from the Cycling Grounds, Hawkey’s Lane and descended in a parachute. A large crowd assembled on the cycle track, helping by holding down the edges of the enormous silk balloon as it filled with gas. Once inflated, the balloon rose into the sky with Miss Beaumont sitting on a strap hanging beneath it. She then leapt from her perch to perform a terrifying free-fall before her parachute opened and returned her safely to the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/983184fc-2cc5-4a38-9e36-ddd2cf6e53d3/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2908+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 29th, 1953 The Evening News reports that North Shields bandleader Billy Ternent has completed a week’s engagement at Whitley Bay. There was some confusion over whether he was born in Newcastle or more precisely in Rosella Place, North Shields. He certainly played piano at the old Comedy Palace of Varieties on Saville Street before forming his orchestra. A multi-instrumentalist he became principal arranger for Jack Hylton, whose show band he joined in 1927. In the 1950s, he provided the backing orchestra to Frank Sinatra when he toured the UK who described him as "the little giant". In the 1960s he was the musical director for the London Palladium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/cfd95f83-6e9e-49f7-9268-2abfa7e9ba21/NS800+fact+of+the+day+3008+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 30th, 1898 The lighthouse in Tynemouth Castle is lit for the final time, being replaced by lights on the newly constructed North and South Piers. A maritime light at Tynemouth Castle, one of the earliest recorded in England, dates back to 1578, when a brazier was sited in the church tower inside the castle. In 1664, after the church tower stairs collapsed, the castle governor, Sir Edward Villiers, had a new tower built to carry the brazier. The tower was later re-built in 1775 and the brazier replaced by an oil lamp with rotating reflectors in 1802. In 1840, following an Act of Parliament, the lighthouse was sold to London Trinity House and, in 1898, having been superseded by the St Mary’s Island, Souter and Tyne Pier lights, it was demolished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7d655f43-dd8a-4e9e-bad3-6b52cb5c7ac9/NS800+fact+of+the+day+3108+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - August - Make it stand out August 31st, 1971 The River Tyne ferry Northumbrian is back in service between North and South Shields. The service was out of action last year when a ship rammed the ferry landing at North Shields in dense fog. New staging was put up nearer the shoreline but the ferry can no longer carry vehicles. https://www.northshields800.com/news/north-tyneside-together-brings-free-family-festival-to-north-shields monthly 0.5 2025-09-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a5510a54-2f52-4339-ab24-f633af21b7b1/20240831_104613.jpg News - North Tyneside Together brings free family festival to North Shields - Make it stand out The Curious Caravan performance at North Tyneside Together 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/81fef524-1c96-472b-8120-43f8619a5d50/20240831_110630.jpg News - North Tyneside Together brings free family festival to North Shields - Make it stand out A puffin puppet created with help from the local community at North Tyneside Together 2024 https://www.northshields800.com/news/creative-opportunities-north-shields-800 monthly 0.5 2025-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/c7d8c9bb-287d-4bd8-b5df-a1d25ae0cb4e/North+Shields+800+Blessing+of+the+fleet-88.jpg News - Creative Opportunities - North Shields 800 - Make it stand out School children waving North Shields 800 flags at the Parade of Boats in June 2025, photo by Pete Robinson / Eye Of The Tyne Photography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9cb1a12c-c479-4470-a362-aea849709895/TNLHF_English_Acknowledgement_Stamp_Colour_JPEG.jpg News - Creative Opportunities - North Shields 800 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/34bc05f0-029d-4584-a36a-051be788b82f/NECA-RGB_MasterLogo-Mono-Black.jpg News - Creative Opportunities - North Shields 800 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/find-the-north-shields-800-murals-trail-on-google-maps monthly 0.5 2025-09-01 https://www.northshields800.com/news/fact-of-the-day-july monthly 0.5 2025-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8063b992-2f32-4d0a-98ac-16ac5230d12b/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0107+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 1st, 1916 The greatest British offensive of WW1 so far begins on The Somme in France. 86 men from Tynemouth borough were killed on the disastrous first day of the 140-day long battle. Many hundreds more would die or be wounded in the months to come. Sergeant Billy Grant - 20th Bn. Tyneside Scottish, Northumberland Fusiliers - of Tennyson Terrace, North Shields made the famous reply when one of his men shouted – ‘Aa’ve been shot in the arse’, to which Billy replied – ‘Haven’t we all son’. 19,240 British soldiers were killed that day, the worst day in the history of the British army. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9c431332-a41c-49ab-b2d1-dd114af096ec/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0207+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 2nd, 1840 A vessel called the Archimedes arrived in the Tyne from Leith and was the first propelled by a new patent screw, having not a sail or paddle wheels, yet overtook many vessels at great speed making nine knots going upriver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/c7dd833e-d222-4575-873c-1ba53f7f5ea6/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0307+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 3rd, 1882 The new Tynemouth Station opens, on the line which will eventually run round to Whitley Bay, Benton, Gosforth and Newcastle. Earl Roberts VC – the great imperial hero - on a visit in 1903 remarked of the station: ‘The prettiest station I have seen in all my travels.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3825693e-90ef-49c3-a480-5f1bafc4f4a9/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0407+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out Sunday 4 July, 1943 The Evening News announced that the largest tenting circus in the British Isles, the Reco Brothers Circus and Zoo, had pitched on Collingwood View Field. Local children were encouraged to help put the circus together for free tickets. The Reco Brothers Circus existed primarily in the 1940s and 1950s and was associated with the Belfast Royal Hippodrome and featured a variety of performers including acrobats, animal trainers and clowns. Mr Reco himself was an exceptional artist who performed a comedy wire-walking routine, also appearing with the famous Bertram Mills Circus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/21008aeb-a47b-40cb-958b-b3bea72df92c/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0507+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 5th, 1668 Christ Church, North Shields was consecrated. Following the closure of Tynemouth Priory in 1539 the parish church of St Mary, inside the castle, continued to be used until about 1659. Military action during the Civil War damaged the building so much that the roof fell in. Building a replacement church took nine years due to the lack of money and materials. The following entry is from the parish records. "1668. July ye 5th Anno Domini the New Church aforesaid was Consecrated by ye Right Reverend Father in God John Lord Bishop of Durham, and named Christ's Church." Thank you to Mike Scott for sharing this with us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/cbb17332-649f-4e80-8510-752154f97a10/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0607+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 6th, 1966 Dr Hastings Banda, formerly a doctor at Preston Hospital and a GP in North Shields, is installed as the President of Malawi, formerly the British colony of Nyasaland. He is in office until 24th May 1994. He headed an austere, autocratic one-party regime, maintained firm control over all aspects of the government, and jailed or executed his opponents. He was declared president for life in 1971. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/c441c3a3-b63e-44ab-a0f0-a384c19b82cc/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0707+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 7th, 1856 The first interment in the new Tynemouth Borough Cemetery at Preston Village took place, of a Miss Isaacs of South Shields, who had died suddenly the previous day. The cemetery is the largest in North Tyneside and one of the largest in the North East. It is also a designated wildlife site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7cfe2c1e-37fe-4d58-a220-2c619c90e6d9/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0807+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 8th, 1832 - Cuthbert Skipsey, father of the famous Pitman Poet Joseph, was shot dead by a special constable during an industrial dispute near to the Pineapple Inn, Chirton. The constable, named Weddell, was subsequently imprisoned for six months for the killing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/44bdb606-83b5-494b-b3c0-04516c3a17ed/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0907+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 9th, 1949 North Shields community leader Charles Udor Minto received his MBE (Civil), which had been announced in the New Year’s Honours List 1949. Mr Minto was a founding member of the International Coloured Mutual Aid Association which he formed while living on Clive Street in 1935. A former Nigerian Middleweight Boxing Champion, he was responsible for establishing Colonial House, which was opened at 3 Northumberland Place on May 1st, 1942, by future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Colonial House provided accommodation for transient seamen during WW2 but took on the wider role as a centre of black life in North Shields. In October 2023 a blue plaque was unveiled to Charles Minto at the site of Colonial House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/81d7f57f-a75c-4cb5-aa5c-669398ab2d14/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1007+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 10th, 1865 Shields Daily News: Three riveters from the Smith’s Dock yard had been drinking on Sunday night and were all ‘well served’. It appears they went down to the old ferry at about nine o’clock and, the tide being out, lay down on a sandhill. One of the three lay with his face to the sand, and suffering from the effects of the drink, told his companions that he was dying and wished to be buried. His obliging mates took him at his word and covered his body with sand until not a portion of him could be seen and then left him. He was discovered still covered later that day and removed to his final place of rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/fd852da5-cbea-470c-b957-d201a2daf527/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1107+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 11th, 1851 North and South Shields Gazette: The ‘local intelligence’ column included an item about the establishment of a ‘Chartist news room’. At a meeting for North Shields members of the National Charter Association, with Mr Thomas Thompson in the chair, it was resolved to ‘commence a news room for the use of the working classes’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9b5830fc-2804-43cc-9191-da5807fbc07e/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1207+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 12th, 1880 The Shields Daily News reports that a number of the inhabitants of Preston Village, North Shields, ‘left in brakes’ for their annual trip into the country. It explained that ‘this movement’ originated with the committee of Preston Reading Room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8f6edf70-64b6-44d4-ad53-caa49f8b0c59/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1307+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 13th, 1905 Lancelot Wight, from Alma Place, North Shields and two friends were swimming from Tynemouth Long Sands when they noticed two men in difficulty in the water. They ‘gallantly went to their aid, and with much difficulty and risk to themselves got them to land’. All local swimming club members, the three later received Tynemouth Trust Medals ‘for bravery in saving life at sea’ at a presentation at Priory Schools, Tynemouth, from the Rev Canon H S Hicks. Lancelot, a district tax inspector, was closely involved with the Salem Methodist Church, later becoming President of the North Shields and District Sunday School Union and leading the annual Good Friday Procession of Witness. He was also a member of various sporting clubs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3bbfd2a1-98ec-4506-a232-6ad2b45aa2b7/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1407+%28Bruce%29+%281%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 14th, 1937 Her Highness Princess Helena Victoria laid the foundation stone of the Sir James Knott Youth Centre at North Shields. Among those in the party that day were Mr F J Chamberlain CBE, national secretary of the YMCA. The centre, on Church Way, officially opened in 1939 by King George VI and and Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother), became the headquarters for boys and girls youth organisations in the borough, a revolutionary concept at the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9b109e4e-157a-4a13-8408-bd492d53c755/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1507+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 15th, 1994 A sad day when Ralph Gardner School closed its doors after six decades of teaching the town’s children. In all, there were 18,000 Ralphie’s pupils. The school motto was Non Nobis Sed Aliis - ‘Not to us but to others’. The school was lovingly referred to as ‘Ralph Gardner College of Knowledge’ by its pupils, many of whom lived on the nearby Ridges Estate. It was later demolished and the land used for Gardner Park, a new housing estate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/c4c8f39a-e707-4e3c-b20e-d203ddfcf2f7/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1607+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 16th, 1832 North Shields experienced its second outbreak of cholera. The ‘blue death’, a novel disease, was first brought into the country at Sunderland earlier in the year. The outbreak ran until November 6th, with 125 more deaths following the initial loss of 139 lives in the spring. Subsequent outbreaks in 1849 led to the adoption of Public Health Acts by the newly-established council, which lessened the impact of future outbreaks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a73ef4d6-ae11-477e-9bfe-6bff68f0825d/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1707+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 17th, 1937 From Shields News: The light steel bridge which now spans Borough Road in place of the former wooden structure (the last of its kind in the country) is now in regular use. It is not quite as imposing as the old bridge but is “sufficiently conspicuous in its garb of green paint laid on top of preservative coats of red and grey and will admirably serve its purpose for years to come”. The demolished bridge, which was not far short of 100 years old, was a ‘curiosity of wooden construction’ and for this reason sections of it “have found an honoured place at the Railway Museum of York”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5e326d1e-b0d4-4755-96d2-d47b241bba14/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1807+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 18th, 1854 Building work started on the Tyne Sailors’ Home on New Quay, in response to the increasing number of sailors from home and abroad who were arriving in North Shields needing accommodation. By this time North Shields had become the third port in the UK ‘in number of ships and tonnage’’. Improvements were taking place on the River Tyne and constructing the piers at the river mouth. Discussions about a sailors’ home – like those in London, Liverpool and other seaports – were instigated and encouraged by the Duke of Northumberland. There was much support for the scheme by influential people in the town and in 1856 it opened with much fanfare and celebrations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b7eb33a3-2de5-4c13-8cfb-4d973333ca23/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1907+%28Bruce%29+%281%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 19th, 1909 In its Fish Market Reports, the Shields Daily News states that a good supply of white fish had been landed at North Shields from steam trawlers and liners. The vessels were: Prince, St Agnes, Ben Vorlich, Lily, Langley Castle, Saxon Prince, Craigellachie, Thistle, Wild Rose, Upton Castle, Alexandra, T W Mould, Cariama, Lilydale, Volunteer, Nellie, St. Gothard, Ben Lomond, Daisy, Victorian Prince, Lucania, City o’ Fife, Ranter and Mercia. Sadly, four of the above vessels - St Agnes, Saxon Prince, T W Mould and Ranter - were lost during World War One as a result of enemy action. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/db5b8ee1-d5be-4bb7-89aa-2528bde8fb90/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2007+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 20th, 1984 Linskill School, known locally as ‘Linka’, closed its doors after providing secondary education to young people from North Shields for more than 50 years. It is now a thriving community centre Linskill was the first secondary modern school built by the old Borough of Tynemouth when it opened in September 1932, at a cost of £43,650. The first cohort of pupils was 480 boys and 480 girls who were educated separately. At that time, it was considered to provide a ‘new look’ in secondary modern education. Its interesting experiments around this brought many visitors from other authorities to see it first-hand. Linskill School was named after Colonel Linskill, who became the first Mayor of Tynemouth County Borough in 1849. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5e50cb0b-d93f-4669-8452-bae50ce5b5b9/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2107+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 21st, 1855 Soon after Mr. David McDowell, chemist and druggist, left his shop in Bell Street, North Shields it was seen to be on fire. After the fire was extinguished, it was found it was not accidental. Mr. McDowell was charged with committing the act, convicted and sentenced to 15 years transportation, more than likely to Freemantle Prison in Western Australia. Once deported, there was limited or no right of return. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bad2a8e1-4bdd-4b56-9ac6-d8d794877b0e/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2207+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 22nd, 1901 Prominent North Shields Quaker, John Foster Spence, known as the “Grand Old Man of Shields”, died. Running the family’s successful drapery business on the corner of Howard Street and Tyne Street until two years before his death, he was prominent in the religious, social and political life of the town. Six decades serving the community as a councillor, mayor, alderman, magistrate and active member of more than 70 local committees and societies, earned him the Freedom of the Borough of Tynemouth in 1894 for his lifelong devotion to the improvement of the town and its people. He was a driving force behind the establishment of the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade and his coffin was carried on the Brigade cart. He also played a key role in the development of Northumberland Park. John Spence Community High School is named after him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1fa74fb1-bdd9-49c0-8d20-a89ed65491a6/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2307+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 23rd, 1904 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show visited North Shields for one night only, travelling along Linskill Terrace to Brock Farm which occupied the fields surrounding what is now the Linskill Centre. ‘Cowboys and Indians’ could be seen ‘rushing about in the fulness of life and vigour’ preparing for the afternoon matinee and the evening show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d38111f3-72fc-4d68-baa6-e987e9415603/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2407+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 24th, 1922 The Smith’s Dock Company War Memorial is unveiled by General Sir Archibald Kerr Montgomery. This was one of three identical memorials funded by the company to recognise more than 135 employees from their four shipyards who gave their lives in WW1. The North Shields memorial still stands today in front of where the entrance to the company’s sports and welfare grounds opened just three days earlier. The others were at Harton, South Shields and South Bank, Middlesbrough. A local resident remembers during the 1960s the football fields being fully occupied at weekends. The more notable teams that played their home games there were Nelson Villa, The Nautilus Pub, The Pineapple Pub and of course Smith’s Dock’s own team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/068093f4-30fc-464b-b9e7-c77279824564/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2507+%28Bruce%29+%281%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 25th, 1928 The Tynemouth Society of Antiquaries asked the Council to preserve The Sepulchre Slab at the St Leonard’s Leper Hospital site in Northumberland Park by enclosing it with a railing. The Sepulchre Slab is plain limestone showing indentations which contained the brasses of a layman and his wife , with five smaller indents for the brasses of their daughter and four sons. A date of between 1400 and 1420 has been assigned to the the work. The workmanship suggests this family were of high status and may have been benefactors for the hospital. The benefactor hoped to gain spiritual benefit in this life and in the world to come, assisted by the prayers of generations yet unborn. A railing was provided at a cost of £5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ed00a399-684f-4256-82e4-5fc215563160/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2607+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 26th, 1912 ‘A Great Bank Holiday Sale’ started at the well-known D. Hill Carter and Co, Saville Street, which promised to be a ‘Joy Day’. Local newspaper advertisements urged shoppers: ‘insure yourself against disappointment by coming to this unmatched sale’. ‘All classes of artisan and fishermen’s clothing’ were being offered at specially reduced prices. Purchases would involve ‘the minimum tax’ on the purse for ‘immediate maximum benefits’. D. Hill Carter had two branches at the time. The one people will remember was on Union Street, but this sale was from their second premises on Saville Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/08a77d61-9f81-4b05-ab5c-449f1e48713f/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2707+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 27th, 1922 Liverpool Journal of Commerce reported the official opening of a new 25-acre recreation ground a few days earlier by Smith’s Dock for its staff on the north side of the Tyne. Part of a general welfare scheme, it included tennis courts, bowling grounds, cricket pitches, football and quoit grounds and a pavilion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/20d592d4-f1e6-4604-a2ea-93c45ab72df4/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2807+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 28th, 1857 Tynemouth Town Council agreed to increase the County Borough of Tynemouth Police from 20 to 30 members. The force came into being on January 1, 1850 (although it was very similar to the former North Shields Force as most of the officers just transferred over) and served the community for 119 years until a merger in 1969 when it became part of Northumberland Constabulary. In 1974, a further amalgamation took place when Northumberland Constabulary and part of the Durham Constabulary merged to become Northumbria Police. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/abaa9811-a6f8-4425-8692-a7be03063711/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2907+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 29th, 2017 Doors closed at William Wight Ltd shipping grocer at Union Quay after almost 90 years. This much-loved family business supplied the fishing community with food and other items for many years. The premises started life as the Highlander Hotel in 1847, becoming a grocery store in 1929. Thank you to David Kidd for sharing this picture with us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/17fcef5d-7591-4e4e-ac8a-ea60e5ec28f8/NS800+fact+of+the+day+3007+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 30th, 1869 The Chirton Estate was offered by auction at the Commercial Hotel, North Shields with 14 lots comprising the Hylton Lodge with stables, coach house and gardener’s cottage. a ropery warehouse, 307 cottages, seven public houses, a brass foundry, a boat builders’ yard, Meadow Well Farm, Chirton Dene farm and a market garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/cf838b1c-785f-44df-bc97-86051a9a318b/NS800+fact+of+the+day+3107+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - July - Make it stand out July 31st, 1921 An electric tram (car number 12) ran away down Borough Bank, and overturned killing five passengers. The electric system opened in 1901 operating from New Quay, North Shields to Whitley Bay Links via Tynemouth and Cullercoats. The last tram ran on August 5th, 1931 when the company converted to motorbuses. https://www.northshields800.com/news/north-shields-800-years-in-the-making-exhibition-now-on-at-old-low-light-heritage-centre monthly 0.5 2025-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/51b15a13-e34e-43d7-8684-668843d2bcd2/Wall-2-A-First-Seven-Shiels-2-900x616.jpg News - North Shields, 800 years in the making: Exhibition now on at Old Low Light Heritage Centre - Make it stand out The first Shiels on the river in 1225AD - artist’s impression https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a62361b7-44e0-4f61-8d9a-3d86e1320cf9/The-Old-Low-Light-Exterior-900x590.jpg News - North Shields, 800 years in the making: Exhibition now on at Old Low Light Heritage Centre - Make it stand out The Old Low Light Heritage Centre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3f5cb091-a514-450c-954d-58b98a703aeb/TNLHF_English_Acknowledgement_Stamp_Colour_JPEG.jpg News - North Shields, 800 years in the making: Exhibition now on at Old Low Light Heritage Centre - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/painting-with-plasticine-workshops monthly 0.5 2025-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/64c45383-f5df-444c-80f2-f8073febd44e/plasticine.png News - Painting with Plasticine Workshops - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3b9643f3-c103-4e7c-bd29-4e97e81d5230/_DSC9275.JPG News - Painting with Plasticine Workshops - Make it stand out Globe Gallery artist in residence Kitty McKay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/34687f08-c2bf-4703-9fbd-9bfd40bbbc23/download.png News - Painting with Plasticine Workshops - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/919260e6-997c-483c-a675-84381d6d900a/download.png News - Painting with Plasticine Workshops - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/01c8a571-d55d-49c3-b00a-5c5d2bec23d1/NLHF_Acknowledgement+stamp_W_O+MPW_English_Teal_CMYK.jpg News - Painting with Plasticine Workshops - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/smmuxni2x771ns01d4o0s7a88oj9w7 monthly 0.5 2025-08-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/89732d4a-d96f-465e-b464-22394ca0f190/Ninas+North+Shields+Mural+in+the+running+for+best+mural+in+the+world.JPG News - Is the world’s best new mural in North Shields? - Make it stand out The Chase by Nina Valkhoff depicting an underwater chase between two gannets and a cormorant, on a gable end in Norfolk Street, North Shields https://www.northshields800.com/news/apply-now-for-north-shields-800-community-grants monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3694db73-7a31-4976-a723-f93e49032108/North+Shields+5.JPEG News - Apply Now for North Shields 800 Community Grants - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/f36c7476-f26a-4392-8295-b3644b5028a3/VODA.jpg News - Apply Now for North Shields 800 Community Grants - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/f2fa0715-ad64-4eab-ad0d-b1e8a00d0009/Untitled+design+%284%29.jpg News - Apply Now for North Shields 800 Community Grants - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/north-shields-800-awarded-grant-by-the-national-lottery-heritage-fund-to-celebrate-towns-historic-anniversary monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/6edf9ae4-602c-4e10-8ca5-43d74c1e6df4/800+2.JPG News - North Shields 800 awarded grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to celebrate town’s historic anniversary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9cb1a12c-c479-4470-a362-aea849709895/TNLHF_English_Acknowledgement_Stamp_Colour_JPEG.jpg News - North Shields 800 awarded grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to celebrate town’s historic anniversary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/2fbs17sx660e92pj4nkew6z4x3b44g monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://www.northshields800.com/news/north-shields-regeneration-video-from-sirastudio-and-i-love-north-shields monthly 0.5 2025-07-15 https://www.northshields800.com/news/parade-of-boats-photo-gallery monthly 0.5 2025-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a768a2b9-66bf-48cb-bb01-2b22e6ba78f7/20250620_123550.jpg News - Parade of Boats photo gallery - Make it stand out A parade procession travelling along North Shields Fish Quay. They are led by a group of bagpipe players leading the parade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9ca20e4d-f0dc-4862-afa6-6f68e03e8fd6/20250620_123600.jpg News - Parade of Boats photo gallery - Make it stand out A marching procession including school children taking part in the parade. The shot is taken from near the front of the procession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/6b64a961-574f-4b57-aa33-8baa99744173/20250620_123609.jpg News - Parade of Boats photo gallery - Make it stand out A marching procession of school children taking part in the parade. The shot is taken from the front of that part of the procession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/be543399-dc09-4415-9067-ea23f451f990/20250620_123614.jpg News - Parade of Boats photo gallery - Make it stand out A marching procession of school children taking part in the parade. The shot is taken from the back of the procession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2049a317-9b5a-4d63-b117-fbfe91e56f7a/20250620_125212.jpg News - Parade of Boats photo gallery - Make it stand out A shot of a performance at the North Shields quayside, facing the stage. The audience can be seen in the photo, with many people of all ages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a8261912-d3b5-4a0a-b80b-ee2e85be7462/IMG_0273.JPG News - Parade of Boats photo gallery - Make it stand out A side-profile shot of schoolchildren watching a performance on the North Shields quayside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2d41df24-59d8-4b06-86c8-66a51587f298/IMG_2769.JPG News - Parade of Boats photo gallery - Make it stand out A blue and white boat named the “Svitzer Jubilee” on the River Tyne with North Shields quayside in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b9d51e10-baa5-418c-85ff-44c9654f1ba9/IMG_0319.JPG News - Parade of Boats photo gallery - Make it stand out Image of a boat on the River Tyne. 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The boat is spraying water out to both sides of the Tyne. https://www.northshields800.com/news/harvest-from-the-deep-a-decade-of-north-shields-fishing-caught-on-camera-for-north-shields-800-exhibition monthly 0.5 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a8bf8d73-21a0-4b63-8030-ef779b6d9e0f/Martin+Rogers+-2.jpg News - Harvest from the Deep: A decade of North Shields fishing caught on camera for North Shields 800 exhibition - Make it stand out Image copyright Pete Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/17067cc9-c142-4dd1-b62e-716f0e61e6bd/25.jpg News - Harvest from the Deep: A decade of North Shields fishing caught on camera for North Shields 800 exhibition - Make it stand out Image copyright Pete Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9a50132f-b82d-4023-87ef-35b39e0c2ab9/90.jpg News - Harvest from the Deep: A decade of North Shields fishing caught on camera for North Shields 800 exhibition - Make it stand out Image copyright Pete Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/678033c0-232d-4b45-8612-e6b4f9aebbaa/North+Shields+Providence+II-37.jpg News - Harvest from the Deep: A decade of North Shields fishing caught on camera for North Shields 800 exhibition - Make it stand out Image copyright Pete Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0babd7d3-d2af-4b6f-b940-332f67d96afb/38.5.jpg News - Harvest from the Deep: A decade of North Shields fishing caught on camera for North Shields 800 exhibition - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/fact-of-the-day-june monthly 0.5 2025-08-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/4a6795f4-c28d-4158-9158-16080325cbeb/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0106+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 1st, 1921 Death of North Shields born William Harbutt, the inventor of Plasticine, who worked as an art teacher in Bath. He wanted a clay type material for his students to use in class, something that was non-toxic, sterile, soft and malleable and did not dry when exposed to air. He received a patent for his invention in 1899. The original manufacturing facility for Plasticine was based in Bathampton, near Bath, where it produced the material until 1983 before switching to Thailand. Today several companies produce and market Plasticine. Harbutt studied at the National Art Training School in London and eventually became an associate of the Royal College of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/26d170e5-d05a-4f2f-b72c-d589cbdf3102/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0206+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 2nd, 1814 The skeleton of a man is found 30 fathoms deep in an old coal pit at Chirton, ‘exciting much curiosity’. This was near to ‘a small house of undressed stone’ built in a shrubbery by the Duke of Argyll, who resided at Chirton during the reign of William III. It was afterwards converted into a brothel until new proprietors came to the estate and immediately pulled it down. The story goes that in about 1784 a young sea-faring man disappeared, never to be seen again. A woman from the house remembered a young man being taken away by three men on Newcastle Road and he was supposed to have been put into the pit and covered with rubbish. The skeleton was recovered years later when a pit shaft was needed, and the rubbish was removed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/be9fd9ab-1c9c-4db7-8b42-052a3ae68567/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0306+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 3rd, 1826 A notice appeared in the Newcastle Chronicle seeking ‘a Master for the free school endowed by the late Thomas Kettlewell’. It said the Master must be acquainted with the new methods of instruction adopted by the British and Foreign School Society. Testimonials would be required ‘of sobriety and good character’ and that, if suitably qualified, ‘a lame person’, would have preference. Kettlewell School was built on the corner of George Street and Upper Toll Street, using funds left by North Shields sailmaker Thomas Kettlewell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/584a5387-7a94-43df-9061-6c3bc30fa86d/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0406+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 4th, 1808 In honour of the birthday of King George III, ‘the New Town’s clock’, placed on top of the Subscription Library, at North Shields, was first set in motion. The ships in the harbour displaying their colours, and immediately on the clock striking 12, 21 guns were fired. Clifford’s Fort, Spanish Battery, and Tynemouth Castle, also fired royal salutes. The clock was made by Mr John Bolton, of Chester-le-Street’. The Subscription Library, Howard Street, was the home of the Literary and Philosophical Society. It is now the North Tyneside Register Office. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9d7617a0-5983-477d-beb6-e302bd833505/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0506+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 5th, 1916 Lord Kitchener, Minister for War famous for the WW1 “Wants You” recruitment posters, drowned off the Orkney islands when the HMS Hampshire was torpedoed by a German U-Boat. North Shields sailor Richard Simpson, aged 18, was one of only 11 survivors of 645 on board. He survived by hanging onto a large life raft for five hours with 50-60 others, nearly all of whom were lost, and swam the last few yards to shore. He scaled a sheer cliff to raise the alarm at a nearby farm. He sought shelter in a farmer’s cottage and the families stayed in contact for many years. Sadly, Richard was lost at sea through enemy action 17 months later. A blue plaque, in memory of Richard, at 42 Edith Street is one of 300 placed on surviving homes of WW1 casualties. His story featured in an episode of ‘Coast’ (BBC). See www.northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk for more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/36b18742-7e00-4ab7-9c3e-a8995c84f1a7/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0606+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 6th, 1944 The pet cemetery at Northumberland Park includes a grave and headstone for Trixie Fox, rescued during the Normandy landings (which took place on June 6th 1944). Trixie died on October 2nd 1958, and ‘was a real treasure’. Any further information about this obviously much-loved pet and how she arrived in North Shields would be gratefully received. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/22e4cda5-1f1b-4be9-9dfc-bbdcc0fbc1a9/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0706+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 7th, 1879 An inaugural meeting of the YMCA was held in the Sons of Temperance Hall, Norfolk Street, North Shields. It was originally known as the Borough of Tynemouth YMCA. YMCA North Tyneside still operates out of premises in Church Way, North Shields, built as a community youth centre in the 1930s by the Sir James Knott Trust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/245c19f6-4460-46a1-9033-2e397fa4b4a0/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0806+%28Bruce%29+-+Copy.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 8th, 1934 Sir James Knott died at his residence, Samares Manor, on the Isle of Jersey where he had lived since retirement. Growing up in North Shields he became Tyneside’s most charitable shipowner with his Prince Line shipping company becoming the world’s third largest fleet. The charity he founded is still providing funds today for charities in his beloved North East. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/6469ba35-da29-44af-bdbe-4444d9e04582/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0906+%28Bruce%29+-+Copy.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 9th, 1879 Shields Daily News: John Patterson who died aged 77, might ‘justly have been called the Ancient Mariner of North Shields’, having spent a great part of his life in the Arctic whaling grounds. He was remembered for his connection with the celebrated Tyne whalers, the Lady Jane, Lord Gambier and Grenville Bay. He was away so much he said he had never seen a green gooseberry in 40 years. On his last voyage with the Lady Jane, the most famous Tyne whaler, on 8 March 1849 ‘she shipped a tremendous sea which covered her boards from stem to stern’. This was looked upon as an evil omen. Indeed, she never returned to the Tyne being crushed by the ice three months later. Although ‘the grand old lady’ was lost forever, all the crew were saved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2995c44e-0c56-4271-b3d1-425943d42757/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1006+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 10th, 1908 The North Shields Walking Club competed in the 41-mile Bradford Walk Race as part of the North of England Team. They were captained by Tom Payne. As the first man past the post, he was awarded the handsome Challenge Shield. The North Shields Walking Club formed on December 3rd, 1903, and was one of the first in England. Its two most famous walkers were Tom Payne and Cullercoats-born Ralph Harrison. Tom Payne, nicknamed the Mighty Atom"due to his small stature (5ft 4in, 8 stone), was a former World Amateur Long-distance Walking Champion and a celebrated figure in the sport for over 30 years. Ralph Harrison represented Great Britain in the 1908 Olympic Games held in London, where he participated in the men’s 3,500 metre walk, qualifying for the final. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e1abe595-fee4-4272-8306-d42cf8b78a62/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1106+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 11th, 1998 Whitley Bay Guardian: The International Ferry Terminal at North Shields is to get a £2m cash boost thanks to the Port of Tyne Authority (PTA). The decision to improve the Ro-Ro berth comes following an announcement by DFDS, who will extend their range of passenger services starting next February. Once the developments are complete the Ro-Ro berth will be able to accommodate the next generation of passenger vessels. The PTA is also continuing investments which will improve the quality of passenger facilities at the International Ferry Terminal. PTA managing director David Clifford said: “The introduction of new services by Scandinavian Seaways will obviously have an effect on the number of passengers using the port. We will continue to develop the port and everyone in the North East will benefit.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a1362cd8-97bc-4671-b714-ead6b1f5c3ae/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1206+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 12th, 1875 A new RNLI self-righting lifeboat, Charles Dibdin, for the Tynemouth No.1 station at Prior's Haven, was launched. Large crowds gathered on the North Pier and Spanish Battery overlooking the Haven. There was a large flotilla of small boats to greet her, including the Tynemouth No.2 lifeboat Forester, the Cullercoats lifeboat Palmerston, the South Shields lifeboat, Tom Perry, and the North Shields lifeboat Northumberland. The new lifeboat then rowed across to the pier crane to demonstrate her self-righting capability. After much exertion, the crew managed to capsize the boat, with three of them swimming from underneath the boat to the surface. After about half a minute, the boat returned to an upright position with the remaining crew sitting in the boat. Many thanks to Steve Landells for sharing this with us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/66fd1ae2-7955-426b-a9de-6394d4895af1/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1306+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 13th, 1797 The foundation stone was laid for James Cawdell's North Shields Theatre on Howard Street, which opened in January 1798. It was built on land bought by John Walker from the Earl of Carlisle in 1796. To commemorate the date, Cawdell presented John Walker with a 'Perpetual General Ticket of Admission' (see attached photos). Many thanks to David Scholey for sharing this fact with us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bc8f9dcf-24a8-4fcf-a7d0-efd3bc7b8c4a/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1406+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 14th, 1821 Opening of the new Roman Catholic Church of St Cuthbert at the top of Bedford Street. This was four years after the laying of a foundation stone on the site of what was to be the first purpose-built Roman Catholic Church in North Shields and Tynemouth. Previously, Catholics has practised their faith in private chapels in small numbers. A number of these small chapels had existed in North Shields, usually sponsored by private individuals, including one in the home of the Errington sisters, at the corner of West Percy Street and Bedford Street. Father Thomas Gillow was appointed as parish priest - ‘a great orator and had great charisma, therefore he was considered an asset in setting up a new church’. The church was demolished in the 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5278c189-6280-4762-b2b0-04ea5709cf6f/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1506+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 15th, 1854 The foundation stones were laid for the North and South piers at Shields harbour entrance to provide a safer and sheltered entry to the river mouth. Under an Act of 1852, the work was to be completed in seven years. In 1859, an Act extended this by ten years and an Act of 1872 further extended the timeframe to 1882. However, it was almost 50 years before they were finally completed after several instances of storm damage breeching the North pier in the 1890s. Every year, around 200,000 seamen entered and left the Tyne. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/187a5633-7e32-4a7f-8e10-2debc2cf257c/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1606+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 16th, 1915 Corporal James Mavin, 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, was killed in action in the Battle of Bellewaarde, east of Ypres. Born in 1879, James lived at Front Street, Milburn Place, North Shields, with his wife Miranda and four children. He had previously served during the Boer War and before going to the front he was employed by Pyman, Bell and Co, Coble Dene Dock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8dc5c4fc-88b2-4ba8-94cd-a090ec83821b/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1706+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 17th, 1839 The Queen Victoria steamer left the Tyne at 5am for a pleasure trip to Warkworth. A few miles south of Warkworth it struck Hauxley Head, filled with water and was stranded on rocks. Six fishing boats came alongside, took off the passengers who travelled back to Shields in six carts, arriving home the following morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b75daaf0-bd1e-4f89-af92-cbc6dac8a977/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1806+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 18th, 1941 A Royal visit to North Shields when King George Vl and Queen Elizabeth were given a tour of Smith’s Dock. It was during the same Royal visit to North Shields that Ellen Lee, heroine of the Wilkinson’s air-raid shelter bombing during the previous month, was presented to the King and Queen. We shared details of Ellen’s heroism on 27th April. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/f214dc63-8f47-406a-86f8-6bbc10b6e222/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1906+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 19th, 1919 Liverpool Journal of Commerce: “Not being content with winning itself fame” across the world for ship repairs, Smith’s Dock has entered the ‘turbulent world of journalism’ with the publication of its first staff magazine. It was hoped that ‘every man and boy in the place’ would read it. A nominal charge of one penny per copy was proposed. In the first issue, Chairman Lancelot E. Smith appealed to the 5,000 employees to help with the magazine by providing articles. He said a magazine was “badly needed”,’ as Smith’s Dock “had grown to be a very big concern with scattered interests” and “it appeared essential that something should be done to bring the various departments into closer touch with each other and thus promote the healthy rivalry which is so necessary for the success of all commercial undertakings.” The magazine continued to be published until May 1933, ceasing due to difficult financial times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bdd8405c-c338-439e-a41c-b7ab83ad9238/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2006+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 20th, 1868 Newcastle Journal: An advertisement by the North Shields and Tynemouth Dispensary for a house surgeon and dispenser. ‘He must possess a legal qualification, and will be required to enter upon his Duties within Fourteen Days after his Appointment. Salary £90 per Annum, with House, Coals, Gas, etc. For information as to Duties apply to John Fenwick, Esq, North Shields, the Hon Sec, to whom Applications, with Testimonials, must be forwarded before the First July next’. The dispensary, in Church Street, was built in 1802 to bring medical care to the poor. It was supported by voluntary donations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a195bcb6-36fa-4c07-bcb5-b2257c16150a/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2106+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 21st, 1887 The laying of the foundation stone ceremony of the Tynemouth Victoria Jubilee Infirmary. The Borough of Tynemouth Friendly Societies mustered in Dockwray Square before marching to Hawkey’s Lane to attend the ceremony, carried out by R. M. Tate JP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/20c12477-684f-4fdd-8bc5-3cc2d7b63783/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2206+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 22nd, 1912 The Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade demonstrate their lifesaving equipment to King George V and Queen Mary at Windsor Castle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/14db94c8-ec0d-4d38-8673-ad8e992e3ecd/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2306+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 23rd, 1864 A foundation stone was laid for a new dock that would have changed the landscape from the Low Lights down to beyond where Knott’s flats stand today. This was a day of great celebration as there had been many discussions, over years, about the need for a dock near to the entrance of the Tyne. ‘Howard, Tyne and Union Streets ... were gay with flags and decorations’. A very long procession, headed by the 1st Northumberland Artillery Volunteers, including the town’s key church, civic and businesspeople, Mayors from across Tyneside and local people, accompanied by bands and banners, made its way from Railway Street to the Black Middens. After a speech, Joseph Spence, Mayor of Tynemouth, presented Joseph Cowen, the Chairman of the Commissioners, with a silver engraved trowel and mallet. For financial and safety reasons, the dock was never built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9d801ca7-9b9b-4742-8219-5f2a6b9b57e8/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2406+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 24th, 1889 Joseph Skipsey, the ‘pitman poet’ of Percy Main, is appointed custodian of Shakespeare’s birthplace in Stratford-upon- Avon. His application was supported by some of the greatest literary figures of the 19th century - Oscar Wilde, William Morris, Bram Stoker, Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabrielli Rosetti. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2241a474-5fff-4a6d-8238-aeafc9cc1321/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2506+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 25th, 1948 A public notice appeared in the Shields Daily News titled ‘Pharmaceutical Services on or after 5th July 1948’ (the day on which the NHS was to be formed). The notice was calling for registered pharmacists and ‘authorised sellers of poisons’ who wished to provide pharmaceutical services in the new health service and who had not received an application for inclusion in Tynemouth Executive Council’s pharmaceutical list to contact Fred Jones, Clerk to the Council for details of arrangements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e2c2ec1e-7a8e-4d36-8de3-86d3d30bd869/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2606+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 26th, 1902 The unveiling of the fourth wooden dolly outside Prince of Wales Pub on Liddell Street’s Customs House Quay. The new dolly fashioned by May Spence caused some controversy as it was a lifelike representation of a traditional Cullercoats fishwife, rather than the previous three ‘ship’s figurehead’ versions. The unveiling followed a procession from the old Town Hall headed by bands from the Wellesley Training Ship and Tynemouth Union Workhouse Band. The fourth ‘dolly’ survived for more than half a century before succumbing to familiar damage by people cutting pieces off it for good luck keepsakes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ef96a3dd-2fed-48ba-8552-71ecc836849a/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2706+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 27th, 1902 8,000 children assembled in Northumberland Square carrying banners and bright coloured flags to celebrate the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. There were 11 schools represented. The square was jam packed with spectators. Following community singing and speeches from local dignitaries, the children formed a procession. Headed by the Wellesley Training Ship Band, they marched to the Percy Park Rugby Football Club Field encouraged by thousands of spectators lining the route. On arriving each child was given ‘a bag of goodies’ and entertained by jugglers, performing dogs and acrobats along with a programme of music. The Coronation was arranged for 26th June but some days before the event the King was taken ill. The event was postponed and rearranged for 9th August that year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/6120095d-f702-425f-b028-471d05185c1a/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2806+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 28th, 1968 The Tyne Improvement Commission, which has had stewardship of the river since the 1850s, is dissolved to make way for the Port of Tyne, one of the largest UK Trust ports. As a Trust port, the Port of Tyne has important responsibilities as custodian of the River Tyne. It is also responsible for the growth and development of the port, a key regional asset, for current and future generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/eaf56874-337a-4608-958c-bf008f8b6fef/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2906+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 29th, 1871 Shields Daily News: The flag on the Sailors’ Home on the New Quay was hoisted at half-mast, along with those of the Shields Ferries and other vessels of the River Tyne Commissioners. This was a mark of respect for the funeral of Solomon Mease, one of the ‘foremost residents’ of North Shields, who passed away while staying with his son-in-law in Bristol. Born in Stokesley, he made his home in North Shields for 50 years, serving as an alderman, county and borough magistrate and a River Tyne commissioner. One of the first members of the newly-formed Tynemouth Town Council, he served as Mayor in 1852 and 1860. He established a ships’ store business, operated a manufacturing chemist business on Tyne Street and was a significant industrialist and ship owner. A leading figure of the Wesleyan Methodist Community of Tyneside, it is said that when the Newcastle orphan house was demolished, he re-assembled plank by plank, John Wesley’s study ‘which stood atop of the site’, in his garden at Cleveland House, North Shields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0ef5a651-b35c-4ef7-a690-8a15299c9c2d/NS800+fact+of+the+day+3006+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - June - Make it stand out June 30th, 1909 Tynemouth Amateur Swimming Club opened their open-air swimming pool in Hawkey’s Lane. Lance G. Wight, a well-known member of the club and holder of the Tynemouth Medal, awarded for saving drowning swimmers at Tynemouth Longsands, took the first dive off the springboard. The club was based there until 1971 when they moved to the new municipal pool at Preston Village. https://www.northshields800.com/news/painting-the-town-elevation-mural-festival-transforms-north-shields-into-an-outdoor-gallery monthly 0.5 2025-06-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a88f7800-acfa-4fff-abe6-515eb047f3d4/NinaValkhoff+%40Rob+Mart%C3%ADnez+%28002%29+reduced.jpg News - Painting the town: Elevation Mural Festival transforms North Shields into an outdoor gallery - Make it stand out Artist Nina Valkoff, credit: Rob Martinez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ec2c509c-072c-4513-90a3-5087bd7e70d6/Ricky+Also+credit+%40David.multicapture.jpeg News - Painting the town: Elevation Mural Festival transforms North Shields into an outdoor gallery - Make it stand out Artist Ricky Also, credit: David, MultiCapture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d97913a9-044e-4432-8c36-6260e530b4cc/Mark+Shields+mono.jpeg News - Painting the town: Elevation Mural Festival transforms North Shields into an outdoor gallery - Make it stand out Artist Mark Shields, MarkOne87 https://www.northshields800.com/news/timelapse-of-parade-of-boats-from-sira-studio monthly 0.5 2025-06-23 https://www.northshields800.com/news/itv-tyne-tees-news-report-on-parade-of-boats-20-june-2025 monthly 0.5 2025-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/c346d78f-595e-45f1-92bf-fd30b2859ca3/Screenshot+%28180%29.png News - ITV Tyne Tees news report on Parade of Boats, 20 June 2025 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/north-shields-800-blessing-of-the-fleet monthly 0.5 2025-06-23 https://www.northshields800.com/news/fact-of-the-day-may monthly 0.5 2025-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/be619c11-2287-440a-8ffb-a136380df818/0501.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 1st, 1810. The New High Light house in Tyne Street was illuminated for first time. Construction began in 1807. It was designed by John Stokoe for Trinity House. Stokoe (1756-1836) was a Newcastle-based builder and architect. The New Low Light was built and illuminated at the same time. The High Light stands 18m high and the Low Light 26m high. The new lights were powered by oil lamps until 1861, when they were replaced by gas, and in 1927 by electricity. The new 100,000 candle power lights had a range of 17 nautical miles or 31km. Both were stone constructed. The new lighthouses replaced the Old High and Low Lights of 1727, which in turn replaced earlier lights dating back to 1536. The High and Low Lights were decommissioned in the 1990s and are now privately owned. Both are Grade II listed buildings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/efec4665-4234-4f0f-b6d7-520f80fa8ab5/0502.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 2nd, 1959 North Shields said farewell to one of its oldest drinking establishments when demolition began on the Marquis of Granby. The pub, locally referred to as simply ‘The Granby’, stood on the junction of Tyne Street and Church Street perhaps since as early as 1822 (there is a recorded entry in a trade directory in 1827). At one time it hosted a good darts team which took part in a local league. It closed officially in April 1955 and stood empty until its demolition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ae370385-48cb-49f6-a25e-70d893f23325/0503.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 3rd, 1312 Edward II and his favourite Piers Gaveston fled from King Edward’s Bay, Tynemouth, abandoning his pregnant queen at Newcastle. The first ‘Piers’ at Tynemouth! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ccbade38-4aa2-4461-b3cf-d44fa034b36c/0504.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 4th, 1941 Death of 107 people including 43 children and many others injured in the Wilkinson Lemonade Factory air raid shelter, North Shields. The worst bombing tragedy in the North East during WW2, when a German bomb struck the factory on the corner of George Street and King Street, sending heavy machinery through the weak shelter ceiling. On May 8th, 66 burials took place at Preston Cemetery, with many graves having multiple casualties. Tynemouth Council later provided the sandstone grave markers with family inscriptions. Clearance of the disaster site and recovery of victims took several days. News coverage at the time was heavily censored. Local man, Peter Bolger, has researched the disaster and written a book, North Shields 173. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/cc54b649-e211-4347-8974-ca8862abd46e/0505.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 5th, 1875 A fatal accident occurred on board the ship Emmanuel lying moored off New Quay, North Shields. While John Rogerson, a Customs officer ‘was engaged in rummaging the sails of the vessel for the purpose of seeing whether there were any contraband goods concealed, he fell from the top gallant yard onto the deck and was killed’. The deceased was about 42 years old and had been ‘upwards of 20 years in Customs service’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/48fee485-6655-4556-a218-275a25ddf3b0/0506.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 6th, 1871. ‘A most fearful’ collision took place off the bar of the Tyne, in which a new steamship, the David Burn was sunk and entirely lost. The 1,200 ton steamer left Tyne Dock with 50 people on board and went out to sea for a trial trip. After about an hour she was enveloped in dense fog. The screw steamship the Earl Percy with goods and passengers, bound for London, emerged close to her, striking her ‘amidships with a tremendous crash’. The plates of the David Burn were stoved in. The master kept her engines running while the people were taken off by the Earl Percy. Just after the last man had transferred, the David Burn sank. The Earl Percy was damaged at the bow, and it was feared she too would sink. Another steamer, Rambler, came alongside and people transferred and were taken back to the New Quay. The Earl Percy returned to the New Quay for repair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7bc86171-582c-466c-894e-9258021fc324/0507.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 7th, 1859. A meeting was held with a view to forming a volunteer artillery unit at Tynemouth. This would become the first Artillery Volunteers unit formed in response to the fear of a war with the resurgent French Third Empire. As a privilege, they were later permitted a distinctive ‘Tynemouth’ shoulder flash on their tunics. The training depot was eventually located at New Clifford’s Fort, North Shields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2a0ffa43-1cfa-40a2-93c3-914c459597aa/0508.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 8th, 1945. VE Day – Victory in Europe. Prime Minister Winston Churchill broadcast the news to the nation at 3pm that Germany had surrendered. People took to the streets across the borough to celebrate; trestle tables and bunting appeared and rations were pooled to provide a feast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/815f1fd8-506b-4912-9d99-68e444044f59/0509.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 9th, 2019. The £75m Silverlink interchange, the North East’s first triple deck junction, was officially opened by Elected Mayor of North Tyneside, Dame Norma Redfearn DBE. The junction of the A19 and A1058 Coast Road is one of the region’s busiest, used by about 80,000 motorists a day. Before the new interchange there was severe traffic congestion at peak times. More than 1,000 days were spent working on site, using 16 times the amount of steel in the Angel of the North. 80,000 cubic metres of soil had to be removed to create the underpass - enough to fill 32 Olympic swimming pools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/4cd0f208-8f67-4d1b-981f-5e9a7412fb2e/0510.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 10th, 1889. The death of Edward (Edmund) Jennings, who lived at King George’s Stairs off Bell Street. He was buried in an unmarked grave in Preston Cemetery. Born in County Mayo around 1820, aged 16 he enlisted into the horse artillery with the Honourable East India Company. He served in the First Afghan War (Ghazni) and the First Sikh War of 1845-1846. He was awarded the Victoria Cross by election of his comrades while fighting as a rough rider during the Indian mutiny of 1857. He’d shown outstanding gallantry in saving the life of a young lieutenant. Sir Colin Campbell (Commander-in-Chief and General during the Indian Mutiny) said that he would gladly have given him a commission were he able to read and write. Jennings served for 23 years in India. Sadly, he fell into financial hardship and was later forced to sell his VC to a private collector. He was employed by Tynemouth Corporation as a ‘Scavenger’ - a road cleaner. In September 1997, following an appeal by family members, a headstone was placed on his grave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ebbb750d-0ceb-44fd-9dd2-cf1ad9789312/0511.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 11th, 1973. Shields Weekly News: A director of North Shields-based shipping company Stag Line, Mr Nicholas J Robinson, was installed as president of the Tyne and Wear Chamber of Commerce. He urged the North East to shape its future ‘dynamically’. He said support should be given to growing local firms with roots and management in the region, rather than importing branch factories from other areas ‘which tend to wither away when the cold wind blows’. Mr. Robinson was also president of the World Shipping Society, governor of the South Shields Marine and Technical College, an associate of the North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Ship Builders, and chairman of the engineers’ section of the Merchant Navy Training Board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/06a85c61-a018-47ea-9b0c-02755b80a996/0512.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 12th, 2024. Following a service for fishermen lost at sea at Fiddler’s Green, North Shields, a blue plaque was unveiled nearby, on the wall of the Fishermen’s Mission to commemorate the late Henry Howard, a retired fisherman, who was the inspiration behind the sculpture. It was after a conversation with his granddaughter, Courtney, who asked why there was no memorial to fishermen lost at sea at North Shields, that a project to fund the Fiddler’s Green sculpture began. Henry was a dedicated fundraiser and co-founder of North Shields Fishermen’s Heritage Project which raised money for the sculpture, by Ray Lonsdale, now a much-loved landmark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8b3e79d5-34bc-43e1-b3b6-540678edc327/0513.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 13th, 1940. The Evening News reported that the previous morning, a barrage balloon got out of control, causing ‘chimney stack and roof damage of a more or less serious character’ to 20 houses – nine in Linskill Terrace, eight in Park Crescent and three in Princes Street, North Shields. The balloon was eventually brought to the ground at the junction of Linskill Terrace and Preston Avenue, near to Tynemouth golf clubhouse. While many roofs ‘were holed’ by falling debris, a large number of chimney pots and coping stones crashed into front gardens and backyards. One resident said: “I thought the Germans had come over. What a fright I got.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1a6a7978-d3ea-485b-833f-d22a4fe65ab6/0514.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 14th, 1973. The North Shields eight-bed Frater maternity home was re-opening today having been closed since mid-February. The lengthy closure was because of the gas workers’ dispute, the hospital workers’ dispute and the conversion of the home to take natural gas supplies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/488a93c0-3aba-4ee3-88e4-354e7836164a/0515.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 15th, 2021. British journalist and scientist Oliver J. Gillie died. Born in North Shields in October 1937 into a Quaker family, his father John Gillie was a well-known nautical instrument maker who for many years had a business on Clive Street. His newspaper articles included such topics as healthy food, the risks of the contraceptive pill, the easiest way to stop smoking and the best exercise. His health page, started in The Independent in 1986, was the first to appear in a British newspaper. He had a fascination with sunlight and its role in supplying the body with vitamin D. He authored the 2008 groundbreaking report, funded by the Scottish Government ‘Scotland's Health Deficit: An Explanation and a Plan’. In 2014, he was awarded the Medical Journalists’ Association Lifetime Achievement Award for his work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/639ad1ff-0efb-40c7-aa1e-e0f06d4771c5/0516.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 16th, 1901. The death was announced of the old Shields Chartist Thomas Thompson, aged 73. In his youth was described as a leading radical in the working-class community of North Shields, seeking to improve their lives through political reform. Early in 1851, the Old Assembly Rooms in Church Street played host to a band of these young men who were ‘imbued with a spirit of liberty’. The Chartist movement was the first mass movement driven by the working classes. It grew following the failure of the 1832 Reform Act to extend the vote beyond those owning property. Another North Shields born man Robert Lowery played a significant role nationally in the movement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/93e5501d-e292-4a2a-a5a0-b145a6494557/0517.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 17th, 1979. The Journal reported that the health authority was short of cash and needed to cut food bills which would impact on the meals served in local hospitals. Two weeks later the newspaper reported that following this decision, its reporters had spoken to patients at Preston Hospital who said the food was ‘just great’. One patient said ‘it’s marvellous’ and that they were served three tasty meals a day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2c9deffd-26b0-4c6b-9933-6a4cc95e7ddc/0518.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 18th, 1951 Shields Daily News reports that work on the construction of the new 700ft dry dock at Smith’s Dock ‘gathers momentum and gives a rapidly changing appearance to the Ballast Hill area’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/afbe160e-06eb-4010-8bc0-e829e2aaecc7/0519.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 19th, 1870 T. and W. Smith, shipbuilders of North Shields, presented to the Tynemouth Free Library museum two very fine models of Indian merchant vessels, built by them. In addition to their beauty and value, the models illustrate the vast progress made in the construction of merchant ships. They represent the class of vessels whose route is by the Cape and the newly-opened Suez Canal. One was a model of the Blenheim, built in 1850, and awarded a first prize in the exhibition of 1851. The other was of the Crosby, an iron screw steamer, launched from Messers Smith’s yard in January 1870. The models - especially the Crosby - have been executed with extreme care and skilled workmanship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1caa2494-13aa-4135-a25b-6cd4a0aa8a20/0520.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 20th, 1925. A Grand Bazaar was held over two days at the Drill Hall, Military Road, North Shields, in aid of Tynemouth Infirmary extension fund. ‘A number of local ladies and gentlemen’, members of the Sports Committee of the Tynemouth Infirmary encouraged local people ‘to rally round’ and support the Bazaar ‘and thereby help such places where our sick can be nursed back to health and strength in the pleasant surroundings of the Tynemouth Victoria Jubilee Infirmary’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/995ca51c-aabd-493d-b744-c6887792ab32/0521.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 21st, 1917. 2nd Lieutenant Colin Miller Jamieson of Newcastle Street was killed in action. A reservist in the Artists Rifles, he was called up on August 4th, 1914. After being badly wounded in December 1915 in both legs, arm and head, a year later, in December 1916, he went to Cambridge University for officer training. His parents were only told on March 3rd, 1918, that he was presumed missing and killed on 21st May 1917 in the Battle of Arras, while serving with the 15th Battalion, the London Regiment. Passing through Peterborough on his way to Cambridge he made an entry in the visitors’ book of the welfare canteen at the station: “When the war-drum throbs no longer, may I, going North, be here again.” C M Jamieson, Cadet, Cambridge, 28/12/1916. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1e69fdb5-bc18-4c3c-bb82-bf11747910aa/0522.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 22nd, 1888. Shields Daily News: Sale by auction at the Albion Grill, North Shields, of an ‘excellent freehold dwelling house’ on the north side of Dockwray Square. This comprised a dining room and drawing room on the ground floor, two bedrooms on the first floor, three bedrooms on the second floor, with nursery and bedroom above, kitchen and large stores in the basement. A ‘very noble yard’ to the rear containing the ‘usual out-offices and laundry with a back entrance from Charlotte Street. Large elegant Georgian houses were built in the area that became known as Dockwray Square for wealthy ship owners who wanted to move away from the congestion of the ‘low town’, along the quayside and its banks, later migrating to the North Close which was renamed Northumberland Square. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9921d9cb-c16e-438b-85aa-3f4b76ec7e20/0523.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 23rd, 1880. Two boys escaped from the Wellesley training ship moored in Shields harbour. The boys took a rowing boat and pulled over to the Mill Dam, South Shields; there they took a salmon fishing boat, stole a sail and set out to sea. They were spotted off Whitley Bay and the boat was found abandoned on Blyth beach, where it was assumed they had gone ashore. The two were apprehended at Alnwick. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ca594b76-60f9-452f-9ace-8e210c56fc47/0524.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 24th 1906. There were great celebrations for Empire Day. Flags were flown from the Tyne Sailors’ Homes and other buildings while the boats of HM Customs and steam tugs on the river were decorated for the occasion. At 10am, the boys of the Wellesley Training Ship ‘manned the yards’ of the vessel and accompanied by the band, sang the Empire Song and the National Anthem. A large crowd assembled on the bank top ‘and envinced great interest’ in the proceedings. The boys were given a day’s holiday. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0a0bdbca-2e1c-41ff-b706-6359286e4f49/0525.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 25th, 1944. Fish friers of North Shields, South Shields and the surrounding districts were invited to a special meeting in the Fishermen’s Mission, North Shields Fish Quay. They heard first-hand information on the provision being made to keep them supplied with potatoes in the event of ‘the development of special transport difficulties’. Forms prepared by the Ministry of Food were distributed at the meeting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/dd51d7d5-cf3e-4539-a9c4-266a4c835ecb/0526.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 26th, 1980. Norah Balls, the daughter of a North Shields mariner, who was a prominent suffragette with links to Emmeline Pankhurst, died aged 94. At the start of WW1 she became involved with local causes, later serving as a local councillor, magistrate and community activist. Throughout her adult life she was committed to improving the lives of girls, women and children. Norah travelled widely, was active in the World Wildlife Fund, RNLI and helped establish Girl Guides Northumberland. A blue plaque was placed at her former home in King Edward Road, Tynemouth in 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2433c74e-15c5-40a4-bd0e-d8f420b657a9/0527.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 27th, 1896. Shields Daily News: At North Shields Police Court a fish hawker was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Duke Street. “Nothing unusual there”, I hear you say. After all, this is Shields which did have over 200 pubs to its name at that time. As one wag put it, North Shields was a drinking town with a fishing problem. The unusual aspect of this court appearance was that this was the defendant’s 173rd appearance. The article noted that he was fined 10 shillings (£85 in today’s money) which he duly paid before leaving with his friends, presumably for a drink to celebrate his release. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/821c4b62-e46e-488d-82fb-961162dbf108/0528.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 28th, 1915. Captain George Knott, aged 44, from North Shields was lost at sea along with four of his crew during the sinking of SS Spennymoor in the English Channel on her maiden voyage from Sunderland to Cardiff. He left his widow Jane and five children. The eldest , William Rainey Knott, was killed in action at Passchendaele in October 1917. In January 2017 a stained-glass window was dedicated in his memory in Christ Church, North Shields, where for many years he was a bell ringer and member of the choir. It is one of the upper lights on the north side of the church. In the centre, King David the psalmist is represented, and the inscription includes the words: "The sea is His", and "Underneath are the everlasting arms”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8dbee819-9f90-402f-abf1-2812e17795a5/0529.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 29th, 1919. A report from the Durham Mining Museum lists the death of Henry Brown, aged 41, a stoneman, in an accident at Preston Colliery following a ‘premature explosion of shot’. A stoneman was someone who was excavating stone rather than coal. Preston Colliery which operated between 1894 and 1929, was a big employer in North Shields. The highest number on its payroll was 1,254 in 1923. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/f76d48fd-27d7-4dcb-b756-b043eaac48e1/0530.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 30th, 1856. Edward Liddell “Lyd” Sawyer was born at Linskill Street, North Shields. His father Edward had a well-established photographic portrait studio in North Shields where he successfully combined the highly-skilled work of portrait painter and photographic colourist. Lyd was an apprentice at his father’s studio and developed his professional education to eventually become one of the Victorian era's most gifted art photographers with studios in Newcastle and London. He joined the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring in November 1895. This was an organisation of the very best photographers worldwide whose aim was to establish photography as an art form. Dave Young will give a talk about Lyd Sawyer at the North Shields 800 Community Day at the Linskill Centre on June 28th. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/dd140b8b-ea03-4ce3-80ad-95d2d1a6054f/0531.jpg News - Fact of the Day - May - Make it stand out May 31st, 1916. Seventeen North Shields men were killed in the greatest naval battle in history between the British Grand Fleet (largest in the world) and the German High Seas Fleet off Jutland. The Royal Navy suffered heavy losses – much greater than the enemy – but the action resulted in the German fleet withdrawing to port and was seen as a victory for the British forces. Three ‘capital’ ships blew up at a cost of over 3,000 lives, with many other losses of ships and men. The Rev George Stanley Kewney, chaplain to the ship, born in Tynemouth and sometime tutor to the future King George VI was among the 1,000 lost from HMS Queen Mary. https://www.northshields800.com/news/exhibition-and-visiting-locomotive-at-north-tyneside-steam-railway monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8237c427-28eb-4cfd-adcc-c5370bb8fdfe/501796586_1515023203220756_6709606753834038855_n.jpg News - Exhibition and visiting locomotive at North Tyneside Steam Railway - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/nxs800-a-symphony-in-8-movements monthly 0.5 2025-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2f46148c-014d-4f31-9ab7-f6ab8bc93b17/500913298_18506796871019952_4821982475735677998_n.jpg News - NXS800 - A Symphony in 8 Movements - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/48998dbf-5c47-4cb2-b631-e778a2b3744a/501199860_18506796883019952_474933113336179291_n.jpg News - 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Fire brigades across country returned to local control after the war emergency. Tynemouth Fire Brigade was established. The first station was in Norfolk Street in the former police buildings, which later became the Bell and Bucket pub. In April 1974 the brigade was absorbed into Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/508316a5-508e-4d4d-8cf1-bb823f7c423a/NS800+fact+of+the+day+April+2nd+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 2nd, 1909. The Admiralty purchased a new steam trawler ‘Nunthorpe Hall’ from Smith’s Dock, North Shields for minesweeping on what would be the beginning of the relationship between the fishing industry and war duties. Many local fishermen later joined the Royal Navy Reserve (Trawler Section), serving and being lost in World War One. In early 1915 Smith’s Dock met again with Admiralty representatives and persuaded them that hunting whales and submarines were very similar. This led to the production of a pseudo ‘U’ boat hunter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5fb07219-f188-4a42-bf23-8f86f42914c0/NS800+fact+of+the+day+April+3rd+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 3rd, 1973. A bright spot for North Shields Football Club during the 1972-73 season, when it suffered some disappointing results and injuries, was when player Dave Rutherford was capped for England in a match against Finland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1507b4c5-9237-4e65-870c-4dbc983394d1/NS800+fact+of+the+day+April+4th+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 4th, 1938. Tenders were invited for the erection of a further 214 houses on land around Waterville Road as part of the development of the Ridges Estate. The estate was built to house folk who had been moved from the Low Town (Clive Street, Liddell Street and Bell Street and bank side properties). The turf cutting ceremony was carried out on 31st October, 1932 by Councillor A N Park. The land was purchased from the Duke of Northumberland. The new estate would eventually provide 1,961 homes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bfef9a90-3ae3-4943-9899-fa524046ccae/NS800+fact+of+the+day+April+5th+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 5th, 1824. James Pringle, “a most profound mathematician”, died. For 22 years, he was treasurer of the Subscription Library in Howard Street and, for some time, was assistant for the ‘Nautical Ephemeris’ under Dr Maskelyne the Astronomer Royal at Greenwich Observatory. He had some education at Cambo, Northumberland but was mostly self-taught in French, Latin and Greek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/45470128-6612-466f-8b5d-e327a1a2871a/NS800+fact+of+the+day+April+6th+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 6th, 1870. The remaining portion of the Chirton Estate was sold at the Commercial Hotel, Howard Street, North Shields. There were 12 lots including the Steam Corn Mill which sold for £500. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/78751fc8-63bc-4289-8b45-caa8617976d7/NS800+fact+of+the+day+April+7th+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 7th, 1966. Joseph Robinson and Sons Ltd of North Shields, managers of the Stag Line announce that the shipping company has reverted to a partnership under its former title of Joseph Robinson and Sons. The three directors of the present firm will become partners: Mr. David M. Robinson, Mr. Nicholas J. Robinson, and Mr. R. Robinson-Pender. The Stag Line was run by the Robinson family for generations and was one of Tyneside’s oldest family-owned shipping companies. From 1895 to 1980 it was based in the Maritime Chambers, Howard Street, now used as the North Tyneside Register Office. The distinctive Stag Line emblem is still on the south elevation - visible from below on Liddle Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bef5f6c5-37e7-4f86-9a63-8c298ece0090/NS800+fact+of+the+day+April+8th+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 8th, 1884. Members of the Orange Blossom Lodge of Ancient Free Gardeners presented Brother P Martin with a gold medal bearing an inscription for his valuable services, in the Free Gardeners Hall, Prudhoe Street, North Shields. There were many such Lodges in existence over the years in North Shields. The oldest, St George's Lodge (formed prior to 1812), derived from a Lodge of soldiers from the Forfar regiment of militia. The Lodge, which had many members, met at the Nag's Head on Liddell Street. Free Gardeners were not Freemasons but shared some common principles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ce59ab84-13a7-4473-91fb-7a8078601e62/Fact+of+the+day+April+9th+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 9th, 1941. There was a heavy air raid, the 14th bombing attack of the war, causing great damage over two days. During this time, Preston Hospital was hit, with two patients and three staff killed. The eastern end of the Fish Quay was attacked, resulting in the destruction of the RNLI boathouse, the RNLI lifeboat the John Pyemont and the Tyne Lifeboat Society boathouse and lifeboat, the James Young. The John Pyemont was newly built, and this was the only time in the history of the RNLI that a lifeboat was lost before being in service. The intended target may have been the 12-pounder battery at the Fort. Chirton Primary School was also hit causing pupils to be relocated for duration of war. After the war, a new school - Collingwood Primary School, St Oswin’s Terrace - was built to replace it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3d705b1a-e3b6-4bf5-b93a-b62dcf8fa185/NS800+fact+of+the+day+April+10th+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 10th, 1910. At the 11th annual meeting of Northumberland Park Bowling Club it was reported that the past season had been dry but bitterly cold. There were currently 58 members. Mr. Jas Knot offered a cup for competitions among club members of the borough and Northumberland. Thanks were expressed to Mr. G. Taylor for the good condition in which the greens had been kept. The Mayor Coun J. Eskdale was elected President for the coming year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/75eb6b45-48d5-4423-abdf-8f2ec76a65d5/NS800+fact+of+the+day+April+11th+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 11th, 1959. The Shields Daily News celebrates 160 years of a Baptist Church in North Shields. Missionary Robert Imeary and 13 people who had been recently baptised at the Tuthill Stairs Church, Newcastle, formed the nucleus of the first North Shields church, with Robert Imeary in charge. The first building used by the Baptists for worship was at Harbottle Close on Stephenson Street (see building 16 on extract from John Wood 1826 map). The present Baptist Church, on Howard Street and designed by Shields born architect John Dobson, was not opened until 1846. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/88e4c05b-6412-4791-9ecd-10ed6b1ad538/NS800+fact+of+the+day+April+12th+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 12th, 1969. North Shields Football Club’s greatest achievement on this day when it won the FA Amateur Cup at Wembley, beating Sutton United. They returned home by train tired but jubilant. Crowds lined the streets to congratulate them. At a champagne reception at North Shields Town Hall, the Mayor declared: “You have brought honour and prestige to the town and county and put North Shields on the map.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/106bef0f-a27f-45af-86c3-09851ae61bc0/NS800+fact+of+the+day+April+13th+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 13th, 1909. An informal meeting of the Tynemouth Conservative and Unionist party proposed the adoption of Edward George Spencer-Churchill as candidate for the 1910 General Election. He was a cousin of Winston Churchill, at the time a newly elected Liberal MP. He was adopted as the official candidate at a meeting at North Shields Christ Church School in December, 1909. He had been a prospective candidate for Derby in 1905. It is presumed he withdrew as a candidate for Tynemouth prior to the election as Charles Percy was the name on the ballot sheet. He subsequently lost to the Liberal Herbert Craig by 167 votes. Edward George Spencer-Churchill was never elected to Parliament. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/db333cba-19c8-420e-93ae-621cc2513764/NS800+fact+of+the+day+April+14th+%28Bruce%29.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 14th, 1956. The Shields Daily News reports that the names of about 3,800 children have been submitted to the Ministry of Health following their parents having expressed willingness for them to be vaccinated against polio. The vaccinations began in May, although the amount of vaccine allocated to the borough was unknown beforehand. During the early 1950s, there were epidemics of poliomyelitis infections with as many as 8,000 annual notifications in the UK. Following the introduction of polio immunisation, cases fell rapidly to very low levels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8739a982-9d51-41b9-afc9-0a42e97074a5/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1504.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out The Evening News reports the death in a bombing raid on 9th - 10th April of Arthur Thompson senior, aged 50, of 6 Cartington Road, North Shields, a well-known retail fish and poultry merchant of the town. As a schoolboy he began bodybuilding and in his early 20s held the title of Junior World Weightlifting Champion. One of his world records, gained when he was 18, was for a two-hand back lift. Weighing only nine stone seven pounds, he lifted, with ease, 241 pounds, beating all previous records. For this feat he received an inscribed gold medal, bearing the date October 1909. He gave displays of weightlifting from the stage of the old Borough Theatre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/cfc64c7d-2536-4abe-ae5c-b0f22ab278e7/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1604.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 16th, 1941. The Rex Cinema was damaged by a parachute mine. Built in 1936 to serve the Balkwell and Ridges Estate, it became a full-time bingo hall from February 1966, closing in 1995. The building lay vacant before being bought by the Co-op Funeral Service. It was finally demolished in August 1996 to make way for a new funeral home on the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/af93f457-f6a4-444b-8afe-5b1feb3af0f3/_NS800+fact+of+the+day+1704.png News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 17th, 1954. Shields Daily News: The 100th Good Friday March had taken place with the crowd gathered around the platform in Northumberland Square for the open-air service, during the North Shields and District Sunday School annual Procession of Witness. As this photograph from the mid-1950s shows, these annual processions were extremely well attended, usually including thousands of schoolchildren, their families, local churches and youth organisations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2128583c-8c2a-42aa-9d9c-c4d5278a274a/_NS800+fact+of+the+day+1804.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 18th, 1918 Lieutenant Ralph Eustace Smith, a director of Smith’s Dock Company, was killed in action flying with the newly re-named Royal Air Force. A grandson of the late Thomas Eustace Smith, MP for North Shields & Tynemouth, Ralph joined a battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers on the outbreak of war and was later transferred to the Northumberland Hussars, serving in France. He joined the Royal Flying Corps and up to the time of his death had been an observer in a night bombing machine. He left a widow and two children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/720ab29e-6ec9-47c1-a9ab-9478741d3dc0/NS800+fact+of+the+day+1904.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 19th, 1870 John Clark died. A well-known eccentric character of North Shields, he ran a pub at Coble Dene and a business manufacturing whitening used as a cleaner, similar to ‘Blanco’. In one of the rooms in his house he placed life-size coffins for himself, his wife, and some of his children, which he had made and exhibited to his customers. In each of the coffins was a small opening, into which people frequently dropped pieces of money. Clark said it would be used towards funeral expenses when he and his family had passed. Sadly, he died in the North Shields Workhouse following the death of his wife and many of his children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/103a0962-a3c3-406b-9ca1-728c9cf5d663/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2004.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 20th, 1954 The Rt Rev Professor Thomas Walter Manson, Moderator of General Assembly and a former member of Howard Street Church, North Shields, laid the foundation stone of the West Chirton Presbyterian Church in Verne Road. Three years later it took the name All Saints. On the site is now All Saints Court, a self-contained development of nine one-bedroom and one two-bedroom flats set around a landscaped courtyard garden with gated off-street parking. The housing project was completed in 1993 by the Square Building Trust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b6cbe398-19f6-4c97-b6ca-da4cfa2bb093/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2104.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 21st, 1891 Local aeronaut W. H. Shipley made his 30th ascent and descent at the Coach Lane grounds ‘in the presence of a large concourse o#northshields800 Shortly before seven o’clock, ‘the balloon having been fully inflated, the parachutist took his seat, and in response to the word ‘go’ the retainers released the balloon, which shot upwards like an arrow’. At 17,000ft the parachutist was ‘barely discernible’ and the balloon looked the size of ‘a hazel nut’. Shortly afterwards, Shipley jumped from his balloon, ‘the parachute spread out its folds and descended with its human freight gracefully to mother earth’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/f213e709-8717-4b44-92df-0aa1d56d4226/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2204+%281%29.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 22nd, 1861 Hugh Taylor Esq having retired as MP for Tynemouth, the nominations of candidates took place on hustings erected in front of the new Town Hall, North Shields. The polling was the following day, when the votes cast were Mr Hodgson 425 and Mr Otway 376. Mr Hodgson, on leaving the town, was set upon by a mob and a force of 30 police officers ‘hardly sufficed to keep the crowd from doing him personal violence’. Missiles were thrown, including a half brick, hitting Mr Hodgson on the head and inflicting a serious wound. It was with great difficulty the police made a passage through to the railway station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/6a0f7260-8b70-4f05-b16c-8c21617ad5ec/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2304.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 23rd, 1993 The IRA damaged an Esso oil terminal in North Shields, causing a three-foot square hole in a tank. The bombing leaked 600 gallons of crude oil, but it was contained in a channel designed to prevent leaks. A further attack was carried out on the terminal in June the same year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/f475adad-8533-4356-819e-edb4c6756fba/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2404.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 24th, 1916 Robert Henry Dunn Hogg, aged 40, was killed in action. His officer sent a letter to his family with Robert’s last words – “my wife, my poor bairns”. Robert left six children under 16. Husband of Sarah Anne, he enlisted in 1914. In August 1915 he went to France with the 9th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, some of the first ‘Kitchener Volunteers’ to serve on the Western Front. Following his death his commanding officer wrote to his wife, informing her of his final words and adding: “He was loved here by every one of us and was surely the coolest and most cheery man in the trenches.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ef305c97-a5d2-403c-a9af-2e44954e7d87/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2504.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 25th, 1994 Sam Fender was born in North Shields. The well-loved local singer, songwriter and musician was educated at John Spence Community High School, worked at the Low Lights Tavern and is a well-known face around the town. He is the recipient of three Brit Awards, releasing his debut single ‘Play God’ in 2017, marking the start of a successful career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d1a6b8ca-2326-4ca0-bf1c-c51969dfb9fd/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2604.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 26th, 1793 Press gangs: most extraordinary preparations for impressing were made by the crews of the armed vessels lying in Shields harbour. That night the regiment of Tynemouth barracks was formed into a cordon round North Shields to prevent any person from escaping. The different press gangs then began, when sailors, mechanics, labourers and men of every description, to the amount of 250, were forced on board the armed ships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/193061f8-47c6-45dc-bc8d-cd50b64ec328/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2704.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 27th, 1951 Death of Ellen Lee, the unsung heroine and air raid shelter warden, who saved more than 30 people, working through the night despite being injured herself, after a bomb hit the Wilkinson’s Lemonade Factory shelter in 1941. On 18th June 1941 she was presented to the King and Queen on a visit to Tynemouth, in recognition of her bravery during the air raid that killed 107 people. Despite her heroism, Ellen was not recognised with any award. Many feel she was overlooked because she was a woman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e9ad7b49-3851-4e13-8d2e-2b9afe12fcdc/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2804.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out The Comedy Picture Hall closed. It was on Saville Street West, originally built as the Oddfellows Hall and opened prior to 1866. It was refurbished in 1899 and became The Comedy Palace of Varieties. One of the greatest music hall entertainers, George Robey was said to be a regular visitor and band leader Billy Ternent played piano there before forming his orchestra. The last picture shown before its closure was The Tall T starring Randolph Scott. The building is the one with the white name board just along from the former Sir Colin Campbell pub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bfb576fc-4dfa-461f-94e5-627794d2aeea/NS800+fact+of+the+day+2904.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 29th, 1885 The steam trawler Flying Sylph of Middlesbrough landed a specimen of the ground shark at the North Shields quay. It had been caught in its net while the trawler was fishing off Whitby. The shark measured 14’ 10” and was described of being of great thickness. It was sold to Mr Ballard, a well-known local fish merchant for 14 shillings (70p). It is likely it would have been a Basking Shark, due to its size. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/c8e80849-cc51-470c-9a9f-8712239655de/_NS800+fact+of+the+day+3004.jpg News - Fact of the Day - April - Make it stand out April 30th, 1923 Paid for by public donations, the borough’s First World War Memorial was officially unveiled, at Hawkey’s Lane, by the Duke of Northumberland. Two years later, almost to the day, the War Memorial extension to the Tynemouth Victoria Jubilee Infirmary was officially opened by the Mayor Alfred E Hill, again built by public subscription. Like many towns, North Shields people felt practical initiatives were better than purely ornamental structures, for a community that had lost almost 2,000 men. https://www.northshields800.com/news/i-love-north-shields-north-shields-800-bumper-digital-edition monthly 0.5 2025-04-30 https://www.northshields800.com/news/picnic-in-the-park-preview-and-raffle-prizes monthly 0.5 2025-04-30 https://www.northshields800.com/news/north-shields-800-fact-of-the-day-march monthly 0.5 2025-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3539b602-ee35-4421-a849-67b58fa47689/mar+1.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 1st, 1871 Following complaints about the effectiveness of the borough police as a fire brigade, a letter published in the Shields Daily News suggests the formation of fire brigade formed of ‘respectable persons’. One of the functions of the borough’s early police was to attend fires but this was not an organised response from highly-trained firefighters. Should a fire break out, the ‘fire brigade’ would attend – untrained policemen carrying leather buckets of water and a ladder – and attempt to put out the blaze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8434aa9b-19a6-4a07-855b-e9680785f328/fact+of+the+day+0203.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 2nd, 1895 Uncle Tom’s Cabin plays its last night of a week run at the Theatre Royal, North Shields. A pub of the same name was established at 26 Bedford Street in the early 1860s. The pub closed on May 14th, 1972. Both play and pub took their name from the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe published in 1852 which played its part in ending slavery in the United States. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/94c6b43e-f031-4691-9666-4b32f3f66005/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0303.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 3rd, 1805 George Balmer, North Shields artist was born. He was a landscape and coastal painter. The family lived on Stephenson Street although it was said that he was born at the famous Seven Stars pub at the junction of Clive Street and Liddell Street. He started out following his father’s trade as a house painter before turning his hand to fine art. He spent several months studying at the Louvre. His work is held by the Laing, Shipley and National Trust for Scotland galleries among others. Painting: The Grey Horse Inn, Newcastle Quayside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/abc9f3bc-a661-4b1a-a903-2deab9e81030/NS800+fact+of+the+day+0403.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 4th, 1843 Newcastle Journal reports that The Lady Jane whaler is mustering her crew in the coming days to set off from North Shields to the Davis Straits. The expedition would last until her safe return at the end of October with ‘nine fish’ (whales) and ‘60 tuns of oil’. Painting: Tyneside marine artist John Wilson Carmichael’s painting of Lady Jane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/21336d9a-0c7e-4a5b-973c-5e32401e04a9/Fact+of+the+day+0503.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 5th, 1976 The Albion Cinema Closes. The last film shown was Earthquake, featuring Charlton Heston. The building was demolished to make way for what is now the Anchor Housing Norfolk Court retirement property. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/344e6d7b-70a3-4415-958b-853a28161704/Fact+of+the+day+0603.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 6th, 1953 North Shields Skipper, George Peach was steering the ferry from Jarrow to Howdon when it was ‘enveloped by fog’ and became ‘marooned in the Tyne’ for six hours. It happened after Skipper Peach altered his course to allow a collier, the Westwood, to pass. ‘Visibility was blotted out’ and both vessels drifted a little. Eventually the ferry was tied up to the collier and tea was handed to those on board. ‘An eerie experience’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a3dab755-bd87-4155-919c-a2c08ae36623/Fact+of+the+day+0703.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 7th, 2010 Events were held at Tynemouth and Newcastle to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Admiral Lord Collingwood, the hero of Trafalgar, who had a house at Chirton. Bells were rung, services held and there was a gun salute from HMS Collingwood as she passed his monument on the previous day. Collingwood commanded the British fleet following the early death of Nelson in the battle. He died on board his ship Ville de Paris off Minorca. Chirton House, which stood south-west of Hawkey's Lane, north of the present Waterville Road, belonged to the Collingwood family from the late 18th century. Although Admiral Lord Collingwood never lived there, his wife and daughters did. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/814fe934-356e-4a66-9e0f-1099d1af7fcf/Fact+of+the+day+0803.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 8th, 2016 A sculptured stone was placed over the unmarked grave of North Shields born artist Victor Noble Rainbird at a ceremony at Preston Cemetery. The date marked the 80th anniversary of his death in Sunderland in 1936. Through an exhibition of the artist’s work at the Old Low Light Heritage Centre, £6,500 was raised from sales of the catalogue, prints and individual donations. The stone was designed by Neil and Richard Talbot and carved by Neil at his studio in Riding Mill, Northumberland. Rainbird was much loved by the folk of Shields and could have been an even bigger figure in the art world had he not been physically and mentally scarred during his time as a private soldier in the Northumberland Fusiliers during WW1. You can watch a film made by the children of Wellfield Middle school to find out more about the artist’s life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhs9Zmv0vMk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1f353ad1-5d13-4a9c-bdc1-70b0ab537a21/Fact+of+the+day+0903.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 9th, 1794 Press ganged men and volunteers on board the Eleanor lying at Shields attempted to escape but were thwarted by the officers and crew. Several got ashore but were quickly re-taken and forced into naval service. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, people in maritime communities, including North Shields, lived in fear of ‘press gangs’ who captured local men in this way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/f9fd7ca7-4e27-419c-88a5-ee665d570e12/Fact+of+the+day+1003.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 10th, 1974 MV Oregis, after a 12-month refit at Swan Hunters, loses engine power and drifts onto the Black Middens. The crew of the tugboat Northsider was rescued by the inshore lifeboat. The vessel was the last major ship to date to have been stranded on the Black Middens, remaining there for several days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/73b0f263-7f1e-44ec-b051-47e96c1e8ad0/NS800+Fact+1103+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 11th, 1914 At 2.30pm a fire broke out in the drying room of the Wellesley Training Ship, moored off the Western Quay, to provide seafaring training for destitute and homeless boys. The fire quickly took hold, despite the efforts of the boy firefighters and Tyne Commissioners’ fire tugs. One of the boys remarked: ‘Most of us were glad that she was burning’. The boys were transferred to a temporary ship, then moved to the Tynemouth Palace (later Tynemouth Plaza) where they stayed throughout WW1. After the war a permanent home was found at Blyth, where the school remained for the next 86 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/82729434-a10b-4b5d-b61c-01358eb20d92/NS800+Fact+1203+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 12th, 1932 Theatre Royal in Prudhoe Street closes. Although it was sold to a cinema proprietor, it never reopened as either a theatre or cinema. The building was demolished in 1939. It was located on what is now a three-storey block of flats on Theatre Place. It was managed at one time by Arthur Jefferson, father of Stan Laurel who ran a number of theatres in the area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/553ee301-0013-43dc-a80d-d29309e8acdd/NS800+Fact+1303+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 13th, 1905 The ‘Kilties’ Band of Canada play two performances at the Boro’ Theatre, North Shields. The band had played twice on command of the King at Balmoral and Sandringham. Acknowledged as the greatest Scottish band in the world, it was made up of veterans from the Gordon Highlanders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bf556f82-fa55-4150-9a9c-781ada82b1ea/NS800+Fact+1403+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 14th, 1838 Favourite, an old Tyneside tug which for many years served as one of the ferries between North and South Shields, received a new lease of life when her owners believed her to be of no further use and sold her to Thompson & Son, tug and wherry owners. At the age of 55, she was fitted with feathering floats (blades on a paddle wheel) at Hepple’s Yard on Liddell Street. The boat made the trip to Newcastle and was greeted on both banks by the loud cheers of the many wherrymen who welcomed her to their ranks. She was the first ferry to run between Whitehill-Point (a hamlet in the township of Chirton) and Penny Pie Stairs on the south side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/8304d02c-45dc-4063-bc95-9817b0af5349/NS800+Fact+1503+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 15th, 1935 The Shields Daily News reported that gardeners were busy planting out privet shrubberies at the New Alexander Scott Memorial Park, which was rapidly nearing completion, with entrance gates in Coach Lane, Waterville Terrace, and William Street West. The late Mr Alexander Scott, in whose memory the land was gifted, was a ship owner in the town. He lived at Waterville Terrace and died on March 31st, 1879. He took a keen interest in the town's affairs and was a member of Tynemouth Town Council from 1865 until his death, as one of the representatives for the old Percy Ward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9b35462a-5419-4bc4-8989-3b3e06b5c67d/NS800+Fact+1603+%28Bruce%29.png News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 16th, 1935 The Shields Daily News reported on the boxing match between North Shields based Tommy Steele and Billy Sheldon (Newcastle). Steele won the contest. Steele was a strong contender for the GB Featherweight championship during the 1930s, winning 97 of his 147 fights. Many of his matches were fought at the Albion Boxing Stadium on Albion Road. The stadium, built on the site of the John Hunter & Co carriage works, was a well-known North East boxing venue, re-opened by Messrs Cook & Georgeson in August 1924. Shields produced many professional fighters during the 1930s including Bobby Magee, Johnny Regan, Johnny Kilburn and Johnny Quinn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d44fe76b-f094-4c93-b35c-090189701482/NS800+Fact+1703+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 15th, 1935 The Shields Daily News reported that gardeners were busy planting out privet shrubberies at the New Alexander Scott Memorial Park, which was rapidly nearing completion, with entrance gates in Coach Lane, Waterville Terrace, and William Street West. The late Mr Alexander Scott, in whose memory the land was gifted, was a ship owner in the town. He lived at Waterville Terrace and died on March 31st, 1879. He took a keen interest in the town's affairs and was a member of Tynemouth Town Council from 1865 until his death, as one of the representatives for the old Percy Ward. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/db45183c-a43e-4106-9f1a-730839f2aa69/NS800+Fact+1803+%28Bruce%29+%281%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 18th, 1923 The North East playwright Tom Hadaway was born on Howdon Road, North Shields. Tom was a well-known personality of the town. As well as a gifted writer, he ran a wet fish shop on Rudyerd Street and also had premises on the fish quay. His two most famous plays, The Filleting Machine and God Bless Thee Jackie Maddison, were performed at the Live Theatre, Newcastle. The latter production was also performed on TV and won a Bafta nomination. In 2018 the actor Tim Healy, a friend of Tom, unveiled a blue plaque at his former home on the anniversary of his birth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/c6c2277e-1908-4d9a-9f82-a1711a7fac17/NS800+fact+of+the+day+march+19.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 19th, 1793 A riotous assembly on the New Quay of around 500 seamen attempt to seize the Eleanor, a naval press service ship. At that time, the Eleanor and other such ships wreaked fear in maritime communities, press-ganging men for enforced naval service. Unable to release the ‘pressed men’ they consider marching on Newcastle, but after hearing that the North York Militia and Dragoons are assembling there they disperse near Howdon. This was not before causing great alarm to the population of Newcastle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/f9e1fde4-7bf6-4a7a-9e25-b00ad85101d9/NS800+Fact+of+the+day+march+20.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 20th, 1936 The flats on Howdon Road, built by the Square Building Trust, were officially opened by the Minister for Health, Mr Kingsley Wood MP. The development was pioneering as it included a nursery school between the two blocks. The Trust was led by businessman and philanthropist Rowland Lishman. He was head of the men’s bible class at Northumberland Square Presbyterian Church – now St Columba’s – and after hearing about the appalling conditions of some local housing, the congregation began selling ‘shilling bricks’ to raise money. In just one week, they raised an outstanding £2,400, (around £120,000 in today’s money). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2a732a97-6b21-49b1-b4de-8b2564fbf6bf/NS800+fact+of+the+day+March+21.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 21st, 1911 North Shields artist Victor Noble Rainbird enters the Royal Academy as a student. He was nominated for entry by Professor George Hatton of Armstrong College (now Newcastle University) where he had studied. He was the only artist from the North to be accepted by the Royal Academy that year. He was winner of the coveted Landseer Scholarship in 1913. North Shields’ most technically gifted painter, he died in poverty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/eadda500-5294-4886-970a-b1a07a5df4b8/NS800+fact+of+the+day+March+22.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 22nd, 1876 A new synagogue opens at 29 Linskill Street, North Shields. An earlier synagogue was reported in 1827 to have stood "on the declinity of the bank in which Tyne Street was built”. There were two early 19th century Jewish burial plots in North Shields, at Hawkey’s Lane and Chirton. A later plot, established at Preston Cemetery in 1924, still exists today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5dd5b62e-ae4e-4cef-b4b8-bcf1b69f914d/_NS800+fact+of+the+day+March+23.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 23rd, 1918 Second Lieutenant Cyril Buglass aged 20, who lived in Milton Terrace, North Shields, formerly of Tynemouth Garrison Artillery RA, died of wounds serving with 12/13th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers. Served in France at the Somme. December 1916, sent to Cambridge University for officer training. Commissioned in May 1917, becoming a ‘Temporary Gentleman’ as they were condescendingly known, not being from the ‘officer class’. A small blue plaque was installed on his North Shields home by the Northumbria World War One Commemoration Project. For a detailed record of his service see www.northumbriaworldwarone.co.uk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bb2774f7-a168-42ec-b7e0-b68190e1ab67/NS800+fact+of+the+day+March+24.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 24th, 1779 The “Heart of Oak” privateer, mounting 33 guns belonging to Newcastle, sailed from Shields on a six-month voyage. She was extremely well fitted out and carried a 150-man crew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/73481009-7a5c-49f7-9896-54cf60e1e361/NS800+fact+of+the+day+March+25.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 25th, 1928 Casimir Gomoszynski died, another of the great people whose legacy in North Shields is still evident today. Although he only lived in North Shields for about ten years, as Borough Surveyor, he designed Northumberland Park, the eastern extension of North Shields Fish Quay, the Ralph Gardner obelisk memorial at Chirton Green and the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House. He was also a member of the Tynemouth Artillery Volunteers. For a time, he lived in Linskill Terrace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/f94e4256-9332-4d53-8b33-22ac0e53cf4c/NS800+fact+of+the+day+March+26.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 26th, 2015 Official opening of the heritage gallery at the Old Low Light Heritage Centre, Clifford’s Fort, North Shields Fish Quay, by Alan Campbell MP (now Sir Alan). This followed a major programme of restoration of a derelict building, once one of a pair of leading lights guiding ships through the treacherous mouth of the River Tyne. It is a heritage centre with a café, gallery and space for community groups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7132a719-559f-4a05-81fb-3985cd38684a/NS800+fact+of+the+day+March+21+%281%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 27th, 1930 Shields Daily News: At a meeting of Tynemouth Town Council the previous evening, it was announced that the Ministry of Health had appointed Messrs Mott, Hay and Anderson Engineers (Designers of the Tyne Bridge) to advise the Tynemouth and South Shields Corporations “as to the possibility and practicability of linking up the two harbour boroughs by a bridge or tunnel capable of carrying all manner of road traffic”. The agreed fee of £1,575 (£132k today) included bore hole samples. Their report was to be presented by the following September. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/81fda790-18a8-4e9c-af08-340f768df5c4/Copy+of+NS800+fact+of+the+day+March+21.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 28th, 1850 A terrific gale visited the North East coast and 500 colliers bound from London to the Tyne were detained at Yarmouth. When the wind dropped, they left but on the 29th the wind increased to violent gale and 30 vessels crowding into the Tyne were stranded on the rocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/779c6f5e-6891-481b-850a-a05231ed75e0/_NS800+fact+of+the+day+March+29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 29th, 1935 The Shields News reports that former prime minister David Lloyd George had driven along Albion Road, North Shields on a visit to the area. He viewed many places of interest including Collingwood’s Monument. The visit was all part of his UK ‘New Deal’ proposal inspired by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s similar scheme in the United States. The Lloyd George proposal would involve large-scale public works to help with the economic depression which has taken a great toll on Tyneside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/736ed803-fe1e-4489-ae05-1895a2f5d7ca/Copy+of++NS800+fact+of+the+day+March+29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out March 30th, 1878 The North Shields Club opens in Northumberland Square, near to where the library is today. Following a meeting in 1877 of a group of gentlemen at the Albion Hotel on Saville Street, £5,000 in £50 shares are subscribed. It was later the offices of the Board of Guardians who administered Poor Law relief and finally became offices of North Tyneside Council. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/24bd15d7-3b29-4fdd-873f-394e61fb490a/_NS800+fact+of+the+day+March+31.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - March - Make it stand out St Andrew's United Reformed Church in Stephenson Street joined with St Columba's Church, Northumberland Square. St Columba’s was designed by John Dobson, the region’s most eminent architect who was involved in nearly 450 projects including Newcastle Central Station and his work with Richard Grainger transforming the centre of Newcastle. He designed 20 projects around North Shields, including several around Northumberland Square and Howard Street. https://www.northshields800.com/news/mary-ann-macham-sculpture-of-escaped-enslaved-womans-moment-of-freedom-takes-shape-in-north-shields monthly 0.5 2025-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0113b9f2-a22b-4705-8748-49a7e079cfba/this+one.jpg News - Mary Ann Macham: Sculpture of escaped enslaved woman’s moment of freedom takes shape in North Shields - Make it stand out Artist Keith Barrett with the wooden carving of Mary Ann Macham, about to be cast in bronze. https://www.northshields800.com/news/lanterns-on-the-lake-to-open-stones-throw-festival-at-king-street-social-club monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/aa697454-e9a6-4328-ba83-aefc087ded5b/SQ-LANTERNS+%281%29.jpg News - Lanterns on the Lake to open Stone’s Throw Festival at King Street Social Club - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/seafit-returns-to-north-shields-to-provide-free-health-and-dental-services-for-fishermen monthly 0.5 2025-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b38ae589-d3eb-471c-8046-5c4ee234c4b5/Seafit+photo+NS800+website+PR+10.10.25.jpg News - SeaFit returns to North Shields to provide free health and dental services for fishermen - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/62e8c5b1-772c-4b39-9639-d82a236b46d9/New+SeaFit+Logo+2025.png News - SeaFit returns to North Shields to provide free health and dental services for fishermen - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/north-shields-800-fact-of-the-day-february monthly 0.5 2025-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/49124930-5576-468d-acd8-2df461e4a3bf/NS800+0102+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 1st, 1772 Shields harbour was blocked by a ridge of sand for some time so that large vessels were unable to get out to sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ccae88d7-b373-4ff5-8279-c4b2b17c2513/NS800+0202+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 2nd, 1914 Albion Cinema opened. Designed by North Shields architect William Stockdale and built of red brick with white glazed Hathernware detailing. Seating in the auditorium was in stalls and circle levels. The proscenium arch that separates the audience from the stage was 28ft wide and the stage 18ft deep. There were dressing rooms provided for artistes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/fd3a1e50-6743-4c59-be5a-3f00b76cd725/NS800+0302+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 3rd, 1915 A meeting of the Tynemouth Society for Women’s Suffrage (National Union) was held in Gregg’s Cafe (no not that Greggs!) on Saville Street, North Shields. The address delivered by the main speaker Miss G.M. Gordon was an explanation of what suffragists were doing for the country in times of war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/139cd52e-5d9e-4dba-a8d8-33f1ab303bd1/NS800+0402+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 4th, 1825 Myles Birket Foster was born into a well-known North Shields Quaker family. Myles, who could be described as the darling of the Victorians, was celebrated as one of the most popular watercolour artists of the era. Noted for his rural scenes, many with children at play. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Newcastle Arts Association and the local Bewick Club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/52e84b52-a105-48ae-8744-7ef086d757b5/NS800+0502+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 5th, 1948 Shields Daily News reports that experts believe Chirton Cottage ‘Treasure Trove’ parchment is a hoax. The cottage was being demolished to extend Ralph Gardner School when workmen uncovered a document. The document dated May 22, 1653 told of an attack on the house by armed magistrates’ excise men and told how after the attack they had been beaten off with the aid of the captain and crew of the ship Elizabeth. It said it was decided to bury 900 guineas under a young sycamore tree in the grounds of the cottage. No coins were found there. The chief reason for doubting the authenticity of the document is that there were no guinea coins in 1653! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7149beae-6b10-4644-9a68-701201217c38/NS800+0602+%28Bruce%29+%281%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 6th, 1755 Press Gang comes in force to North Shields, going through pubs and alleys. 70 men were rounded up for forced naval service. They were taken to Custom House Quay then transferred to the sloop The Peggy, lying off what is now The Gut. Today, the area is known on nautical charts as Peggy’s Hole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/86831f78-13dc-4c73-8155-75fdcfe237a6/NS800+0702+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 7th, 1917 Apprentice (Fourth Officer) MN James Forsyth Fell (age 17) lost in the torpedoing of SS Vedamore. He gave his lifebelt to another man who could not swim. He was last seen searching the ship to help others into boats. Shields Daily News said: “A noble son, whose conduct gives him a place among the bravest to have gone forth from Shields.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b6a84b5d-9e51-47f3-9eb1-d14fa0af764d/NS800+0802+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 8th, 1974 Hull-based deep sea factory ship the Gaul is lost in the Barents Sea, north of Norway, with all 36 crew on board – including six men from North Shields. Following the tragedy, strong relationships have been built between fishing communities in Hull and North Shields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/19816374-901a-456b-963e-838f16b4846f/NS800+0902+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 9th, 1861 Construction of the North Pier can be seen in background of John Scott’s ‘Wreck off the South Pier’. The lifeboat is the Providence, involved in a disaster with loss of 20 men more than a decade earlier. On this occasion the Providence was rescuing a survivor from a brig from Whitby that had been blown onto rocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/f42d4a98-96cf-414f-a8c1-39769e683f19/NS800+1002+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 10th, 1888 Considerable alterations are being made at Clifford’s Fort, Low Lights, North Shields, due to the expansion of the Tynemouth Submarine Mining Engineer Volunteers whose headquarters are at the fort. The openings in the walls for firing towards the river have been built up and a gateway is being made. Some internal alterations are being made. Recruits for the new corps are now being enrolled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e28f8184-83e7-4ecb-836c-0a11ba8bf644/NS800+1102+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/bd93d09d-cedc-4d87-be35-85fb529b4dce/NS800+feb+12th.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 12th, 1777 Local men who had been seized by the Press Gang and imprisoned in the Union tender anchored in the Tyne at Shields overwhelmed the crew and sailed out of the harbour despite being fired on from Clifford’s Fort. Two days later they reached Scarborough where 17 fled ashore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a343fc2f-ad5e-4d57-8e6c-f75e892b0fb9/NS800+13+feb.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 13th, 1945 Death in a house fire of North Shields young hero Thomas (Tommy) Brown, who helped shorten WW2 by capturing vital Enigma code books from a sinking German U-boat. Tommy was awarded the George Medal but sadly died before receiving it due to the high level of secrecy surrounding the operation. The new North Shields town square was recently named in his honour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/36993ce1-da1c-4310-a394-cc2334991886/NS800+1402+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 14th, 1823 John Fairfax, a hero of the Crimean War, was born. Quarter Master Sergeant Major John Fairfax lived within Clifford’s Fort at the Low Lights before moving to Albion Road. He was in service for 46 years. Among his awards for ‘coolness and courage’ at the Battle of Inkerman were both the French Military Medal and the Turkish War Medal. He is buried in Preston Cemetery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/de164670-e834-484b-839d-e9c87dcb729b/NS800+1502+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 15th, 1900 Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade made their largest rescue when 26 Spanish crew and two pilots were taken off the ore carrier, Lebeito. Pictured here is one of the TVLB captains who supervised the rescue efforts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a5a81298-f49d-4f6b-b7e6-f82000398f84/NS800+1602+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 16th, 2006 Death of Dennis Kirkland, born in North Shields and best remembered as Producer/Director of the Benny Hill Show from 1979. He also worked with other famous comedians such as Tommy Cooper, Ken Dodd, Jim Davidson and Eric Sykes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/965fa6db-b478-4c5a-b39c-5920e31b15b5/NS800+1702+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 17th, 1984 ‘Supergran and the Supermatch’ aired on TV. Filmed at the old Appleby Park home of North Shields Football Club. Supergran came on as substitute for Chisleton FC who beat the Mighty Rovers on the day. George Best appeared in one of the dug outs but didn’t actually play in the game itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e8fd1dda-3e28-4846-821d-c781ea15708a/NS800+1802+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 18th, 1827 The ship ‘Betsy Cairns’ is breaking up on the Black Middens. Having sought shelter in a storm shortly after leaving Shields, and returning over the Bar, she was driven in a gale onto the Black Middens. Although the crew was rescued by the lifeboat Northumberland, the ship began breaking up and could not be refloated. Previously the ‘Princess Mary’, in 1688 she brought William of Orange to England to take the British Crown. Many requests were later received from Loyal Orange Lodges for pieces of the wreckage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/06c980e1-fe6b-49c1-b78e-65ab4c058573/NS800+1902+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 19th, 1937 Tynemouth Council proposed a scheme to cover the Hawkeys Lane Baths as well as installing apparatus to heat the water. How many North Shields folk of a certain age remember being taken to the baths by school? The temperature chalked on the board as you went in was allegedly 25°C to 28°C. How naive we were. Once you jumped in your body turned blue and you were fighting to breathe the water was so cold. The changing room was a simple tarpaulin pulled over the seating area (separate one for girls and boys). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/6a686b7a-a0cd-4576-ad09-72f5073adb08/NS800+2002+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 20th, 1823 Died in North Shields, Henry Taylor, a native of Whitby and friend of Captain James Cook, he assisted in placing many of the floating lights on the British coast (Goodwin Sands). Author of ‘Instructions to Mariners Respecting Ships at Single Anchor’. Later, Trinity House (London and Newcastle) gave him rewards of money. He was a member of the Society of Friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d0b86767-20ba-4f7d-9f4c-d87b00ee09e0/NS800+2102+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 21st, 1916 Private William Hunter (age 20) of Coronation Street executed at dawn for desertion (third occasion), at Mazingarbe near Loos, France. Subject of Peter Mortimer’s award-winning play, Death at Dawn. Contrary to widely held myths concerning men executed, Hunter has a Commonwealth War grave at Maroc cemetery, Grenay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a4d0b573-97d3-4fc2-9bab-9726cfa41232/NS800+2202+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 22nd, 1860 Frederick Douglass, world-famous abolitionist and advocate of slave emancipation, addressed a large audience at Albion Assembly Rooms, Norfolk Street, North Shields on the final of three visits to Shields. An African-American abolitionist, he was also an orator, newspaper publisher, and author. He became the first black US marshal and was the most photographed American man of the 19th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/fa0710df-7f82-4dc6-987d-cae757cb2e7c/NS800+2302+One+%28Bruce%29+%281%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 23rd, 1825 A meeting of ‘numerous respectable residents’ of North and South Shields met at the Northumberland Arms, New Quay. They resolved to erect an iron bridge across the river. Capt. Samuel Brown RN, a proponent of suspension bridges had surveyed a site and estimated a cost of £93,000. Also consulted was famous engineer, Thomas Telford. Never built, two ferries were later introduced. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0dcc1569-a0aa-40af-8509-8354380c0277/NS800+2302+Two+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 23rd, 1965 Death of Stan Laurel, one half of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, whose family lived in North Shields from 1895 to 1905. Their home was in Dockwray Square where today there is a blue plaque on the wall of a house indicating the site of their home and a statue installed in the park opposite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/49bb1f83-4a16-44d4-9c10-161b680095f1/NS800+2402+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 24th, 1918 Louis de la Cherois, aged 17, last member of an old Huguenot family, lost at sea by enemy action. Former pupil of Jubilee School and Tynemouth High School. Choirboy at Christ Church, where Parish News reported: "The eighth member of the vicar’s bible class lost to the war." His father died as a result of enemy action just a few months later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a33f8cf8-7964-4632-8c1d-6e4edfae4c39/NS800+2502+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 25th, 1764 Early in the morning a fire broke out in the forecastle of the ship European of Whitby lying in Shields Harbour, but it was extinguished before the vessel was entirely consumed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7596d1c2-0cce-494e-88d8-e52ae5d7ce2f/NS800+2602+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 26th, 1918 Steam Trawler Rambler (North Shields), fishing under Admiralty control, blown up by a mine four miles off Blyth. Six of crew from North Shields aged from 32 to 61. W Pyner (age 51) and C T Vyse (age 47) have graves in Preston Cemetery. Their bodies washed ashore near Hesledon, Co. Durham. Other crew members, unrecovered, are named on the Tower Hill Memorial to more than 12,000 Merchant Navy and fishing crews lost in WW1 who have ‘no grave but the sea’. Vyse should not be on Tower Hill Memorial as he has a grave in North Shields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1e199341-7c0a-4434-b575-d2491e2b73af/NS800+2702+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 27th, 1863 Birth of Dame Maud Burnett who in 1910 became the first woman municipal councillor in Northern England when she was elected for the Dockwray Ward in North Shields. She remained the only woman councillor for Tynemouth Council for 20 years. It was not until 1919 that any women councillors were elected in Newcastle and 1920 in Gateshead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/3228d514-583f-4b79-a821-b07496888418/NS800+2802+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - February - Make it stand out February 28th, 1912 Novelty football matches were popular as a way of raising funds to support local causes. One such match, at Hawkeys Lane, between teams representing North Shields Fish Quay Eleven and Tynemouth Garrison, raised funds to support Alexander Craig, a fisherman who had been out of work for a year due to sickness. https://www.northshields800.com/news/a-stones-throw-festival-headliners-announced monthly 0.5 2025-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/0ec38cf5-1c18-4280-acbf-77127bab48cf/WGP08066.jpg News - A Stone’s Throw festival headliners announced - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.northshields800.com/news/north-shields-800-fact-of-the-day-january monthly 0.5 2025-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/50180446-c395-4f10-b3bb-7d80a089e427/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+Facebook+%28Facebook+Post%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out Welcome to Fact of the Day, one for every day of 2025 - marking 800 years since the founding of North Shields A mix of light-hearted and deadly serious facts about the history of our town. Follow us North Shields 800 for a daily dose of North Shields history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/627265f1-6ee5-4e43-aa0f-f673512c2d96/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+instagram+%281%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 2nd, 1765 The first Freemasons Lodge is founded in North Shields. They meet at the Old George Inn on King Street, one of the first streets laid out in what would become the enlarged town above the Fish Quay and banksides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/10888038-0225-4bc3-be11-0a7713d6c3bc/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+instagram+%282%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 3rd, 1870 Public library opens on Saville Street. The Mechanics’ Institute give their building, the Literary and Philosophical Society donate their book collection. This is the first free public library on Tyneside. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/cb7e2802-368f-459a-b151-60ae37b55648/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+Facebook+%28Facebook+Post%29+%283%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 4th, 1841 Methodist minister James Egan Moulton was born in the town. He would establish the Tongan College in the Tongan Pacific islands. His translation of the bible into Tongan is still used today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/4d5f629d-c5d2-46ed-bad0-d563a028b3c0/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+Facebook+%28Facebook+Post%29+%284%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 5th, 1447 Newcastle objected to the very existence of North Shields. Where there had been only three cottages, the Prior of Tynemouth had encouraged the growth of a village, with staithes, herring houses, a brewery and a market. This, it was claimed, was losing £340 a year at Newcastle Customs House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2b760fbf-9342-4986-a89c-77e4a03bf58e/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+Facebook+%28Facebook+Post%29+%285%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 6th, 1890 At a public meeting at North Shields Town Hall it was agreed that a memorial would be instigated to the memory of Thomas Haswell formerly the ‘Maister’ of the Jubilee School. A memorial today stands opposite Christ Church. 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Born at the Pineapple Inn in Chirton, he was one of the creators of the neo-classical city centre and several buildings in North Shields, including the Howard Street Presbyterian church (now the Salvation Army citadel). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/1bc151aa-c4a2-49ab-b157-0cb46dba9d7d/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+Facebook+%28Facebook+Post%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 9th, 1852 Well-known artist John Chambers dies and is buried in Preston Cemetery. Born in South Shields he made his home in North Shields. Part of the famous Cullercoats artists’ colony, he had many studios in North Shields. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/965175a3-2698-4855-b160-7eaa7e3b2a67/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+instagram+%286%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 10th, 1900 The sensational domestic comedy The Orphan Heiress is playing at the Theatre Royal, North Shields. Written by and starring Arthur Jefferson, Stan Laurel’s dad. He plays ‘Ginger'. It receives excellent reviews during its many countrywide tours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/13240cf6-f02c-4290-b914-3dc898551a1f/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+Facebook+%28Facebook+Post%29+%285%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 11th, 1986 The Pet Shop Boys had their first number one hit with West End Girls. The song was co-written by North Shields-born Neil Tennant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/11cbffe3-e8ed-448c-beb1-1566a0305785/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+Facebook+%28Facebook+Post%29+%283%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out The Dissolution of the Monasteries January 12th, 1539 Tynemouth Priory surrendered to Henry VIII’s Commissioners. Prior Robert Blakeney got a pension of £80 per annum in return for the former priory land at Benwell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/c798d070-0d31-4b8d-8a49-83d7efabe73d/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+instagram+%284%29+-+Copy.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out 12th January 1865 Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade formed to aid rescues from the shoreline following the tragedy at the Black Middens rocks in November 1864. The first formed in the country, now one of only two still operating independently of the Coast Guard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e0cda395-8188-4e28-8bda-cb2244c87403/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+instagram+%285%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out 13th January, 1915 Sub. Lt. Frederick Monks, lost at sea with 300 men in the sinking of HMS Viknor. Former pupil of TS Wellesley, a nautical school that lay off the Fish Quay (destroyed by fire March 1914). He was sent to Wellesley aged 12 for four years in February 1900. Charge: ‘frequenting the company of thieves.’ One of many who made good in later life – as a qualified Second Mate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/9d8c5bb1-8348-4751-b053-a6e4fa735d19/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+%28Facebook+Post%29+%281%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 14th, 1880 Tynemouth Aquarium and Winter Gardens with roller skating rink (later The Plaza) sold at auction for £27,150 (cost £90,000 to build). The new owner is solicitor Gibson Youll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/88d3f9a4-357e-427c-b4de-f54fdb5b5d0b/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+%28Instagram+Post%29+%281%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 15th, 1976 Episode 2 of ‘When The Boat Comes In’ airs on TV. Set in fictional town of Gallowshield - based on North Shields - where many scenes were filmed. This was the only episode written by famous Shields playwright Tom Hadaway. Likely Lad James Bolam played the male lead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/ca0cf826-5f1e-4835-9733-ded00c022983/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+%28Instagram+Post%29+%282%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 16th, 1862 Pit disaster at New Hartley. 204 men and boys are trapped underground and die. Famous Percy Main poet Joseph Skipsey’s response ‘The Hartley Calamity’ raises money for bereaved families. The poem features in his collection The Collier Lad and other songs and ballads, published 1864. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e22b795c-e477-4a91-b55f-d4f895813db3/North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+17+January.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 17th, 1933 Thomas George Purvis died in Hong Kong. Born in North Shields in 1861, he was famous for paintings with a maritime theme and ship portraits. His paintings are in many public collections including the National Maritime Museum and National Museum of Wales. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/168fd0d8-4b4c-410b-a86e-bdcdaa808d26/Copy+of+North+Shields+800+Fact+of+the+Day+%28Instagram+Post%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 18th, 1804 ‘A dreadful fire’ broke out at a brewery at the Low Lights area. The fire started at 4am in the brewery of Mr Coward. It was not brought under control before ‘considerable damage was done.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e5add2da-f01b-47b7-b1a0-e9f0a0282503/North+Shields+Fact+of+the+Day+1901.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 19th, 1923 Inaugural meeting of the Tynemouth Antiquarian Society. It meets every second Tuesday of month from October to April at Holy Saviours church hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/588bec6d-eb3c-47d9-9656-a4c1f45f5802/North+Shields+800+2010.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 20th, 1928 A public lecture was held in the Co-operative Hall on Howdon Road, North Shields. The lecturer was a Miss Manson and the subject was ‘Theosophy in Everyday Life’. A philosophical system that combines mysticism, spiritualism, and metaphysics. Its more famous practitioners include the inventor Thomas Edison and the poet William Butler Yeats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/93768695-962d-45e8-94e8-82765c7a6079/North+Shields+800+2101.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 21st, 1946 William Scorfield Garson, a well-known businessman and local historian, died. More than 55,000 copies of his local histories were produced. He was a founder and treasurer of the Tynemouth Antiquarian Society until shortly before his death. Copies of his histories are available in North Shields library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/079e86a6-bb03-4405-aa68-f63deee6c4b2/_North+Shields+800+2201+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 22nd, 1897 A severe storm smashes a large gap in the newly completed North Pier at the harbour entrance. The pier needs to be realigned, and a large section reconstructed. It was not fully repaired until 1909. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/d7c3dcb3-7a9a-4485-98c6-409b998520c4/North+Shields+800+2301+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 23rd, 1897 Storm damage to the North Pier means a temporary access bridge will be needed to allow pier staff and lighthouse keepers to get access to lighthouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/2102e21d-6450-41ca-901b-c2508e604259/NS800+2401+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 24th, 1896 A Greco- Roman wrestling match is held at the Albion Assembly Rooms, Saville Street between Greek George (Champion of the World) and North Shields based Charles Shultz (Scandinavian Champion). The match was won by Greek George. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/e4c41624-9c3d-4333-b632-ef26bd9e52f0/NS800+2501+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 25th, 1940 North Shields received one of the most unfavourable reports in the country when the Ministry of Labour reviewed conditions in British ports. Mr R S Heesom of the British Sailors’ Society of North Shields described some of these establishments as “a menace not only to the seamen but to every member of the public. "There is no need to enlarge upon the vices of Clive Street.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/7626fc99-8852-457b-bea3-f74964895404/NS800+2601+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 26th, 1357 The Prior of Tynemouth complains about Newcastle men digging coal on his land at Elswick, Newcastle. Using a license they were granted for elsewhere, the Mayor and Burgesses of Newcastle are now digging coal on his land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/5198000d-fdc9-4cb4-977a-231e9197744d/NS800+2701+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 27th, 1997 The Evening Chronicle reports a suspected arson attack at the former Tyne Brand factory on North Shields Fish Quay. A quarter of the ground floor was damaged severely and the rest of the three-storey building smoke logged. 20 firemen took three hours to bring the blaze under control. This was the first of many fires at the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/b9c571fa-ae08-4bee-b9f9-c46b4d376d85/NS800+2801+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 28th, 1952 Silent movie star Stan Laurel, who lived in Dockwray Square at turn of century, arrived in Southampton on RMS Queen Mary with his co-star Oliver Hardy. They will tour the UK and come to North Shields to meet his old friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/204a66e6-2268-48e9-9af1-f384e0a3f2e0/_NS800+2901+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out Hilton Valentine, member of the world-renowned band ‘The Animals’, died in Wallingford, Connecticut USA. He will always be remembered for the famous arpeggio chords he played on the group’s 1964 breakthrough hit ‘House of the Rising Sun’. A blue plaque was placed at his birthplace in Coburg Street, North Shields in 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/a27bca91-2e9b-4c77-a14f-7260affad0df/NS800+3001+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out 30th January, 1906 At North Shields Police Court on 30 January 1906, 16-year-old Dora Agnes Stephenson pleaded guilty to stealing a brooch, a blouse and a cloth bag belonging to her employer Robert Wardhaugh of Chirton Hill Top Farm. The theft was out of character. The young girl was so ashamed she tried to take her own life. She was bound over and her dad who supported her had to pay a fine of £5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/669fbfae862c2d461d944aa0/4dd4335f-88d1-4106-a964-f083bf81a43d/NS800+3101+%28Bruce%29.jpg News - North Shields 800 Fact of the Day - January - Make it stand out January 31st, 1855 Birth of Sir James Knott. Raised from age of one in Linskill Street, North Shields. He went on to establish his Prince Shipping Line – the third largest in world at the turn of the 20th century. 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