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6 unusual facts about South Shields


Emal Pasarly

He has interviewed a number of well-known Afghan and international politicians and opposition figures including David Miliband, a former British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for South Shields from 2001 to 2013, and was the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2007 to 2010.

Isaac Cookson

Then in 1728, using land he had leased in 1722, together with Joseph Airey, he took over and expanded the Dagnia Flint Glasshouse in Newcastle upon Tyne: by the 1730s he was operating a separate glasshouse in South Shields.

King George School

South Shields Community School, a secondary school in South Shields, United Kingdom, formed by the merger of Brinkburn Comprehensive School and King George V Comprehensive School

Robert Colls

He was born in South Shields in 1949 where he attended Laygate Lane Junior School and the Grammar Technical School for Boys.

Sandancer

Sandancer (or Sanddancer) is a colloquialism used to describe those who come from the town of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England.

South Shields, Marsden, and Whitburn Colliery Railway

On 1 January 1947 the coal company was vested in the National Coal Board so the railway became the first nationalised passenger line in Britain.


Fergus Montgomery

Born in South Shields, Montgomery was educated at Jarrow Grammar School and Bede College at the University of Durham, and became a teacher in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1950.

Hilda Runciman, Viscountess Runciman of Doxford

A daughter of James Cochran Stevenson, a Liberal Member of Parliament for South Shields, Hilda Stevenson was educated at Notting Hill High School and Girton College, Cambridge where she took first class honours in the History Tripos.

Joe Jopling

Jopling worked on South Shields shipyards, playing football at a junior level in Tyneside, before he signed professional contracts with Aldershot in August 1969.

Marius Valerianus

Little else is known of him from the inscriptions he left at Chesters, Netherby and South Shields.

NER Class T3

The remaining four gravitated to their natural habitat, Tyne Dock depot near South Shields.

Seaburn Dene

Seaburn Dene is also bypassed by the 35 Go North East bus service at Shields Rd, running from South Shields to Hetton-le-Hole or Low Moorsley via Sunderland.

SS Escambia

The casualties included Chief Officer Stephen George of Wales, Second Officer John Simpson of Liverpool, Third Officer J. Meyler of London, Chief Engineer James Sturrock, Second Engineer P. Walker, all the stokers (most of whom were Chinese), other hands, and a passenger named O. Detchon of South Shields.

Stanhope and Tyne Railway

The Stanhope and Tyne Railway (formally the Stanhope and Tyne Railroad Company) was an early British industrial railway that ran from Stanhope, in County Durham, to South Shields at the mouth of the River Tyne.

Wrekenton

Wrekenton is believed to have been the meeting point of two Roman roads, Cade's Road, which ran all the way from the Humber, via York to Newcastle and the Wrekendyke which branched away to the north-east passing close to Jarrow and ending at the Roman fort and harbour of Arbeia, at South Shields.


see also

LEAS

The Leas, a large area of land owned by the National Trust along the coastal cliffs of South Shields, England

Northumberland Gazette

For most of its history it has been in the same ownership as the South Shields daily evening newspaper, the Shields Gazette.

The Shields Song Book

Page 10 - The Pitman's description of La Perouse, performed for many successive nights at the South Shields Theatreā€ - to the tune of Betsy Baker

Tina Gharavi

Through her company, Bridge + Tunnel Productions, Gharavi produced a documentary about the first settled Muslim community in the UK- the Yemeni Community in South Shields and the day Muhammad Ali got married in the local mosque The King of South Shields.