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North Tyneside In Dedication To The Robertson\Nessworthy Family By Aaron Chown
North Shields North Shields a town in the borough of North Tyneside an Wear in the North East of england locaed not far from Newcastle. The town contains two significant areas. The high lights and low lights which remain as reminicant names from when permenant lights were set up to guide mariners past the Black Midden rocks into the harbour. In 1806 the town opened up a new quay to shelter the harbouring fishing boats something that is still used today. During the 1990’s an extensive regeneration program was set up in the area opening up attractions and a premier Inn to house the traffic of potential new people to the area. Most significantly North Shields role on World War Two due to the involvement of in the production of ships and armaments for the war effort
LAET STREET 1960’s Laet Street Number 32. This home once housed my relatives on my mothers side. My Grandmother once grew up here and played along the streets, so much has changed since they lived here. The area once busy with children playing and having fun now remians with many houses for sale along the road, showing a stark contrast of the change in times from what the photographer Colin Wilkinson captured in Liverpool around the same era to what it is now. The difference in the modern day image reflects the physical changes to the enviroment such as the buildings and the roads. With houses being added onto the building work and the road made wider within only a generation barely passed.
Boro’ Theartre Built as a circus in 1900, it was converted into the Borough Theartre in around 1902 on lower Rudyar Street and later redesigned in 1910 and then taken over by a chain and later called the Boro’ Theartre with early showings over Dracula and Frankinstein.
North Shields Fish Quay 1960’s North Shields present fish quay originlly known as the low lights was built around 1866, the main focus was over fish and salt. While the town and shipyard began to expand a cap was landed on it in the favour of Newcastle, limiting its capabilitys to mainly fish and salt. The Quay was target for the German forces during World War Two due to its ship building facilitys and heavily bomberd. While once a busy Ship yard the imports has diminished and now remains more over a commercial terrace for resturants and small fish stalls.
Open air Swimming Pool Built in the 1920s populaR with locals and holiday makers for over 50 years the tyne mouth open air swimming pool was once a local busy central of activity. However it began to loose favour in the 1970s with the introduction of cheap holidays abroad, making the family holiday to the beech close to non existant.
At the cost of roughly 200,000 a local building was demolished with the rubble pushed into the pool mixed with cement and imported boulders to form an artificial rock pool. There was an effort to introduce marine life to the pool however it never flourised.
the Spanish City Dome on whitley bay in north tyneside was built in 1910 as a concert hall, tea room and resturant. In the 1980s the space was converted into a live music venue with popular songwriters and mucisians commenting on their memories of the place such as sting and mark knopfler. Later converted into a funfair which was extremly popular and host to many attraction including ghost trains and waltzers. Now lies derelic, with borders around the outside and stands as a staple for the past and how it modern day society has rejected these activitys
Mouth of Tyne, North Pier 1950’s On 1854 work commenced on the North Pier and was estimated to be completed within a 7 year gap however the project was dominated with disasters and it son became clear it would take well longer than it was estimated. Howver due to the initial design being flawed a redesign was commisioned with new contractors and was later completed more than 56 years after it was initially constructed and has held strong to this day. While the Mouth of Tyne is not used as a busy shipping port as it once was, it does house the use of a place to fish and and for the local Tyne mouth sailing club present since the 1880’s continually developing to the present day.
Originally known as the Tyne mouth Aquarium and Winter Garden, construction began in 1887. The building contained two floors and two towers with 5 floors and was know to many as the Plaza. The building originally contained a veriety of different rooms such as Card, Billiard, Reading and Smoking Rooms. The Building also contained sea views, refreshments bar towards the beech level and a Ice Rink capable of being floded into a fresh sea water pool. The Building was doomed from the start with the cost being too much of a financial strain to the owners. Sold and re-named many times and in the 1960’s was repurposed for a dance hall/event space but was then after being left in general disrepair untill pulled down in 1996 after a fire completely destroyed the 118 year old building.