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South Shields (/ ʃ iː l z /) is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England; it is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. The town was once known in Roman times as Arbeia and as Caer Urfa by the Early Middle Ages. In 2021 it had a population of 75,337.
South Shields-born Charles Palmer opened his shipyard in 1851 at Jarrow, at first building wooden ships and then moving onto iron. His shipyard patented rolled armour-plate for warships.
During the 1890s, many Yemeni seamen, doing jobs on British merchant vessels such as engine room firemen, settled in South Shields, Liverpool, Cardiff and Hull. The first Arab Seamen’s Boarding House opened in the Holborn area of South Shields in 1909.
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5 days ago · South Shields, town and North Sea port, South Tyneside district, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Durham, northeastern England. It lies on the south side of the mouth of the River Tyne near the site of a Roman fort. The town, founded by the Convent of Durham in the 13th.
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Historically South Shields was part of an Anglo-Saxon district called Wirralshire – the name of the coastal land between the Tyne and Wear. South Shields has an Anglo-Saxon or medieval name referring to ‘Scheles’ – temporary fishermen’s huts, sheds or shelters on the south side of the Tyne.
Jan 30, 2016 · Founded in 1245, South Shields quickly developed into an important fishing port, with industries such as fishing and salt-panning attracting workers from far and wide. In the 19th Century, coal...
Jan 14, 2024 · Come with us as we take a look through history at why each town is named the way it is across the area we call home.
