Tyne and Wear HER(11777): South Shields, Ocean Road (German St), Union Workhouse - Details
11777
S Tyneside
South Shields, Ocean Road (German St), Union Workhouse
South Shields
NZ36NE
Health and Welfare
Workhouse
Early Modern
C19
Demolished Building
Union workhouse, built 1837. Architects John and Benjamin Green.
3691
6751
NZ36916751
Kathryn Morrison (English Heritage and Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England), 1999, 'The Workhouse - a study of poor-law buildings in England', p 203; http://www.workhouses.org.uk/SouthShields; Tyne and Wear Archives, Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4JA. Guardians' minutes (1899-1932), Births (1914-37), Deaths (1914-48), Admissions (1926-48), Admissions and discharges (1897-1956), Creed registers (1877-1948), Epilepsy registers (1911-36), Lunacy registers (1908-48); Peter Higginbotham, 2013, A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse; Peter Higginbotham, 2012, The Workhouse Encyclopedia