West Harton, Harton Lane, Union Workhouse

HER Number:
11778

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
West Harton, Harton Lane, Union Workhouse

Place:
West Harton

Map Sheet:
NZ36SE

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Workhouse

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Union workhouse, built 1877-80. Architect J.H. Morton. Some of the workhouse survives as South Tyneside District Hospital.

Easting:
3659

Northing:
6429

Grid Reference:
NZ36596429

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
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; Norman McCord, 1991, North East History from the Air, pp 95-96; 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; TWAS DT.JHM/204 South Shields Union Workhouse c.1871-1983