South Shields, police box

HER Number:
16598

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
South Shields, police box

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Communications

Site Type: Broad:
Telecommunication Structure

Site Type: Specific:
Police Box

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
From 1935 a new type of police box was introduced in Sunderland and South Shields. These were similar to the Scarborough 'helter skelter' shaped boxes. The first ones were painted in the local Corporation colours (green and red) but later ones were painted light blue and cream.

Easting:
36

Northing:
67

Grid Reference:
NZ3667

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Petra Caroline [Henderson]'s Police and Police Boxes Virtual Telephone Museum, Sunderland Borough Police Box (1920) and Sunderland and South Shields Police Box 1935, www.henderson-tele.com/police/boxes/bytown2.html; photo of early police box in South Shields on www.northeastlifemag.co.uk/out-about/criminal_injustice_in_the_north_east_life; Immanuel Burton, 2006, A Brief History of the Police Box, November 2006 newsletter of the Construction History Society, www.policeboxes.com; Decentralization and the Police Box System by Frederick James Crawley, Chief Constable of Newcastle upon Tyne, The Police Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, January 1928; Peter Darrington, 2005, A History of the British Police Telephone Kiosk