Teams, Vine Street, Mission

HER Number:
17328

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Teams, Vine Street, Mission

Place:
Teams

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Religious House

Site Type: Specific:
Mission

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Sister Winifred Laver MBE (1888-1980), Methodist missionary, instituted the Vine Street Mission in Teams in 1916.Laver was born in Birkenhead. She came to Gateshead at the age of 18 to work with the sick, starving and poor. Lver ran the Vine Stret Mission for 60 years. Families were given breakfast before church, children were taken on trips to the seaside and the Christmas parties accomodated over 1200 people. Sister Laver was awarded an MBE and the Freedom of the Borough of Gateshead. Vine Street no longer exists. It was replaced by Fleming Court and Milling Court in Redheugh. The mission was demolished in 1977. A blue plaque to Sister Laver was erected at nearby Gateshead Evangelical Centre on Derwentwater Road in 2011.

Easting:
242

Northing:
624

Grid Reference:
NZ242624

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Blue plaque honour to Sister Winifred Laver, 23 June 2011, Evening Chronicle http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/blue-plaque-honour-sister-winifred-1400758; http://www.newcastlegateshead.com/things-to-do/local-heroes/sister-winifred-laver