Marsden Miners Hall, 189 Imeary Street

This building was added to the South Tyneside local list in 2023. The local list description reads:
'Built in 1912 for the miners who lived at Marsden Village and who worked at Whitburn Colliery. It was designed by the architect Thomas Alexander Page of 67 King Street.
"A handsome hall capable of accommodating 600 persons" (Sunderland Echo Monday 5 August 1912). The lettering "Marsden Miners Hall" is still visible on the brickwork.
It was used for social activities, union meetings, strike ballots, to campaign for a 48-hour week for Ingham Infirmary nursing staff, the 1945 Labour victory public meeting, Chuter Ede and Hugh Gaitskell held meetings there. It was used by the Marsden miners until 1967 when Whitburn Colliery closed.
There was a World War One memorial plaque in the hall dedicated to the men who served and died from Marsden (over 200 men died). The memorial consisted of 31 panels, 8 are now missing the remainder are in South Shields Museum.
After 1967 it became St Bede's Parochial Hall, it is now residential flats.'