Ocean Road (German St), Union Workhouse

HER Number

11777

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Ocean Road (German St), Union Workhouse

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad

Workhouse

Site Type: Specific

Workhouse

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Union workhouse, built 1837. Architects John and Benjamin Green.

Easting

436910

Northing

567510

Grid Reference

NZ436910567510

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; 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