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

Workhouse

Site Type: Specific

Workhouse

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

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

436590

Northing

564290

Grid Reference

NZ436590564290

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