Toward Road, The Victoria Hall

HER Number

17792

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Toward Road, The Victoria Hall

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Recreational

Site Type: Broad

Meeting Hall

Site Type: Specific

Meeting Hall

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

The Victoria Hall was located on Toward Road. The site is now occupied by an office block constructed in the 1960s after the hall was damaged during an air raid in World War II. On the 16th June 1883, 183 children died at the Victoria Hall at the end of a concert after a stampede ensued following an announcement that children with certain numbered tickets would be given a prize when they left the hall.

Easting

439960

Northing

556710

Grid Reference

NZ439960556710

Sources

Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates; GE Milburn and ST Miller, 1988, Sunderland River, Town and People, pp 130-131