Lower Howard Street, Howard Hall

HER Number

7858

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Lower Howard Street, Howard Hall

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Recreational

Site Type: Broad

Music Speech and Dance Venue

Site Type: Specific

Music Hall

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Erected in 1807. From 1906 it became a music hall and from 1925, a cinema. It was one of the town's most popular cinemas and only closed in 1956. Demolished in 1962.

Easting

435700

Northing

568200

Grid Reference

NZ435700568200

Sources

Richard Simpson, 1988, North Shields and Tynemouth - A Pictorial History