Built in 1913 for the Thompson family (JG Thompson and Sons was a local engineering firm). John George Thompson instigated the building and his son, of the same name, owned the theatre throughout its existence. The architects were Gibson and Stienlet of North Shields. The builder was W.T. Weir of Willington-on-Tyne. Originally it was to be called the Borough Theatre, but at the last minute its name was changed to the Queen's Theatre.

The Queen's Theatre could seat up to 2400 people. It had a 40 foot square stage that could accommodate large touring shows and show films. The main entrance was marble, with granite columns and a mosaic floor. The staircase to the circle had marble steps and a mahogany handrail. The auditorium was fitted with red plush tip-up chairs. Theatrical entrepreneurs apparently described the Queen's as 'standing alongside the finest and most up-to-date in the country'.

The musical director at the Queen's was James Todd. Being a Cinematograph Theatre, films were shown between the music-hall acts. The silent movies were accompanied by music by James Todd and his orchestra. The South Shields Choral Society and the South Shields Amateur Operatic Society performed here (the Queen's was the home of the operatic society from its inception in 1917 until 1940).

During WW2 the Queen's Theatre became part of Solly Sheckman's Essoldo Cinema circuit, but this arrangement was short-lived.

The Queen's Theatre was destroyed on 9th April 1941 by a German incendiary bomb (6000 bombs were dropped on South Shields that day).

A fire station and multi-storey car park was built on the site in the 1960s. Archaeological evaluation trenching in 2018 recorded demolition rubble of the theatre and four courses of a sandstone wall.

Built in 1879, a sizable chapel with ‘capacious galleries’ that could seat 1000. Two storeys. Tall round-arched windows. Sandstone quoins. Sandstone datestone over main door. Still in use.

Stone Early-English style church built in 1874 at a cost of £2800 and seating 600, disused in the mid 20th century and now demolished. The congregation took over the former Primitive Methodist Chapel in Ellison Street.

A Gothic stone chapel built in 1872 for £4000 and capable of holding 900, in use until the 1970s.

A chapel only shown on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map (c1895).

A brick building, now a nursery. It is probably of early 20th-century date. Rectangular windows. Door in round-arched surround in a gabled porch on righthand side of front elevation. Quoins painted grey. Slate roof. Bargeboard on gable ends. Low brick wall to front yard.

A late 19th-century chapel that seems to have remained in use until the 1960s, now demolished.

An iron church built in 1870 to seat 140, now gone.

Built as a ‘school chapel’ in 1893, a planned larger building was never constructed and the building remained in use until 1973.

A chapel at NZ 3169 6541 built in 1875 at a cost of £1,000 which seated 400, remaining in use until 1973; it is now used by the Jehovah’s Witnesses. A brick building, the gable to the street seems to have been rebuilt or rendered over.