16 Facts About South Shields

South Shields is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England.

South Shields is situated in a peninsula setting, where the River Tyne meets the North Sea.

Beyond 1820 and into the Industrial Revolution, South Shields expanded into an Urban settlement built around shipbuilding and coal mining.

The majority of the people living in South Shields are descendants of those who migrated and settled in the area during the Industrial Revolution in order to work in expanding coalmines and shipyards.

South Shields has been home to a Yemeni British community since the 1890s.

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South Shields lost one of the largest proportions of Merchant Navy sailors.

The port in South Shields employed men of Yemen, Aden, Somalia, African, Indian and Malaysian nationalities.

South Shields had his marriage blessed at the Al-Azhar Mosque, one of the earliest mosques in UK.

South Shields plays host to an annual free summer festival and each autumn the town is the seaside finish to the week as well as public gala shows at the Customs House.

South Shields is home to South Tyneside College, one of the two leading maritime training centres in the UK, with facilities including a marine safety training centre and a simulated ship's bridge for the training of deck officers.

People born in South Shields are considered to be Geordies, a term commonly associated with all residents of Tyneside.

South Shields is the home of two rugby union clubs, South Shields RFC and Westoe RFC.

South Shields RFC have been playing at Grosvenor Road, South Tyneside College since they were formed in 1956.

South Shields is a safe Labour Party Parliamentary seat, the only constituency in existence since the Great Reform Act of 1832 never to have elected a Conservative MP.

South Shields is bounded by the A19 trunk road to the West and situated close to the Tyne Tunnel at Jarrow.

The South Shields Ferry carries tens of thousands of commuters and pleasure trippers each year.