Gas Works

HER Number

2461

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Gas Works

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Power Generation Site

Site Type: Specific

Gas Works

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This Gas Works on the north side of St. Hilda's Colliery (HER ref. 2355) is not shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey plan, so was built after 1855. A gas holder of 1886 survived on the site in 2000.

Easting

436260

Northing

566950

Grid Reference

NZ436260566950

Sources

<< HER 2461 >> 2nd edition, Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Durham, 4, NW