Frederick Street, Friends Meeting House

The Society of Friends (Quakers) have met on several occasions in South Shields, but none of their meeting houses can be accurately located. There was a meeting in the house of Robert Linton from 1661 until 1696. In Whellans’ Directory for 1894 a meeting house in Frederick Street is mentioned, but is not shown on OS maps. Then in 1900 a house in Wellington Terrace (? NZ 36086784) to which a large new meeting room was added in 1907; it was sold in 1958.