Low Dock

Low Dock, North Shields is the only protected Graving Dock on the Tyne and possibly the oldest surviving one on the river in anything like an original form. It measures 65 metres x 20 metres and is of stone construction with stepped sides and a rounded western end. Over much of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the dock lay at the centre of a small repair yard. No details of the history of this yard have been established. It appears on Wood’s plan of 1827 between King David’s Quay (to the north) and Broad Quay (to the south). The dock lies within an area of modern residential development. No features associated with its function survive. LISTED GRADE 2