North Shields

North Shields is a town on the north bank of the River Tyne in North East England, 8 miles north-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. Truly part of Northumberland, its name gets from Middle English schele signifying "brief sheds or cottages utilized by anglers". North Shields is first recorded in 1225, when the Prior of Tynemouth, Germanus, chose to make an angling port to give fish to the Priory which was arranged on the headland at the mouth of the River Tyne. He likewise provided boats tied down close to the convent.

Various simple houses or 'shiels' were raised at the mouth of the Pow Burn where the stream enters the Tyne, and in addition wooden quays which were utilized to empty the angling water crafts. The quays were additionally used to deliver coal from nearby collieries claimed by the Priory. Before long the number of inhabitants in the new township numbered 1000. The burgesses of Newcastle upon Tyne were resolved to protect the custom rights that they had delighted in up till at that point, which secured the entire length of the river.

They effectively requested of the lord in 1290 and figured out how to suspend exchange from the new settlement. It was prohibited to victual ships or to stack and empty cargoes at North Shields. The restriction of the Newcastle burgesses stayed for a significant time however in spite of this, North Shields kept on creating as an inside for angling and sending out salt, delivered at nearby saltpans. For a significant period the Newcastle burgesses, known as the Hostmen, who controlled the fare of coal from the Tyne, opposed the fare of this ware from North Shields.