When was south shields pier built

Public told to 'stop pooing on pier'. Vandals damage pier rescue gear. Image source, Port of Tyne. For more than years the piers have protected the River Tyne, extending m from Tynemouth Priory and 1,m from South Shields.

Related Topics. Again, casting here is into the estuary, although it is slightly snaggier than either the Brigade Hut or the Slab and casts may need to be forty to fifty yards or slightly longer to land onto clean ground. The species on offer from this part of the pier are the same as those elsewhere along the pier, although the slightly deeper water improves the chances of a larger winter cod.

Like the Brigade Hut and slab, the First Gate is best fished a few hours either side of high tide. The seats are another comfortable mark to fish from, although as they involve going through the gate they will not be accessible if the pier is closed. There are several seats to the right as you walk through the gate and continue up the pier, and the first three and the spaces between them are all fishable, casting from the seaward side of the pier into the open sea.

Fishing from this part of the pier provides the solid stone wall to rest rods on and so a stand or rod rest is not needed. There are few snags around this part of the pier, and a cast of just twenty yards will see no tackle losses. Indeed it is often the shorter thirty to forty yard casts that produce the best fish from this part of the pier.

Big cod are present here in the winter months, but smaller whiting and coalfish tend to make up most of the catches. Flatfish are also caught here with flounder and dab regular catches and summer plaice also a possibility in the spring and early summer. Again, high water is necessary as the tide level drops too low on the ebb and rigs become snagged on the wall and rocks at the base of the pier as they are retrieved. Further up the pier the 44 Mark is a good spring and summer plaice spot.

It is so-called because the number 44 is faintly painted onto the wall here. It is possible to cast into either the estuary or seaward side although it is the seaward side that produces the best plaice. Since this point of the pier is fairly far out to sea a wide range of species can be caught, including decent winter cod, especially if anglers are fishing just after a spell of bad weather which has stirred up the seabed.

Slightly longer casting may be needed here — at least forty to fifty yards to clear the snags. This part of the pier is fishable at any stage of the tide. These blocks were left over after the construction of the pier and simply tipped into the sea since transporting them elsewhere would have been too expensive for the Victorian builders of the time.

Fishing either side of them can produce good winter cod and summer plaice some of which can be 2 — 3lb , as well as the usual whiting, dab and rockling. However, this far up the pier the ground is rough and casts of around eighty yards will be needed to clear the snags.

Anglers fishing this point and not casting far enough will get snagged every time, and experiences like this lead to people writing off Shields Pier as an unfishable tackle graveyard. If casting distance is an issue it may be better to fish some of the more forgiving marks on the pier, such as the Brigade Hut or The Seats. Mackerel will also be caught around this point of the pier and surrounding areas, and it is possible to catch decent pollock here, to deeply retrieved lures or float fished baits.

Fishing from the end of the pier can be productive but forget what you have read about long casting not being necessary from a pier — it is here because short casts will always land on snaggy ground. Most anglers fishing from the end known as the Round End and cast out as far as they can — reaching distances of eighty yards will see the clear ground reached.

Large cod are present here in winter, especially after rough seas, as are whiting, coalfish, flounder and plaice. The point where the railings and wall meet also known as the Small Wall can also be a good mark to fish from. The end of the pier fishes best a few hours either side of low water. A brief history of the construction of the piers appeared in the Shields Daily Gazette of 18 May to mark the completion of their construction.

The foundation stone of the piers was laid with appropriate ceremony in June, , by the late Sir Joseph Cowen, then chairman of the Commission. The first part of the work was carried out by contract, but great difficulties and some disputes arose, and early in the sixties the Commissioners took the work into their own hands.

In a terrific gale swept away or seriously injured a considerable portion of the newly constructed work, and the plans prepared by Mr Walker, C. It was found that the cause of the disaster was that the foundations of the piers had not been carried far enough down into the blue clay.

The damaged work was reconstructed with much deeper foundations, and the extension of the piers was continued on the new line. The work necessarily proceeded slowly and after was continued more tentatively until the all-important question of the width of the harbour entrance between the pier ends should be decided by experience.

The South Pier—so far as the structural work was concerned, was practically completed three or four years ago, and the North Pier was on the very eve of completion when the great gale of November, , swept away the Titan crane and did considerable damage to the structure of the pier itself, and to the end of the South Pier.