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Description: | South Shields Town Hall, Market Place, and surrounding streets were built from 1768 on eight acres of land purchased from St Hilda's Church. The Town Hall (known as the 'Cross') had an open ground floor, which was used as a corn and food market. The first market was held in 1770. At the far side of the square is St Hilda's Church, shown as it looked before it was remodelled in 1810. Women in the Market Place are dressed in the fashions of about 1800 to 1810. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | work artists oil paintings living in the North East art South Tyneside men shopping women | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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