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Quoits

The Ship Inn Yard, Quoits Ground

54.963983, -1.600033

Gateshead

Opened:

c1880s

Closed:

Unknown

Redeveloped

Condition:

Home Teams/Clubs:

Last Updated:

24 Apr 2023

HER Description

NEHL - A quoits ground was developed in the yard of the Ship Inn from at least the 1880s. This can be first evidenced in a Newcastle Chronicle piece from 1888, when a £25 handicap was resumed between J Wood of Ouseburn and Mason of Walker "were the contestants [after] one of the most excited games ever decided on the above ground". Mason won by 1 point.

The yard stood directly behind the inn via a narrow snicket/passageway. The area has been entirely redeveloped with none of the original buildings of the terrace still standing.

Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey Town Plan, 1896

'Sketches of The Coal Mines in Northumberland and Durham' T.H.Hair, published in 1844

The rear yard of the Ship Inn can be seen here in 1910. It's likely the Quoits ground was just to the right through an entranceway. Unknown source.

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'Sketches of The Coal Mines in Northumberland and Durham' T.H.Hair, published in 1844

Historic Environment Records

Durham/Northumberland: Keys to the Past

Tyne and Wear: Sitelines

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