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Page created: 23 October 2005
Latest revision or update: 22 December 2016
The
port of North Shields (population about 50,000) in the North East of
England is situated on the north side of the Tyne estuary, opposite
South Shields, about 8 miles northeast of Newcastle and about three
miles south of the seaside town of Whitley Bay.
North Shields
is now in the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside (in the metropolitan county of
Tyne and Wear), which was created in 1974 upon the
merger of several authorities, including the county borough of Tynemouth (of
which North Shields was part), all of which auuthorities had been within the
county of Northumberland.

Interior of North Shields Synagogue
(Courtesy Peter Gatoff)
The North Shields Jewish Community
The
North Shields Jewish community dates from the mid-nineteenth century (somewhat
earlier than the establishment of the community in South Shields).
The Jewish cemetery dates from at least 1856 and the synagogue was
acquired in the 1870s. The community never exceeded 15/20 familes
and was totally defunct by the 1960's.
Congregation Data |
Name: |
North Shields Synagogue |
Address: |
29 Linskill Street, North Shields (from about
1870, Synagogue consecrated on 22 March 1876, building reconstructed in
1880s). Previously services held in members' homes |
Date Formed: |
In 1846 |
Current Status: |
Closed in 1965, but services had discontinued
somewhat earlier. |
Ritual: |
Ashkenazi Orthodox |
Congregation Numbers: |
1852 - 16 seatholders (Board of Deputies
returns) 1856 - 14 seatholders (The Jewish Chronicle, 1
February 1856, page 466) 1860- 20 seatholders (Board of Deputies
returns) 1870 - 12 seatholders (Board of Deputies
returns)
1880 - 13 seatholders (Board of Deputies
returns)
1890 - 13 seatholders (Board of Deputies
returns)
1900 - 25 seatholders (Board of Deputies returns) |
On-line Articles
and Other Material relating to the South Shields Jewish Community
on JCR-UK
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North Shields Jewish Cemeteries Information
Details of the Jewish cemeteries in North
Shields:
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Preston Road Cemetery, Jewish Section,
Preston Road North, North Shields. Opened in 1856. Contains
approximately 60 graves.
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Newcastle Reform Synagogue Cemetery.
This is situated at the other end of Preston Road Cemetery and is
the cemetery of the
Newcastle Reform Synagogue.
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There were two other, now lost, early 19th
century Jewish burial plots in North Shields, at Hawkies Lane
and Chirton. Those interred in the latter plot were
reinterred at the Preston Road Cemetery in 1924.
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Click
North Tyneside, for other Jewish cemeteries in North Tyneside.
(See also
IAJGS Cemetery Project
- North Shields) |
North Shields Jewish Population Data
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1934 |
40 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1935) |
1946 |
40 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1947) |
1955 |
40 |
(The Jewish Year Book 1956) |
North Tyneside
Jewish Community home page
Jewish Congregations in Tyne and
Wear
Jewish Communities of England home page
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