Alum House and Ferry Entrance

Alum House and Ferry Entrance

Image Details

Title Alum House and Ferry Entrance
Reference Number STH0004175
Photographer Unknown
Town or Village South Shields
Date 1900
Original Format Black and white photograph
Period Edwardian (1901-1910)
Copyright South Tyneside Libraries
Further Information Black and white photograph showing the Alum House, once the home of
Simon Temple the entrepreneur as it was near his dockyard in Spring
Lane and also later became part of the 18th century chemical works of
Isaac Cookson but by early Victorian times it became a public house.