The Disappearing Gun at Trow Rocks

The Disappearing Gun at Trow Rocks

Image Details

Title The Disappearing Gun at Trow Rocks
Reference Number STH0023951
Photographer Keith Bardwell
Town or Village South Shields
Date
Original Format Colour Photograph
Period c1990s
Copyright South Tyneside Libraries
Further Information The Victorian artillery piece that sits on the headland at the south end of the beach at South Shields is known as the Trow Rock ‘Disappearing Gun’. The actual weapon we see today is a substitute, placed there in 1987, for the original gun installed around 1887.