What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: 1 - 18 Greens Place. Oldest Purpose Built Block of Flats in South Shields (1938). Site of the Greens Sailor Boys Home (1877 - 1922). Recorded plaque organisation: Tyne and Wear County Council.
This site marks the location of the Greens Sailor Boys Home, active from 1877 to 1922, which provided support for young sailors; it later became the oldest purpose-built block of flats in South Shields, constructed in 1938.
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