What is recorded here

This blue commemorative plaque records: Tynemouth Lodge Hotel. The building has been in use as a public house and residential hotel since 1799. Meals for prisoners were prepared in the cellar kitchens of this hotel and carried through an underground tunnel to the inmates of the Tynemouth House of Correction and Justice Room next door. Recorded plaque organisation: North Tyneside Council.

Tynemouth Lodge Hotel, operational since 1799, served not only as a public house and residential hotel but also played a unique role in providing meals for prisoners via an underground tunnel to the adjacent Tynemouth House of Correction.

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