South Shields County Durham

[adriennelawrence]

Hi
I am looking for information on "Laygate Mission".My grandfathers younger brother was killed WW1 in France and I have been looking at the war memorials in South Shields and Westoe to find his details. On a site called North East War Memorials Project I found them, there was in 1921 a pulpit with small brass plaque in the Laygate Mission.
Can anyone help with the location of this mission, is it still standing, and does it still have a pulpit with a wee brass plaque.
Googling gives me a seamans mission, no images of it that I can find. However this doesn't make sense. Ralph Wake was a miner, as were his brother, father and grandfather.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Adrienne; Surrey

[KGarrad]

If you haven't already seen this website, it might be worth contacting them?
http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=10659

Also found a reference to Laygate Mission, Palmerston Street?

[stanmapstone]

"New premises situated in Palmerston street, South Shields, for the Laygate Mission",  Newcastle Journal Monday 13 November 1916.

Stan

[glenclare]

Palmerston Street is still there but has a new development of houses on it. Checked on google street view and no old buildings left unfortunately.

[stanmapstone]

Where Palmerston Street is now was the site of Deans Hospital on the 1916 map.
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=436125,565496

Stan

[stanmapstone]

Palmerston Street ran from Laygate to Reed Street, between Eldon Street and Frederick Street, now an open space see http://goo.gl/maps/cRhJF shown on the 1915-1918 map at http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html?coords=436051,566096

Stan

[adriennelawrence]

Many thanks to everyone for Palmerston Street and its precise location, and to stanmapstone for the article in the Newcastle Journal. I have a copy of it, but still don't know what kind of 'mission' it was. The new Laygate Mission had a billiards room, basement made over into a gym,football and cricket fields, it is the meeting room and the donated pulpit which are intriguing.
Does anyone have elderly relatives in Shields who may remember the mission  ? (demolished early 1980's) 

[audrey]

Try South shields Museum they may know where the plaque is, its on Ocean Road and they do have a website and you could send them an e mail
audrey