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What makes people fall in love with North Shields — and stay? Over the past year, we asked people a simple question: What do you love about North Shields? What are your happiest memories here? Do you have any hopes for the future of the town? The responses were thoughtful, personal and deeply rooted in place. Together, they paint a picture of a town shaped by memory, community, history and everyday moments. Here are just some of the reasons people love it here.

Did you know the big building on Linskill Terrace is running a special campaign, The Big Give, from the 2nd to 9th of December?...

Life could have been very different for Rev. Dan McCarthy.  In 1998, Essex-born Dan was coming to the end of a Law degree in Wolverhampton , setting his sights on a career at the Bar.   But fast-forward two-and-a-half decades, and he finds himself a million miles away from the courtroom, embarking on a new chapter of his life as the Team Rector at Christ Church and St Augustin’s in North Shields.

A surprise flash mob brought “The Geordie Line Dance” to North Shields Fish Quay, as over 70 dancers braved the rain to perform to Sam Fender’s ‘People Watching’.

North Shields has marked a powerful moment in its 800-year history with the unveiling of a new bronze statue honouring Mary Ann Macham — an enslaved woman who escaped a plantation in Virginia, survived a dangerous transatlantic journey, and began a new life of freedom in this town on Christmas Day, 1831.

I Love North Shields is launching a new Pop-Up Gallery at Low Quay Brew Co on Thursday 27 November, featuring photographs created during Photowalk Two — part of the ongoing North Shields 800 programme. This project is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Residents are invited to meet Elected Mayor of North Tyneside Karen Clark and members of her Cabinet at a series of neighbourhood listening events...

Issue 15 is the last magazine in our North Shields 800 series, and it’s absolutely packed. This isn’t just another issue… it’s a full celebration of the people, stories, graft, heritage, ideas, characters and pure Shields spirit that defined the 800th anniversary year.

I now ride the Metro in the middle of the day, travelling from one workplace site to another across the borough, and I disembark at a new station following a recent house move. It’s a period of change, not just in my personal circumstances, but in the very station I alight and disembark.

For most of the 19th century, the Twizell family were North Shields’ version of B&Q — ironmongers, shipowners, and civic leaders whose story captures the ambition and resilience that built our town.