Hannays Solicitors and Advocates Beach Road South Shields
2nd February 2018
You can find Hannays Solicitors and Advocates at No.19 Beach Road in South Shields.
The road runs from the corner of Fowler Street down to the sea front. The South Shields Council Buildings stand on the opposite side of the road to us.
On Beach Road you will find two fine terraces built in the early 1800’s; Ogle Terrace and Wellington Terrace. There is a road sign at the corner of Fowler Street and Beach Road for Ogle Terrace.
Ogle Terrace and Beach Road have seen many changes over the years.
We believe that Ogle Terrace was named after the Reverend John Saville Ogle (b.1767 d 1853) of Kirkley hall in Northumberland. He jointly owned a large section of land in the centre of South Shields with the Right Honourable Charles Grey Viscount Howick of Howick Hall in Northumberland (his family are famous for having Earl Grey tea named after them).
The terrace was built in the early 1800’s and provided smart accommodation for ship owners and other well to do families. The vicarage for St Hilda’s stood on the corner. Some of the houses were so large that they had stables behind them.
By the end of the 1900’s some of the houses were being used for other purposes – there was a photography studio, a school, solicitors and a dentist.
When the Council buildings were erected across the road from Ogle Terrace at the beginning of the 1900’s the properties in Ogle Terrace lost their gardens to make way for a footpath and road widening.
During the Second World War some of the buildings were damaged and rebuilt which we believe is true for No.19.
Many of the surviving properties were eventually given listed building status and you can look up their information here: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/map-search?clearresults
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Our predecessor Hannay & Hannay Solicitors used various offices in the town over the last 120 years or so. You can still notice a sign for one of their offices on the Barclays Bank building (which used to be Martins Bank) on the corner of King Street and Fowler Street.
Hannay & Hannay Solicitors had offices on Beach Road for many years before merging with another firm and moving to our current location at No.19 in 2010.
If you want to know more about the history of the houses on Beach Road Age UK South Tyneside are currently researching the history of their building on Beach Road after being awarded a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund – http://southtynesideheritage.co.uk/wellington-terrace/
More information about the project can be found here: http://southtynesideheritage.co.uk/
If you would like to contact us please call 0191 4555361 or email info@hannayslaw.co.uk
