Catalogue description South Tyneside College

For Governor's minutes, post 1951, see South Shields County Borough Education Committee and sub-committees minutes (CB/SS).

Files and other records relating to the school may be found amongst the records of South Shields County Borough Education Department (CB/SS).

South Tyneside College, South Shields

Accessions 487 (part), 2108 (part), 2274, 2443, T180 (part), T369

• South Shields, County Durham
• South Shields, Tyne and Wear
• Higher education

Thomas Masterman Winterbottom set up the Winterbottom Foundation in 1837 to fund the establishment of a Marine College. After Winterbottom's death in 1859 the Trustees of the Foundation first met, leading eventually to the opening of South Shields Marine School on 26 April 1861 in the Mechanics Institute. A new building, in Ocean Road, South Shields was provided soon afterwards and formally opened in January 1869.

A new scheme for the governance of the School was set up by the Board of Education in 1907 and this continued in force until the school came under local authority control in 1951. South Shields County Borough adopted a new scheme whereby the Governors constituted an Education Sub-committee and the School became South Shields Marine and Technical College. New College buildings were officially opened in 1964. In 1984 the Marine and Technical College merged with Hebburn Technical College to form South Tyneside College.