Royal Quays Marina

Royal Quays is an area of North Shields, North Tyneside, England. It is on the site of former Albert Edward Dock and contains the pre-existing North Shields International Ferry Terminal.
Since 1990 the area was re-branded Royal Quays and redeveloped with housing, a shopping centre, a water park known as Wet n Wild, and other retail outlets.





July 2014




Aaccumulator Tower.

Hydraulic accumulator tower. Used hydraulic power to open the lock gates. 1882 for Tyne Improvement Commissioners. Engineers Ure and Messent. Rock-faced sanstone with quoins, ashlar plinth coping and dressings. Welsh slate roof. Two high storeys.

Partly-glazed door under arch. Similar arches to windows. Pyramidal roof with railed lookout on top and gable above star-patterned panels, said to have contained clock faces.

Interior - high quality sandstone ashlar; iron stair to machinery; hydraulic machinery. The only surviving example on the Tyne of hydraulic machinery, first developed at Newcastle by William Armstrong in the 1840s.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.















Albert Edward Dock, locks and lock gates.

Lock walls and gates. 1882 for Tyne Improvement Commissioners by Ure and Messent. Walls sandstone ashlar; iron gates. Four lock walls with curved nosing at entrance to dock; curved recesses for gate machinery. Western lock has two pairs of gates 25m apart. The eastern lock has two pairs only 4m apart. The Coble Dene Dock was renamed after its opening by Prince Albert Edward.

Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines.



































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