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Horatio Street, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE1 2PE

A nonconformist chapel dedicated to resident and visiting sailors, built in 1875, now offices. There is another photo and full description here Image

Photographed from the front of the new Jury's Inn on the Gateshead river bank. Behind Sailor's Bethel with its short pointed spire Image is Allan House (built 1908), refurbished for Hotel du Vin Image Tom Collins House, to its right, is part of the Byker Wall development and is described here Image

Originally a non-conformist sailors' chapel, it replaced an earlier building in 1877. A Sunday School was added at the rear in 1900. The building became a Danish Church after WWII, but closed in 1949. It was restored to use as offices in 1991.

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Converted in 2007-8 from the Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Company offices of 1908 (commonly known as Allan House). Now Hotel du Vin, hotel, restaurant and bistro. A modern wing, visible to the right, was added to the rear, off Ouse Street. Newcastle's Victoria Tunnel runs beneath the hotel building. There is an entrance behind from Ouse Street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Tunnel_%28Newcastle%29 On the left, are the modern apartments at Lime Square with the edge of the former red-brick electricity substation just in front, now converted to offices. The corner of the hotel wall on Ouse Street carries a Newcastle City Council commemorative plaque to the Craig family erected in 2009. The Craigs worked as watermen along the riverside in the mid C19th and came to be described in a newspaper of the time as 'the pluckiest family of lifesavers in the kingdom'. Between them they rescued about 25 people from drowning in the Rivers Tyne and Ouseburn. James Craig was known as the 'Ouseburn hero' and personally saved around 20 people. He carried out a double rescue in 1869 of both a 3 year old child and a man. He won a Royal Humane Society silver award in 1882 when, aged 53, he jumped 18 feett from a window in his home, and scaled two high walls, to save a man from drowning. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Tyne+heroes+to+be+honoured+at+last%3B+Group+agrees+to+have+plaque+put...-a0182020538

Sailors Bethel Horatio Street, replacing an earlier building on Manor Chare, this non conformist sailors chapel, built at a cost of £2,000 to the designs of Thomas Oliver Junior, was opened 12th April 1877. The Sunday School to the rear was added in 1900. It became a Danish Church after World War II, finally closing in 1949. Restored to use as offices in 1991.

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