Uncoloured postcard showing a view of the former bandstand in Marine Park, South Shields. Ink: [personal message] [address in Nottingham supplied]. Marine Park, South Shields, was designed by Matthew Hall, the borough surveyor, and laid out by John Peebles, the head gardener, from 1886; it was opened in 1890. The bandstand, by Macfarlane of Glasgow, was erected in 1904, subsequently demolished, and replaced in replica after 2007 with HLF funding