Uncoloured postcard showing a view of Marine Park, South Shields, with tennis courts. Pencil: [personal message] [address in Gorleston-on-Sea 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