Let’s raise a toast to a South Shields pub in the news as we salute the New Crown Hotel.
It tempted us into looking in the Gazette’s archives for other views from the pub’s past - and we found loads!
Perhaps you were there when the pub held a Zumba fundraising event - or when an angling club held its trophy night there in 1973.
We’ve also got scenes from Storm Arwen’s effects in 2021 and plenty more besides, but why not find out for yourselves by taking a look through our photo memories.
1. Success in 2026
The New Crown General Manager Stuart Parker with a tray of drinks as they celebrated their most successful Great North Run sales ever. | sg
2. Football fever at the New Crown
Derek Pinkney from South Shields and his Norwegian wife Hanne usually live in Trondheim but they came over to stay with relatives and watched the England-Norway World Cup quarter final at the New Crown pub earlier this year. | sg
3. Running back to 2021
New Crown manager Meggie Lowe and customers Andy Stringer and Ben Roach celebrated the success of Great North Run Day in 2021. | sg
4. The aftermath in 2021
Look at the scene in South Shields showing the Storm Arwen aftermath by the New Crown Hotel.