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The Shakespeare Hotel was situated at 34 Linthorpe Road. This pub is now used as an amusement arcade.

Source: David Banks

It’s now the “HiFi Vintage” store, repairing and restoring vintage audio equipment, and selling record players, reel-to-reel tape decks and cassette decks.

Kathy Ludlow (August 2022)

The publican in 1887 was Robert Boyd, previously England's champion oarsman / sculler in the 1870s.

Therese Lynch (June 2023)

The mid-19thC building, known to locals as "The Shaky", which was one of Middlesbrough's oldest pubs, has grade-II listed status and an application has been made under that status for alterations to internal walls of the upper floors to convert into flats.

Kathryn Ludlow (January 2026)

Listed building details:

G.V. II. Public house, mid-C19, with 1911 frontage by Kitching and Lee (Middlesbrough). Red brick with white terracotta bands and dressings; polychrome faience-faced ground floor. Welsh slate roof, concealed by parapet. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Panelled double doors and mullioned overlight, at left, in moulded surround under hoodmould with foliate drops. Similar surrounds to mullioned-and-transomed ground-floor windows, the middle wider; both with renewed glazing. Doorway and right end window each has square keystone with lifebelt motif. Similar motif in panel under middle window. Continuous frieze and cornice, raised at ends to form tympana over door and window, with applied lettering: "THE SHAKESPEARE". Central first-floor oriel window, with foliate enriched undersailing. Double-keyed moulded window surrounds, holding sashes, except for renewed fixed centre light of oriel. Top entablature and parapet, with balustraded panels at ends and central shaped false gable, with relief portrait of William Shakespeare in roundel under hoodmould. Similar applied lettering in tympanum of open pediment. Late C19 and C20 rear extensions are not of special interest.

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