Jack Mason's favourite Watering Hole
Readers have recently contacted me about the “Dolly Peel” on Commercial Road, and why I chose this particular pub as DCI Mason’s favourite lunchtime watering hole. Apart from its close proximity to the South Shields Magistrates Court, it’s Mason’s kind of place. Often frequented by police officers and court officials alike, it sells real ale and serves a good pint. Named after a local fishwife and smuggler whose husband and sons were press ganged into the Royal Navy, today th
