Melbourne Street, malt house

HER Number:
10595

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Melbourne Street, malt house

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Food and Drink Industry Site

Site Type: Specific:
Malt House

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. This was the best known business of the Potter family - William Potter and Addison Langhorn Potter ran a brewery at Forth Banks from 1787 (HER 4895). The Melbourne Street Maltings were said to be the finest of its kind, housed in an imposing seven storey building. Newcastle Breweries bought it in 1918.

Easting:
425500

Northing:
564300

Grid Reference:
NZ425500564300

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Shown on Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Brian Bennison, 2000, Tyneside's Most Respectable Breweries of 1801, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol. XXVIII, p 219