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

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