Douglas Terrace, Merry Monarch Public House

HER Number

10714

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Douglas Terrace, Merry Monarch Public House

Place

Elswick

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Eating and Drinking Establishment

Site Type: Specific

Public House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Started as a beer house and then graduated to a public house in 1879 with a licence transferred from the Steamboat in St Mary's St and closed in 1969.

Easting

423630

Northing

564460

Grid Reference

NZ423630564460

Sources

Shown on Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Bennison, B, 1998, Lost Weekends, A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 3, The West