Barrack Road, Windsor Hotel PH (General Moore)

HER Number

10752

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Barrack Road, Windsor Hotel PH (General Moore)

Place

Newcastle

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. Higginbottom's Windsor Castle referred to by locals as the 'Barrel' disappeared from Barrack Road in 1908. Until 1888 it had been the Sir John Moore, after the British general killed by Napoleonic troops in Spain. In 1870 the pub went on sale as the General Moore.

Easting

424050

Northing

564580

Grid Reference

NZ424050564580

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