Pilgrim Street, brewery

HER Number

10870

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Pilgrim Street, brewery

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Food and Drink Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Brewery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Baillie's 1801 directory mentions 'an extensive brewery nigh Pilgrim Street Gate'. Directory entries from 1787 to 1795 list the brewery of John Graham Clarke Esq, 'merchant and brewer'.

Easting

424900

Northing

564400

Grid Reference

NZ424900564400

Sources

Brian Bennison, 2000, Tyneside's Most Respectable Breweries of 1801, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol. XXVIII, p 216; J. Baillie, 1801, Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and its Vicinity, p 530