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

Lats/Lons:

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