Turk's Head Brewery

HER Number

10879

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Turk's Head Brewery

Place

Gateshead

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

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

Ran by Tucker's. Operated from the 1770s to the 1950s.

Easting

425000

Northing

563000

Grid Reference

NZ425000563000

Sources

Brian Bennison, 2000, Tyneside's Most Respectable Breweries of 1801, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol. XXVIII, p 220