Sutheran's Yard

HER Number

15727

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sutheran's Yard

Place

East Rainton

Map Sheet

NZ34NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Food and Drink Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Brewery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Tom Sutheran manufactured mineral water and bottled beer and stout. His bottling factory was in Sutheran's Yard. It employed 4 men inside and 2 cartmen who delivered as far away as Consett and Stanley. The renovated house behind Brown Gables is now called Sutheran House after the yard. In the 1920s this was occupied by the Crake family. There were cottages to the west. One of them was occupied by the Mallison family.

Easting

433569

Northing

547934

Grid Reference

NZ433569547934

Sources

East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript); Ordnance Survey First Edition Map 1858; Robert Hope, no date, Recollections of Life in the Village of East Rainton in the 1920s