Byker Bank, Old Hawk Inn
Byker Bank, Old Hawk Inn
HER Number
15848
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Byker Bank, Old Hawk Inn
Place
Byker
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
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
Small pub with a front bar and a back tap room. A new frontage was added in 1873. It belonged to Sandyford Stone Brewery. It lost its licence in 1905 when it was being leased by Arrol's. The landlord made £10 a week and Arrol's thought it should be over £15. The pub did not have decent toilet facilities. The Oswald architectural practice drew up plans to improve and enlarge the pub but this never happened. When the licence was lost the pub reverted to being a beerhouse. It later became a rag shop.
Easting
426370
Northing
564420
Grid Reference
NZ426370564420
Sources
Brian Bennison, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 31; Lynn F Pearson, 1989, The Northumbrian Pub - an architectural history, p 34