Byker, Byker Bank, Bay Horse Public House

HER Number:
15851

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Byker, Byker Bank, Bay Horse Public House

Place:
Byker

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Licensed Premises

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Bought by White & Co, wine merchants for £4000. Extended in 1936. White & Co. went into voluntary liquidation in the late 1930s. The pub was bought by Fenwick & Co. of Sunderland. It operated on a beer and wine licence until 1950. It became a Flower's pub and then Whitbread. The Bay Horse was knocked down along with the former Imperial Picture Hall to make way for the Shields Road bypass.

Easting:
265

Northing:
646

Grid Reference:
NZ265646

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Brian Bennison, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 31