Allotment Mill

HER Number

2176

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Allotment Mill

Place

Shiremoor

Map Sheet

NZ37SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Industrial Building

Site Type: Specific

Mill

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Site of the Backworth Colliery granary and feed preparation mill for pit pony fodder. The name "Allotment" came from the multitude of small holdings and farms, many of which came to be owned by the colliery company. The Allotment Mill became the focal point of produce from these farms. The granary was built between 1854 and 1898 probably utilizing stone from the old haulage engine when it was dismantled (HER 1143). The granary survived until at least the late 1960s.

Easting

431460

Northing

570330

Grid Reference

NZ431460570330

Sources

<< HER 2176 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 89, NW; John Elliott and Derek Charlton, 1994, Backworth - An illustrated history of the mines and railways