Furniture Factory

HER Number

4318

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Furniture Factory

Place

Spital Tongues

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Wood Processing Site

Site Type: Specific

Furniture Factory

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

This was Robson's Furniture Factory. The company had a shop in Northumberland Street. The factory opened on the site of Spital Tongues ropery (HER 4089) in the 1880s. Furniture for churches, offices, domestic use and ships (Mauretania and Berengaria) was made here. Ancrum Street, Oxnam Terrace and Dunns Terrace are named after border towns from which many of Robson's employees came from.

Easting

423680

Northing

565630

Grid Reference

NZ423680565630

Sources

<< HER 4318 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97, NE; O. Taylor, 1993, Bygone Spital Tongues; North of England Civic Trust, February 2009, Spital Tongues, Newcastle upon Tyne - Suggested Conservation Area Scoping Study, Draft Report, p 11