Forth Banks Brewery
Forth Banks Brewery
HER Number
4895
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Forth Banks Brewery
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Food and Drink Industry Site
Site Type: Specific
Brewery
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
William Potter & Co. were 'beer and porter brewers' here from 1787. Baillie's directory of 1801 lists the business as Messrs Potter, Langhorn & Co. in Skinnergate. In 1818 they also had a brewery at Swalwell with Robert Jobling and Cresswell Jobling, trustees of Margaret Jobling and Addison Langhorn Potter. William Potter and Addison Langhorn Potter ran the business from then on. Shown on Oliver 1831. The last directory entry for the Newcastle Brewery is 1844. A 'Malthouse' is still shown on the site on OS 1879 25" edition. Gone by at least 1940.
Easting
424520
Northing
563600
Grid Reference
NZ424520563600
Sources
<< HER 4895 >> Oliver, 1831
1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1879, 25 inch scale; Brian Bennison, 2000, Tyneside's Most Respectable Breweries of 1801, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol. XXVIII, pp 218-219
1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1879, 25 inch scale; Brian Bennison, 2000, Tyneside's Most Respectable Breweries of 1801, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol. XXVIII, pp 218-219