Jackson Street, Ropery
Jackson Street, Ropery
HER Number
5618
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Jackson Street, Ropery
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Rope Manufacturing Site
Site Type: Specific
Ropery
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Shown on Oliver's map of 1830. This may have been later turned into a sandmill and worked by successive generations of the Brown family between 1833-1890- Edward Brown, his son Selby Brown and then Edward's grandson Jospeh Brown. The assumed north wall of the ropery/mill still stands on Jackson Street.
Easting
425600
Northing
563100
Grid Reference
NZ425600563100
Sources
<< HER 5618 >> T. Oliver, 1830, Plan of Newcastle and Gateshead; Pers Comm Brian Proctor Felling History Society 11th March 2017; Northern Evening Chronicle, 21/02/1945 p6