Headlam Street, Stag's Head Inn

HER Number

10622

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Headlam Street, Stag's Head Inn

Place

Byker

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Eating and Drinking Establishment

Site Type: Specific

Public House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Now in the midst of the Byker Wall estate. Known as Pickering's after Edward Pickering, owner and manager from the 1880s to 1914. He was followed by John Pickering. In 1938 Robert Deuchar bought the pub for £19,500. He drew up plans for a rebuild in 1949. It was refitted in 1981. Retained within the Byker Redevelopment.

Easting

427240

Northing

564600

Grid Reference

NZ427240564600

Sources

Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Brian Bennison, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 35; North East Civic Trust, 2005, A Byker Future - The Conservation Plan for The Byker Redevelopment