Wellington Street, Hodgson Arms Public House
Wellington Street, Hodgson Arms Public House
HER Number
10694
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Wellington Street, Hodgson Arms Public House
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
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
Documentary Evidence
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Closed 1995. At the turn of the century it had a bar and two sitting room with a side entrance on Oakes Place and a back door in Pitt Lane. It had been on the brink of closure in 1937, but was allowed to be kept open on condition that it was modernised.
Easting
424090
Northing
564400
Grid Reference
NZ424090564400
Sources
Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Bennison, B, 1998, Lost Weekends, A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 3, The West