Northumberland Street, Oak Leaf Public House

HER Number

10726

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Northumberland Street, Oak Leaf 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. George Thomas Moat was licensee of the Oak Leaf Inn and its brewery from the mid 1840s. Elizabeth Moat took over around 1871. The brewery had a new steam engine and two dray horses. Mrs Moat brewed until 1877. It was demolished in 1913 in order to extend Fenwicks (HER 9917).

Easting

424880

Northing

564530

Grid Reference

NZ424880564530

Sources

Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Brian Bennison, 1995, Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne From 1850 to the present day, p 41; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 1, The Central Area, p 11