Bigg Market, Fighting Cocks Inn and Brewery

HER Number

11077

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Bigg Market, Fighting Cocks Inn and Brewery

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Inn

Site Type: Specific

Inn

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Roger Heron took over this inn and brewery in the 1840s and brewed there until 1856. On Thursdays a pig market was held near the inn, which was described as "the resort of farmers, pig-jobbers and the like". The inn closed around 1880.

Easting

424700

Northing

564100

Grid Reference

NZ424700564100

Sources

Brian Bennison, 1995, Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne From 1850 to the present day, p 38