Quayside, Stone Cellars Public House
Quayside, Stone Cellars Public House
HER Number
15842
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Quayside, Stone Cellars Public House
Place
Ouseburn
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
Documentary Evidence
Description
Had a brewery until the 1840s. The pub was located between the old wooden dead-house and the River Police Station. It was used for inquests held on bodies found in the River Tyne. It closed in 1893. It had a parlour which was 'the perfect ideal of the paradise of a shore-going captain of the old school; with its low ceiling, and its long latticed window, like those you see in the state cabins of the old high-pooped East Indiamen'.
Easting
426520
Northing
564060
Grid Reference
NZ426520564060
Sources
Brian Bennison, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 28; drawing by Paul Brown in the Friday Book of North Country Sketches, 1934