Spital Tongues, Furniture Factory

HER Number:
4318

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Spital Tongues, Furniture Factory

Place:
Spital Tongues

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Timber Product Site

Site Type: Specific:
Furniture Factory

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
This was Robson's Furniture Factory. The company had a shop in Northumberland Street. The factory opened on the site of Spital Tongues ropery (HER 4089) in the 1880s. Furniture for churches, offices, domestic use and ships (Mauretania and Berengaria) was made here. Ancrum Street, Oxnam Terrace and Dunns Terrace are named after border towns from which many of Robson's employees came from.

Easting:
2368

Northing:
6563

Grid Reference:
NZ23686563

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4318 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97, NE; O. Taylor, 1993, Bygone Spital Tongues; North of England Civic Trust, February 2009, Spital Tongues, Newcastle upon Tyne - Suggested Conservation Area Scoping Study, Draft Report, p 11