Lime Street Pottery

HER Number:
5456

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Lime Street Pottery

Place:
Ouseburn

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Pottery Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific:
Pottery Works

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map of 1898. Annotated as "Lime Street Pottery" on a 1:500 map of same date. The pottery, at 5 Lime Street, is listed as being run by J.R. Forster, earthenware manufacturer in Ward's Directory of 1892. By the 1920s there was a Roman Catholic Church on this site, with a boy's club, gym and boxing ring. Although the site is cleared, sandstone retaining walls survive in the bank to the rear.

Easting:
426240

Northing:
564360

Grid Reference:
NZ426240564360

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5456 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898