Tyne and Wear HER(5582): Upper Steenbergs - Details
5582
Newcastle
Upper Steenbergs
Ouseburn
NZ26SE
Industrial
Food and Drink Industry Site
Abattoir
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Extant Building
The large scale warehouses of this yard still dominate Lime Street. There was a state-of-the-art slaughterhouse built by the Co-operative Society. Animals brought into the cattle sanatorium at Lower Steenberg's Yard were slaughtered here or sent to the cattle market. The waste products were flushed into the Ouseburn. There was also a boot making works/shoe repairers, also built by the Newcastle Cooperative Society. Now converted into residential flats, workshops, Ouseburn Partnership Office and an indoor riding ring for Stepney Bank Stables. The southern most building was bombed during the War.
426170
564530
NZ426170564530
<< HER 5582 >> Pers. Comm. M. Greatbatch, 2004, Ouseburn Heritage Officer