Upper Steenbergs

HER Number:
5582

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Upper Steenbergs

Place:
Ouseburn

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Food and Drink Industry Site

Site Type: Specific:
Abattoir

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
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.

Easting:
426170

Northing:
564530

Grid Reference:
NZ426170564530

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5582 >> Pers. Comm. M. Greatbatch, 2004, Ouseburn Heritage Officer