Tyne and Wear HER(10595): Melbourne Street, malt house - Details
10595
Newcastle
Melbourne Street, malt house
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Industrial
Food and Drink Industry Site
Malt House
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Documentary Evidence
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. This was the best known business of the Potter family - William Potter and Addison Langhorn Potter ran a brewery at Forth Banks from 1787 (HER 4895). The Melbourne Street Maltings were said to be the finest of its kind, housed in an imposing seven storey building. Newcastle Breweries bought it in 1918.
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Shown on Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Brian Bennison, 2000, Tyneside's Most Respectable Breweries of 1801, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol. XXVIII, p 219