Javel Groupe, brewery

HER Number:
10871

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Javel Groupe, brewery

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Food and Drink Industry Site

Site Type: Specific:
Brewery

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A 1782 directory lists Clapham & King as brewers in Javal Group. By the late 1780s this had become Clapham & Co. or Anthony Clapham & Co. Baillie's directory of 1801 lists 'the brewery of Messrs Clapham & Co. in the Close', at which time it is described as 'well-accustomed'. However it disappeared around 1805.

Easting:
425070

Northing:
563730

Grid Reference:
NZ425070563730

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Brian Bennison, 2000, Tyneside's Most Respectable Breweries of 1801, Archaeologia Aeliana, Series 5, Vol. XXVIII, p 216; J. Baillie, 1801, Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tyne and its Vicinity, p 530