Tyne and Wear HER(11077): Bigg Market, Fighting Cocks Inn and Brewery - Details
11077
Newcastle
Bigg Market, Fighting Cocks Inn and Brewery
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Commercial
Inn
Inn
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Documentary Evidence
Roger Heron took over this inn and brewery in the 1840s and brewed there until 1856. On Thursdays a pig market was held near the inn, which was described as "the resort of farmers, pig-jobbers and the like". The inn closed around 1880.
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Brian Bennison, 1995, Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne From 1850 to the present day, p 38