Paradise Cement Works

HER Number

4308

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Paradise Cement Works

Place

Scotswood

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Cement Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific

Cement Works

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Paradise Cement Works is marked as ‘Disused’ on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan and is not shown on the 1st edition, so was working between 1858 and 1895. These works replaced the earlier Paradise Color Works.

Easting

421380

Northing

563460

Grid Reference

NZ421380563460

Sources

<< HER 4308 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 97, NW