Percy Street, Three Bull's Heads Public House
Percy Street, Three Bull's Heads Public House
HER Number
              10745
          District
              Newcastle
          Site Name
              Percy Street, Three Bull's Heads Public House
          Place
              Newcastle
          Map Sheet
              NZ26SW
          Class
              Commercial
          Site Type: Broad
              Eating and Drinking Establishment
          Site Type: Specific
              Public House
          General Period
              POST MEDIEVAL
          Specific Period
              Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
          Form of Evidence
              Demolished Building
          Description
              Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Behind the Three Bulls' Heads there was the Percy Street Brewery, which was run by Henry Rudolphus Ritzema from 1850 to 1853. The brewery was taken over by George Southern for a short time. The brewery, which had a two-horse-power steam engine, could produce 35 half barrels per brewing. In 1984 Bass owned the Three Bulls Heads. They wanted to extend the pub into the amusement arcade next door but the late eighteenth century brickwork of the pub was found to be unsafe and had to be demolished. What is there now is a complete rebuild.
          Easting
              424610
          Northing
              564590
          Grid Reference
              NZ424610564590
    Sources
              Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Brian Bennison, 1995, Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne From 1850 to the present day, p 51; Brian Bennison, 1996, Heady Days - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 1, The Central Area, p 8