Upper Steenbergs

Upper Steenbergs

HER Number
5582
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Upper Steenbergs
Place
Ouseburn
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Food and Drink Industry Site
Site Type: Specific
Abattoir
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
The large scale warehouses of this yard still dominate Lime Street. There was a state-of-the-art slaughterhouse built by the Co-operative Society. Animals brought into the cattle sanatorium at Lower Steenberg's Yard were slaughtered here or sent to the cattle market. The waste products were flushed into the Ouseburn. There was also a boot making works/shoe repairers, also built by the Newcastle Cooperative Society. Now converted into residential flats, workshops, Ouseburn Partnership Office and an indoor riding ring for Stepney Bank Stables. The southern most building was bombed during the War.
Easting
426170
Northing
564530
Grid Reference
NZ426170564530
Sources
<< HER 5582 >> Pers. Comm. M. Greatbatch, 2004, Ouseburn Heritage Officer