Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Gone by end of 19th century.
Site Type: Broad
Engineering Industry Site
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. The foundry appears to have been removed and replaced by other buildings by the end of the 19th century.
Site Name
High Street, Hymer's Old Foundry
Site Type: Specific
Foundry
HER Number
5594
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 5594 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1850; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2009, West Central Gateshead - Archaeological Assessment
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
YEAR2
2015
English, British
Class
Water Supply and Drainage
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
05
District
Gateshead
Easting
425930
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
562910
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Gateshead
Description
Shown on 18th century plan.
Site Type: Broad
Water Storage Site
SITEDESC
Shown on 18th century plan.
Site Name
Gateshead, Reservoirs
Site Type: Specific
Reservoir
HER Number
5593
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 5593 >> Plan - ref. C188
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
05
District
Gateshead
Easting
425030
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563450
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Gateshead
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition.
Site Type: Broad
Industrial Building
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Pipewellgate, Grease Works
Site Type: Specific
Grease Works
HER Number
5592
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 5592 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1890
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
05
District
Gateshead
Easting
427210
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563050
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Gateshead
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. After the chemical works went out of use in 1932 the 2 million ton spoil heap was utilised for agricultural purposes. The recovered land became East Gateshead Riverside Park in 1966.
Site Type: Broad
Waste Disposal Site
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. After the chemical works went out of use in 1932 the 2 million ton spoil heap was utilised for agricultural purposes. The recovered land became East Gateshead Riverside Park in 1966.
Site Name
Friar's Goose, Great Heap
Site Type: Specific
Waste Disposal Site
HER Number
5591
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 5591 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1890
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
05
District
Gateshead
Easting
425030
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563400
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Gateshead
Description
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Type: Broad
Industrial Building
SITEDESC
Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Pipewellgate, Gut Manufactory
Site Type: Specific
Works
HER Number
5590
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 5590 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1850
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
05
District
Gateshead
Easting
425640
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563460
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Elizabethan 1558 to 1603
Place
Gateshead
Description
Shown on Thompson's plan of 1746. Large building at the south end of Oakwellgate, known as Palace Place when sold in 1586. Lumley (1932) says the house stood at the southern extremity of Oakwellgate until quite recently. "A dismal old stone house, black with smoke and age and having a crudely carved head projecting from one of the gable ends" [now in the Public Library]. "This miserable looking place was known as King John's Palace, owing to the traditional belief that this monarch slept here while visiting Newcastle". Boyle dismissed this tradition, and said that the house may have been on the site of an old manor-house of the Bishop, as it adjoined the episcopal domains and probably owed its name to the fact that it was once called "Palace Green". In the seventeenth century it was part of the residence of the Gateshead Coles.
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Shown on Thompson's plan of 1746. Large building at the south end of Oakwellgate, known as Palace Place when sold in 1586. Lumley (1932) says the house stood at the southern extremity of Oakwellgate until quite recently. "A dismal old stone house, black with smoke and age and having a crudely carved head projecting from one of the gable ends" [now in the Public Library]. "This miserable looking place was known as King John's Palace, owing to the traditional belief that this monarch slept here while visiting Newcastle". Boyle dismissed this tradition, and said that the house may have been on the site of an old manor-house of the Bishop, as it adjoined the episcopal domains and probably owed its name to the fact that it was once called "Palace Green". In the seventeenth century it was part of the residence of the Gateshead Coles.
Site Name
King John's Palace, Oakwellgate
Site Type: Specific
House
HER Number
5589
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 5589 >> Isaac Thompson, 1746, Plan of Gateshead; D. Lumley, 1932, The Story of Gateshead Town, p 54
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
05
District
Gateshead
Easting
426340
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563230
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Gateshead
Description
Shown on 18th century plan.
SITEASS
Lime kiln - stone or brick structure for calcining brooken limestone to make powdered quicklime for agricultural, construction and industrial uses. Limestone was broken up and fed into the top of the kiln onto a charcoal fire. After burning, the powdered lime was raked out through an opening at the front of the kiln. By the early C20 bulk production using machinery for crushing the stone and burning it in Hoffman kilns saw the demise of lime kilns (William Jones, 1996, Dictionary of Industrial Archaeology, AB Searle, 1935, Limestone and its products, R. Williams, 1990, Lime kilns and limeburning, Shire Publications).
Site Type: Broad
Chemical Industry Site
SITEDESC
Shown on 18th century plan.
Site Name
Park Lane, Lime Kiln
Site Type: Specific
Lime Kiln
HER Number
5588
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 5588 >> Isaac Thompson, 1746, Plan of Gateshead
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
05
District
Gateshead
Easting
424930
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563350
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Gateshead
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition.
Site Type: Broad
Fuel Production Site
SITEDESC
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map.
Site Name
Oil and Bitmo Works, Pipewellgate
Site Type: Specific
Oil Refinery
HER Number
5587
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 5587 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898
SURVIVAL
None
YEAR1
2004
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
05
District
Gateshead
Easting
425830
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
562610
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Place
Gateshead
Description
Little is known about the medieval pottery industry in Gateshead, but it seems possible that small scale production was underway by the 14th century, clay being brought from clay pits in the Heworth area (HER 722) to kilns in town. A kiln was found on the site of the former Ritz Cinema on the High Street during the construction of Gateshead Highway.
Site Type: Broad
Pottery Manufacturing Site
SITEDESC
Little is known about the medieval pottery industry in Gateshead, but it seems possible that small scale production was underway by the 14th century, clay being brought from clay pits in the Heworth area (HER 722) to kilns in town. A kiln was found on the site of the former Ritz Cinema on the High Street during the construction of Gateshead Highway. Dated C14th.
Site Name
Gateshead, medieval pottery kiln
Site Type: Specific
Pottery Kiln
HER Number
5586
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 5586 >> F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A History of Gateshead, p 62