Historic map evidence shows a Marble Works on a site formerly occupied by coke ovens.
Site Type: Broad
Stone Working Site
SITEDESC
Marble works on a site which was previously the site of coke ovens.
Site Name
Gateshead, Marble Works
Site Type: Specific
Stone Working Site
HER Number
4381
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 4381 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3, SE
YEAR1
1998
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Industrial
COMP1
RLF
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
425130
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563540
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Gateshead
Description
Historic map evidence shows a Foundry at this location.
Site Type: Broad
Engineering Industry Site
SITEDESC
Foundry
Site Name
Gateshead, Foundry
Site Type: Specific
Foundry
HER Number
4380
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 4380 >> T.Oliver, 1831, A Perambulatory Survey, in A picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, pp 137-138
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3, SE
YEAR1
1998
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Industrial
COMP1
RLF
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
425040
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563480
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Gateshead
Description
Historic map evidence shows a Manure Works at this location.
Site Type: Broad
Chemical Industry Site
SITEDESC
Manure works
Site Name
Gateshead, Manure Works
Site Type: Specific
Fertilizer Works
HER Number
4379
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 4379 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3, SE
YEAR1
1998
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Industrial
COMP1
RLF
Crossref
3484
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
424980
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563400
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Gateshead
Description
Historic map evidence shows a Foundry on the site of a former colour works (HER ref. 3484).
Site Type: Broad
Engineering Industry Site
SITEDESC
Foundry on the site of a former colour works (SMR 3484).
Site Name
Gateshead, Foundry
Site Type: Specific
Foundry
HER Number
4378
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 4378 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3, SE
YEAR1
1998
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Industrial
COMP1
RLF
Crossref
4379
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
425020
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563440
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Gateshead
Description
Gas Works marked on Oliver 1832 map and a building is shown on the same site on the 1844 Oliver map. Later the site becomes used as a manure works. Built in Pipeweelgate by 1819. By 1821 Gateshead's new street lamps were supplied by gas, although oil was still in use in 1830.
SITEASS
Gasholders or gasometers are large vertical cylindrical storage vessels for holding town gas at constant pressure prior to distribution to consumers. The oldest design of gasholder, made from wrought-iron plates dates from an 1824 patent. It telescoped vertically by means of grooved wheels on vertical guide rails. Later design by W. Gadd in 1890. Small gasholders were used in factories and mills which had their own gas manufacturing plant for providing lighting. By the 1870s a typical gas manufacturing works comprised of: a retort house containing rows of retorts where the gas was made, a hydraulic main to provide a water seal to prevent explosive gas blowbacks when a retort was opened, a condensor to cool the gas and allow liquid tar to drain out, an exhauster to draw out the gas from the retorts, a scrubber in which water removed ammonia from the gas, purifiers to remove contaminants, a meter to measure the volume of gas, one or more gasholders, a governor to control the pressure at which gas was distributed to customers, covered storage for coal and coke, a boiler and steam engine to drive the exhauster and a water pump for the scrubber (William Jones, 1996, Dictionary of Industrial Archaeology, EG Stewart, 1958, History of the gas, light and coke co. 1812-1949, T. Williams, 1981, History of the British Gas Industry).
Site Type: Broad
Power Generation Site
SITEDESC
Gas Works marked on Oliver 1832 map and a building is shown on the same site on the 1844 Oliver map. Later the site becomes used as a manure works. Built in Pipewellgate by 1819. By 1821 Gateshead's new street lamps were supplied by gas, although oil was still in use in 1830.
Site Name
Gas Works
Site Type: Specific
Gas Works
HER Number
4377
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 4377 >> T.Oliver, 1831, A Perambulatory Survey, in A picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, pp 137-138
Thomas Oliver, 1844, Plan of The Borough of Newcastle....together with Gateshead
Thomas Oliver, 1831
YEAR1
1998
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Transport
COMP1
RLF
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
425320
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
3
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
NZ 26 SE 373
Northing
563490
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Gateshead
Description
Railway station built on the curving viaduct approach to the High Level Bridge c. 1885-6. Replaced the Greenesfield Station (HER 4374) for passenger traffic. Designed by John Dobson. Site of railway station on the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, opened in 1849, closed in 1965.
Site Type: Broad
Railway Transport Site
SITEDESC
Railway station built on the curving viaduct approach to the High Level Bridge c. 1885-6. Replaced the Greenesfield Station (HER 4374) for passenger traffic. Designed by John Dobson. Site of railway station on the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, opened in 1849, closed in 1965.
Site Name
Gateshead East Railway Station
Site Type: Specific
Railway Station
HER Number
4376
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 4376 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3, SE; K. Hoole, 1985, Railway Stations of the North East; T. Faulkner and A. Greg, 1987, John Dobson Newcastle Architect 1787-1865, p 83
YEAR1
1998
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
RLF
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
425570
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563710
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Gateshead
Description
Historic map evidence shows a Gas Works at this location.
SITEASS
Gasholders or gasometers are large vertical cylindrical storage vessels for holding town gas at constant pressure prior to distribution to consumers. The oldest design of gasholder, made from wrought-iron plates dates from an 1824 patent. It telescoped vertically by means of grooved wheels on vertical guide rails. Later design by W. Gadd in 1890. Small gasholders were used in factories and mills which had their own gas manufacturing plant for providing lighting. By the 1870s a typical gas manufacturing works comprised of: a retort house containing rows of retorts where the gas was made, a hydraulic main to provide a water seal to prevent explosive gas blowbacks when a retort was opened, a condensor to cool the gas and allow liquid tar to drain out, an exhauster to draw out the gas from the retorts, a scrubber in which water removed ammonia from the gas, purifiers to remove contaminants, a meter to measure the volume of gas, one or more gasholders, a governor to control the pressure at which gas was distributed to customers, covered storage for coal and coke, a boiler and steam engine to drive the exhauster and a water pump for the scrubber (William Jones, 1996, Dictionary of Industrial Archaeology, EG Stewart, 1958, History of the gas, light and coke co. 1812-1949, T. Williams, 1981, History of the British Gas Industry).
Site Type: Broad
Power Generation Site
SITEDESC
Gas Works
Site Name
Gateshead, Gas Works
Site Type: Specific
Gas Works
HER Number
4375
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 4375 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3, SE
YEAR1
1998
English, British
Class
Transport
COMP1
RLF
Crossref
3488
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
425240
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
3
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
NZ 26 SE 373
Northing
563390
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Gateshead
Description
Greenesfield Station was built by George Hudson's Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway Company close to their incline, which linked to Carlisle (HER 3447). They had gained parliamentary powers to build a station and a "high-level" bridge across the Tyne (see HER 4132). The station was completed by June 1844 to a design by architect George Townsend Andrews of York. It was designed to impress - the principal range of buildings was 108m long with an Ionic colonnaded façade to the north. At the east end was a two-storied hotel. The platform was paved with slabs of York stone and was accessed via a high arched doorway west of the hotel. This opened into a train shed, built of squared ashlar with Ionic pilasters and wrought iron roof trusses and columns made by Hawks Crawshay. The lower courses of the southern and eastern walls still survived in 2001. The line was opened publicly on 18th June 1844 with the arrival of a train from Euston carrying the Hon. H.T. Liddell and other dignitaries. The journey had taken 8 hours and 11 minutes. Greenesfield Station closed to passenger traffic in August 1850 when the Central Station in Newcastle was opened. It was converted into railway workshops for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway. The hotel became offices. A new station was built on the curving viaduct approach to the High Level Bridge c. 1885-6.
SITEASS
Recorded in advance of a residential development on the site (Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2001).
Site Type: Broad
Railway Transport Site
SITEDESC
Greenesfield Station was built by George Hudson's Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway Company close to their incline, which linked to Carlisle (HER 3447). They had gained parliamentary powers to build a station and a "high-level" bridge across the Tyne (see HER 4132). The station was completed by June 1844 to a design by architect George Townsend Andrews of York. It was designed to impress - the principal range of buildings was 108m long with an Ionic colonnaded façade to the north. At the east end was a two-storied hotel. The platform was paved with slabs of York stone and was accessed via a high arched doorway west of the hotel. This opened into a train shed, built of squared ashlar with Ionic pilasters and wrought iron roof trusses and columns made by Hawks Crawshay. The lower courses of the southern and eastern walls still survived in 2001. The line was opened publicly on 18th June 1844 with the arrival of a train from Euston carrying the Hon. H.T. Liddell and other dignitaries. The journey had taken 8 hours and 11 minutes. Greenesfield Station closed to passenger traffic in August 1850 when the Central Station in Newcastle was opened. It was converted into railway workshops for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway (HER 3488). The hotel became offices. A new station was built on the curving viaduct approach to the High Level Bridge c. 1885-6..
Site Name
Greenesfield, Darlington Junction Railway Station
Site Type: Specific
Railway Station
HER Number
4374
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 4374 >> Thomas Oliver, 1844, Plan of The Borough of Newcastle….together with Gateshead; K. Hoole, 1974, The North East - A History of the Railways of Great Britain, Vol 4, pp 14, 68 and 71; J. Addyman and B. Fawcett, 1999, The High Level Bridge and Newcastle Central Station - 150 years across the Tyne, p 25 and plate 2.2; K. Hoole, 1985, Railway Stations of the North East; Northern Counties Archaeological Services, 2001, Riverview - Greenesfield, Gateshead - Archaeological Desk Based Assessment and Building Recording 2002-3
YEAR1
1998
English, British
Class
Industrial
COMP1
RLF
DAY1
17
District
Gateshead
Easting
426340
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
563200
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Gateshead
Description
A Glass works is marked as disused on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map of the area..
Site Type: Broad
Glassmaking Site
SITEDESC
Glass works, marked as disused on the second edition OS map.
Site Name
Gateshead, Glass Works
Site Type: Specific
Glass Works
HER Number
4373
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 4373 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3, SW
YEAR1
1998
English, British
Class
Transport
COMP1
RLF
COMP2
Claire MacRae
DAY1
17
DAY2
14
District
Gateshead
Easting
426130
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
MONTH1
3
MONTH2
9
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
562950
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Gateshead
Description
Goods Shed. Built between the mid-late 19th century. Still extant in 1970.
Site Type: Broad
Railway Transport Site
SITEDESC
Goods Shed. Built between the mid-late 19th century. Still extant in 1970.
Site Name
Gateshead, Goods Shed
Site Type: Specific
Goods Shed
HER Number
4372
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Sources
<< HER 4372 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Durham, 3, SW; Alan Williams Archaeology, 2009, Former Freight Depot, Gateshead - Archaeological Assessment