Byker, Byker Bank, New Hawk Inn

HER Number:
10562

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Byker, Byker Bank, New Hawk Inn

Place:
Byker

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Inn

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Built in 1881 to replace the Old Hawk Inn on the opposite side of the street, which had become Freddie Shepherd's Rag Shop. The New Hawk was a free house which sold Wilkinson's beers from the Pine Street Brewery off Scotswood Road. In the 1930s Tommy Watson, who fought for the world boxing title in New York, was manager. The upstairs meeting room of the pub was used as his gym.

Easting:
2635

Northing:
6444

Grid Reference:
NZ26356444

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Newcastle City Council, Planning Division, Development Department, "Ouseburn Heritage", volume 1, page 44; Brian Bennison, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 31