Byker, Headlam Street, Stag's Head Inn

HER Number:
10622

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Byker, Headlam Street, Stag's Head 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:
Extant Building

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Now in the midst of the Byker Wall estate. Known as Pickering's after Edward Pickering, owner and manager from the 1880s to 1914. He was followed by John Pickering. In 1938 Robert Deuchar bought the pub for £19,500. He drew up plans for a rebuild in 1949. It was refitted in 1981. Retained within the Byker Redevelopment.

Easting:
2724

Northing:
6460

Grid Reference:
NZ27246460

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Brian Bennison, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 35; North East Civic Trust, 2005, A Byker Future - The Conservation Plan for The Byker Redevelopment