Tyne and Wear HER(11080): Elswick, Scotswood Road, Crooked Billet Public House - Details
11080
Newcastle
Elswick, Scotswood Road, Crooked Billet Public House
Elswick
NZ26SW
Commercial
Licensed Premises
Public House
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Richard Major was licensee and brewer of the Crooked Billet in Kirton Terrace, Elswick in the early 1860s. Around 1874 Robert Johnson took over. The pub was put up for auction in 1896 and was advertised as covering 400 square yards with a large frontage onto Scotswood Road. At the rear was "a substantial building, formerly a brewery but now used as a cellar, coach-house, two-stalled stable and joiner's workshop". It sold for £15,800. James Deuchar rebuilt it. It finally closed in 1984.
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Brian Bennison, 1995, Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne From 1850 to the present day, p 40