Newcastle, Grindon Chare, Blue Bull Public House

HER Number:
11204

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Grindon Chare, Blue Bull Public House

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Licensed Premises

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In the late 1840s Mrs Pickering was producing 14 half-barrels per brewing. The public house was advertised in the early 1850s with a brewery and two corn lofts under the ownership of Bells, Robson & Co and the Tyne Brewery Co, before passing to William Younger of Edinburgh. In 1891 it became the property of W.B. Reid. It closed in 1904.

Easting:
252

Northing:
638

Grid Reference:
NZ252638

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Brian Bennison, 1995, Brewers and Bottlers of Newcastle upon Tyne From 1850 to the present day, p 74-5