Newbottle, Harles Yard, New Pottery

HER Number:
13170

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Newbottle, Harles Yard, New Pottery

Place:
Newbottle

Map Sheet:
NZ35SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Pottery Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific:
Pottery Works

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
From 1664 to 1877 George Harle, of Portsea, Hampshire, was an earthenware manufacture at the New Pottery. He had moved to Sunderland before 1839 and married Elizabeth Wheldon of Dubmire and Newbottle. He worked as a potter and became an independent flower and chimney pot manufacturer by 1851. The New Pottery produced coarse ware. It was a small business, operating from a yard (Harles Yard) behind the Sun Inn. George Harle died on 17 June 1878.

Easting:
3361

Northing:
5142

Grid Reference:
NZ33615142

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Andrew D. Fletcher, 2005 (revised March 2008), The Newbottle Potteries