Tyne and Wear HER(15709): Newcastle, Westgate Road, cock fighting pit - Details
15709
Newcastle
Newcastle, Westgate Road, cock fighting pit
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Recreational
Baiting Place
Cockpit
Post Medieval
C17
Documentary Evidence
J. Collingwood Bruce wrote in 1863 that a cock pit had flourished in Newcastle's Westgate 'even during the Commonwealth, when all public amusements were regularly interdicted'.
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Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 11