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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'.


24


64


NZ2464



Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 11

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