East Rainton, Sutheran's Yard

HER Number:
15727

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
East Rainton, Sutheran's Yard

Place:
East Rainton

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Brewing and Malting Site

Site Type: Specific:
Brewery

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Tom Sutheran manufactured mineral water and bottled beer and stout. His bottling factory was in Sutheran's Yard. It employed 4 men inside and 2 cartmen who delivered as far away as Consett and Stanley. The renovated house behind Brown Gables is now called Sutheran House after the yard. In the 1920s this was occupied by the Crake family. There were cottages to the west. One of them was occupied by the Mallison family.

Easting:
33569

Northing:
47934

Grid Reference:
NZ3356947934

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
East Rainton Women's Institute, no date, History of East Rainton (typescript); Ordnance Survey First Edition Map 1858; Robert Hope, no date, Recollections of Life in the Village of East Rainton in the 1920s