Gateshead, Saltmeadows, Whale Fishery Company

HER Number:
15925

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Saltmeadows, Whale Fishery Company

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Animal Product Site

Site Type: Specific:
Whaling Station

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18-C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
First whale factory in the north-east for the Newcastle Whale Fishery Company on land leased from Newcastle Corporation. June 1752 to 1831. The site was later leased by soap and alkali manufacturers Thomas Doubleday and Anthony Easterby in 1812. Whale oil was stored in lead-lined tanks after being prepared. One such site was excavated at Rotherhithe in London.

Easting:
26763

Northing:
63546

Grid Reference:
NZ2676363546

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Tony Barrow, 2001, The Whaling Trade of North-east England 1750-1850, pp 67-68; Minutes of the Newcastle Common Council, March 1828 and September 1831 (Tyne and Wear Archives)