Gateshead, Coulthards Lane, canvas manufactory

HER Number:
16482

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Coulthards Lane, canvas manufactory

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Textile Mill

Site Type: Specific:
Canvas Works

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Canvas manufactory shown on the first Edition Ordance Survey Plan, 1858 (not shown on 1850 map). Brick walls and the remains of a sandstone building (part of the canvas works) were excavated during a watching brief on the site in 2011. A sandstone block plith was found in an area marked 'engine' on the 1858 map. It may have been a support or base for a piece of machinery. The canvas works appears to have been independent of the businesses that surrounded it. It had a western and a northern boundary wall that enclosed a yard but also separated it from the Ellison Glass Works.

Easting:
2577

Northing:
6340

Grid Reference:
NZ25776340

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Tyne and Wear Museums Archaeology, 2011, Vacant land at Coulthard's Lane, Gateshead - Archaeological Watching Brief