Tyne and Wear HER(17393): Elswick, Scotswood Road, The Mechanics' Arms Public House - Details
17393
Newcastle
Elswick, Scotswood Road, The Mechanics' Arms Public House
Elswick
NZ26SW
Commercial
Licensed Premises
Public House
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
The Mechanics' Arms, on the corner of Rendel Street, was purchased by A H Higginbottom for £1300 in 1911 and altered and extended in 1920. It closed in 1977 after a decade of decline during which there was no resident landlord and the premises were systematically vandalised.
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632
NZ226632
Bennison, B, 1998, Lost Weekends, A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Vol 3, The West