Willington Quay Addison Potter's Firebrick Works

HER Number:
2105

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Willington Quay Addison Potter's Firebrick Works

Place:
Willington Quay

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Pottery Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific:
Fire Clay Works

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
In 1846 Mr Potter, owner of Walbottle Colliery and Firebrick Works, built the Towneley Cokeworks, including 39 beehive coke ovens, at Willington Quay, with the help of Robert Simpson of Towneley Cokeworks near Ryton. Later in the same year Mr Potter began erecting a brickworks alongside the coke ovens. John Hawdon of Blaydon iron foundry supplied the works with a high pressure steam engine of 16 h.p., a grinding mill, a chain driven bucket elevator, a riddle and a pug mill. In 1851 the brick flats at Willington Quay were extended in order to dry retorts, and a joiner's shop was built above the extension. In February 1852 two new brick kilns were built. In the early 1880s the site was turned into lime and cement works.

Easting:
3258

Northing:
6616

Grid Reference:
NZ32586616

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2105 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1864, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 98 P J. Davidson, 1986, The Brickworks of the North East, pp 59-60