Newburn, Spencer's Steel Works, Rolling Mill

HER Number:
4232

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newburn, Spencer's Steel Works, Rolling Mill

Place:
Newburn

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Metal Industry Site

Site Type: Specific:
Rolling Mill

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
This was the Rolling Mill for Spencer's Steel Works (HER ref. 4231). It was built circa 1900 and probably produced the steel plate for the Mauretania in 1904. The works closed in the 1960s but this building survived and was reused.

Easting:
1701

Northing:
6503

Grid Reference:
NZ17016503

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4232 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1899, 6 inch scale, Northumberland, 96, NE I.M. Ayris, & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p.50