Gateshead, Gas Works

HER Number:
4377

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Gas Works

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Coal Gas Structure

Site Type: Specific:
Gas Works

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Gas Works marked on Oliver 1832 map and a building is shown on the same site on the 1844 Oliver map. Later the site becomes used as a manure works. Built in Pipeweelgate by 1819. By 1821 Gateshead's new street lamps were supplied by gas, although oil was still in use in 1830.

Easting:
2502

Northing:
6344

Grid Reference:
NZ25026344

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4377 >> T.Oliver, 1831, A Perambulatory Survey, in A picture of Newcastle upon Tyne, pp 137-138 Thomas Oliver, 1844, Plan of The Borough of Newcastle....together with Gateshead Thomas Oliver, 1831