Willington Quay, Aluminium Works

HER Number:
5019

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Willington Quay, Aluminium Works

Place:
Willington Quay

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Factory

Site Type: Specific:
Metal Works

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown as 'disused' on second edition OS map. The aluminium factory used the Kurt Netto process to produce aluminium from cryolite used sodium. It was run by the Alliance Aluminium Company in the 1880s. Within two years, the Hall-Heroult process was adapted, which used electricity instead of sodium. In 1907 the Aluminium Corporation started to use this process throughout England. They built a new aluminium factory at Wallsend to replace the previous one.

Easting:
3108

Northing:
6622

Grid Reference:
NZ31086622

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5019 >> 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map, 1898; F. Atkinson, 1980, North East England at Work; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2012, Hadrian Riverside, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear - archaeological assessment