Gateshead, New Greenwich Foundry

HER Number:
5585

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, New Greenwich Foundry

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Engineering Industry Site

Site Type: Specific:
Foundry

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on Hutton's plan of 1770. This foundry used iron waste brought in as ballast. It was established to the east of Hillgate in 1747 by William Hawks, foreman blacksmith to Sir Ambrose Crowley of Stourbridge, and was called "New Greenwich" after Crowley's old works on the Thames. The works produced spades, shovels, bar iron and steel. William Hawks' son William inherited the works in 1755 and he expanded the works until his death in 1801. In 1774 the works consisted of four rooms, a smith's shop and a mill powered by a water course which ran through the Park Estate. The foundry had a mill (NZ 2608 6386) and a mill pond (NZ 2614 6386). New Greenwich Iron Works is shown on Oliver's plan of 1830. Later expanded into the larger Gateshead Iron Works (HER 5177).

Easting:
2608

Northing:
6395

Grid Reference:
NZ26086395

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5585 >> F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A History of Gateshead, pp 66-67 Charles Hutton, 1770, Plan of Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead T. Oliver, 1830, Plan of Newcastle and Gateshead J. Bailie, 1801, An Impartial History of ... Newcastle upon Tyne