Gateshead, Oakwellgate, Chemical Manufactory

HER Number:
5655

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Oakwellgate, Chemical Manufactory

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Chemical Production Site

Site Type: Specific:
Chemical Works

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The oldest chemical manufactory in Gateshead can be traced to the "Jew of Oakwellgate", who is said to have manufactured a compound of cyanogen, prussian blue, in the 18th century. He had moved his apparatus from Corbridge to Gateshead, possibly to be outside the jurisdiction of the trade companies of Newcastle.

Easting:
255

Northing:
636

Grid Reference:
NZ255636

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5655 >> F.W.D. Manders, 1973, A History of Gateshead, p 74 W.A. Campbell, 1968, A Century of Chemistry in Tyneside, 1868-1968 p 31; I.C. Carlton, 1974, A Short History of Gateshead, p 85