Tyne and Wear HER(7931): Wallsend, The Greenland Fishery Public House - Details
7931
N Tyneside
Wallsend, The Greenland Fishery Public House
Wallsend
NZ26NE
Commercial
Licensed Premises
Public House
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Public house shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1865, in existence by 1853. Originally the Fishery. The name presumably commemorates the Tyneside whaling industry (HER 5468). The pub may have had connections with the Methodist New Connexion Church which held its first meeting in the pubs 'long room'. The demise of the pub came when a Mrs Townsend, who owned a china business in Newcastle, bought the pub, cancelled the licence and built Hope Villa alongside of it c.1861. Demolition date unknown.
2960
6655
NZ29606655
Ordnance Survey first edition 1865; Boundey, S. 2010, Wallsend Pubs and Clubs, p19