Wallsend, The Greenland Fishery Public House

HER Number:
7931

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, The Greenland Fishery Public House

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Commercial

Site Type: Broad:
Licensed Premises

Site Type: Specific:
Public House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
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.

Easting:
2960

Northing:
6655

Grid Reference:
NZ29606655

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey first edition 1865; Boundey, S. 2010, Wallsend Pubs and Clubs, p19