Tyne and Wear HER(8540): Swalwell, Axwell Park Colliery Brickworks - Details
8540
Gateshead
Swalwell, Axwell Park Colliery Brickworks
Swalwell
NZ26SW
Industrial
Brick and Tilemaking Site
Brickworks
Modern
C20
Documentary Evidence
The brickworks at Axwell Park Colliery had about eight Newcastle kilns. Most of the bricks made here by Priestmans Collieries were common bricks and were marked APC.
1901-1957
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 133, site 21, 138
2001
6195
NZ20016195
P.J. Davison, 1986, Brickworks of the North East, p 133, site 21, p 138