Tyne and Wear HER(2749): Monkwearmouth, Cook and Nicholson Ltd. Wear File Works - Details
2749
Sunderland
Monkwearmouth, Cook and Nicholson Ltd. Wear File Works
Monkwearmouth
NZ35NE
Industrial
Metal Product Site
File Works
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
File Manufactory, on the south side of Richmond Street. This file manufactory is under construction on the first edition OS of 1859. Cook and Nicholson are listed as the proprietors after 1864 and continued manufacture until the works closed in 1987. The premises were then bought vy the Edward Thompson Group who ran the Bridge Foundry (HER 17570). The works produced a range of goods including chisels, taps, dies, hammers, files and engine room fittings, mostly for the shipbuilding and colliery markets. Following closure the works were demolished and the site became a car park. Archaeological remains may therefore survive.
3940
5765
NZ39405765
1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 8; First edition 25 inch OS map, 1859; Northern Archaeological Associates, 2017, Sheepfolds, Sunderland - Archaeological Desk Based Assessment, Building Recording and Geological Assessment, p38; Cook and Nicholson File, Tyne and Wear Archives DX1418