Tyne and Wear HER(15814): Newcastle, Sandgate, Sun Inn - Details
15814
Newcastle
Newcastle, Sandgate, Sun Inn
Newcastle
NZ26SE
Commercial
Licensed Premises
Public House
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
Sandgate was once a crowded part of Newcastle, the stronghold of keelmen. By the First World War however town improvments swept much of it and its pubs away. Early closures included the Sun Inn.
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64
NZ2564
Brian Bennison, 1997, Heavy Nights - A History of Newcastle's Public Houses, Volume Two, The North and East, p 24