Darn Crook, St. Andrew's Tannery
Darn Crook, St. Andrew's Tannery
HER Number
10670
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Darn Crook, St. Andrew's Tannery
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Leather Industry Site
Site Type: Specific
Tannery
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition, 1862. Named as St. Andrew's Tannery by 1896. The tannery closed in the late 1880s when the Co-operative Society purchased it to extend their recently built store. Site now under the Co-op (HER 8940).
Easting
424510
Northing
564340
Grid Reference
NZ424510564340
Sources
Shown on Ordnance Survey First Edition of 1862; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2011, Newgate Street, Co-op, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeological Assessment