Usworth, bleach works

HER Number

6747

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Usworth, bleach works

Place

Usworth

Map Sheet

NZ35NW

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Chemical Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Bleach Works

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A bleach works is listed in Pigot's National Commercial Directory 1834 as Washington Bleach Mill, the bleacher being Robson Clark. Hugh Lee Pattinson took over the bleach works to build his chemical works (HER 3056) in 1837 or 1842.

Easting

432190

Northing

555720

Grid Reference

NZ432190555720

Sources

<< HER 6747 >> Archaeo-Environment Ltd, 2004, Desk Top Assessment of the former Washington Chemical Works; Pigot and Co, 1834, National Commercial Directory; S. Miller and G. Nairn, 1998, The People's History Around Washington, pp 94-5