Wallsend, The Greenland Fishery Public House

Public house shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1865, in existence by 1853. Originally the Fishery. The name presumably commemorates the Tyneside whaling industry (HER 5468). The pub may have had connections with the Methodist New Connexion Church which held its first meeting in the pubs 'long room'. The demise of the pub came when a Mrs Townsend, who owned a china business in Newcastle, bought the pub, cancelled the licence and built Hope Villa alongside of it c.1861. Demolition date unknown.