Tyne and Wear HER(8501): Stargate Brickworks - Details
8501
Gateshead
Stargate Brickworks
Stargate
NZ16SE
Industrial
Brick and Tilemaking Site
Brickyard
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
The brickyard at Stargate is recorded in 1874, when it had four kilns. The bricks were marked S.C.C. and mainly used in the Company’s pits and workmen’s cottages, with special firebricks going to Addison coke ovens.
Manufacturer at Stargate Colliery from 1875-1926 was the Stella Coal Company. 19th/20th Century Brickworks; 1875-1930.
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 86, 87 site 5, 98.
162
632
NZ162632
P.J. Davison, 1986, Brickworks of the North East, pp 86-87, site 5 and p 98