Heworth Colliery brickworks
Heworth Colliery brickworks
HER Number
8546
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Heworth Colliery brickworks
Place
Heworth
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Brick and Tilemaking Site
Site Type: Specific
Brickworks
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
1874
A brickworks was set up here in 1874, consisting of a clay mill, a drying flat, and a kiln. That year the works made 764,300 bricks, mostly for use in building the colliery engine house and in lining the pit shaft and pit pond.
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 135 (Durham Record Office)
A brickworks was set up here in 1874, consisting of a clay mill, a drying flat, and a kiln. That year the works made 764,300 bricks, mostly for use in building the colliery engine house and in lining the pit shaft and pit pond.
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 135 (Durham Record Office)
Easting
428300
Northing
560500
Grid Reference
NZ428300560500
Sources
P.J. Davison, 1986, Brickworks of the North East, p 135