Borough Road, clay pipe manufacturer

HER Number

12097

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Borough Road, clay pipe manufacturer

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Pottery Manufacturing Site

Site Type: Specific

Clay Pipe Kiln

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition next to the Crown Inn (12096). Replaced by St. Peter's Church in 1863. A watching brief in 2007 failed to recover any tobacco pipe fragments.

Easting

435610

Northing

567940

Grid Reference

NZ435610567940

Sources

Tyne and Wear Museums, 2006, Land Adjacent to Borough Road, North Shields - Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Assessment; Tyne and Wear Museums, 2007, Junction of Borough Road and Clive Street, North Shields - Archaeological Photographic Recording and Watching Brief