Ford Street, Maling Pottery packing house

HER Number

17581

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Ford Street, Maling Pottery packing house

Place

Ouseburn

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Packing House

Site Type: Specific

Packing House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

A packinghouse was built by Maling on the opposite side of Ford Street to the Ford A Pottery (HER 4968). The packinghouse was described as "an additional range of warehouses, five storeys in height, the upper floors of which have been devoted to the commendable purpose of a school for the children of the workmen". A tunnel was built between the two. Tyne and Wear Archives holds a plan dated 15th September 1868 which shows the proposed new warehouse and the tunnel. The packinghouse is shown on the Ordnance Survey second edition of 1898. The packing house was demolished by 1936 when a carriage works (HER 17582) was built.

Easting

426410

Northing

564340

Grid Reference

NZ426410564340

Sources

unknown author, 1890, Tyneside Industries, p 101 (Newcastle City Library Local Studies Section 1942.82 N537B, 295); New Pottery, Ballast Hills, 15th September 1868, T186/3250 (Tyne and Wear Archives); C.G. Peters, 2004, R and J Ince Ltd, Ford Street, Ouseburn, Newcastle upon Tyne - Archaeological Assessment