Harrison's Foundry

HER Number

2070

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Harrison's Foundry

Place

North Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Industrial

Site Type: Broad

Metal Industry Site

Site Type: Specific

Iron Foundry

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Harrison's Iron Foundry. The 2nd edition Ordnance Survey plan shows the site as part of a Shipyard (HER ref. 2132), so it must have been out of use by 1894.

Easting

435460

Northing

567590

Grid Reference

NZ435460567590

Sources

<< HER 2070 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, 1865, 6 inch scale, Northumberland 89