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Manufacturing in Gateshead, 1855
Extract from: History, Topography, and Directory of Northumberland...Whellan, William, & Co, 1855.
MANUFACTURES AND TRADE. Gateshead is progressively and rapidly increasing in importance as a manufacturing district. There are extensive manufactories of chain-cables, with numerous iron and brass-foundries, and glass-houses, several of which are very extensive. There are also other manufactories of different kinds. Upwards of 500 persons are engaged in the manufacture of glass-bottles alone. There are extensive collieries within the borough, and on Gateshead Fell are situated the great grindstone quarries, whence Newcastle is said to have derived all its commercial fame for "Newcastle Grindstones," which are exported to every part of the globe. The late terrific explosion having destroyed a great amount of property in the vicinity of the Tyne, it is purposed by the corporation to purchase the several buildings extending along the river, from the High Level Bridge in Pipewell-gate, on the west, to the North Eastern Railway Drops, in Hillgate, on the east, and on their site to form quays or wharfs, with the requisite buildings, etc.
Also in this Directory (Whellan, 1855) for Gateshead:
- Description of Gateshead
- Churches of Gateshead
- Schools in Gateshead
- Public & Civil Buildings etc in Gateshead
- Manufacturers & Trade
- Borough and Corporation of Gateshead
- Charities
- Gateshead District
- Post Office
- Gateshead and District Directory
