Tyne and Wear HER(1966): Throckley, Hexham Road, Lead Houses
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Northumberland Ordnance Survey Name Book(c.1860): Newburn 403 p.42
The Carrier who delivered his Lead at Newburn contrary to Direction must not have any more Lead unless he can give a sufficient reason shewing that he could not deliver it at Newcastle without being put to very great Inconvenience.
Letter – Nicholas Walton to Peter Mulcaster – 22 Mar 1782.
Archives of Greenwich Hospital (TNA ADM 66 97) Transcribed by Dukesfield Smelters & Carriers Project
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An 'old lead wharf' is shown on the Newburn Tithe Map of 1849 (NRO DT 341 M). The Primitive Methodists who built a chapel at Throckley in 1891 were mainly miners who moved from the lead mines of Allendale to work in the coal mines (Rippeth 1993, 51). The link between the lead industry and Throckley appears to be the landowner: the lead mines on Alston Moor were owned by the lords of Throckley, the Radcliffe family then Greenwich Hospital from 1734 (Poole and Raistrick 1949, 90). The eighteenth century 'Lead Road', which survives in part as a modern carriageway at Greenside near Ryton, linked the mines and smelt mills at Alston Moor and Allendale to Ryton (Raistrick 1972, 132) which lies opposite Newburn on the south bank of the Tyne.
Presumably the ford was used to bring the lead across the river and for whatever reason the mine owners built lead storage buildings within their holdings on the main road into Newcastle.
Morrison, Jennifer (2007) Newburn Manor: an analysis of a changing medieval, post-medieval and early modern landscape in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Masters thesis, Durham University.