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Welcome to Grainger Town. Whether you want to stroll along Richard Grainger’s elegant streets with their refined neoclassical architecture, explore the site of a Roman milecastle, have a drink in one of Newcastle’s oldest pubs, or discover Grainger Market, once Europe’s largest indoor market, this guide will help you make the most of your visit.

Introduction The Great Walls Markets Pubs and inns Stately homes Shopping splendour Cultural and intellectual life Monuments and memorials Grainger Town shows off some of Newcastle’s For centuries Newcastle was an important strategic In medieval Newcastle the market trade developed In Britain, inns have provided refreshments for Newe House or Anderson Place was built in the The glamorous Royal Arcade was built by Richard William Newton’s Grade II* Listed Assembly Rooms In 1838 Grey’s Monument was erected in honour most elegant streets, lined with fine neoclassical and military town. in Newgate Street and the triangular area known as travellers at least since Roman times. In the Middle 16th century by Robert Anderson on the sites of a Grainger at the bottom of Pilgrim Street in 1831- building in Fenkle Street was built between 1774 of Charles, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845), to buildings and occupied by a range of restaurants, the Bigg, Groat and Cloth Markets. On market days former nunnery and friary and was surrounded by 32 based on a design by John Dobson. It had a and 1776 in what was then the most fashionable commemorate his contribution as Prime Minister to In 122 AD Emperor Hadrian ordered the construction Ages the need for hostelries rose with the growing bars, cafes, galleries and shops. The name refers this area was a mass of temporary stalls where fish, 12 acres of ground, stretching between what is now marble and stone floor and eight skylights set within part of the town. It provided a centre for social the passing of the Great Reform Bill in 1832. A of a wall to separate the land under Roman control popularity of pilgrimages and travel. Newcastle’s to Richard Grainger (1797-1861), a local builder, vegetables, milk, cloths, wool, ironmongery, livestock Pilgrim Street, Blackett Street, High Bridge and the of the roof. Apart from 16 shops the activities, and had a ballroom with seven chandeliers heroic statue of Grey stands on top of a 41 m high to the south from the territory of the non-Roman Pilgrim Street was part of an important pilgrimage who was the mastermind behind a radical and more were sold. For much of their past the Grainger Market. It was Newcastle’s most arcade housed offices, banks, a post office, auction and music gallery, a huge supper room, card rooms, Doric column. It was sculpted by Edward Hodges tribes to the north. Now known as Hadrian’s Wall, route to St. Mary’s Chapel in Jesmond and used to redevelopment of Newcastle’s centre, between 1834 streets were lined with houses, coaching inns, spectacular house, possibly the largest within a rooms and steam baths. However, being too far a saloon and news rooms. Performers included Baily, who also made the statue of Nelson on Nelson’s it ran for 73 miles from west to east coasts. It have a Pilgrims’ Inn. However, most pubs and inns and 1839, that transformed Newcastle into a town concert halls, shops and workshops, some of which walled town in the entire country, and stately enough away from the town centre, it never became the Charles Dickens and Johan Strauss, while King Column in Trafalgar Square, London. Standing at included a wall, a defensive ditch, forts with barracks, were located near the bustling market area. of great splendour. have survived. to house King Charles I during his captivity in 1646- commercial success Grainger had intended it to Edward VII and King were among its the head of Grey and Grainger Streets, the column milecastles or fortified gatehouses, look-out turrets 47. The mansion was surrounded by gardens with be. It declined, became a socialist meeting place guests. Only the Assembly Rooms in Bath are became a symbol of local pride and the focal point and a military way. Now, the original use of the triangular market area beautiful walkways, statues and other curiosities. It and was finally demolished between 1963 and considered to be comparable in scale and quality of Grainger’s redevelopment scheme, although was is reflected in the names of the streets. Bigg (barley) Today, Hadrian’s Wall is a World Heritage Site, was owned and altered by three families before 1969. of design, but whereas the Rooms in Bath were never part of his original plan. Today, Grey’s and Groat (hulled grains) Markets were both cereal which makes the few remains of the Wall in Richard Grainger arranged the purchase of the restored after destruction in World War II, the ones Monument is one of Newcastle’s most iconic markets. The medieval Cloth Market became the Newcastle of major international importance. In estate in 1834 and demolished it in order to execute in Newcastle are largely authentic. The building is landmarks. Flesh Market in the 17th century but regained its Westgate Road the south-west corner of a Roman his grand scheme. still used for weddings, banquets, conferences and old name and function in 1829. The flesh market milecastle was discovered in 1985 underneath dinners. was held every Saturday, providing meat for buildings near Newcastle Arts Centre. Some lifted thousands of people. and rebuilt Roman masonry can be seen below an outdoor staircase in Black Swan Court. Newcastle’s impressive Town Wall was built between the late 13th and early 15th centuries to defend the town against invaders, in particular the Scots. During the Civil War the Wall was described by the well-travelled Scot William Lithgow as “a great deal stronger than these of Yorke and not The Old George yard. Anderson Place (c.1810), courtesy Robinson Library unlike to the walls of Avineon, but especially those Special Collections, The Royal Arcade (1833), courtesy Newcastle of Jerusalem”. Today, although large parts were (ILL/11/215). Libraries. The Assembly Rooms (1776), courtesy Newcastle The Old George, a former coaching inn off Cloth Richard Grainger by J. Ramsay (c.1827), courtesy demolished in the 19th century, it is considered to Libraries. be one of the five finest surviving medieval walls in Bigg Market by T.M. Richardson (1820), courtesy Market, is reputed to be one of Newcastle’s oldest Alderman Fenwick’s House on Pilgrim Street was Central Exchange, the triangular building between TWAM/The Bridgeman Art Library. surviving drinking places. Dating back to the 16th the country. Newcastle Libraries. built in the late 17th century as the fashionable Grey, Grainger and Market Streets, was built Newcastle’s first Theatre Royal, designed by David century, it retains many original elements from various Although Newcastle had become one of Britain’s residence of Thomas Winship, a member of between 1836 and 1838 as part of Grainger’s Stephenson in 1788 in a Georgian style, stood in Within this area the Town Wall ran from Gallowgate From at least 1410 the junction of Low Friar Street periods, including stables, cobbled yard, low ceiling most important industrial cities, its centre in the early Newcastle’s Tanner’s Company. It was refurbished grand scheme. Originally intended to be the town’s Mosley Street, but was demolished in 1836 to make along Blackett Street to New Bridge Street and and Newgate Street was the site of a market cross and wooden beams. It is said that King Charles I 19th century was still largely medieval in character, by his daughter Sarah and son-in-law, the wealthy new corn exchange, it opened in 1839 as a way for Grey Street. Grainger’s impressive from there towards Carliol Square. In this section that became known as the White Cross. This was allowed to drink here whilst being held captive with narrow unpaved streets and brick and timber- merchant Nicholas Fenwick. The brick house with subscription newsroom. Later the building was used replacement, designed by architects John and there were at least two gates and four towers: the structure took many shapes over the centuries before by the Scots in 1646-47. Balmbra’s in Cloth Market framed buildings. In the area that was to become its sash windows, stucco ceilings, grand staircase as an art gallery, concert hall, hotel and Vaudeville Benjamin Green, was placed in Grey Street to New Gate, the Monboucher Tower, the Ficket its disappearance in the 19th century. Its main is one of Tyneside’s most celebrated pubs because Grainger Town stood Anderson Place, a large and small was one of the most important town theatre before its interior was completely destroyed ensure that the scale of the building and its Tower, the Pilgrim Street Gate, the Carliol Tower purpose was to act as a landmark for the market of its connection with the famous Geordie song mansion surrounded by 12 acres of ground. A houses in the north of England. In the late 18th by fire in 1901. In 1906 it re-opened as the present magnificent had maximum effect on the and the Plummer Tower. area. A pillory stood nearby, which was used for ‘The Blaydon Races’ by George Ridley. Ridley first stream, the Lort Burn, split the central part of century the house was transformed into The Queen’s shop-lined Central Arcade with beautiful composition of the street. The theatre opened on Grey’s Monument. punishing people for minor offences. In 1758, for performed this song on 5 June 1862 in the music Newcastle. The two only crossings were narrow Head Inn, and from 1880 to 1962 it was the decorations in neo-renaissance and art nouveau 20 February 1837 with a performance of William example, Susanah Fleming was placed in the pillory hall of John Balmbra’s Wheat Sheaf Inn, which lanes with bridges: High Bridge and Low Bridge. In Newcastle Liberal Club. By the 1970s its derelict styles. Shakespeare’s tragic comedy The Merchant of for fortune telling. previously stood on this site. At the head of Bigg Market a drinking fountain the late 1700s the stream’s southern part was state almost caused its demolition, but instead it Venice. After a fire destroyed the inside of the theatre commemorates Dr John Hunter Rutherford (1826- covered over, while new building projects led to the In the 19th century permanent structures slowly The Duke of Wellington in High Bridge is famous was acquired by the Building in 1899, architect Frank Matcham redesigned the 1890), a Presbyterian Church minister, doctor, creation of Mosley Street, a Georgian theatre and began to replace the temporary market stalls. In for its connection with William Campbell, nicknamed Preservation Trust and sensitively restored between interior in a richly-ornamented Edwardian style. educationalist, teetotaller and friend to the poor. He the New Flesh Market. 1808 the New Flesh Market was constructed on the Scottish Giant, who was manager of the pub in 1980 and 1997. Today it is Grade I Listed and the third home of the was a pioneer of free secondary and technological what is now the lower end of Grey Street, after this Grainger had started his career as a simple builder the late 19th century. When he died at the age of Old Eldon Square was built to the north of Blackett Royal Shakespeare Company. education in Newcastle, and established Rutherford part of the Lort Burn, by then a ‘vast, nauseous 22 in 1878, Campbell was almost 6ft4ins (1.90 m) Street by Richard Grainger after the designs of College of Technology in 1880. This memorial was at the age of 20 and over the years had risen to hollow’, had been covered over. The market contained fame. His most prestigious developments until 1834 tall and weighed 52 stones (330 kg)! architects Thomas Oliver and John Dobson between first located in St. Nicholas Square in 1894, but was 151 shops with stone fronts and ventilators on top 1825 and 1831. It consisted of three ranges of moved to Bigg Market to make way for the statue included the Royal Arcade and Old Eldon Square. to let in fresh air. From the 16th century until recently there was a In 1826 Anderson Place was offered for sale. Eight Half Moon Inn in Bigg Market. Its last building, which terraced houses surrounding a square with of Queen Victoria, unveiled in 1903. One of the years later Grainger’s major redevelopment plan In 1835 the New Flesh Market was demolished and dates from 1905, still survives and is well-known ornamental shrubbery. Its spaciousness, formality Central Arcade. inscriptions states: ‘Water is Best’. was approved by the Town Council, thanks to the replaced by Grainger’s two-acre, multi-purpose for its playful art nouveau style with witches’ hat and uniformity were a novelty, because in those days In 1906 a statue, paid for by public subscription, help of his friend, Town Clerk John Clayton. To indoor market which was built on the Nun’s Field, dormers, fish scale roofs, mask brackets and iron the town consisted mainly of narrow, unplanned, In 1838 Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge and his was erected in front of Cross House to commemorate execute the plan, Anderson Place, the New Flesh the site of a former medieval nunnery. This New with half moon symbols. Originally there dirty streets. Old Eldon Square was named after partner opened a draper’s and fashion shop in the life of Joseph Cowen (1826-1900). Cowen Market and the Georgian theatre had to be Market, now known as Grainger Market, was was a Turk’s Head Inn in Bigg Market, which John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, who is known for his Grainger’s new Market Street, now nos. 29-39. was an industrialist, Member of Parliament, owner demolished. Now Grey Street with its magnificent designed by John Dobson. Originally, the eastern opened its doors in 1747 and was famous for its elopement with Bessie Surtees. Today, only the east They were among the first to replace the customary of the Newcastle Chronicle and founder of the Tyne Theatre Royal and side streets could be created, section was a meat market with 188 shops laid out theatre and for cockfighting. Although demolished range of the buildings has survived. haggling with fixed prices and sell ready-made Theatre and Opera House. He campaigned for better in four alleys. The western section was a vegetable connecting Mosley Street with Blackett Street. The in the 1830s for the construction of Grainger Street, clothes. Departmentalisation followed and in 1849 Theatre Royal (1886), courtesy Robinson Library conditions for the working class and voting rights second part of the scheme involved the construction market constructed as a large open hall with two it is remembered as the inn where in 1813 seventeen the shop housed 23 departments, making it the Plummer Tower by T.M. Richardson (1827), Special Collections, Newcastle University (Clarke for miners, opened the Newcastle Public Library and of a covered market and four new streets surrounding splendid fountains. Today, the market is a Grade I gentlemen founded the Society of Antiquaries of world’s first department store. In 1952 Bainbridge’s 295). reformed the Blaydon Mechanics Institute. His statue it: Grainger, Clayton, Nelson and Nun Streets. courtesy Robinson Library Special Collections, Listed Building. It retains many historic features, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. was taken over by John Lewis, but kept its name Newcastle University (ILL/11/136). was sculpted by John Tweed, a follower of the famous Eventually 9 new streets, 10 inns, 12 pubs, 40 private including a Marks and Spencer Ltd ‘Penny Bazaar’ until 2002. French sculptor Auguste Rodin, and represents dating from 1895, the world’s oldest and smallest Two prominent pubs from Grainger’s 1830s legacy The Tyneside Cinema in Pilgrim Street was built houses, 325 houses with shops and many individual Only the 13th century Plummer Tower, with a short Cowen as a public speaker. surviving Marks & Spencer store. are the Lord Collingwood and the Duke of The Northern Goldsmiths building on the corner by George Bell in 1937 as Newcastle’s News public buildings, such as the Central Exchange section of the Town Wall on its south side, has Buildings, were added to the town. The end result Northumberland in Clayton Street. They replaced of Pilgrim Street and Blackett Street was built in Theatre. News cinemas were very popular in the Although a monument for the centre of Old Eldon survived and is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. an older Lord Collingwood Public House that was the 1890s when the company was one of days before television and showed newsreels, topical Square was considered at the time the square was was a ‘City of Palaces’ (W. Howitt, 1842) in a style The tower was named after a family of leading that became widely known as Tyneside Classical. demolished to create Grey Street. Identical in design, Newcastle’s leading jewellers and manufacturers interest films and cartoons. Few have survived in planned in the 1820s, nothing was ever erected. merchants and politicians in the Middle Ages, who the buildings were designed to form visual end stops of watches and chronometers for the admiralty. The any form. Today the Tyneside Cinema is the best After World War I Councillor Sir Arthur Sutherland By the 1990s Newcastle’s historic centre had probably paid for its construction. It was greatly to Nelson Street and Nun Street. The Duke of Old Eldon Square (1830s), courtesy Robinson art deco golden clock with Venus on top was added preserved newsreels cinema in Britain and the last started the ‘Shilling Fund’ that raised 300,000 become a neglected quarter with an uncertain future. altered over the centuries, but its original D-shape Northumberland is still in use as a pub and the Library Special Collections, Newcastle University in 1932. one still operating as a cinema in full-time use. Its shillings for the erection of a war memorial. The City The Grainger Town Project (1997-2003) was is still clearly visible. During the Civil War the tower former Lord Collingwood has a virtually unaltered (ILL/11/258). The nearby Grade II Listed Building Emerson art deco interior contains four screens, a renovated War Memorial was designed by Charles Hartwell initiated to inject new economic life into the area, served as a store for artillery, while a fortification front. The present Cross House was built in 1911, using Chambers was designed in 1903 by the firm of original coffee room and a permanent exhibition and depicts St. George slaying a dragon. On 26 while at the same time preserving and enhancing was built adjacent to it to increase its defensibility. about the building and the history of film. For many September 1923 it was unveiled by Field Marshall its outstanding architecture. This has resulted in an Later it was used as the Cutlers’ (metalworkers) The names and locations of pubs and inns have an innovative system of reinforced concrete patented Simpson, Lawson and Rayne for innkeeper Robert altered through time and continue to change to this by the Hennebique Company. It was built on the Emerson Junior and other businesses. With its years there was also a Paramount Cinema on in front of over 1,000 people. The square exemplary scheme of heritage-led regeneration. meeting hall, while in the 1740s it became the Pilgrim Street. Built in the 1930s as an American- is the location of the City’s annual Remembrance meeting hall of the Masons. day; some may even have changed before you get site of the first Cross House, the 17th century mixture of art nouveau and baroque styles it was M&S Penny Bazaar, Grainger Market by Van Jones there. mansion of Ralph Carr, who was the founder of the built as an extravagant showpiece of commercial style super cinema, it showed films until 2002, Day Parade (Sunday nearest to 11 November). ending its life as an Odeon cinema. (1950s), courtesy The M&S Company Archive. first bank in Newcastle in 1755. architecture.

Nine Things to Do on a Bench (2001) is an artwork Circuit (2002) by Richard Cole can be found at the Objects of Beauty (2004) by Gilly Rogers is installed Under Your Feet (2004) by Catherine Bertola by glass artist Cate Watkinson and entrances of , where the on the wall between a ladies’ toilet and a hairdresser’s consists of four carved granite ‘welcome mats’. The poet-writer Julia Darling. It consists of nine glass granite walls and paving have been sandblasted in the north-west corner of Grainger Market. It was mats have been placed in the pavement at the and steel benches with etched glass backs that can with designs. The designs are based on the designed as a stainless steel grid incorporating 75 entrances to four of Grainger Street’s architecturally be found throughout Grainger Town. Their designs patterning of electronic circuit boards and refer to cast Perspex (acrylic glass) blocks. Small tools used most impressive buildings: the Yates building, the depict and describe nine things that can happen on the complex sensations of living in a digital culture: in everyday beauty routines, including tweezers, Victoria Building, the former NatWest Bank building, a bench and include the words: Read, Kiss, Eat, a culture that is dependent on circuits and networks, eyelash curlers and scissors are set into the blocks. and the Chaucer Buildings. They reflect and highlight Wait, Meet, Collect, Rest, Talk and Think. The like the metro itself, and is activated by energy and the decorations found on the facades of these benches were commissioned by the Grainger Town people. buildings that otherwise might remain unnoticed. Partnership as part of the city’s regeneration project. The carvings were commissioned by the Grainger Town Partnership.