West exit from Blaydon Burn Nature Reserve
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West exit from Blaydon Burn Nature Reserve
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 19 Feb 2012
In the C18th, Belt's Corn Mill stood here, disused by 1896, but only finally demolished (for safety reasons) in 1981. With construction of the waggonway c1840 (now surfaced as a cycle way) the area became developed as the western railhead for Cowen's High Yard. Valley House is on the right. The buildings on the left are the site of a former Firebrick Manufactory, run by Forster & Co., which was taken over by Joseph Cowen in the mid C18th. They operated a Gas Retort Works here intended to light their own factory, but in 1853 they extended the facility to the village of Blaydon. Cowen's site was known as the High Yard, or High Works, and closed for production in 1919, though joiners and pattern maker’s workshops remained operational until the 1950s. Tyne and Wear HER (1646): Blaydon Burn, Cowens Upper Brickworks http://www.twsitelines.info
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Image Location
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54.955158
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