Friars Goose is an area of Felling, located by the south banks of the River Tyne. It's name derives from the 11th century, when local Roman Catholic Friars collected Gorse, commonly known as "Friar's Goose" here. The plant was used during the medieval times for food (edible petals) and to produce medication.
The area later became the site of a colliery; Tyne Main Colliery, also known as "Friar's Goose Colliery". There was a ferry between Friar's Goose and Dents Hole in Byker. There also was a ship building and repair yard at Friars Goose (T Mitchinsons, and later James Burness & Sons), which operated up to 1964.
Friars Goose Water Sports Club was established in 1971, and is based at the site of the former ship yard.
Description courtesy of Co-Curate.
13th July 2022
Friar's Goose Pumping Station.
The fragmentary remains of a 1820 built beam pumping engine house on the site of a series of engines built to drain the Tyne Coal Basin. Massively constructed beam-wall survives showing the location of a beam pivot socket, gantry joist holes and a round headed opening; the pivot wall is buttressed. The engine house, as it appeared in c.1840 is illustrated in "View of the Colleries of Northumberland and Durham" by the artist T.H. Hair.
Grade 2 Listed. Source: Sitelines
1st January 2018
5th December 2007
More Information:
- Gateshead History - Friars Goose
- Sitelines - Friar's Goose Chemical Works
- Sitelines - Tyne Main Colliery East (Friar's Goose)
- Sitelines - Felling Shore, The Ferry House Brewery
- Sitelines - Felling, Fairs Boat Yard/Anderson's Slipway/Mitchison's
- Sitelines - Friar's Goose, Great Heap
- Sitelines - Felling, Friar's Goose, Clay Pit
- Sitelines - Friar's Goose, Clapham's Chimney
- Sitelines - Friar's Goose, Brickfield
- Sitelines - Friar's Goose, running track
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