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Hello

I am new to the forum and am researching a NER war memorial in Newcastle.

Some of the men on the memorial worked in the Granary/ Corn warehose on the

south side of the line adjacent to Manors station.

I am trying to find information on this building.

I believe it was designed by Benjamin Green, renowned NER architect.

Specifically, I cannot discover when it was built.

Publications at the NRM have not given an answer

I hope someone can help.

I think vol 3 of The Architecture of the NER may answer your question im 100 miles from my copy at the moment.

Thanks 52D

I had a "browse " throught all three volumes of "Architecture of the NER" at the NRM and couldnt see any detail.

However, I didnt have time to read it cover to cover.

Thanks

Not sure this is the same building there seem to be two

The oldest was called the "Corn Lofts" and built of sandstone ashlar by the Green father & son page 111 of Volume one. date not given but probably 1850s or thereabouts

The second one (Page 109 Volume 3) was built of ferro-concrete (one of the first 20 such buildings) so dates from around 1900 It was known as New Bridge St Good Station and handled general goods on the first two floors and grain on the floors above. Designer was William Bell using Mouchel's ferro concrete system

The three volumes of "A History of North Eastern Railway Architecture" by Bill Fawcett are very impressive with lots of useful information

The Corn Loft is the one I'm after.

I have seen page 111 and it is the building i am interested in

c1850 is what I have, Manors (East) was opened 30.8.1850, Newcastle & North Shields Railway.

My only thought is that if Trafalgar goods was opened 1850 (The North Eastern Railway. Its rise and Development. W.W. Tomlinson) then surely the Corn loft must have been either earlier or later. Why have two separate buildings and tracks.

Perhaps the clue is in the later structure where general goods and "corn" - which would all presumably have been in sacks - separate - possibly to manage/control vermin, possibly to avoid dust on other goods.