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59—61 odd BRIDGE STREET
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BRIDGE STREET (South Side) Nos 59 & 61 (formerly listed as No 1 Bridge End) II Forms a rounded comer to Bridge End. 2 storeys. Early C19. No 61 has a Victorian shop front with a dentilled cornice, No 59 has a similar doorway. 6 12-ported sash windows on each floor, with a stone band below 1st floor windows. |
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History Originally 2 houses possibly one with a shop later converted horizontally into flats the ground floor converted into a public house in 19??.
The first floor flat has fine plaster cornices and doors curved to follow the bowed wall.
Features in the well known Lowry painting of 1938 at which time No 59 was a boarding house |
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Plan showing the horizontal conversion to flats |
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Advertisement from 1939 guidebook to Berwick |
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OCCUPANCY No 59 2010 Private dwelling Mrs T Bennett 1939 Lodging House Mrs S B Young 1929,25 Wholesale Draper James S Clements & Bridge End 1910,06 Private Henry Lindsay Christson 1901census In occupation 1891census Grocer & Wine Merchant Henry Lindsay Christison also listed 1897,1891,87,81,79,73
No 61 2010 Public House Barrels Ale House 2000 Public House Barrels Ale House. Mark Dixon |