Addison, Potter and Son
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Portland cement manufacturers and maltsters.
1846 Mr Potter, owner of Walbottle Colliery and Firebrick Works, built the Towneley Cokeworks, including 39 beehive coke ovens, at Willington Quay, with the help of Robert Simpson of Towneley Cokeworks near Ryton. Later in the same year Mr Potter began erecting a brickworks alongside the coke ovens. John Hawdon of Blaydon iron foundry supplied the works with a high pressure steam engine of 16 h.p., a grinding mill, a chain driven bucket elevator, a riddle and a pug mill. [1]
1851 the brick flats at Willington Quay were extended in order to dry retorts, and a joiner's shop was built above the extension.
1852 Two new brick kilns were built.
Early 1880s: A lime and cement works was built at Willington Quay[2] on the site of the former Addison Potter's Firebrick Works.
1912 British Portland Cement Manufacturing Company took over the works at Willington Quay[3]
1912 Maltsters and cement manufacturers[4]
By 1913 the Willington Cement works had been closed, part of which was acquired by J. T. Eltringham and Co of South Shields who were fitting out their new shipyard at Willington [5]
1915 Addison Potter and Son, Maltsters, Newcastle on Tyne[6]
1918 Acquired by Newcastle Breweries