Burmantofts – Ceramic and Terracotta Tiles in Newcastle
Central Arcade – Burmantofts (1906)
At the top of Grey Street is the Central Arcade, created when the interior of Exchange Buildings was burnt out around 1904. Its replacement, designed by Joseph and Harold Oswald and completed in 1906, was the glorious Central Arcade, its two storeys of shops faced entirely in brown and yellow. The original glass mosaic floor…
Centurion Bar Burmantofts – Newcastle Central Station (1893)
This place can take your breath away the first time you see it. Originally the First Class Waiting Room at Central Station, later inhabited by the British Transport Police, now the Centurion Bar in Newcastle Central Station. In 1893 the railway company decorated the room with specially commissioned, hand made Burmantofts tiles which were very…
Magnet Court (1938)
Art Deco Terracotta Tiles Magnet House on Gallowgate, built for the General Electric Company around 1938. Its facade includes thirteen 3’ square art deco low relief terracotta panels (in four different designs) showing human figures symbolic of power generation. Similar motifs were used on the interior of Battersea Power Station in the first stage of…
Royal Doulton Tiles at the RVI (1904)
Jack and Jill at the RVI 61 nursery rhyme and fairy tale panels, ordered in 1904 are still to be found spread around Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary This is probably the most complete set of such panels still in existence; they were made at the Lambeth works and signed by the artists William Rowe, John McLennan…
