2010
NZ2464 : Robert Sinclair Buildings, Blenheim Street
taken 15 years ago, near to Gateshead, England

Robert Sinclair Buildings, Blenheim Street
Built for the Robert Sinclair Tobacco Company on this corner site on Blenheim Street (Sinclair Building, 1913) and Westgate Road (Blenheim House, 1919) by Cackett & Burns Dick, as tobacco factory, warehouse and offices. The firm was acquired by the Imperial Tobacco Company in 1930.
The gap site on the left was once occupied by the Carlisle pub. Newcastle Libraries has a photo from 1966 here Link
The gap site on the left was once occupied by the Carlisle pub. Newcastle Libraries has a photo from 1966 here Link
