Metadata: Jewish Cemetery, Elswick
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Postal address:
- Tyne and Wear Archives, Discovery Museum, Blandford Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4JA
- Phone number:
- 44(0)191 2772248
- Web address:
- https://twarchives.org.uk/
- Reference number:
- CE.JW
- Title:
- Jewish Cemetery, Elswick
- Title (official language):
- Jewish Cemetery, Elswick
- Creator/accumulator:
- Jewish Cemetery, Elswick
- Date(s):
- 1864/2012
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 6 items
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Cartographic material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes grave fee receipts, list of names on memorials, 1859-1958, list of burials at Elswick, Hazlerigg, Heaton and Ravensworth, photograph of prayer house St John's Street, plan showing burials in each plot, and photographs of headstones.
- Archival history:
- Held by creating organisation/individual until gifted to Tyne and Wear Archives.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Part of the St John's, Westgate and Elswick Cemetery was purchased for Jewish burials in 1857, after the original Temple Street Cemetery was ordered to be closed. It was extended in 1887 and 1889.
- Access points: locations:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Subject terms:
- Cemeteries
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires prior consent.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Tyne and Wear Archives
- Author of the description:
- Daniel Stoker; North East Museums; 2025
