Pub history

Union Rooms

This was once the Union Club, purpose built in 1877 to the designs of MP Manning. The ‘French chateau’-style building was the home of this exclusive gentlemen’s club for almost 100 years. When this building was opened, the club was already well established, with 180–200 members. Probably the best known of the club’s members was WG (later Lord) Armstrong, the 19th-century Tyneside engineer and industrialist.