Tyneside's newest Wetherspoons due to open this week, creating 60 jobs
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon is to open its new pub in the North East this week.
The chain is due to open a North Tyneside site on Wednesday, November 26.
Much like the majority of the brand’s pubs, the site will be named with a reference to the local area, this time nodding to the area’s mining heritage.
The pub, which will be named The Blue Bell, will open on the site of the former Cookhouse and Pub restaurant on Edmund Road, Holystone, following a development project costing £1 million.
Nearby Backworth Colliery was actually a group of separate collieries sharing the Backworth name. The first shaft was sunk in 1813 at Backworth A pit. As well as B, C, D and E pits, there were also pits called the Blue Bell and the Prosperous.
Both The Blue Bell pub and the Blue Bell railway crossing were named after the pit. The Backworth pits are all long gone, with the long-standing pub now converted into apartments.
The Blue Bell pub will be open from 8am until 11.30pm Sunday to Thursday and 8am until midnight on Friday and Saturday.
It will have a ground floor bar while food will be served from opening until 11pm every day.
Pub manager Keeley Hines said: “Myself and my team are looking forward to welcoming customers into The Blue Bell and we are confident that the pub will be a great addition to the local social scene.”