The Mitre, Newcastle upon Tyne

The Mitre is a building situated in the Benwell area in the west end of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is a Grade II listed building.IoEentry|304397|Listing on Images of England]

A tower house known as Benwell Tower [ [http;//www.ecastles.co.uk/philipdavis/English%20sites/1927.html Gatehose Gazetteer] ] was built in 1221, and became the residence of the Bishop of Newcastle. Later it became home to a branch of the Shafto family of Bavington Hall until the 1770s, when it was sold by Robert Shafto (the son of Bobby Shafto, immortalised in the famous song of the same name).

In 1831, the present building ( originally known as Benwell Towers) designed by the famous Tyneside architect John Dobson replaced the old house and has since provided a number of different functions. During World War II it became a fire station, and then became a training centre for the National Coal Board in 1947.

By the 1970s the building had become The Mitre pub, before achieving national fame in 1989 as the Byker Grove youth club in the BBC children's TV series, "Byker Grove". The final episode of "Byker Grove" was filmed in August 2006, and its future is unknown.

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