men. In a year they dealt with 5,000 hides and 12,000 calf skins. They supplied
local saddlers, bootmakers and cobblers. Hexham also had 16 master hatters, and
the trade employed 40 persons. There were two woollen manufactories, worked by
steam power and two rope manufactories. There were corn water mills below the
bridge. A windmill on the Seal was ruinous, but there was one still working on
Tyne Green. It was, and still is a flourishing market, including a mart for
cattle and other farm animals.
In Hexham the Subskimmer was designed and made by Submarine Products. The
town is also the site of a chipboard factory owned by the Austrian firm Egger
Retail Products GmbH.
Botanical brewery Fentimans is based in
Hexham
