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Davison: POTTERGATE STREET This street stands nearly perpendicular to Narrow gate and leads up a steep acclivity at the top of which a beautiful structure sixty feet in height was erected on the site of the old gate.

Tate: Pottergate 1671 is the steep street rising from the Bow Burn to the Tower; but its ancient name in the survey of 1567 was Barresdale Street. The present name may have been derived from potters living and practising their art there; for though we have no potters now, yet, a few centuries ago, when manufacturing was less centralised, small makers of divers things dwelt in such towns as Alnwick. The old Grammar School was close to the tower, and the oldest Presbyterian Church is on the north side of the street.