John Gilroy (1898-1985), artist, lived in this house as a boy. He is best known for his posters for Guinness Irish stout. He was the son of a marine draughtsman and painter. At the age of 15 he was a freelance cartoonist for Newcastle Evening Chronicle. At the age of 16 he won the Christie Scholarship to attend Armstrong College Art School in Durham University. Gilroy was born in Whitley Bay and attended Durham University until WW1. He served in the Royal Field Artillery. After the War he completed his studies at the College of Art in London. He was a teacher at Camberwell College of Arts. In 1925 he started working at S.H. Benson's advertising agency. Here he created the iconic posters of a zoo keeper and animals enjoying Guinness. He worked with Dorothy L. Sayers. He painted portraits of royalty, actors and politicians. He had a studio at 10 Holland Park, London. He was awarded an honorary MA by Newcastle University in 1975.

Oddfellows Arms. Location unknown. Closed 1908.

Hare Inn. Location unknown. Closed 1908.

Location unknown. Footballer's Arms bought by Sir Robert Deuchar in 1898. Rebuilt 1899. Closed 1939.

Location unknown. Boilermakers' Arms bought by Sir Robert Deuchar in 1897. Closed 1910.

Exact location unknown. Prince George beerhouse also known as the Prince George of Cambridge. Closed in 1884.

Exact location unknown. Small, one-roomed Campbell House. Closed in 1921.

Exact location unknown. Stanhope beerhouse in Croydon Road off Stanhope Street. Became a spirit merchants shop c.1910.

Exact location unknown. Known as the Barrack Tavern originally. Later became Darnell House (later Darnell Hotel) after rebuilding in 1892. The name reflected the influence on the area of a wealthy cleric W N Darnell, Rector of Stanhope, who owned a tract of land between Barrack Road and Westgate Road. The premises were bought by North Eastern Breweries in 1897 and in 1935 it became a fully-fledged public house. As a Vaux house, the Darnell re-emerged in 1995 as the Old Mill, became the New Darnell and was demolished in 1998.

Parish churchyard from 1719 to 1854. accommodates over 100,000 burials, including the gravestone of Jack Crawford and the tomb of Reverend Robert Gray, Sunderland's rector from 1819 to 1838. Now called the Gray Memorial Gardens. During restoration of the Donnison School an intact inhumation was found by the builders under the floor. This appears to have been an exceptional burial as no further remains were found on the school site (or the site might have been partly cleared before the school was built in 1764 within the churchyard). Unfortunately the skeleton was not recorded by archaeologists, it was dealt with by Sunderland Coroner's Office. In February 2007 during reconstruction of a revetment wall between the churchyard and the Donnison School, a quantity of disarticulated human bones were disturbed (4 skull fragments, 2 clavicle fragments, 23 Os Coxae, 6 scapula fragments, 9 Illium fragments, 5 Ischium, 1 patella, 1 pubis, 6 acetabulum, 5 vertebrae, 38 rib fragments, 3 humerus, 2 radius, 1 ulna, 6 femur, 10 fibia, 3 fibula, various hand and feet bones. The bones were lifted by archaeologists from Tyne and Wear Museums under a Home Office Licence. Two of the humeri had no septal aperture present (i.e. probably females). One tibia displayed periostitis (inflammation of the periostieum, which forms as a result of infection or disease). On various bones there were cut marks, probably caused by a spade from an earlier excavation. One tibia was burnt on proximal and distal ends. One of the skulls had green staining on the left and middle aspect of the frontal bone. A copper alloy shroud pin was found in the mud that encased the skull.