An Enamelling and Glazing Works, which occupied the site of a former paper mill. This may also have been the site of Lister's Yard, which was leased from the Blackett-Ord family by Mr E R Lister in 1838. Around 1840 a Mr Gibson started a brick and tile works at Scotswood using local clay. In 1880 the works were taken over by the Adams twin brothers, as Adams and Company, making sanitary ware with fireclay from a local clay pit. By 1890 the works had a drift mine in Denton Dene and the Enamel Works had opened. In 1904 Moses J. Adams began making 'Adamesk' art pottery garden ornaments, bird baths, plant pots, vases, cemetery urns and church baptismal fonts and smaller household items, using fireclay and decorated with leadless glazes. The glazes were invented by one of the employees, A.B. Searle, the colours obtained by adding metallic salts. The use of a muffle kiln instead of a quicker tunnel kiln, allowed a longer period of heat, and more subtle colours. The production of Adamesk pottery stopped for WW1. In 1912 Alan H. Adams joined his father's firm and became director in 1921. He designed many of the shapes of the sanitary ware and created Elan pottery pressed with his private mark AHA. He also designed ornamental tiles, plaques and busts. In the 1970s the firm was taken over by American Jim Lee, but it went into liquidation a year later. In 1977 Anderson Ceramics bought some of the equipment and moulds and the use of the name Adamsez. Adamsez (Anderson Ceramics Limited) now trade at Dukesway, Team Valley and still produce sanitary ware. The site was leased from the Blackett-Ord family in 1838 by Mr E R Lister. He opened out a drift mine to work coal and fireclay, and manufacture fireclay goods. There appears to have been a High Yard and Low Yard. The works were taken over by Mr W Colville-Gibson in 1872 and by 1890 the firm was working a drift mine at Denton Dene and enamel works at the Low Yard (Scotswood?). Firebricks were made as well as white glazed bricks, facing bricks and ornamental garden ware; the firm’s trademark was a salmon. The Scotswood enamel works was run by the Adams family in 1903 but the name Gibson was retained up to 1920. Date: 1838 – 19??
19th/20th Century Fireclay works and enamel works
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 68 site 29(?), 84

Montague Fire Brick Works, also known as Benson's Yard, this site was working from 1865-1925.

A Brickworks, possibly replacing the brickfield shown on the 1st edition OS mapping which occupied part of the site. Located just west of Mr Carr’s yard. It made firebricks, flue bricks, quarls, and sold fireclay. The yard had closed by 1873.
Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 140
*(possibly the same as SMR4296)

Scotswood Colliery. This is not shown on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was opened after 1858.

West Denton Colliery, Yarmouth Pit opened in 1792. There were two other associated pits - Kew Pit and North or Gin Pit. It was owned by Edward Montagu MP in the 1700s, and later by West Denton Colliery Company. Nothing is shown here on Ordnance Survey first edition, an air shaft is shown on second edition, but by third edition (1919) West Denton Colliery, Yarmouth Pit is shown. The colliery closed in 1924. An aerial photograph of 1946 shows the shaft and 20m of upcast spoil.

A Station on the North Eastern Railway Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway, (HER 4292). The railway line opened in the 1870s to serve the riverside industries. There were never many passengers using this line, particularly after 1913 when a tram line was opened to Throckley. Lemington Station had timber buildings {Rippeth 1993}.

North Eastern Railway Newburn and Wylam Branch. The construction of this line was authorised by the Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway and Dock Act of 1871. The line joined the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway at both ends. It was opened between Scotswood and Newburn in 1875 and as a single line to Wylam in 1876, which was subsequently widened. The western part of the line reused the line of the Wylam Wagonway. It was operated from the start by the North Eastern Railway {1 and 2}. The Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway opened in 1876. The idea of building a railway along the northern bank of the river was investigated at the time that routes for the Newcastle-Carlisle railway were being examined. The eventual route chosen lay to the south of the Tyne. In the late 1860s when the Tyne Ironworks, Spencer's steel works, Lemington Glass Works and other industries in Newburn were in full production, and collieries were working at Walbottle, Heddon and Throckley, the prospects of building a railway from Scotswood to North Wylam linking with the existing Newcastle - Carlisle Railway at each end, were again examined. Among the sponsors of the project which was subsequently put forward were members of the Spencer family who owned the large steel works in Newburn, William Stephenson, one of the owners of Throckley Fireclay Brick and Tile Works and one of the collieries at Throckley, and Thomas Bates who owned Heddon Colliery and Brickworks. These industrialists needed an improved system of transport and joined forces to promote the scheme for the development of a public railway designed to serve their interests as well as possible new housing development in the Tyne Valley west of Newcastle extending out to Heddon and North Wylam. The original scheme, authorised by the Scotswood, Newburn and Wylam Railway and Dock Act of 1871 also included the construction of a new dock due east of the old Scotswood Suspension Bridge, but this part of the scheme was abandoned mainly due to problems of dredging. Construction of the line between Scotswood and Newburn was started in 1872 and completed in July 1875 with the extension to Wylam being opened as a single line in 1876. A second track was laid later that year {3}. This route had become largely redundant by the late 1960s and the line into Newcastle on the east was closed in 1982. Since then lines and trackside buildings have all been removed. Surviving features were recorded in 2008 including the bridges of the approach to Scotswood Station and walled-up tunnel portals on the North Wylam Line. {5}

A Quarry marked as Old on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1895.

A Shaft marked as Old on the 2nd edition OS mapping so was out of use by 1895.

Montague Colliery was opened in 1750 by William Benson, closed 1959. The Mickley Coal Company utilised part of Kitty's Drift (underground railway, HER 6959) in the 1930s to take coal from Caroline Pit to the screens at the closed View Pit. The colliery was run by the National Coal Board from 1947.