Borough Turnpike Toll House.

Windmill, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so out of use by 1856 {1}. Windmill Hills was one of the areas of medieval common land of Gateshead. From the Middle Ages Gateshead was one of the main centres of milling in County Durham. MacKenzie, in his "History of Durham" published in 1834 wrote that Windmill Hills was "studded with corn mills which, seen at a distance, impart a lively and picturesque effect to the landscape". Richardson's mid 19th century engraving of the area shows ten mills in the area, seven on Windmill Hills. In style these were windmills of the post-mill variety, having timber bodies and sails set upon brick or stone roundhouses, some of which were later turned into dwellings. All of Gateshead's mills were closed by 1890 and a report in the Evening Chronicle in 1927 marks the demolition of the last of the old windmills on Windmill Hills {2}. Windmill Hills has long formed an important open space close to the western edge of Gateshead. Early usage is likely to have been agricultural but by the C17 its elevated situation was recognised as useful for wind powered milling. In the later 18th century and19th century the Windmill Hills were used by the local militia as an exercise ground and by the populace of the town for recreational purposes. In 1861 it became Gateshead's first public park {3}. The borough-holders and freemen owned a mill on Windmill Hills known as the Borough Mill, which they leased out to a tenant. In 1837 it was advertised as "a large brick mill, situate on the Windmill Hills, Gateshead. There is a dressing mill, two pairs of large French stones, a pair of Blue stones, two dressing cylinders and a barley mill, ready for use; together with a neat garden, a small close of grass, large granary, dwelling house, stable, spacious yard and other appurtenances". The mill was not let and so was demolished and replaced by housing. The last mill on Windmill Hills was demolished in 1927 as recorded in the Newcastle Chronicle of 31 July 1927.

A Coal Shaft, marked as Old on the 1st edition OS mapping, so out of use by 1856.

Rabbitbanks Firebrick Works. 1847-1870
(Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 133, site 11)

Stourbridge Firebrick and Sanitary Pipe Works. Established in 1853 by J. Snowball and a Mr Walker. Survived until at least 1885. Another manufactory by R.T. Wardman was being operated in Pipewellgate in 1861. The last brickworks in Pipewellgate was the Tees Scorrie Brick Company, working in 1890. In 1853, James Snowball and Mr Walker established a firebrick works at Pipewellgate, Gateshead. In the 1860s it made salt-glazed sanitary pipes. In 1875, J Snowball and Sons established another works at Swalwell, trading under the name Stourbridge. The Pipewellgate works were sold in 1885.
(Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 136)

The Greenesfield Works was for many years the largest employer in the town. It was opened in the 1850s and by the early years of 20th century over 3,000 men relied on it for their livelihood. But the cramped site limited its expansion and in 1910 locomotive building was transferred to a new works at Darlington. Locomotive repairing continued at Greenesfield until 1932 when that ceased also; the works reopened during the Second World War but was finally closed in 1959. The hotel is listed Grade II. The Station Hotel of 1844 is a stone building whose unmodified façade to the north is plain, with 7 bays and a hipped roof. It ceased to be a hotel in 1850 when the adjacent railway station closed to passenger traffic. The hotel was extended and converted into offices for the works in c.1869. The boiler shop was built c.1871. There is also a smith's shop, pattern shop, L-shaped office block, 1851-2 railway workshop, Western Pacific Shed - the largest building on the site, built in the mid-late C20, and the 1844 train shed. A red sandstone parapet wall built on a base of reused firebricks survives. Extensive areas of wood block paving associated with the smith's shops has been recorded. The sandstone retaining walls onto Rabbit Banks Road are of interest. There is an incised cross at one end, possibly a reused boundary marker relating to the Bishop Of Durham's lands above Pipewellgate. Now Ochre Yards residential complex.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. This may have been the concern of John Whinfield who owned an iron foundry in Pipewellgate in the 18th century. In 1798, Whinfield became the sole agent for Andrew Meikle's threshing machine and in 1803 the sole agent for Richard Trevithick's locomotive engine. Between 1804-5, a prototype railway locomotive was built and used as a stationary engine in the Pipewellgate foundry. Whinfield then lost the agency.

Durham Glass Works. Opened in 1820 by Joseph Price.

In 1828 Thomas Doubleday and Anthony Easterby, Newcastle manufacturers, sought to change the use of some land at Gateshead from the manufacture of whale oil to oil of vitriol. The high price of alkali led them to use recovered soaper's salts. The first sulphuric acid chambers on the Tyne had been set up for this purpose in 1809 at Bill Quay.

Colour Works.