The Deans Primrose Staiths were two staiths that were served by wagonway, SMR 2222.

The Eighton Moor Staiths were also two staiths that were served by wagonway, SMR 2222.

The Irpeth Staiths were two staiths that were supplied by wagonway, SMR 2222.

Hotspur Brickworks, adjacent to Backworth Colliery 'C' Pit, (SMR 1057). H Foster and Company made bricks at Backworth from 1877 to 1967, when it was one of the major producers of fireclay goods in North East England. The works’ laboratory site was traditionally known as the Pottery, and it is thought that earthenware was made here in the late 19th century. In the 1930s, red house-building bricks were made and sold under the trade name of HOTSPUR. At this time, the works comprised three Bradley and Craven machine presses, a pug-mixer extruder for firebricks and three power-assisted Titley presses.
The most important period seems to have been in the 1930s making Foster High Grade bricks and Foster Crown refractory bricks. In the early 1930s, the yard had three Belgian kilns and about 20 Newcastle kilns.
In the Second World War, the company supplied fireclay goods to the Admiralty. After the war (in 1945) house-brick manufacture ceased and only refractory products were made; the Hotspur bricks became defunct.
After 1945 domestic brick production ceased and the works became an international exporter of refractory bricks for lining blast furnaces and ships' boilers, with exports made to Canada, Australia, South Africa, India, Turkey, France, Spain, Belgium and Luxembourg.
In 1948 Belgian kiln No.5 was built, it was the only oil fired one and all the Newcastle kilns were disused. The works were taken over in 1955 by General Refractories Ltd., with fireclay being brought in from a variety of places including Blaydon Burn and Backworth Eccles pit. Mining subsidence forced closure in 1967.

This building is an early example of the use of ferro-concrete in a leisure building. It was designed by Cackett & Burns Dick the dome being built for Whitley Pleasure Gardens Ltd in 1908-10. It is 50ft in diameter and made of reinforced concrete 6" thick {1}. Theatre and amusement arcade. 1908-10 by Cackett and Burns Dick for Whitley Pleasure Gardens Ltd; L.G. Mouchel engineer. Patent Hennebique ferro-concrete; bronze statues. Free Baroque style. 2-storey 3-bay main block flanked by 3-storey towers and one-storey 4-bay wings. Central dome has colonnaded lantern and iron finial; drum has 12 round windows in projecting panels. Towers crowned by bronze statues of cymbal players {2}. Spanish City is a collection of seaside pleasure buildings and grounds comprising a theatre, shops, leisure and amusement rooms and the large rotunda hall with dome. The funfair has now gone. The dome was listed in 1986. Previous alterations subdivided the Rotunda, lost detail of the East Range main elevation (includes the towers, shops and restaurant) and the removal of the roof terrace loggias. The East Range fronts onto the Promenade and includes 10 ground floor shops. Those that are in the wings either side of the main entrance each have a roof terrace, but the original loggias have been removed. The East Range also includes a first floor restaurant above the main entrance, a hall behind the north wing, converted to a cinema, later an amusement arcade, ancillary accommodation behind the south wing and two stair towers. The Rotunda is the circular element beneath the dome linking the East Range, theatre and grounds together. It was designed as a two storey space but a first floor has been inserted to create a ground floor amusement arcade, first floor nightclub, second floor roof promenade around the dome. There is a later single-storey extension to the west. The theatre or Empress Ballroom adjoins the rotunda to the south. It has a first floor gallery, a foyer to the rear of the theatre, built as single-storey but now two, a 1920s extension, a single-storey east extension and two-storey west extension. The East Range was originally flanked to the north west by a concrete wall with panelled piers, enclosing the grounds. This was replaced in 1924 with a row of 5 shops. These survive but are altered. The name Spanish City came from its beginnings as an open air variety theatre on the Rockcliff Rugby Football Club's playing field in Whitley Park. In 1904 Charles Elderton of the Theatre Royal, Hebburn, brought his Toreadors concert party to perform there. They performed on a wooden platform and the audience, sitting on wooden benches, were protected from the rain by a wood and canvas awning painted to look like an old Spanish town. On 6th June 1908 Elderton erected temporary premises in Whitley Park which could accommodate 5000 people and he named it Spanish City. By August 1908 the site had been purchased by Whitley Amusements Ltd and plans for the present building were approved on 4th January 1910. Recorded by TWM in 2008 ahead of proposed redevelopment of the site.

Cullercoats Harbour used to be a salt (see HER 5480) and coal harbour - these operations had ceased by the mid-18th century. A wooden pier was built in 1677. Cullercoats Port was put under the charge of the Custom House Officer at Blyth when permission was granted for the export of coal from the pier, which had been built by the partners of Whitley Colliery (Thomas Dove, John Carr, John Rogers and Henry Hudson) and Lady Elizabeth Percy, heiress of the 11th Earl of Northumberland. Between 1681 and 1688 Captain Granville Collins in his yacht "Merlin" made a survey of the coast of Britain published as "Great Britain's Coasting Pilot". "Collar Coates" is described as "a pier where vessels enter at high water and to load coals and lie dry at low water. The going in of this place is between several rocks. The way in is beacon'd". In 1710 the wooden pier was damaged in a storm. Trade from Cullercoats was stifled following the Jacobean Uprising of 1715 when Papists and Quakers (Cullercoats residents being largely Quakers) were kept under surveillance. In 1723-4 78 vessels left Cullercoats harbour with coal, and in 1724 758 tons of salt was shipped from Cullercoats, in ships like the "St Michael" of London. The "Fortune" left Cullercoats with 21 tons of salt in 1726. Oats and wool were also exported in ships like the "George and John". The harbour's prosperity came to an end when the collieries closed by 1724 and the salt pans moved to Blyth in 1725. Despite its small size, Cullercoats Harbour had its own registered sailing ships. The "Triton" was lost in 1755 en route to Hamburg. The master, George Heslop was lost, but the crew were rescued. Ships were frequently wrecked on the rocks at Cullercoats - the tragic wreck of the "Lovely Nelly" in 1861 is depicted in a painting by John Charlton - "The Women", 1907. The barque "Warrior" was wrecked on Brown's Point in October 1864, the steamer "Warkworth Castle" in November 1876 and the brig "Astley" in October 1887. Hence the importance of the Cullercoats Volunteer Life Brigade (see HER 5059, 5057 and 2215). Cullercoats was also of course a fishing village and the harbour was used by the fishing vessels. The village was noted for its "fisherwomen" who sold fish from baskets in the surrounding countryside when the boats came home. The Cullercoats fishwives used the new electric train from 1903 to sell their fish at Newcastle.

The Volunteer Life Brigade Watch House, Tynemouth. This Life Brigade was the first in the country to be formed, founded in 1864 by Joseph and John Foster Spence after the 'Stanley' was wrecked on the Black Middens. Its purpose was to save lives by firing rocket-borne lines and breeches buoy to shipwrecks. The Black Midden rocks in the Tyne were the cause of much loss of life. The Watch House was built in 1886 and is still in use for its original purpose and also contains a small museum. By C.T. Gomoszynski, Borough Engineer. Weatherboarding on painted rendered plinth. Right return has painted brick chimney stack. Welsh slate roof with wood finials and ventilator. H-plan. One storey flanked by left and right towers. Sash windows. Rear elevation has 4-panelled door. Sliding storm shutters. Listed mainly for historic interest. The museum displays artefacts, pictures and figureheads from shipwrecks including those from 'The Light of the Harem', a schooner which sank on 8 Feb 1870, 'First of May; which sank on 21 Dec 1876, 'Hannah and Eleanor', a brigantine which sank on 7 Feb 1883, 'Peggy' a schooner which sank on 13 October 1891, 'Fame' a brigantine, 20 Oct 1894, 'Rupert', brigantine, 24 Dec 1895 and 'The Diamant', Norwegian barque, 26 March 1898.

The Cullercoats Volunteer Life Brigade was founded in 1865. On the 20th November 1894 Captain N. H. Foote inspected the lifeboat house. It had been built for the 'Percy' in 1852. Foote found it 'too narrow and confined, in fact very old fashioned'. He suggested that the Co-operative Wholesale Society, who had provided the lifeboat, might be persuaded to update the building. Mr Leeson the secretary made the application, which was successful. The old lifeboat house was demolished and a new one built to designs by Oliver & Leeson by CWS workmen. The formal opening was on 8th August 1896, with a procession and an exhibition at the Plaza.
The lifeboat house was listed Grade II in 2013 with the following description:
Details
Lifeboat House, 1897; slightly later bell tower.
MATERIALS: red brick with sandstone ashlar dressings; timber cladding and barge boards to the upper parts and a pitched roof of slate.
PLAN: situated at the foot of the cliffs, the rectangular building is oriented north west to south-east with the south east gable facing the sea; tower attached to the left.
EXTERIOR: this two-storey gabled boathouse has wide replacement double doors, with timber cladding and some original square ventilation grilles above; four vertical rectangular ventilation grilles have been replaced with glazing to light the inserted first floor room. Decorative barge boards bear an inscription in large wooden script based on Psalm107:6:
'So.when.they.cry.unto.me.in.their.trouble.He.delivereth.them.out.of.their.distress.&.bringeth.them.unto.the.haven.where.they.would.be'.
The left return has a pair of rectangular windows and a central projecting tower with similar windows lighting the ground floor. The tower has a crow-stepped left side and a crenellated top surmounted by an open timber belfry with a cupola roof and decorative finial; the bell and its frame remain in situ. The rear elevation has a plain crow-stepped gable. The modern two-bay extension to the right is not of special interest and is not included in the listing. INTERIOR: wainscoting with exposed red brick walls above, incorporating a narrow band of red and white glazed brick; an inset stone foundation stone is set into the north west gable wall. The north east wall has a pair of original camber-headed windows fitted with small panes. The timber roof has three large trusses, one of which is now only visible from within the first floor loft room; the latter is supported by an inserted RSJ which spans the width of the building. The inserted room is accessed by an inserted stair placed alongside the south west wall.
The C21 extension to the North is not included in this listing.

Shipyard, with docks and slipways. This may be an expansion of SMR 2103 and/or 2104, or a new yard built on the same site. The shipyard also occupied the sites of the Willington Smelting Works and the Willington Staith, (SMRs 2101, 2102 respectively).

Wallsend Slipway Co. Ltd. was founded on 18th November 1871 as a limited liability company by a number of Tyne shipbuilders (Charles Mitchell and Co.; Watts, Milburn and Co.; and Nelson, Donkin and Co.) to repair ships for their yards. William Boyd became managing director in 1874, and the company gradually, began to extend operations to construct and fit boilers and engines. To reflect this change in the nature of the company, in 1878 its name was changed to Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co. Ltd. In the early 1880s, the works was considerably extended and the emphasis on engine work increased although limited ship repairing was continued (a graving dock was constructed in the yard in 1895). Andrew Laing became general manager of the company in 1896, subsequent to which turnover was increased and the yard expanded. In 1899 it won its first Admiralty order for the construction and fitting of engines of British Navy ships (HMS Espiegle was this first order. She was provided with 1,400 hp triple expansion engines) but the yard had already carried out work on naval ships as sub-contractors for Armstrongs. The company gained a reputation for well-constructed quadruple expansion engines, providing them for the Swan Hunter built Cunard liners Ivernia and Carpathia.
Swan, Hunter and Co. and Wigham Richardson secured financial control of Wallsend Slipway in 1903, leading directly to what was probably the most famous order for the yard, the turbine engines (70,000 shp) of the Cunard Liner Mauretania, on which work began in June 1905 and continued up to June 1908. Naval orders for turbine engines included those for HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Malaya, HMS Superb and HMS Nelson.
In the late 1960s, Swan Hunters switched work at Wallsend Slipway away from main engine production to boilers and general engineering work. In 1977, Wallsend Slipway became a member of British Shipbuilders as part of the Tyne Shiprepair Group. Its name changed to Wallsend Slipway Engineers in 1978. The yard was closed in ??? and the site taken over by AMEC in ????.
Map Evidence
First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 Inches to One Mile (Sheet //////) 1858
In 1858 the site lay within the intertidal zone of the River Tyne, forming a mud flat at the confluence of Willington Gut (Wallsend Dene) with the Tyne. Land to the east of the site had been previously extended into these mudflats and walled and consolidated and was in use as Willington (copper) Smelting Works.
Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 Inches to One Mile (Sheet /////) 1899
By this time, the mouth of Willington Gut had been consolidated and the Willington Engineering Works had been established on the site. The river front is shown as a consolidated and walled quayside with openings for a graving dock and a slipway. Some form of regular frontage extended for a distance along the western bank of the Gut. An irregular area is then demarcated behind the frontage which is described as ‘Mud’. Structures within the site consist of a graving dock to the west (which runs at a slight angle to the riverside, conforming with the western property boundary of the site) and a central slipway which runs parallel with the dock. There are ranges of buildings on the northern fringe of the site and a large structure to the east of the slipway, along with a number of smaller buildings. Rail lines run fairly comprehensively between buildings and alongside the graving dock and the slipway. On the third edition of 1912 the yard has extended to the west into an area previously owned by the now closed Union Cement Works where a reservoir associated with the cement works has been retained. The yard's graving dock remains, but the eponymous slipways in the centre of the site have now been removed and the river frontage made continuous in the area where a large overhead crane, running on a complex of rail lines, has been installed. Buildings within the yard remain on similar alignments to those shown on the Second Edition Survey but have been replaced with more extensive structures. The extensive alterations to the yard are related to the construction of the turbine engines for the TS Mauretania, as part of the Swan Hunter group, work on which began at Wallsend Slipway in 1905. On the fourth edition survey on 1924, the buildings have been replaced with bigger constructions and the reservoir has been levelled {2}.