Wagonway shown on a "Throckley Plan dated back 150 years from 1863" which presumably dates to circa 1713, although the plan also shows the "Millitary Road" which was not built until 1751 (NRO ref. NRO 536/1). The wagonway linked Honey Pit (SMR 1956) to Meadow Pit (SMR 3953). Also shown on a plan of 1769 "A Plan of the enclosed lands in the lordship of Throckley in Northumberland, 1769" (NRO ref NRO 536/2) with Hill Pit (SMR 3952) added along its line and on "A Plan of the Inclosed lands of Throckley" of 1781 (NRO ref ZAN M17/197/A/37). The wagonway is not shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of 1858 so was presumably out of use by this date {1}. An evaluation trench was cut across the line of the wagonway in July 2002. It was found to be of 3 phases. The earliest phase was a low-lying trackbed only 0.45m below modern ground level, at least 2.30m wide, cut into the natural subsoil. There was no evidence of sleepers or rails. To the east of this was an upcast bank comprising of re-deposited natural soil. The bank was 0.40m high and was 2.60m wide. On the west was a ditch, 1.18m wide and 0.38m deep. It had been infilled with crushed coal when it went out of use. A single stakehole was found cut into the western side of the ditch, presumably representing a simple fenceline. The second phase of the wagonway involved the infilling of the putative trackbed and western side of the bank and the levelling of the eastern side, to create a broad embankment at least 4.20m wide and 0.40m high. To the east, a broad shallow ditch was excavated, 2.30m wide and 0.20m deep. This too was filled with crushed coal when it went out of use. The third phase re-defined and deepened the wagonway's eastern boundary ditch. The wagonway went out of use in the late 18th century when Honey and Hill pits were closed and the area reverted to agricultural land {2}. A subsequent watching brief found that the wagonway was multi-phase. Ten groups of sleeper impressions were recorded, representing a single track wagonway diverging into a fan of sidings leading to Hill Pit. Two phases of trackside ditches were recorded.

During an evaluation in 2015 a section of the waggonway embankment and drainage ditch were exposed without the track or trackbed.

In September 1870 the Throckley Coal Company determined upon building day schools for the children of its employees, and the following year a site was chosen on the north side of the Hexham turnpike, belonging to the Lords of the Admiralty, at a cost of 1/- per annum. The school buildings, constructed of local sandstone after 1872, cost £1,293.16.4d. About the same date a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built immediately west of the schools (the chapel was demolished in 1998/9 and has been replaced by two houses). The school was opened in 1873, a fact recorded on a sign adjacent to the main entrance and on a commemorative stained glass window inside. The Throckley Colliery School was later renamed Throckley Undenominational School. The capacity of the school was extended in the early C20, and during the Second World War air raid shelters were built on the north side of the playground. The original stone school buildings were altered and adapted throughout the C20, eventually becoming united into a single range.

Honey Pitt or Money Pitt (caption is faded) is shown on a "Throckley Plan dated back 150 years from 1863" which presumably dates to circa 1713, although the plan also shows the "Millitary Road" which was not built until 1751 (NRO 536/1). Honey Pit was joined to Meadow Pit (SMR 3953) by a waggonway (SMR 1958). Honey Pit is not shown on an estate map of 1781 (NRO ref. ZAN M17/197/A/37), nor on early OS mapping so had presumably closed by 1781 {1 and 2}.

A cup-and-ring marked sandstone block was recovered from Throckley Bank Top circa 1985 during ploughing by the farmer of Throckley House. The stone was found about 20 yards north of where it is now lying (its now in woodland). It measures 1m x 0.5m and the cup and ring is approximately 0.20m. Probably weighs around 150kg. In 2004 a stone "bowl" was found in the same vicinity. Left in-situ {1}. The motifs are on the underside and the stone has been turned over for its protection. A large block of sandstone, pointed at one end, where there are eight large cups, generally paired. There is a large cup in the centre of the rock with two irregular grooves around it. Above it is a large cup at the centre of two concentric grooves. Other motifs include a large cup with two large arcs and three cups around it, one with a groove running to the edge of the rock {England's Rock Art and Beckensall original record 807}.

Brick built structure, assumed to be a pillbox (marked as such by OS). Located at entrance to tunnel complex which runs under Jesmond Dene House (SMR 1953). Presumably offered protection to the Home Guard HQ entrances.

Compex of tunnels with an entrance in Jesmond Dene House (still accessible) and three entrances in Jesmond Dene (now blocked up). The three entrances in the dene are marked by attractive stone posts with cross decoration, which look like they are of compatible date with the house (early C19). Likely that the tunnels were originally perhaps used by the household as cold stores and servants entrances. Today the tunnels are clearly of 20th century appearance resembling air raid shelters, being reinforced with concrete arched ceilings. A brick built pillbox (SMR 1954) lies adjacent to the tunnel entrances in the dene. Jesmond Dene House was the HQ of No. 5 Platoon, Number 2 Company, part of the 12th Battalion Northumberland Home Guard in World War Two. It was, in 1940, used for the training of the squads in the care of arms, musketry and squad drill. The house soon proved unsuitable for training and new headquarters were established at Heaton Secondary School.

The area now partly occupied by Clifford's Fort was settled prior to the medieval town proper (began by Prior Germanus around the year 1225 see SMR 183). "Into the Tyne on the north side, at the point where the banks begin to trend away north and south and the river finds a broader channel, there flows a little stream called the Pow burn, which now finds a vent through a conduit into the river, but was once an important tributary, called 'le Pull' or 'Pwl', the stream or water. Here there were three fishers' huts or shiels. At the end of the thirteenth century no one knew how long they had stood there. The fishermen of Tynemouth had always made use of them and put out and in at this point. There was a wharf here. In September 1819, in digging to make gas tanks at the Low Lights in the Pow dean, the workmen came, at a distance of twelve feet six inches from the surface, on a framing of large oaken beams, as black as ebony, pinned together with wooden trenails, the whole forming a pier to which vessels drawing nine or ten feet of water had come. Large oak trees were also found embedded in the mud, hollowed out as if to convey water" {1}.

The Ellison family acquired the manor of North Hebburn in 1658, South Hebburn in 1777. An estate plan of 1768 shows a symmetrical c-plan house with elaborate formal gardens to the south east. The building is quite unlike the hall of 1790, probably a Palladian style house of later seventeenth century or early eighteenth century date. Fordyce gave a date of 1700 for the rebuilding of Hebburn Hall. The hall of 1790, possibly by William Newton, is a typical neo-classical country house, originally entered from the south-west. Inside are plaster ceilings, probably the ones that Joseph Rose was paid for in 1792. Alterations of 1819 by Dobson for Cuthbert Ellison. Probably include the fine Venetian door and round arched windows in the north-west front. The hall was used as an infirmary between 1897 and 1976. In the First World War it was in use as an auxiliary hospital by the Joint War Committee (British Red Cross and the Order of St John of Jerusalem). The committee was ordered to raise and organise Voluntary Aid Detachments (VADs) trained in First Aid and Nursing. The nurses were a mixture of qualified nurses and volunteers (mostly middle-class women). Many hospitals were set up in large houses on loan to the Red Cross during the war. VAD hospitals received the sum of 3 shillings per day per patient from the War Office. Hebburn Hall was run by the 18th Durham VA Hospital Unit. During the use of the building as an infirmary an external fire escape was added, stud partition walling and additional fireplaces on the second floor. Hebburn Hall lay abandoned and vandalised between 1976 and 1978. Then it was leased to the Freemasons who restored and renovated the building, including the original symmetrical arrangement of the openings. The Masonic Lodge closed in 1999, when the Hall was purchased to be converted for residential use. The west side of the Hall was converted into 3 dwellings in 2001. The east side is being converted [2007].

Built in 1701 of brick with a central frontispiece with octagonal lantern above, square clock tower and Dutch gables, the building encloses a central courtyard. The hospital provided accommodation for widows and children of deceased keelmen, or for those who were ill or destitute. The money for the Hospital was raised by a levy of 4d (2p) a tide on the keelmen themselves. It cost £2000. Scene of a violent murder on New Year's Day 1829, when Jane Jameson, a fishwife, murdered her mother in a drunken rage, Jameson's trial and execution drew huge crowds, because she was the first woman to be publicly hanged in Newcastle for 71 years. The building is now used as student accommodation. Thomas Oliver (1844) reports that the keelmen had a charitable fund in 1697 and in 1788 an act was passed for establishing a permanent fund for those Tyneside keelmen unable to maintain themselves. In 1729 about 200 keelmen formed themselves into a benefit society to regulate the hospital and keep it in repair. On the ground floor there was a central door from which two passages led. At the end of the passages were 4 staircases, each with 17 steps and 28 rooms. On the first floor there were another 26 rooms and a club room. There were conveniences adjoining the boundary walls of the site. MCCombie - architect unknown. Plain brick quadrangle of 1701-4. It was paid for by levying a penny a tide on the keelmen who lived in crowded Sandgate. In the centre of the south range is a square, domed tower with sundial and clock (HER 12218). Pilasters in three orders flank the pedimented plain doorcase and at the angles of the tower, which has a commemorative panel. Dormers with shaped gables, slightly clumsy scroll decoration and central lozenges, all brick. The whole has been much repaired and restored: no visible evidence of the rear tower of C18 illustrations. The retaining wall was recorded in 2009 by TWM.

A nonconformist chapel dedicated to the resident and visiting sailors, built in 1875 to the design of Thomas Oliver, with a later Sunday School room added in 1900 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood. Of jaunty appearance and recently restored it now acts as offices and accommodation for meetings. Sandstone retaining wall at left. Brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. I H S carved in shield above double door. Quatrefoil light over. Gargoyles flank window in apse. Seamen's nonconformist chapel. 1875 by Thomas Oliver. Sunday School room 1900 by Oliver, Leeson and Wood. Sandstone ashlar retaining wall at left; brick with
ashlar dressings; roof of small thick dark slates; lead-covered flèche. Built
on steep slope: main elevation to Horatio Street 2 storeys; rear to City Road one
storey. 3 left bays; 3-bay chapel at right. Third, entrance, bay under gable has
square-headed double door with nook shafts; IHS carved in shield above.
Quatrefoil light over. 2 left bays under gable have tall sashes with trefoiled
heads above retaining wall. Stone mullioned-and-transomed window over door.
Cusped lancets to chapel, and tall 2-light east window in 3-sided apse with
head-stopped drip-mould; gargoyles flank this window under gable. Steeply-
pitched hipped roof to chapel with tall round central flèche on belfry. A
prominent landmark above the Quayside. Etched glass canopy by Cate Watkinson 2000. Now offices.