A "wall of Roman tiles" was found on the north side of Livingstone Street between Baring Street and James Mather Street, two-thirds along length to the west.

Coin of Constantine found "at the crossing of Trajan Street and Roman Road… whilst laying gas pipe". Dated C4.

Close beside the paved road (SMR 1884) "a striking sculptured stone, which was conjectured with great probability to have been connected with some funeral monument. Near it also were the remains of a shallow stone trough".

Paved road found "...in the course of the excavations necessary to make Baring Street" [running north-south across Baring Street, between the junctions of Trajan Street and Vespasian Street.

Whitley was described in 1834 as "a very respectable and neat little village close to the sea". Its population was at that time 632. Edward Hall of Flatworth, breeder of the fat ox immortalised in one of Bewick's engravings, built Whitley Park in about 1789. The house was covered with white stucco. After Mr Hall's death in 1792, the Park was sold to John Haigh, a 'hostman'. In 1800 it was purchased by Thomas Wright of North Shields and in 1844 sold to J.H. Hinde. Later residents included Thomas Davison (in 1845), C.M. Palmer (in 1855) and T.W. Bulman (1869-79), whose widow occupied it until c.1891. After further changes of ownership, it became the Park Hotel in 1897, with most of the land being sold off for building purposes. In 1922 Whitley Park was bought for use as Council offices but was demolished in 1939. A library and a small park now occupy the site of what was left of the estate {1}.

The Hudsons had coal mines in Whitley from the late C17. Henry Hudson (1720-89) built this house in about 1760 (adding wings in 1776), replacing his earlier seat. His widow bequeathed it in 1815 to her neice Hannah Ellison, from whom it was purchased by the Duke of Northumberland. Later it was the residence of J.H. Friar (d.1855), Mrs Lydia Green, and then of M.W. Lambert (c.1873-93). Ultimately the small estate was offered to the Council as a park, but refused, and the Hall, on a site now occupied by the police station in Laburnum Avenue, was demolished in 1899 {1}.

Newbiggin Hall was built in the early C19, replacing an earlier house of the Hudson family. In 1828 it was the residence of Henry, son of Matthew Bell MP of Woolsington, who had purchased the estate. Later residents were Lt. Col. Charles James Reed, a brewer (c.1858-87), John Watson Spencer of Spencer's Steelworks in Newburn (from 1887), and from 1909 Gerald France MP. He died in 1935 and his wife Hilda (nee Bainbridge) in 1954. In the late 1950s the Hall was replaced with a public house; this in turn has been destroyed {1}.

Chirton House stood south-west of Hawkey's Lane, north of the present Waterville Road. It had been built in 1693 by Winifred Milbourne on the site of an older mansion. In the late 18th century it was the residence of Edward Collingwood (d.1783) and his son, also Edward (d.1805); it then descended to the latter's cousin, Admiral Lord Collingwood (1748-1810), who never lived at Chirton, although his wife and daughters did. Chirton House was sold in 1876 and demolished in 1899; a Co-operative store was erected on the site. {1}.

Wingrove House (along with Wingrove Cottage and, further to the north-west, Fenham White House) was demolished in about 1903, when its owner since 1866, the shipbuilder John Wigham Richardson (1837-1908), retired to Stocksfield. It stood on the north side of Westgate Road, just to the west of the junction with the present Wingrove Road. It had been built c.1847 for Lawrence Hewison, a corn factor {1}. A late 19th century photograph of the building (Newcastle Library) shows the building covered in Ivy with 6/6 sash windows.

Benwell Park was built, in neo-Elizabethan style, in 1853 for the barrister John P. Mulcaster. It lay south of the West Road, between the estates of Pendower House and Condercum House, in 4-5 acres near to the line of the Roman Wall. Mulcaster bought the plot for £1038-12-8d in 1853 from the Trustees of Thomas Crawhall the late owner of the Benwell Tower Estate. Mulcaster died in 1887, his wife died in 1912. In July 1913 the Mulcaster children sold the house to Edith McCarthy wife of the shipowner Leonard Macarthy. In December 1936 Benwell Park was purchased by local builders Hadden & Hillman for £5750. They demolished the house and redeveloped the site with an estate of semi-detached houses, called eponymously, Denhill Park. At the foot of Denhill Park are the remains of the Vallum Crossing which led to the south gate of Condercum fort.