Marked on the First edition Ordnance Survey plan next to a saw mill (HER ref. 3556) and New Inn. This flour mill formerly belonged to Anthony Foster. A "Foster" had a mill there in 1632. Adjoining it once stood a forge belonging to Clark Foster. The mill was still in use in the 1850s but had fallen out of use by 1898.

A plan of grounds belonging to Sir Thomas Clavering bart., shows a large group of buildings including a plating forge, blade or grinding mill, farm houses and cottages, a steel furnace, iron forge and charcoal yard all erected prior to 1750. Several barns, stables, a cow byre, anchor shop, cooperage and cartwright's workshop are amongst the buildings erected after 1750.

The railway has been dismantled, and other parts made into the Derwent Walk Country Park.

Buildings with an interesting architectural affinity to some of the earliest pithead baths built in the 1920s. The Miners Welfare Building is in plain brick with concrete pilasters terminating in twin flag poles and a canopy over entrance. It is now in community use.

Evidence of the old riverside village settlement remains in the form of a terrace of small shops and chandlers and other buildings {1}. Described by Whelan in 1856 as a village on the River Team, where there were several coal staiths. There were chapels belonging to the Primitive, Wesleyan and New Connexion Methodists. There was a National School and a Mechanics Institute.

This historic site closed only fairly recently. Although the unusual kilns have been demolished, some of the pantile roofed drying and manufacturing buildings still survive {1}. In 1830, G H Ramsay and Company built a new brickyard alongside Derwent Gut and began working the Henry pit for coal and fireclay. Fireclay was taken by steam locomotive from Swalwell colliery to the brickworks. In the 1850s the yard made gas retorts, salt glazed sanitary ware, and firebricks. By 1900 the works had expanded to become one of the largest firebrick works on Tyneside. There were two grinding mills, two pug mills, and two moulding floors. The yard had 36 kilns capable of burning seven million bricks per year; which were exported across the world.
In 1923, Adamsez of Scotswood bought the yard and traded under the name Adams-Pict firebrick Company. Fireclay was brought here from Scotswood and Scotland, to produce PICT a, PICT H, Adams-Pict, and Pict-Inso bricks. Pugged clay was taken by horse and cart to the moulding sheds. The drying flats were covered with concrete and heated from below by 40 open coal fires – a primitive method dating back to the 18th century. Bricks dried for 36 hours before being burned in the kilns. In 1920, a Belgian kiln was built at the works. In the late 1930s, this and 11 Newcastle kilns were in use. By 1970, only 15 men worked here. Although bricks were still moulded at the yard, they were burned at Scotswood, and it was rare that the Newcastle kilns were used.
(Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 133, site 22, 137-8 (table on 137 notes that the works had a large trade with Poland and the Baltic countries))
1830-1970s?

There have been buildings on this site since at least Ordnance Survey first edition.By the third edition a large building on the site is named as Derwent Brass Works and this survives today [2006]. The existing building is built of yellow brick, but incorporates a west elevation of roughly hewn and roughly coursed stone, supported by yellow brick buttresses. First floor windows have a brick arch above and bricks laid on face below. The southern elevation is of modern red brick.

The site of this Iron Pipe Bridge is beside the road bridge (HER ref. 3630) on the south side of the river.

Suspension bridge over River Derwent, built 1903 to replace an earlier wooden structure, and recently repaired extensively. The only suspension bridge in Tyne and Wear {1}. A steel suspension bridge, unique in the area, built in 1903 by D. Rowell of Willesden for access to allotments {2}. The Sands suspension bridge, known locally as the Hikey Bidge, was built in 1903 to link the allotments on either side of the River Derwent.