Welford recorded two mentions of this well: 1324: a tenement in Gateshead lay between the land of Gilbert the weaver and the vennel leading to St. Elyn's Well. 1356: St. Helen's Well Croft. St Helen's Street or Elyngate is first documented in 1270. This street may be associated with the well. Two fields west of the borough inside the Redheugh estate, were called Little St Helen's Close and St Helen's Close. Is this the location of the well? Dated C14th.

"In the year 1068, Northumberland was invaded, and the town now called Newcastle taken by Edgar Etheling, heir to the crown of England, together with Malcolm, King of Scotland, and some Danish pirates, whom William the Conqueror encountered in person, and overthrew on a heath adjoining to that place, and now called Gateshead Fell. Having recovered this place, King William is said to have laid it almost level with the ground, to prevent its becoming in future an asylum to his enemies". Dated C11th.

"Two years before, (i.e. in 1755), Martin's General Magazine reports the discovery of 'three small and very ancient Saxon coins' (stycas?, Longstaffe's query) on Gateshead Moor, near 'a skeleton, the bones of which lay compactly together and measured seven feet eight inches high, at seven feet depth from the surface, in a bed of stiff clay'".(1) Presumably Gateshead Fell is meant.

"Two years before, (i.e. in 1755), Martin's General Magazine reports the discovery of 'three small and very ancient Saxon coins' (stycas?) on Gateshead Moor, near 'a skeleton, the bones of which lay compactly together and measured seven feet eight inches high, at seven feet depth from the surface, in a bed of stiff clay'".(1) Miket translates Gateshead Moor into Gateshead Fell, and then gives a 6 figure grid reference locating the burial in Felling. Assuming the Fell ius really meant, then it could have been found on either of the two above maps. He also suggests the burial is prehistoric, and though solo ones usually are, they would hardly be found with coins.

In 1657 George Fox visited Newcastle for the second time, and it was then that his followers met in an old house in Pipewellgate, later a tavern called the Fountain. Probably in the same year they moved to Richard Ewbank's house in High Street; they were certainly there before the end of 1660. Knowles' drawing of the Fountain shows it to have been sited on the river's edge, and its ground floor to have been of stone, those above timber-framed. The roofs were pantiled, and the windows either mullioned or with the small panes reminiscent of Bessie Surtees. This building was still standing in 1890. When was it demolished?

The first meeting house of the Quakers in Gateshead was in Pipewellgate (1657 the second in High Street (in or before 1660). The burying ground adjoined the second house, and was located on the east side of High Street, approx. opposite the end of Swinburne Street, on land belonging to Richard Ewbank. In 1677 he was cited in the Archdeacon's court at Durham "for enclosing a burial place for sectaries". There is some disagreement as the period of use. Source 1 said he had "notice of burials here as early as 1655", while 3 gave 1660 and 2 1669 as the date of start. 1 and 3 believed interments ceased in 1698, the year in which the Newcastle burying ground was opened, though 2 thought they continued until 1724. There must be recourse to original sources to resolve this. Boyle reported a total of 101 burials. One was in 1679, Abagail Tizack, whose stone was later removed to Heaton Park.

In 1660 the Gateshead Friends' meeting house was in the High Street on property belonging to Richard Ewbank, i.e. they had left their first meeting house in Pipewellgate. Their burying place, which adjoined this second house, was in use until 1698. There were some repairs to the house in the 1680s, but the Friends were anxious to have a meeting house in Newcastle and duly opened one in 1698, the Gateshead one being closed in 1699. In 1731 the Gateshead site was reoccupied by Thomas Powell's almshouse which survived until 1947. The site appears to have been on the east side of High Street opposite the end of Swinburne Street.

"Sestertius of Hadrian found by J. Howie, 75 Dykelands Road, Sunderland, in 1962. Retained by finder", OS quoting Sunderland Museum record. Dated C2.

A perforated axe-hammer, "of impure ferruginous sandstone", was found in 1937 in clay at a depth of 3 feet on Nest House Estate, Felling, while the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company was laying mains. From the published site plan the OS calculates it was found in front of 3 Eastwood Gardens. "Length 233 mm, max width 98 mm, max thickness 80 mm, perf. 33 mm". Presented to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle by J.D. Cowen.

The earliest explicit reference to a mill at Swalwell is in Hatfield's Survey (c. 1382), when it was held communally by the tenants. As William Swalwell held the milldam it must be assumed to have been a watermill. But note that Boldon Buke (1183 survey of land belonging to the Bishop of Durham, Hugh du Puiset) records a mill under the heading of Whickham, and this may have referred to Swalwell. The Parliamentary Survey of 1647 lists "...a Water Corn Milne...called... Swalwell Milne...now quite decayed and fallen to the ground", as the only mill in the manor of Whickham. Bourn noted the existence of a watermill in the early C19. How many mills have there been (excluding those serving Crowley's works)? The 1770 map certainly shows one at approx. the above grid reference. Clavering and Rounding state that the mill at Swalwell sat on a millrace which was over 1/2 mile in length and ran from Damhead on the Derwent. Dated C14th.