Opened as the Blue Parrot. One of the first nightclubs in the north-east. Then became The Golden Palace Chinese restaurant. In 1991 The Potter's Wheel closed as a fire but it reopened in 1992. Two storey building painted white. Timber painted black. New windows and shutters. Double pitched roof, barge boards and finial at gable end. Porch on columns.

In 1907 Miss Jackson was appointed head mistress of the infants section of Marley Hill Colliery School. As numbers increased a temporary infant school was opened for Sunniside residents in Sunniside on 23 April 1923. It was called Sunniside Temporary Council School.The school was housed in St. Cuthbert's church hall on Gateshead Road. There were 62 children aged up to 9 years. The hall was built in 1914, a pebble-dashed building with a hall and stage. In 1936 there were 74 pupils, taught in the same room in two classes. By 1955 an alcove had been partitioned off to form a staff room and the hall was separated into two teaching spaces by a curtain. School meals were prepared in Burnopfield and served in the hall. The parish hall had a scullery but no kitchen. In 1938 the school was used to diostribute gas masks. By April 1940 air raid shelters had been installed. The school closed in 1963. It stood empty until 1965 when it became a warehouse for a heating engineer. On 7 March 1970 the building burnt to the ground in a fire. A bungalow (High Trees) was built on the site. Locals knew the school as the White Elephant School. A 'temporary school' that lasted 52 years!

Hollen-bush (or Haydon Close) lay on the opposide side of the Watergate Burn to Marshall Lands (HER 16362). The two farms were annexed in the early 19th century, when Tom Rawling was tenant of both holdings. John Hall, son of Ralph Hall of Marley Hill, lived at Hollynbushe up to his death in 1574. He is buried at Whickham. He had six sons. His eldest, Ralphe, died in 1581. The other sons were called George, John, Jeffreye, Nicholas and Robert. There was also a daughter called Jane. George Hall was outlawed in 1595 for the murder of Ralph Hedworth. Hollen-bush was given to the Bishop of Durham. John Hall and his wife Margary lived at Hollen-bush in 1605. Richard Blenkinsop in 1619.

George Rawling and his wife Margaret lived in the second half of the 18th century. Margaret was the daughter of Edward Liddell of Ravensworth. Their son Thomas (1734-1809) married Elizabeth Maddison of St. James, London, in 1775 at Whickham Church. In 1802 their daughter Ann Rawling of Marshall Lands, married Joseph Dixon, Newcastle iron merchant. Before enclosure, Marshall Lands Farm had 30 acres of land. It was owned by Sir Thomas Henry Liddell of Ravensworth in 1798. George Maddison later took over the land. Joseph Hall (1791-1875) became the tenant farmer after enclosure, of 113 acres. His son and daughter Tom and Mary ran the farm until 1897. Before the First World War John Johnson was the farmer. Then John Barron up to 1932. Joseph Tate was tenant when Priestman Collieries Ltd owned the farm. His son Leslie continued in 1939. He also ran Washingwell Farm. In 1987 Will Oates of Ouston Spring Farms Ltd bought the 250 acres around Marshall Lands on which to grow oil seed rape and wheat. The old farmhouse was renovated in 1992 but it retains a 17th century doorway. A new farmhouse was built around 1900 and the original house became a farm labourers cottage.

Tiny cottage. In 1719 Cuthbert Newton lived here. In 1841 Catherine Hutchison and her daughter lived there. Catherine died in 1866 aged 90. The cottage was demolished by 1894. The site was buried under spoil from Watergate Pit. The site was reclaimed in 1993. It was opencast in 1995. A water gate, or flood gate, is used to stop a flow of water.

Watergate Lodge was the least used of all the entrances into the Ravensworth estate. It is nestled into watergate Bank.

Alongside the Marquis of Granby Public House there was a row of three cottages. These were demolished in the late 1930s. The Shorten family lived in one of them (Richard and Sarah and their children). They had moved there from Norfolk to find work. Richard died in 1900 aged 68. He was emploed at Marley Hill Cokeworks. There was another row of four cottages which were demolished around 1914. A single cottage separated the two rows. Altogether they were known as Streetgate Lane or Low Streetgate. Residents in the 1840s included Bob Fenwick, shoemaker, George Lamb, grocer, John Talbot, house carpenter, Francis Thynne, schoolmaster and former mariner. In 1851 Bob Patterson, brickmaker, lived there. He soon moved to Marley Hill Colliery to run the firebrick works. Bridget Neves, an Irish straw bonnet maker, and her mother Jane McAfrey, widow of a linen weaver, were also there in 1851. The houses eventually came to be occupied by railway workers (the pub is next to the Tanfield Railway), later cokeyard workers.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of c 1858. Two storey sandstone pub with ashlar quoins. Red tile roof. Sanstone chimneys. Sah windows. Brick extension. On the first edition map this little cluster of buildings is called Streetgate Lane. The pub is named after John Manners (1721-1770). He was a hero of the Franco-Prussian War 1756-1763. Britain was an ally of Prussia. Set in the front wall of the pub is a stone lintel from an earlier house inscribed '17 R T H 83'. This probably refers to Robert and Hannah Thirlaway of Streetgate Lane. They are buried in Whickham churchyard. Bill Dobson was landlord in 1841. In 1856 the pub was called the Granby Arms. In the 1860s Bill Laidman was landlord. He was also a brakesman on the railway. The pub was rebuilt around 1900 by Isaac Bewley of Dunston.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of c 1858. Pair of single storey sandstone cottages with slate roof. Brick chimneys. New windows. This whole cluster of buildings is called Ponticherry on the Ordnance Survey map.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of c 1858. Single storey sandstone cottages with slate roof. Flat roofed extension. New windows.