Air raid shelter discovered in the 1990s under the playground. The walls were made of pre-fabricated concrete and there was a flight of steps down into it with brick walls. Another shelter may have been found under David Brown's premises opposite on Victory Street.

Bungalows built by the Osborne Trust Ltd. Streets were Addistone, Beaufront Park, Chipchase, Hedgeley, Lesbury Ave, Longridge Dr, Monkridge, Monkseaton Dr, Nunnykirk, Otterburn Ave, The Riding, Rothley Way, Sandhoe.

William Durant had come to Newcastle in 1645 appointed by the common council to St. Nicholas' lecture at a salary of £80. He was one of the most prominent local dissenting ministers during the Protectorate. He married a sister of James Clavering. In May 1662 the Act of Uniformity was passed which made the use of the new Book of Common Prayer compulsory and required that clergymen who had not been ordained by a bishop were reordained. As an Independent, Durant was ejected from All Saints Church by the Act of Uniformity on 24 August 1662. William Durant had a house in Pilgrim Street (site of Tyneside Cinema) from which he secretly preached to a congregation largely drawn from St. Nicholas but also from All Saints. When he died in 1681 he was denied burial in consecrated ground because he was a dissenter. He was buried in his garden. His son, John, laid a stone over the gave which read [in Latin]: JOHN DURANT, HIS SON, IN GREAT GRIEF AND SORROW AND AS AN ACT OF DUTY AND PIETY, PLACED THIS MARBLE GRAVESTONE OVER THE BODY OF HIS VENERABLE FATHER, WILLIAM DURANT M.A., BY THE GRACE OF GOD, A MOST FAITHFUL PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN THIS CITY. JOSHUA, CHAPTER 24, VERSES 29, 30, 32 AND 33. 1681". The house stood near the gates of Newe House (HER 4931) until Sir Walter Blackett acquired the mansion and demolished the house to build stables. The gravestone was kept under the stairs in the stables, the place named 'dead man's hole' by the stablemen. Richard Grainger later demolished the stables and recovered the gravestone. In 1811 George Anderson of Anderson Place presented it to Rev. William Turner, Unitarian minister in Hanover Square (HER 7688) and it was placed in the chapel yard. It was subsequently built into the new Church of the Divine Unity (HER 5970) in New Bridge Street in 1854 and transferred to the new Unitarian Church in Ellison Place (HER 6245) in 1939, where it is located on the wall in the outer vestibule. William Durant is considered to be the 'Father of the Congregation' of the Church of the Divine Unity. After his death, in 1683, his congregation joined that of Richard Gilpin M.D. at the New Meeting in Close Gate (HER 15803).

Dr Richard Gilpin was the first minister at the New Meeting, Close Gate. In 1683 the congregation who used to meet in the house of William Durant (died in 1681) in Pilgrim Street joined that of Gilpin.

In 1879 a drill hall was constructed on Livingstone Road for the training of local military divisions and beneath it a large bottle (discovered in 1926) was buried as a time capsule containing two Sunderland newspapers, coins and a list of officers from the Rifle Volunteer Corps. The drill hall was later occupied by branches of the Durham Light Infantry and the Territorial Army.

This field was used as a parade ground by the Durham Light Infantry and the Territorial Army so became known as Garrison Field. It roughly occupied the land from the fire station northward to the courts. Garrison Field also become the parade ground for the first ever Scout troop. Formed by Colonel Ernest Vaux of the famous brewing family, the troop became known as 'Vaux Own - Sunderland No 1'. On 22nd February 1908 Lt. Gen. Baden Powell, founder of the Scout Movement, inspected the first ever scout parade on Garrison Field. At the event he handed each one of the newly-recruited scouts the small ‘fleur de lys’ insignia badge that was to become the famous emblem for the Scouts. For decades Garrison Field was used for fairs or events, often featuring steam organs, roundabouts, stalls and shows. The open space is now gone, with a car park occupying much of this spot.

A competition was held for designing the courts, police station and fire station. The challenge was to design and construct these buildings within an unusual shaped island of land bordered by Dun Cow Street and the High Street to the south and Gilbridge Avenue to the north west. The winners were Sunderland architects William Milburn (1850-1935) and Thomas Ridley Milburn (1862-1943). The magistrates’ court incorporating the former police station, employed a style of Edwardian Baroque with impressively stern architectural features that were in keeping with its serious judicial role. This is particularly noticeable in the building’s clock tower, a lantern tower that is square in form, quite different from the rounded copper domes of the Empire and the neighbouring pubs. The old court building (HER 4802) remains one of Sunderland’s most prominent buildings, though its police office was superseded by a modern police station on the neighbouring site. This modern police station, of brutal concrete design, dates from 1972.

Built in 1858. In 1890 the Borough surveyor R.S. Rounthwaite remodelled and expanded the High Street public baths in classical style. It was the first public baths facility in the north east to be financed under the 1846 Baths and Wash Houses Act. The building has now gone, demolished in 1988, but its impressive portico entrance and clock were carefully dismantled and neatly incorporated into the modern Inland Revenue offices of Gilbridge House in 1992.

C15. Same type as that in St. Nicholas' Cathedral, but the upper stage has specially large, eight-light 'windows' with Perpendicular panel tracery.

In 1893 the North East Station Hotel's billiard room was sumptuously refurbished. It featured colourful glazed terracotta decoration by the Leeds firm Burmantofts. Only the ceiling tiles now survive. The building is now Destination Bar. Billiards, a French game that had been played in Britain since at least the 16th century, was especially popular in the 19th century. Bespoke rooms were fitted out in pubs, working mens' institutes, gentlemen's clubs, private mansions and hotels.