Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map of 1897. Associated with the Convent of the Good Shepherd (HER 13249).

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map of 1897. In the 1891 census, 25 female inhabitants of the Convent of the Good Shepherd (which stood opposite the laundry) were listed as laundry workers.

Benton Grange was probably built for Matthew Liddell, manager of Gosforth Colliery around 1829. Immediately to the east stood Gosforth Row and Benton Row which was a mining community of around 630 persons by 1891. In 1888 the Convent of the Good Shepherd took over the house and buildings. The 1891 census lists 34 female inhabitants at the convent. 25 of them were laundry workers at the Jesmond and Gosforth Laundry opposite the convent. The Convent was demolished in the early 1980s and replaced by a residential estate called The Cloisters.

William Short (1811-1859) was foreman boiler smith at Walker Iron Works. He died at sea on 17 January 1859. He was enroute to Smyrna on the Black Sea for 'the benefit of his health'.

Daniel James (1796-1848) was manager of the blast furnaces at Walker Iron Works. He previously worked at Dowlais Iron Works in Wales.

Thomas James (1793-1858) was a blast furnace builder and manager. He was from Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. He died at Walker Iron Works on March 7th 1858. The obelisk monument was erected by public subscription.

Monument to the memory of workmen killed in a boiler explosion at Walker Iron and Alkali Works 1855. The explosion happened in a rolling mill on 8 October 1855. The two youngest victims were ten years old. 8 men died. Obelisk monument with rounded top.

Monument to the victims of an explosion at Walker Colliery 1887. It was erected by the colliery to the memory of 8 men who lost their lives at Ann Pit on Mitchell Street in October 1887. It also commemorates John Dixon who died in another accident on 2 August 1887. The explosion occurred at 1200 feet, about 540 feet from the shaft bottom. The victims are listed with their names and ages. The monument is a square column with an urn on top.

Before 1848 St. Bartholomew's Church at Longbenton was the parish church for Walker. Walker was expanded due to the ten coal mines in the area. The New Connection Methodists set up in Walker in 1838, Weslesyan Methodists in 1840, Presbyterians in 1846 and Welsh Independents in 1846 (Welsh iron workers from Port Talbot moved to Walker). The Church of England set up a congregation in the schoolroom of Walker Iron and Alkali Works in 1846. The foundation for the new Christ Church was laid in 1847. The architect was A.B. Higham (also designed Christ Church in Shieldfield) and the builder was Richard Cail. The church cost £1250. The churchyard was originally 6,806 square yards but in 1864 3 acres were added and in 1899 a further 7 acres. The 1899 enlargement was paid for by John Wigham Richardson, shipbuilder and others. In his will Richardson left money for maintaining the churchyard 'in beauty and order'. Christ Church had the largest parish churchyard in Britain in the 1970s and it featured in the Guiness Book of Records. Burials are now only allowed where space is available in existing graves.

The Society of the Sacred Heart was founded in France in 1800 and arrived in England in 1842. It came to Newcastle in 1904 and moved to Fenham Hall (HER 9103) to establish a school and college. There are over 40 headstones in this small cemetery, which mark the resting place of St. Mary's College.