Shown on Ordnance Survey Survey third edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey Survey third edition.

Opened in 1843, closed December 1920. Owners were John Bowes and Partners Ltd, later John Bowes & Co (Bowes, Hiltt, Wood and Charles M Palmer), lastly Marley Hill Coal Company.

Opened in July 1905. Sinking was complete and coal was produced in 1907. The Eccles is the deepest of the Backworth pits. James Batty was in charge in 1907. in 1927 mechanical mining started at the Maude, Eccles and Algernon Pits, displacing pit ponies. Eleven injured, with four dying later after a gas explosion in 1928. The pit head baths for the Maude and Eccles pits opened February 15th 1930. Three men died (T. Chater, T. Livingstone and T. Anderson) after an explosion in April 1922. Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition.
The first sinking for coal at Backworth took place in 1813 and in 1818 several buildings were opened within the site boundary as part of Backworth Colliery, a wagonway was also constructed which ran between the colliery and the staithes at Whitehill Point on the Tyne (4).

Linked the Victoria Garesfield Colliery (HER 6903) to the Derwent Valley Railway (HER 1019). Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map. Survives as a path near the former colliery. Earthworks survive in Rowland's Gill woods at western end.

Part of Victoria Garesfield Colliery (HER 6903). Opened 1870 and closed on 13 July 1962. Owned by Victoria Garesfield Coal Co, then Priestman and Peele, Priestman Collieries Ltd in 1899 and the NCB from 1947.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Opened in 1870 and closed in 1962. Owned by Victoria Garesfield Coal Co, then Priestman and Peele, Priestman Collieries Ltd in 1899 and the NCB from 1947. Several drifts were part of this colliery - Ashtree Drift (HER 6904), Coronation Drift, Hookergate Drift, Ricklees Travelling Drift and Speculation Drift.

Curious walled lane shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey as a routeway from Stobbart Street down to Wearmouth Drops. The lane is cobbled. The substantial walls are mostly stone but some sections are brick. Same coping as seen as Wreath Quay Road coal staith (HER 4760 - listed grade 2). The lane preserves the line of the western boundary of the township of Monkwearmouth Shore (shown on Burleigh and Thompson's plan of the River Wear 1737). The boundary is probably medieval in origin, associated with the boundary of the monastic estate. The 1737 map shows at the southern end of the boundary a feature described as 'Caddy Garret's Gill', marked with a 'w'. This suggests that the township boundary followed the course of a stream, later culverted or re-routed. On John Rennie's map of Sunderland of 1826 the line of the cobbled lane is annotated 'Western Boundary of Sir H. Williamson's Estate also Boundary of Monkwearmouth Shore Township and Monkwearmouth Parish'. The lane is approximately 3.5m wide and runs from the western end of Millennium Way down to the riverside. It is cobbled with stone setts with a broad central channel, 1.80m wide, running down the middle. It is walled along its entirety, the nature of the build changing in form along both sides. The walling also varies in height. It is likely that the oldest elements are those built in limestone and sandstone rubble, followed by handmade brick and then modern brick. The lane was bisected by the waggonway (HER 2745) that led down to Pemberton Drops (HER 2746), probably carried at height over the lane.

This building was listed Grade II in 2000 with the following description:
'Mines rescue station. 1913. Red brick with slate roofs. Two 2 storey blocks linked by a single storey block. Main block has rusticated brick quoins and overhanging slate roof. South front has 2 central round arched doorways with rusticated jambs. Either side are 2 narrow glazing bar windows. Above four 2-light glazing bar casement windows flanked by single narrow glazing bar windows. Left return has 2 lower windows and above 2 glazing bar casement windows. Right return has doorway to left with modern door and to right 3 graduated staircase windows, in the gable a 2-light glazing bar casement window. To rear a single storey block with two small glazing bar windows and above in the gable a Diocletian window in the set-back gable above. Back range has various glazing bar sash windows on the upper floor. INTERIOR retains crawl ways used for practising mine rescues.'
It was built in 1913 as a fire station and mine rescue by the Durham & Northumberland Colliery Owners Association. There are only six such stations in Britain. The mines having largely closed, the station provides rescue services for all types of emergencies plus health and safety training, first aid, confined spaces awareness and fire awareness training. It serves the whole northern region. There is a mock training mine (crawl ways) below the station used for practising rescues.

Within the landscaped estate of Whickham Hermitage was a two storey brick lookout tower, tennis court and boating pond. The pond was 20 x 20 yards square, 5 feet deep and brick-lined with a coating of pitch. There was a Chinese-style bridge, pagoda, boathouse and roofed gate.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The Hermitage Garden was originally the landscaped grounds to the Hermitage (also on the Local List) – a quirky historic house in the centre of Whickham, built in 1790 by Matthew Taylor, a local brewer. The grounds were ample, providing space for an imaginative scheme, and there must have been plentiful resources available to invest in it, as there were various fashionable features. This investment was also shown in the house, where incremental alterations were made over the years. The following description is taken from the Hermitage Garden website:
‘Part of the landscaping of the estate included the erection of a two-storey brick lookout tower, a tennis court, and a boating lake. There was a willow-pattern bridge near the entrance to the boathouse. A pagoda and a roofed gate were also features of the garden. Jonathan Rowe (an amateur local historian) visited the garden in December 2001 and made the following notes. "Nothing remains of the original entrance to the garden. The Hermitage has retained the garden nearest to the rear of the building, but the rest has been left to nature. Out of the original design of the gardens all that remains is the empty lake and the foundation for the willow- pattern bridge. There are still series of foundations and revetments dotted around the area but at this stage it is hard to pinpoint what they once were. The whole area is covered in self-seeded trees including Elder, Sycamore and Birch, not to mention a carpet of brambles."’
The website also describes the recent restoration scheme, which has seen the garden reclaimed from neglect, and brought back into use to be enjoyed as a community resource by the local residents of Whickham. It reads as follows:
‘We have been restoring the garden itself whilst retaining its main original features: a lake with boathouse and a 'willow- pattern' bridge, a watchtower and a pagoda.
The lake has become a wildlife pond. The watchtower has become a toilet for the disabled, a tool store and an office area. The boathouse will double as a greenhouse and storage area. The summerhouse (pagoda) has become a pictorial picture gallery and a showcase for photographs of progress of restoration work in the garden.
A children's vegetable garden has been created for the benefit of local children to learn about cultivation and land preservation.’
The restoration has therefore been based on historical evidence, but with an eye towards the practicalities of modern use. Therefore, although not necessarily meticulous, the compromises should create a resource which is useable and sustainable into the future.
The importance of the garden lies both in its contribution to the green space of Whickham, and the historical significance of its association with The Hermitage.
DATES c1790 (originally laid out)