Byker Buildings was a street of tenement housing with the Cumberland Arms at the western end. The northwestern part of the street was built by 1858, the southwestern side after 1883. These were two-storey tenements for four families, with basements to the rear providing communal washhouse, privy and coal store. The northeastern side of Byker Buildings had small gardens to the front. By the 1960s these sub-standard properties had been demolished and replaced by modern maisonettes. These in turn were demolished circa 2001.

Shown on third edition Ordnance Survey of 1913. Described as "the prettiest theatre in the district" in an advertisement of 1910. The Minerva opened circa 15 August 1910 by the Heaton and Byker People's Hall Ltd. It seated 360. From 1911 to 1918 it was leased to Mr. E. Pirman. On 19 September 1918 the Minerva was sold for £2,100 and leased to J.H. Dawe, renamed the Imperial. Dawe later bought the cinema outright. It remained in the ownership of the Dawe family until it closed. A fire broke out on 27 August 1937 causing £4000 worth of damage. The Imperial re-opened with 381 seats on 28 February 1938. It closed in August 1963 for redecoration, but never re-opened. It became a warehouse until it was demolished in 1985 for the Shields Road Bypass..

Shown on second edition Ordnance Survey. Byker Buildings was a street of tenement housing with the Cumberland Arms at the western end. Licensed as a beer house in 1862. It was proposed for enlargement circa 1898 - Benjamin Simpson drew up plans for an elaborate building with a tower at its north-west corner. The then owner was a Mr Thompson of Whickham rejected the plans. Instead a Mr James Cackett was engaged to make internal alterations - increasing the bar area and adding a new façade. During the work the front of the pub collapsed resulting in the death of one of the workmen (Matthew Fitzgerald). Nos. 2 and 3 James Place were incorporated into the public house. This plan survives largely unchanged today. The Cumberland was acquired by Wilkinson's Pine Street Brewery of Elswick in 1919. Alterations were made in 1935. In 1956 the pub obtained a spirit licence. For some time the pub was owned by John "Jocker" Wood (1854-1937) who was a well known quoits player and so there was a quoits yard beside the Cumberland. It is a free house today. The upstairs lounge contains the bar fittings from the Haymarket Hotel.

Shown on second edition Ordnance Survey.

One of two smithies at the top of Byker Bank, shown on second edition Ordnance Survey.

One of two smithies at the top of Byker Bank, shown on second edition Ordnance Survey.

Shown on second edition Ordnance Survey. In 1885 the Plough Inn resembled a pair of terraced houses. The bar and snug were at the front. The owner, Roger Watson, changed the façade in 1885 to a shopfront with large windows and three doors leading into a single front room with long bar. The Plough was bought by Robert Deuchar before 1896 and was renamed 'Ye Olde Plough Inn' around the turn of the 20th century. The interior was transformed into a six room plan which kept the counter. There were four bars and two bottle and jug rooms for the take-away trade. After 1905 Deuchar altered one of the back bars. Became a Newcastle Breweries pub. In 1990 it became Legendary Yorkshire Heroes. In 1992 it was bought by Cameron's and became the Plough again.

Shown on first edition Ordnance Survey. By OS second edition, Brewery Bank was renamed Leighton Street and the chapel was for the Primitive Methodists. Built circa 1843 and in use until 1896. A simple galleried building with square-headed windows. A familiar early Primitive Methodist design.

Shown on first edition Ordnance Survey.

Part of a "Waggon Way" is shown on an estate map of Byker produced by William Donkin in 1767. It runs through the fields at Byker to staiths on the Tyne. A waggonway is attested running through the valley as early as 1738 bringing coal from pits in Jesmond to the Tyne. The lower portion of this waggonway is shown on a map of 1767 by Isaac Thompson in the Northumberland County History Hope-Dodds 1930, 264. Three branches run from staiths on the River Tyne at St Peter’s, coalesce and then form a reversed ’S’ curve to the north. The line will have continued on to pits which lay to the north-west (see Turnbull 2009, 9 for a map of pits in Byker) towards Shields Road in Byker but no map has been located showing its route.