Built in 1838, it replaced that previously built by Grainger in Blackett Street. It held lectures (by leading orators of the day, notably Charles Dickens and Dr John Hunter Rutherford, the Scottish evangelist, doctor of medicine, educationalist and friend of the poor and disadvantaged), exhibitions and classical music concerts. In 1879 it became the New Tyne Concert Hall. In 1884 Horace Edward Moss bought the property. The Moss Empire chain also owned the Gaiety Theatre in Edinburgh and the Theatre Royal in Sunderland. Moss turned the Nelson Street music hall into the Gaiety Variety Theatre. The interior was decorated by Herr Svelder and Messrs. Dobie of Edinburgh. The Gaiety became known as the "Eldorado of the North". By 1890 it became obvious that the theatre was too small, and the Empire Theatre was opened in Newgate Street. Sandstone ashlar, 3 storeys. Steps up to 6-panelled door in round-arched surround. Panel over door incised MUSIC HALL 1838. The building has been redeveloped behind the façade so only the façade is of interest. McCombie - housed a music hall with lecture room below; round-headed openings.

The Newcastle Dispensary opened at 14 Nelson Street in 1839 (costing £2,600) having previously been located in The Side from 1777 to 1790 and in Low Friar Street from 1790 to 1838. Its purpose was to give advice, medicine and home visits to the sick. It was funded by subscriptions and donations. A fixed donation allowed the donor to recommend up to six patients. The 'letter system' lasted until 1947. Casual patients would be seen for a small charge. The Dispensary was one of the first places to inoculate against smallpox. The Dispensary features in the song 'Blaydon Races'. In 1927 the dispensary moved to New Bridge Street. The premises later became the Fruit Exchange. Sandstone ashlar, 3 storeys. Central panelled door flanked by pilasters. Upper floors have sash windows with glazing bars. The building has been developed behind the façade so that only the façade is of interest. McCombie - Nos. 8 and 14 are matching pavilions, less severe than most of Grainger's work, with ornamented window surrounds and a balustraded parapet. No. 14 still has its rusticated ground floor.

Built in 1838 by Richard Grainger. Foundation stone laid by William Clowes (PM founder). In 1898 the congregation moved to the Central PM Church on Northumberland Road. In 1899 when the Nelson Street premises were taken over by Messrs. Marshall and Tweedy. Their 1899 warehouse survives on the site.

The Cordwainer's (shoemaker's) Company Meeting Hall was built in 1838, dated in central panel. The Guild was founded in 1556 and was one of the 12 senior Medieval Guilds in Newcastle. Despite having around 95 members, making them the largest guild in Newcastle, at the time of Grainger they were largely a ceremonial and social organisation. Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition as Gardeners Arms Public House. The Gardeners Arms closed in 1971. It re-opened in 1976 as The Cordwainer's. The name was later changed to Cork's. Now [2005] a café. The magnificent façade of the hall still survives. Sandstone ashlar, 3 and 4 storeys. The building has been developed behind the façade so that only the façade is of interest.

This public house was managed at the turn of C20 by Will Cawley, a brilliant local featherweight boxer who fought for the highest honours. The pub became known as "Curley's Bar" due to translation of Tyneside dialect. It was a "Gentleman Only" pub, with a mixed clientele from the Green Market and Wholesale Market workers and the sporting element. After Curley died the pub was sold to Nimmos, later Whitbread. Demolished in 1972 to make way for Eldon Square Shopping Centre.

In 1884 the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) bought St. James Chapel on Blackett Street (HER 6986). However they soon needed a larger purpose-built building and so the chapel was demolished. The new YMCA building was designed by J.W. Taylor. It cost £50,000 to build. The foundation stones were laid in 1896 by the Countess of Ravensworth, Sir Richard Webster, Mr Cruddas and Mr Emmerson Bainbridge MP. The finished building was imposing, tapering towards the front with a tall octagonal tower. It was opened on 9th May 1900 by Queen Victoria's son Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and his wife Louise. As they opened the door with a gold key, a 6 gun salute was fired by the Royal Artillery at Heaton. The building including Connaught Hall which had two halls to seat 700 and 300 people, a reception room, reading room and library. The ground floor was leased to shopkeepers. The YMCA was demolished in the 1970s to make way for Eldon Square Shopping Centre. Stone carvings, door surrounds etc have been salvaged from the old library, town hall and YMCA in Blackett Street and were reset into the exterior retaining wall on Prudhoe Chare in 1976. The architectural features include seven high-relief heads of gods and goddesses (Neptune in the centre, possibly the River God Tyne and Bacchus) and Bewick, Stephenson and Collingwood on tapered keystones, two architectural scrolls surmounted by lions' heads, a door lintel, two panels containing three cartouches with high-relief 'YMCA' and a semi-circular panel with '1881' in the middle of foliate carving.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. By second edition it had been demolished and replaced by St George's Church (HER 7096).

John Lisle obtained a building on Front Street to use as a Fisherman's Mission in 1905. It had a methodist meeting hall upstairs. When he died in 1912 his son carried on his work. In 1931 a new Mission was built in Eskdale Terrace. Still in use today {1}.

Former home of Sir James Knott, entrepreneur and creater of the Prince Line of steamships. In the birthday honours of 1917 James Knott was created a baronet. He died 17 years later but his name lives on in the form of charitable trusts. Born January 1855, the son of a Customs Officer, Knott acquired Monks Haven in 1890. Described as "an attractive terraced house", Monks Haven was probably the Knott family's weekend "cottage". Their main home at this time was The Manor House in Jesmond, where they had 9 servants. Monks Haven is now a Methodist retirement home. A fine copper relief still stands in the entrance hall of a Cullercoats fishwife with a creel on her back. It is supposed to depict Polly Donkin. Now a residential care home. In 2012 planning permission was granted to partially demolish the coach house (c.1890), to convert no.55 back into a single family home and no.56-57 into 7 compartments. An historic buildings recording was completed ahead of these works.

John Dove built this, one of the earliest wagonways in Northumberland, in 1677. A timber wagonway, 15 yards in width, on which horse-drawn wagons were run. The wagonway ran from the Whitley and Monkseaton Collieries down the south side of the Marden Burn, past the Quaker burial ground, along what would become Front Street, to the bank top where the Watch Tower stands today. Here coals were loaded into vessels below {1}. John Dove was in partnership with John Carr of Newcastle, working the coal pits at Monkseaton and Whitley. The wagonway was laid from the pits to Cullercoats, where he built staiths and coal spouts and began to erect a pier. Dove died in 1679 and the pier was finished by John Carr, John Rogers and Henry Hudson. It took five years to finish, built mainly of wood, costing £3,013: 13s and 6d.