Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. In 1955 Newcastle Breweries bought the mill and timber yard from Messrs J & W Lowry, and built them new premises at Heber Tower, Bath Lane.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. In 1955 Newcastle Breweries bought the mill and timber yard from Messrs J & W Lowry, and built them new premises at Heber Tower, Bath Lane.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Still in use and much enlarged in 1951. In 1957 the building was bought from Messrs John Sinclair by Newcastle Breweries for use as temporary offices.

The Tyne Brewery was built in Bath Lane in 1870 by the Tyne Brewing Company. In 1884 John Barras & Company of Gateshead purchased the Tyne Brewery. In order to meet the cost of removal and the provision of plant, they sold the Tyne Brewery's offices, which became St. Cuthbert's RC Grammar School (HER 6296). In 1890 the following breweries amalgamated to form The Newcastle Breweries Limited - John Barras & Company, Tyne Brewery, Newcastle; W.H. Allison & Co, North Shields; Carr, Brothers & Carr, North Shields; Swinburne & Company, Gateshead, J.J & E.H. Allison & Co, Sunderland. In 1896 the business of John Sanderson & Sons of the Haymarket Brewery was purchased, closed and the registered offices of The Newcastle Breweries Limited built on the plot in 1900. In 1910 the company bought Forsters Bishop Middleham Brewery in Co. Durham. In 1913/14 their was a major extension to the Tyne Brewery to provide additional fermenting space and storage. In 1923 St Cuthbert's RC Grammar School was re-purchased and converted into a bottling factory to meet demand for bottled beer. In 1927 Newcastle Brown Ale was introduced. In 1931 the bottling factory was extended, the original brewery stables were demolished and a permanent cask-shed was built. In 1937/8 a new loading dock and fermenting room was added to the bottling factory. In 1939 a malt milling building was added. In 1951/2 a new fermenting room was built over existing beer cellars. In 1953/4 the Brewery purchased Lockhart's Bakery in Hindmarsh Square and derelict properties in Hill Street, Wellington Street and Heber Street for a new bottling factory. A tunnel under Bath Lane connects the Brewery with the bottling factory. In 1955 the Brewery purchased the builder's yard and workshops of J & W Lowry and houses in Bath Lane Terrace for further expansion. Recorded in 2008 ahead of demolition.

Found in 1936 by a man digging for topsoil in Walker Dene. Accessed into the Museum of Antiquities in 1975. The head is triangular in shape. The features are primitive with oval eyes, curved eyebrows in relief, a broad nose and wide off-centre mouth with thick lips. Part of right forehead and right eyebrow are missing. The head is 250 metres high, it would have been 220 metres wide maximum and 136 metres thick. There have, thus far, been three "Celtic Heads" found in close proximity to Hadrian's Wall in the eastern sector - in 1969 one was found at West Denton (HER 1292) close to Milecastle 8 and another found at Lemington (HER 1321) close to the same Milecastle in 1980. A head carved into a roundel on a building was also found at Milecastle 35. Although all of these heads bear the characteristics of the "Celtic Head", they bear little similarity to each other in their features or general shape. Their interest as a group is in their findspots and possible link between the cult of the head in the C2 and the building of Hadrian's Wall.

A long east-west block and a smaller building are shown on a plan of 1777{NRO 578/321}. On 3rd November 1823 two victims of an explosion of fire-damp at Plains Pit (HER 3198) were "John Hann and son, hewer and putter, Mitchinson's Farm, probably North Pit Farm. The tithe map of 1839 {DRO EP/ER/27/2} describes the site as "Farm Homestead". By 1856 (OS first edition) North Pit Farm had changed little in plan. It was occupied by Thomas Mitcheson, yeoman {Whellan 1856, 774-5}. The farm continued in use, with changes of tenancy, throughout the nineteenth century. In the 1868/9 elections, two John Hutchinsons (father and son), farmers at North Pit Farm, voted for George Elliot of Houghton Hall {Poll Book of North Durham 1868/9}. Between 1856 and 1895 the farm was enlarged, with new buildings to the north and south of the earlier ranges and a pond on the east side of the track. This may have been a consequence of the decline of North Pit (HER 3197), with more land avaible for agriculture. The farm was occupied in 1906 by George Anthony Hardy {Kelly 1906, 311}. By 1938 North Pit Farm was being run by Margaret, Norah and Dorothy Hardy {Kelly 1938}. The farm continued in use until the 1980s and was demolished circa 2001. In June and July 2001, a trench was excavated over the farm buildings in advance of the Rainton Bridge South Business Park. The remains were found to have been rebuilt using modern materials. To the north of the main range, sandstone wall foundations and a cobbled yard were recorded. To the south, evidence of a post-built timber building, probably a lean-to.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition next to Nicholson's pit (HER 3201). Part of Joe's Pond SSSI.

Two large fishponds shown on Ordnance Survey second edition next to Nicholson's pit (HER 3201) - presumably the water-filled former coal workings. The largest pond had a boat house. Came to be known as Joe's Pond. Now a nature reserve. Protected as a SSSI.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Linked by railway (HER 3621) to the North Eastern Railway (HER 2625).

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. This large colliery was linked to the Rainton and Seaham Railway (HER 2976) by the Adventure Branch (HER 3195). It was also linked to the North Eastern Railway (HER 2625) and the Londonderry Railway (HER 3180) Opened in 1824. Owners were the North Hetton Coal Company (Earl of Durham, Messrs Wood, Philipson, Burrell and others) and Lady FA Vane Londonderry, Marquess of Londonderry (in 1850s). Part of Rainton Colliery, which was opened before 1815 and closed in July 1978. Rainton Colliery included Adventure Pit (NZ 315 470), Dun Well Pit (HER 3206), Alexandrina Pit (HER 3219), Hazard Pit (HER 3212), Nicholson's Pit (HER 3201), North Pit (HER 3197), Plain Pit (HER 3198), Resolution Pit (NZ 311 476). In 1790 a boring had been put down in South Pit in East Rainton by a Mr Rawlings, to a depth of 10 fathoms. Whellan reported that in 1894 Rainton Colliery had 31 stationary engines, 38 boilers, 1185 workers and 835 workmen's houses.In modern times Rainton Meadows was an opencast mine called Rye Hill Surface Coal Mine. Site now restored as a nature reserve ran by Durham Wildlife Trust.