In February 2005 a large brick-lined well was discovered in the yard to the rear of 3 Rosella Place during conversion works. The well was 1.5m in diameter and at least 5m deep, still with fresh water in the bottom. The sides of the well were supported near the bottom with timber beams. To be left on view as part of the development. Presumably same date as the house (C19) to serve the whole terrace of houses. Not shown on Ordnance Survey maps.

There is thought to be an air raid shelter under this site.

The Theatre Royal was built in Mosley Street, one of the premier shopping and commercial streets in the Georgian town, in 1787-8. Designed by David Stephenson, and costing £6281 17s 6d, Charleton described it as "unsurpassed by any provincial theatre in the country". It was demolished in the 1830s to make way for Grainger's new developments. Oliver describes the theatre as measuring 120 x 54 feet, gallery will seat 800 people, the pit 200, the boxes 350. Demolished in 1835 for Grey Street. Drury Lane was a little entry that ran alongside the theatre. Part of the wall on the east side of the lane may be part of the old theatre wall.

Built 1906 by Henry Wilson-Pyle and Blackburn for George Handyside. Three storey stone-faced office building divided by pilasters with cornice at first and second floor and roof. Ground floor had central doorway to offices with corbelled projecting architrave. Two simple entrances to arcade with lettered lintels. Rear elevation brick frame, glass panels. Interior was horse-shape in plan with timber frame and glazing bars to shop and workshop fronts. Cast iron gallery supported on stone and cast-iron columns. Pitched iron and glass roof with cast-iron decorated portal frame supporting principal putlins and ridge. Refurbished 1980. Demolished after 1981 to make way for Eldon Garden shopping centre.

Architect J. Oswald and Son - within Exchange Buildings (which is separately listed). Nos 1 to 22 Grey Street (shops on west to rear of 120-150 Grainger Street. Paving by Rust's Vitreous Mosaics of Battersea. The Exchange Buildings interior was gutted by fire 1901. Entirely reconstructed inside in 1905-6 to form hotel and arcade with 2 rows of shops. Entrance corridors - tiled double arches at Market Street and Grey Street entrances. Centre column, composite order, dated 1906 in cartouche in spandrel, gold Art Nouveau tiled shaft, lettered lintel. Ground floor shops original, plate glass, fine timber frames, shallow facia. Wrought iron balustrade to gallery. Upper floor not open to public. All upper floor elevations in dark brown and gold faience (by Burmantofts of Leeds - possibly their last interior). The fine floor by Rust's Vitreous Mosaics of Battersea renewed rather garishly in 1990 in American Olean mosaics. Rich Renaissance decoration, scalloped arched window heads. Ionic capitals, Venetian arches above entrances. Roof glazed barrel vault with ventilation lantern, supported by steel arches. Building completely restored 1980. Hotel now offices. Specialist shops at ground floor. Built in 1838 and intended for use as a corn market, but instead was used as a news room until 1867 when the arcade was ravaged by fire. It was rebuilt and opened as an art gallery and concert hall. It closed due to lack of visitors in 1869. In 1870 the building was leased by T.P. Barkas and T.H. Twedy and reopened as an art gallery and news room. In 1892 the Central Exchange News Room contained an art gallery and concert hall. In 1897 the concert hall became the Vaudeville theatre. The adjoining fifty bedroom Central Exchange Hotel was run by John Dykes. There was another fire in 1901 and the building was destroyed. The Central Arcade reopened in 1906 as a shopping centre. J.G. Windows music shop opened here in 1908, on the site of the former hotel. The shops are serviced from a basement road, advanced for its time.

Royal Arcade, 1831-2 Collard after John Dobson. Fine Greek building - the arcade is a copy of Lowther Arcade in London. Cost £40,000. Built June 1831-May 1832. Grainger originally planned it as a corn exchange, but subsequently changed it to a commercial and shopping centre. Black and white chequered floor, eight large shops on each side with giant Corinthian pilaster between. Continuous cornice. Roof supported by arches speinging from pilasters, decorated with tracery. Glazed vaults in domes and Royal Arms by Dunbar. Built as two office blocks one facing Pilgrim Street and the other Manor Chare. Connecting the two was a narrow block forming the arcade itself. The inside was planned in the style of a modern shoopping centre where pedestrians could walk past a number of different establishments and "window shop". Whilst the Pilgrim Street frontage and entrance with its prestigious banking premises met these ambitions, the long flight of stairs, plainer elevations and less salubrious environs of Manor Chare undermined its popularity with the well-to-do clientele. John Dobson's design for the Royal Arcade, as portrayed by J.W. Carmichael in 1831 portrays its grandeur but also its overbearing size and peripheral location away from the town centre and shops. This was Grainger's least successful commercial venture. It was in decline by 1860 when the Post Office moved out. The Savings Bank left in 1863. Bankruptcy Court left in 1872. It was considered for demolition in the 1880s. It was finally demolished in 1963-9 to make way for the Central Motorway and Swan House. A copy of the arcade was reconstructed in 1970 within the office complex on the same site using concrete and fibrous plaster. Grainger's stonework was numbered and dumped at the City Stadium in Wawick Street, but never re-used. Much of it is now located in Heaton Park (see HER 5736, 5741 and 5744). 2004 - reconstructed arcade now forms part of Bar 55 in the furbished Swan House (55 Degrees North) which is now residential. McCombie - a fine classical composition complementing Stephenson's smart shops and houses in Mosley Street. The Royal Opera Arcade in London, 1816-18, by John Nash combined shops in one building with glazed domes to light the central space. London's Lowther Arcade was built in 1830, and this was very similar to Newcastle's Royal Arcade. The Royal Arcade ground floor had giant Doric pilasters, surmounted by a sculptures by David Dunbar Junior. At the east end there were steps down to Manor Chare. The arcade failed to be a success because it was away from the shops on Dean and Mosley Streets and it was overtaken in fashion and convenience terms. After the 19th century printers, book-binders, left-wing groups and a jazz club moved in. It stood in the way of the proposed Central Motorway East and so was demolished, but the Royal Fine Art Commission recommended that it should be reconstructed nearby. It was never reassembled. The stones were mostly buried, and scattered around Byker and in Armstrong Park. This was the most serious of Newcastle's architectural losses in the 1960s.

Excavation of one of the main roads at Arbeia Roman Fort has produced a coin that may have been used as a good-luck charm. It is a large sestertius of Trajan, produced between 114 and 117, found buried under a road that was not built until almost 100 years later. Unlike other sestertii found at the fort, the detail on this coin is still clear. Emperor Trajan sits on a folding chair on a raised platform, addressing his troops, including four infantry soldiers and one cavalryman on his horse. The lack of wear suggests that the coin had not been in circulation for a hundred years before being lost by one of the road construction soldiers. More likely it had been kept as a good luck charm by several generations of men and then used as a foundation deposit, in the hope that good luck could be passed on the fort and its occupants. Dated C2.

Roman coins from Herd Sand -
1) Obv: ANTONIUS AVG PIVS PP TRP XV Rev: COS III Vesta standing holding simpulum and palladium. Issued AD 151-52, 17mm diameter, weight 2.9g - ruler Antoninus Pius
2) Obv. Commodo Caes Aug Fil Germ Sarm Rev: Pietas Aug, 20.5mm in diameter, issued AD 175-6. Ruler Commodus Caesar (under Marcus, Scauticus 175, Augusticus 177)
Dated C2.

Scottish groat (4d) of Robert II of Scotland, found on Herd Sand. Obv: +ROBERT[TUS DEI GRA REX SCOTTORVM Rev: +DNS: PTECTOR MS F[UBATOR MS] VILLA EDIN[BURGH] Issued 1371-90, 25.5mm in diameter, 2.2g in weight. And a silver 1d coin of Robert III or James II - Rev: VILLA[…}, 17mm in diameter, 0.7g in weight. Dated C14th.

Latin inscription on a rock at Cleadon Hills Farm. PETRA MARC - FLA.