Two leaden cistern-heads, with the letters MM and date 1790, were found at No. 10 Pilgrim Street and sent to the melting pot.

A 24 pounder cannon ball was found in the wall of Pilgrim Street Gate in 1802.

Knowles (1894) wrote a paper describing the 1631 "Fox and Lamb" public house before demolition, with a plan and sketched elevations. He recorded fabric which pre-dated the C17 pub - gables on the north and south, walls, the infilled Lort Burn, lower portions of front and passage walls and a pointed chamfered arch. All thought to be C15. A second arch with flatter chamfers was thought to be later, but pre-dating the C17. Inside there was an arched stone recess and a central projecting oriel bay and fireplace. Two plaster panels from the fireplace, dated 1651, were retained by the National Telephone Company who later bought the property. There are some discussions of a ground floor barber's shop in connection with Dr Smollett. Whilst the public house was being pulled down, portions of the older doorways and arches were uncovered. A small pointed window was found whilst removing a fire place in the 3rd storey in the older wall on the south side. The old window had evidently been part of another house standing when the Fox and Lamb was built, and would look out into an open space upon which the late building was erected in 1631 [Information from a letter from a Mr. John Robinson]. Closed in 1892. The proposed demolished of the pub was commented on in the local press: 'The Fox and Lamb, described by Mackenzie in his day (1827) as "a respectable, well frequented inn", is at present without a tenant, and the fact that its windows and doors are boarded up indicates to the passer-by that it will no longer be used as a place of entertainment. There is a special interest to the barber's shop next to the hostelry, for it is supposed that it was here Smollett unearthed the original of his immortal Hugh Strap, as related in 'Roderick Ransom''. Dated C15-17th.

A carved stone corbel, probably a late C13 or C14 head of a king was found in front of the Royal Arcade. It was donated to the Society of Antiquaries by Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company by a Mr L.W. Anderson in 1902. Caution - the photograph in PSAN is captioned "from Neville Street" which is nowhere near the Royal Arcade. Dated C13-14th.

This street, began in 1824, was built through the Blackfriars precinct parallel with the town walls from Darn Crook. It was a dead end until the 1850s when a gap was made through the town wall south of Heber Tower to link it with Bath Lane. The street was built entirely of two storey artisan's houses in three long terraces - some of these properties still survive. It is now the heart of Newcastle's China Town. The street was named after Lord Stowell (William Scott - eminent judge, whose judgements in maritime law are still used as precedents) who was brother of Lord Eldon (John Scott), thereby Lord Stowell became brother in law to Bessie Surtees of elopement fame. In 1827 Eneas Mackenzie said the houses in Stowell Street were 'well adapted for families of a certain rank, whose convenience is seldom consulted by Building speculators'.

It was called Darn Crook (Darnecruke 1394) - dark secret place, until the 1980s. Darn Crook has long been a short lane south of the church which ran from Newgate Street up to the town walls. About 1810 the walls were breached to enable the street to run directly into Gallowgate. In 1830 there was a windmill on its northern side on the edge of St Andrews churchyard. Virtually the whole of both sides of the street was rebuilt in the early C20. A Geordie poem describes it thus: "I' the toon of Newcastle James Archbold did dwell, He's a slater te trade, and he thinks ne small beer on hissel; And in Gallowgate, just aside the Darn Crook, Stands his house amang smells that was make a horse puke". Dated C14th.

A separate gallows for Northumberland criminals stood outside the West Gate in the 18th century and early C19. In 1743 William Brown, a notorious criminal from Northumberland, who posed as a gentleman, was hanged. He had escaped from Morpeth gaol in 1731, was re-captured and transported to America in 1740, but escaped and returned to Newcastle by ship only to be re-captured. A law passed in 1750 meant that murderers had to be hanged soon after their trial so there was not enough time to take them to Morpeth Gaol. On 10th August 1792 a triple execution took place when William Winter, Janet Clark and Eleanor Clark were hanged for murdering an old woman, Margaret Crosier, near Elsdon in Northumberland. Winter's body was subsequently hung in chains on Harwood Moor as an example to others.

Criminals were taken along Gallowgate to the gallows on the Town Moor (Castle Leazes HER 1358) near Fenham Barracks (HER 4093) and a slum called Gallows Hole, where between 1650 and 1829 44 people were executed. Gallows stood on the Town Moor from 1480. In 1752 a 19 year old soldier named Ewan MacDonald was hanged for murdering a man in a Bigg Market pub - but it did not kill him and he became conscious in the Barger Surgeons hall. On 7 August 1758 Alice Williamson was hanged, aged 68, for a burglary in the Groat Market. On 24 August 1776 postman Robert Knowles was hanged for stealing a letter. In 1829 Doctor Fife lectured on anatomy using the body of 30 year old Jane Jameson, a "most disgusting and abandoned female", who had been sentenced to death at the Assizes for murdering her mother, and taken by cart to the gallows on the Town Moor in a cart sitting on her own coffin. The procession to the gallows comprised town sergeants and marshals on horseback, 8 porters armed with javelins and constables armed with staves. The mourning coach carried the chaplain, under-sheriff, gaoler and clerk of St. Andrew's. 20,000 people came to watch the execution, after which her body was exhibited for six hours in the Surgeon's Hall. The last person to be hanged on the Town Moor was 35 year old Mark Sherwood, in August 1844, for the murder of his wife in Blandford Street. After that all executions took place at Newcastle gaol. Dated C15th.

The White Cross (HER 230) was also a place of public correction as a pillory stood here. People convicted of trivial offences were confined here, the target for rotten vegetables and the ridicule of their neighbours. One woman, Susanah Fleming, was convicted of fortune telling in April 1758. She was sentenced to be pilloried for one hour every quarter for a year. Perhaps she fainted on one occasion, because somehow she was slowly being strangled. Eventually a sailor in the crowd noticed her plight and climbed up to rescue her. He brought her down the ladder on his back, more dead than alive. Near to the White Cross were the Cukstelbothe (1401) or Cokestolebothes (1397) - "booths at the ducking stool".

This is an old route from the middle of the Scottish border area, through Northumberland (see HER 3987), and into the north-west corner of the town via the New Gate. The earliest reference to a street called Galowegate seems to be 1365, but the situation is confused by Brand who mentions an earlier property on this street. Galougate in 1378 and 1396, le Galowgate in 1394. Criminals were taken along Gallowgate to the gallows on the Town Moor (HER 6509) near Fenham Barracks, in a place called the Gallows Hole, where between 1650 and 1829 44 people were executed. A separate gallows for Northumberland criminals stood outside the West Gate in the 18th century and early C19. Bourne calls Gallowgate "a very tollerable street, and a very pleasant place, having in it some good houses, which are situated in gardens and fields. At the top of this street is a lane which leads to the Westgate, Quarry-house etc, it borders upon a field called the Shoulder of Mutton Close". Dated C14th.