Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Brick laundry building recorded in 1991. Now demolished. The building was originally a Wesleyan Chapel built in 1827 and shown on Oliver's map of 1830. It was converted into a laundry in the 1890s and continued in use for 60 years. Ordnance Survey maps show the expansion of the building in the 20th century.

The oldest chemical manufactory in Gateshead can be traced to the "Jew of Oakwellgate", who is said to have manufactured a compound of cyanogen, prussian blue, in the 18th century. He had moved his apparatus from Corbridge to Gateshead, possibly to be outside the jurisdiction of the trade companies of Newcastle.

Hillgate did not recover as a residential district after the Great Fire of 1854, which started in Wilson's worsted manufactory in Hillgate on Friday 6th October. After the fire Christian Allhusen put forward a proposal to Gateshead Council for a Corporation Quay. This would have involved removing the old Tyne Bridge to provide rail links at each end of the quay. It was hoped that the North Eastern Railway would provide much of the funding. A quay was built on the vacant land on the north side of the street but it was on a less grand scale than had first been anticipated. A new rope-hauled inclined railway was laid to the quay from Oakwellgate Station by June 1862. NER would not improve the rail facilities, so the landings of cargo at the quay remained insignificant. The quay had to be substantially subsidised by Gateshead Council. In 1922 it was leased to the Tyne-Tees Shipping Company. In 1929-30 large parts of the structure fell into the Tyne. It was rebuilt in the 1930s.

In 1740 John Warburton moved from Pandon Dean in Newcastle, where he made brownware, to Carr Hill, where he is said to have introduced the first local whire earthenware into the district. The pottery continued under various owners until its closure in 1893. The pottery was demolished in 1932 and Nos. 92 and 94 Carr Hill Road now occupy the site.

In 1699 William Davidson of Beamish took a lease from the Corporation of Newcastle of a messuage in the Salt Meadows "with liberty to carry away clay to make pots and other earthen vessels". The location of this concern is unknown.

Jorewin de Rocheford visited Tyneside from France in 1672 and noted that Gateshead "is inhabited by divers manufacturers, employed in making cloth and worsted stockings in great quantity, which are here very cheap; wherefore they are sent all over Europe". One woollen yarn factory, owned by Henry Peareth in 1751, was organised on a factory basis, and the workers had an annual public parade from the factory to the owner's house in Newcastle. The establishment of another manufactory was reported in the Newcastle Courant in 1762, possibly that known as "Oswalds", working between 1766-1835. Linen was also produced, as a fire in a flax dressers was reported in the Newcastle Courant on 17 March 1753. The Great Fire of 1854 began in Wilson's worsted manufactory in Hillgate on Friday 6th October.

George Wray, brick maker on South Shore, also owned a ropewalk in 1771.

In the second half of the 18th century the shipbuilding industry at Gateshead was dominated by the Headlam family, who had a yard at South Shore. There were various other South Shore yards, but by the end of the 18th century the industry was being concentrated down river although the Gateshead firms continued for a while longer. In the 1820s there was a sharpening of the distinction between ship and boat building. Boat builders remained at Hillgate, while the ship builders grouped at Friar's Goose.