Oakwellgate Colliery lay between Oakwellgate Lane and Easton Place, a venture of Thomas Easton, who designed Friar's Goose Pumping Engine (HER 1012). The colliery was won on 29 May 1842 and the bells of St. Mary were rung to celebrate. It had a short life. The Low Main Seam was abandoned in 1858 and shortly afterwards there was an inrush of water which could not be overcome by the pumping machinery then available, so the workings were permanently closed. Warehouses, later Carr's confectionary works were built over the shaft. During the fuel shortage of 1919 proposals were made to open the shaft, but without result.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Shown on Thompson 1746. The tollbooth stood in the High Street opposite the western end of Oakwellgate. According to Boyle it was mentioned as far back as 1577 as being the southern limit of Gateshead's market. In the parish register of 1577 there is the entry "Paid to 4 prisoners in the Tollbooth 2s. 4d". The manor courts of the Bishops of Durham were held at the Tollbooth, and in the seventeenth century at least one of the Trade Guilds held their meetings here. It was rebuilt during the episcopacy, at the expense of Bishop Crewe, whose arms were placed over the entrance. Until 1710 two courts were held each year, in April and October, in the Tollbooth. From 1685 to 1700 it was used by the scholars of the Anchorage school. In 1731 it was a "Popish Chapel". Both before and after these uses, it served as the town gaol. It was also the place where women suspected of witchcraft were held. Parish accounts of 1772 record payments for the constable who brought the witches to the gaol, for trying the witches and for a grave for a witch. When the Tollbooth was pulled down, a "miserable and scandalous lock-out" called the "kitty" was built in its place.

When the newly elected Borough Council of Gateshead first met in 1835, it did so in a solicitor's office and other temporary accommodation until a house on the west side of Oakwellgate was rented to serve as a town hall and police house. Then in 1844 an attractive three-storeyed house at Greenesfield, close to the new railway station, was acquired and converted for use as a town hall. It was expected that Greenesfield was destined to become the new town centre. But the extension of the railway line to Newcastle and the closure of the station at Greenesfield and subsequent building of the railway works left the town hall marooned in unsuitable surroundings. The council remained there until early 1867, when it was forced to give the land to the NER. By then plans for a new town hall on land near Swinburne Place between High Street and West Street were underway.

Shown on 18th century plan.

Shown on Bell 1819. Gone by 1895?

Shown on Bell 1819. This was the last working mill in Gateshead, on the corner of Jackson Street and West Street, still working until the 1890s. The Old Mill Inn and later the Co-operative Store was built on the site.

Shown on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map.

Shown on a plan of 1748. By the 18th century there were several potteries in Gateshead. In 1757 William Hillcoat and Joseph Warburton had a pottery at South Shore.