Spiller's Tyne Mill was completed in 1938, and was then the tallest flour milling building in the world. Spiller's had come to Newcastle from Bridgewater in 1896 when they acquired Davidson's Phoenix Mill in the Close. The Tyne Mill replaced this older complex. There were two main buildings at the Tyne Mill - the Silo and Flour Mill. The Silo was designed to store 34,000 tons of grain. The mill contained a warehouse, the flour mill and an animal food mill. To serve it the deep water berth was improved and the rail network along the quayside extended. The old Phoenix Mill was seriously damaged by fire during the Second World War {1}. The mill was put forward for listing in September 2010 but was not added to the list because of the loss of the flour mill which has compromised the architectural value of the surviving component. This is also not an original design. Oscar Faber's silos at Cardiff and Avonmouth, Bristol are very similar. Newcastle was the last of these three and might be described as a copy. Electrically-driven mill designed in 1935 by Oscar Faber for Spillers Ltd, specialists in flour milling and animal feeds. Completed in 1938. Largest flour mill in Europe when built. Could process 254,000 tonnes of grain a year. The flour mill was demolished in 1987. What survives is the animal food mill (provender) with offices and the flour silo. To the south are brick ancillary buildings and an electricity sub station. The provender mill and silo are built of reinforced concrete. The individual silo bins within the silo building were formed using the 'slipform' method of concrete construction (continuous shuttering method). Concrete was continuously poured, enabling quicker drying. The Tyne Mill silos reached their full height in only 21 days. The slipform method was devised in North America in the 1920s, but was not widespread in the UK until the 1950s. Its first use in the UK was at the Shredded Wheat factory in Welwyn in 1927 (listed grade 2). The mill's south elevation to the River Tyne has brick panels. The mill is 6 storeys, with a further 6 storeys in a higher recessed block. It has a concrete frame projecting from window strips and brick panels between floors. The right return is clad in later C20 corrugated metal. The mill and silo are linked by a pair of covered walkways. The rectangular silo is 120 feet high. There is a tower at the right end for the receiving house. The top storey has a raised central panel with the word SPILLERS on it. There are round windows except on the tower which has narrow windows in two floors. The ground floor has doors at right and left ends under concrete canopies and tall windows. Inside the mill has six warehouse floors. Reinforced concrete columns are visible throughout. The wooden floors are all original, as are the stairs and two paternoster lifts. The offices at the western end of several floors have wooden doors and panelling. The offices are reached by wooden staircase from reception. Some of the floors retain large wooden storage bins. The top floor of the silo housed the feed conveyers. The rest of the silo has 117 vertical concrete walled bins, each 14 feet square. They were originally open but now have a concrete covering. The ground floor housed the extraction conveyers. Original stairs survive. With the probable exception of some electrical equipment, all machinery was added circa 1987 after the demolition of the flour mill. At this time the provender mill became a flour mill. The complex went out of use in 2007 and is now empty. The building was recently subject to fire which has affected three upper floors.
In 2018 a targeted evaluation trench on the site of the 19th century Tyne Manure and Chemical Works. Concrete foundations were identified in the section of the trench which may relate to the Tyne Manure and Chemical works or Spiller's Mill.
This building was formerly on the Newcastle local list, but was demolished c.2010 (Google Earth Pro aerial photos).

The Maltings were built in 1892 for Addison Potter and Son. It was built of "best quality brick" and had a datestone bearing the motto "Spero Bene Agere" (I hope to act well) on the corner of a small two-storey block which contained the offices. It had a classically detailed façade and pedimented doorway. The main block was an imposing seven-storey structure which, with its small windows and castellated parapet wall, had a keep-like appearance. This was emphasised by the octagonal towers visible above the surrounding buildings. The construction of this block was one reason for its demolition. The floors were of unreinforced concrete set between RSJs on cast iron columns and steel beams, and as such were not strong enough for modern warehousing needs. The roof construction was notable for its trusses - a fine example of the combination of pitch pine compression members and metal tie rods, spanning 14 metres. The building was taken over by Newcastle Breweries Ltd and was in use until the early 1970s {1}. Shown as "malthouse" on Ordnance Survey second edition.

Site of toll house for a footpath that ran alongside the railway (SMR 1063) over the viaduct (SMR 4327) in the earlier period of its history. The opening of the Byker Road Bridge in 1878 resulted in the closure of the footpath adjacent to the railway, and then the viaduct was widened to four tracks circa 1882. The toll house was a small and inconspicuous building of dressed stone, nicely detailed. It was in a Tudor style with a flat or slightly pitched roof. The windows had characteristic drip stone mouldings above them. There was one floor at track level, and a basement storey below it at natural ground level. It was empty and devoid of any fittings when it was demolished in 1977 {1}.

A former rope works building interesting not only as a vestige of the rope industry on Tyneside but also for the use of ferro concrete in the early 20th century extension to the building. A 376ft long building was added to the site for Messrs. T & W Smith Ltd, the roof of which comprises 33 ferro-concrete trusses. The St Lawrence Ropery was established in the 18th century. The earliest extant documentary reference to the rope-walk at St Lawrence dates from 1724. In 1782 the shipbuilding and ropemaking company and T & W Smith started work at the ropery. This ropery appears to have been extended over the sites of the middle and high glasshouses (SMR 1913-1915) in the early C19. Further minor alterations took place before the construction of a ferro-concrete ropery shed before 1913. The site was acquired by J. Porter in the early 1930s and converted to a joinery shop, in which use it remains. the 19th century ropery buildings to the south east and north west of the site were demolished in the 1940s and 1990s respectively.

Now converted to form rooms for the adjacent public house and hotel the early 19th century single storey smithy building retains a number of internal features, principally two hearths {1}.

A major local brick industry developed north of Rowlands Gill, originally using the glacial clay dug to make the 60ft deep Lockhaugh cutting for the railway. The Priestman Colliery Company built coke ovens at the Lilley Drift Mine around 1883. Brick production reached a peak in 1955 at about 150,000 bricks per week, mostly for use at local pits. After 1964, high quality facing bricks were produced and were widely used in the North East, as for example at the Airport Hotel Ponteland and the Nuffield hospital, Jesmond. The brickworks closed in 1976, and the site reclaimed for agriculture. The office building can be seen from the A694 in Rowlands Gill {1}. An office building from the Lilley Brickworks stands on the A694, a plaque identifying its previous existence upon its wall {2}. At the brickworks site, where a siding linked the works with the main line (Derwent Railway SMR 1019), a platform can still be seen adjacent to the pond. The derelict engine sheds are still standing adjacent to the Derwent Walk. Lily brickworks, 1901-1975. The brickyard was established in about 1901, when Priestman Collieries Ltd took over the Lily Drift. Lily bricks were used in a lot of the building work at the company’s collieries and cokeworks at Highfield, Blaydon Burn, and Watergate near Whickham. In 1922, a battery of beehive coke ovens standing next to the brickworks was demolished and a 32-chamber Belgian-type continuous kiln was built on the site by W Jones & Son. The old chimney, formerly belonging to the coke ovens, was heightened and connected to the new kiln. An electric fan was installed some time later to improve the draught in the kiln. Each chamber in the kiln held some 6000-6500 bricks.
The Newcastle kilns in the old yard became disused. However, in 1939 four Newcastle kilns were built at the east end of the new yard by Mr Gibson of Blaydon, each holding up to 18,000 bricks. The shale came from Rowlands Gill colliery. The bricks were made by the Stiff Plastic Process. The shale was ground to a dry powder by a pair of stone rollers, fell through a meshed bed-plate into a well, which lay 20ft below the pan mill. Clay was lifted from the well with a multi-bucket excavator into a hopper, fed through a chute and into the mixer. The clay paste was pugged in a barrel and forced down onto a circular table fitted with 24 moulds. A Bradley and craven twin press formed the bricks, and could make 2100 bricks per hour. Materials and goods were transported by rail until 1962, when the Derwent Valley railway closed; they were then transported by lorry. In the late 1960s, the yard made rustic facing bricks, sold under the name of ‘Mitford Ressets’. Closed in 1977.
(Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 171 site 22, 174) Locally listed building - Built as offices for the Lilley Drift Colliery, this single storey (9’ 6” high) premises is constructed in the characteristic buff brick produced on site. It is small scale and simple but a little domestic in appearance, and clearly representative both of the distinctive industry in the area and the attractive approach to site buildings taken by Priestman Collieries. Other examples can be seen at Swalwell and elsewhere, where the important common themes are the buff Lilley brick, simple but decorative detailing and a low profile. The building was constructed on a concrete foundation with sandstone sills and lintels, pointed in haired mortar. The 16” x 10” Blue slate roof has terracotta ridge tiles, and the 3 chimneys, at intervals along the ridge, are also of brick with cornice detailing. To each gable is a white-painted bargeboard decorated with curved detailing, and a central carved finial. The front elevation has a strong horizontal emphasis with 7 windows and a door, with 2 windows to the side elevation. Unfortunately all the windows are plastic replacements, as are the rainwater goods. An alarm box has been fitted to the south-west gable.
MATERIALS Buff Lilley Brick (14” & 9” thick walls)
ARCHITECT Arthur Morton Hedley (Mining Engineer)
DATES 1909 (plans)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DPC Callendar’s Bitumen laid 6” below floor level. Timbers T. B. 7” x 3”, spars 3 ½ “ x 3”, purlins 7” x 2 ½ “.Boundary hedged. The Lilley Drift Institute was used as an emergency feeding centre during WWII.

An infilled shaft can be identified on the Little Moor reflecting the mining of coal which took place in the Town Moor area from at least the C17 {1}. A very much abraded ring-bank, measuring 19.2m in diameter and up to 0.3m high, surrounds a central hollow; in this case the ridge-and-furrow seems to respect the boundaries of the feature {2}.

Stone lined well discovered by workmen in September 2002 during the construction of a new hospital carpark. Well made in dressed blocks of sandstone. Top of well was circa 2m below present ground surface. Diameter of well is circa 5ft and depth circa 80ft. The well is thought to be industrial rather than domestic in nature, probably providing water for the glebe engine (SMR 2851) which worked the Lambton Wagonway (SMR 2833). The well is of early 19th century date.

Stone-built spring head with pitched roof and substantial stone walls attached. Trough into which water ran must be buried. Eighton medieval chapel and hermitage (SMR 658 and 9) were situated near to the stream descending from a spring called Scotteswell. In 1387 the land was granted to Robert Lamb, hermit, for the building of the chapel and cell in honour of the Holy Trinity. The chapel and hermitage lay towards the northern end of Eighton vill (SMR 661). The spring was obviously in use in the medieval period but the existing stone structure is post medieval in date. The culvert through which the stream would have originally ran probably runs under Rockcliffe Way and into the former quarry site beyond. Water was said to have still flown through the well until the quarry was filled in.

Work commenced in 1912 by Teams By-product and Coke Co. Ltd. There were 120 Otto by-product coke ovens coking 300,000 tons pa and producing 225,000 tons of coke. Tar, benzole, sulphate of ammonia and gas were produced as by products. There was also a tar distillery producing a range of products. The works were connected to the NER Tanfield Branch Railway and the Pelaw Main Collieries Railway Dunston Branch. In May 1930 it was taken over by Priestman Collieries Ltd, who owned Watergate Colliery at Lobley Hill which produced much of the coal for the ovens. The plant was nationalised in 1947 and the original ovens were replaced by 66 Simon Carves ovens with increased capacity. In 1957 295 men were employed here including the coal washery and tar distillery. Watergate Colliery closed in 1964 and the ovens were then supplied from the various collieries feeding the Morrison Busty washery at Tanfield Plain and the Derwenthaugh washery at Winlaton Mill. Closure of local coking coal collieries and a decline in the demand for foundry coke led to the closure of the coke ovens on 20 May 1980 although coke stocking from other plants continued until 1984. The last stocks were removed in 1985 and the rail link removed. The tar distillery continued in operation until December 1986 utilising tar from other coking plants in the region {1}.