Headmaster's house to Buddle Schools (HER 5474). 1876 by J Johnstone for Wallsend Schools Board. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with decorative ridge tiles. L-plan. Scottish baronial style. 2 storeys. Central c1980 door under overlight. High crow-stepped gable. 2 tall corniced and moulded ashlar chimneys. Now sheltered accommodation.

The Buddle School or Wallsend Board Schools (for juniors and infants) were built in the mid 1870s, following the Elementary Education Act of 1870 which provided elementary education for the working classes. A site adjacent to the recently closed 'C' pit was acquired for £800 per acre. The school was named after John Buddle, a notable Wallsend figure and local mining engineer. He became manager of Wallsend Colliery in 1803 where he contributed to the improvement of safety underground, principally through the introduction and improvement of the safety lamp. The main school forms an 'E' shape with further buildings around the compound to the north - the headmaster's house, toilet block and playshed and the caretaker's house, toilet block and playshed to the east. All were built in buff sandstone with ashlar dressings, in a Scottish baronial style with crow-stepped gables and steep roof lines. There is a date panel in the centre at first floor. The roof has a square central bellcote with fishscale roof. In 1884 two extra classrooms were built onto the boys and girls wings. A science wing, workshop, two prefab classrooms and a boiler house were added in the early C20. The school was closed in 1974. In 1977 it became the Wallsend or Buddle Arts Centre. Despite its change of use, the overall character of the buildings has been retained along with most of its fixtures.

This was historically one the main access routes into the valley. Horse and cart was the traditional form of road haulage in the valley. These stables were established in 1897 for the Global Parcel Express Company. They are now the only urban working stables in Newcastle. The laser-cut steel gates are by Fiona Gray, coloured in a light and dark blue with a copper centre.

Took over the southern end of the former cattle sanatorium (HER 4685). In the 1890s John Vose had four confectionery shops in Newcastle and a factory in the Ouseburn. In 1904 Vose merged with Maynard's who also had several confectionery shops and a factory on Ouseburn Road. Trade Directories of 1904 list the new premises on Ouse Street as 'Vose's (Maynard's) Ltd'. Council Minutes record Maynard's leases in 1903, 1913 and 1916. Some of the buildings relating to Maynard's Toffee Factory still survive, despite a fire in the early 1990s. Although roofless, they retain much of their detail including the fenestration using segmental arched lintels. Nestled between the buildings is a tall brick chimney (HER 9873). It is unclear whether the extant factory building was constructed as part of the sanatorium or as a factory. R Steenberg and Son leased or purchased the site C.1903 and used the Sanatorium buildings as warehouses, the site has since been known as Lower Steenberg's Yard. Between 1906-1919 Maynard's increased their holdings within the yad although no mention is made to the construction of the Toffee Factory - suggesting that all surviving buildings were extant by the time the Sanatorium fell out of use. The Toffee Factory has now been converted into an office building - it was recorded prior to its refurbishment. The former Sanatorium buildings to the north are demolished {8}.

Charleton describes Shieldfield Green as an area where troops congregated prior to a battle with the Scots in 1547. The fort which stood nearby (HER 285) was a key position during the siege of 1644. Charleton also tells the story of King Charles I playing golf on the green during his captivity in Newcastle (see HER 1865). An attempt was made to stage horse racing on the Shield Field in 1658 but the authorities intervened. Officially enclosed in 1738 - reflects the changed shape of the green from a long rectangle to a triangle. By 1750 most of the land had been adopted by adjacent landowners.

Presumed rectilinear enclosure identified on an aerial photograph of 1946 by Steve Speak. It is not seen on any aerial photographs from later dates suggesting that conditions during the 1946 survey were unusually clear. Lies just north of Holystone Farm and south of the Seaton Burn Wagonway (HER 1065).
This feature was investigated during trial trenching in 2018 {4} (trenches 58 and 59), and found to be a combination of modern drainage cuts and pronounced furrows, which produced the rectilinear cropmark. It is located in a wet part of the field, and no archaeological features were identified.

Sunderland's direct involvement in whaling began in 1774 when "Hazard" sailed from the Wear. She was withdrawn after three voyages. "Blackett" sailed to the whaling grounds in 1785. Ten vessels were employed as whalers between 1785 and 1798. "Jenny's Adventure", 163 tons, was owned by Thomas Weatherall, brazier, and William Friend, ironmonger. In contrast "Leviathon" was owned by two of the Wear's principal shipowners, Ralph Marshall and James Robinson. Other notable Sunderland whalers were "Blackett", "Horn", "Urania" and "Sunderland". Few of the owners had had any connection with Arctic whaling before 1786, although John and Robert Barry had acquired their whaling skills at Whitby. "Urania" was wrecked off Greenland in 1790 with 2000 seals on board. Between 1793 and 1798 only one or two vessels per season were sent to the whaling grounds. "Sunderland" was captured by a French privateer off Shetland in 1795. "Ariel" and "Hunter" and the lease on the whale oil yard at Hylton and wharves and warehouses at Monkwearmouth Shore were advertised for sale in 1798. They were sold to the Hull whaling fleet and many Sunderland whalermen moved with them. John and Robert Barry abandoned whaling to develop a shipowning company, at a time when Newcastle had renewed its interest in the Greenland whaling trade.

Howdon was a centre of blubber boiling and whale bone processing. Ships from here hunted near Greenland. Souvenir whalebone arches and vertebrae from these voyages were set up in the area. Samuel Hieronymus Grimm [who made a living from accompanying the well-to-do on their travels and recorded his journeys in pen-and-ink drawings] drew a stile made of whale ribs at Howdon Pans in the eighteenth century {1}. In December 1749 Captain Jonathan Blagdon advertised in the local newspapers asking for minimum subscriptions of £100 to finance the creation of a whaling company. In 1751 there were more advertisements calling for subscriptions to finance the creation of the Newcastle Whale Fishing Company. Sir Walter Blackett MP, subscribed, as did Ralph Sowerby, mayor of Newcastle and many councillors and aldermen. The Newcastle Whale Fishing Company was formed on 4 December 1751, and they purchased "Swallow", 297 tons for £2000. She returned to the Tyne in July 1752 with four Greenland whales. Two more vessels were added to form a whaling fleet - "Resolution", 420 tons and "Dolphin", 390 tons. In 1755 John Baker & Co and Edward Mosley & Co., merchants and aldermen, also entered into the trade. They had two vessels - "Robert", 268 tons and "Phoenix", 260 tons. Newcastle became the principal outport in the Greenland trade between 1756 and 1765. Trinity House collected tax from whale owners at a rate of 2 pence per ton of bone and blubber. Francis Hurry, who had begun building ships at Howdon in 1758, took an interest in Greenland whaling in 1764 with Thomas Airey, whose daughter he had married. On the foreshore, on the east side of Howdon Burn, were facilities for whale bone cleaning and blubber boiling and storage facilities for harpoons, lines etc. Their first ship was "Newcastle", 340 tons, but she was burnt down in 1766. "John and Margaret", "Royal Exchange" and "Annabella" were added to the fleet by 1765. "Annabella" was wrecked in 1768 and "Royal Exchange" in 1773 [although she had returned to Howdon in 1768 with twelve whales and 2300 seals]. By 1766 Newcastle was in decline as a whaling port, and Whitby had re-emerged. By 1830 the whaling trade in Newcastle was dominated by one person, Thomas Richard Batson. He was the sole owner of two vessels - "Grenville Bay" and "Lord Gambier". He made huge profits in 1832-3. Greenland whaling had collapsed by 1820 so the ships were sailing to Baffin Bay, Davis Straits, Lancaster Sound and Pond Inlet in Arctic Canada. "Lady Jane" was the best known Newcastle whaler, built in London in 1772 and transferred to Newcastle in 1804 by Matthew Plummer & Co. During her 50th journey to the Arctic in 1849, "Lady Jane" was crushed by ice at Melville Bay. The whaling enterprise from Tyneside was effectively over. "Volunteer", an iron-hulled screw-driven steamship, was the last Arctic whaler to sail directly from a North-East Port. She sank in 1859.

Site of the Bodle Well. The name comes from the fact that a charge was made for water. A bodle was a Scottish coin worth half a farthing. A bodle would have bought you a skeel or 4 gallons of water. The well was removed in 1938, but its name survives in the name Bodlewell Lane.

Boiler shell recorded in Council depot opposite almshouses in 1993.