Brewery stable yards survive here. Now restored and is a centre for starter business units and workshops {1}.

A fine bus garage built in 1930 in painted concrete, with a splendid frontage of Greek Doric columns, forming a six vehicle entrance {1}.
Listing reads:
'This purpose-built bus depot combining an integral bus garage and office with service accommodation was constructed in 1930 for United Automobile Services. It was built on part of Portland Park, Jesmond to designs of Marshall & Tweedy of Newcastle upon Tyne. The steel roof structure was by A & J Main & Co Ltd of Glasgow & London. The original proposed building plans and elevations survive and the functions and evolution of the depot can largely be identified, although the actual building may have differed slightly in detail. In 1942 the garage interior was modified by the insertion of a wall with a central opening, constructed to create a separate but linked dock shop at the south-east end. In 1956 a single-bay, flat-roofed extension (to house a hoist) was added to the south-west elevation. Subsequently an enclosed linear corridor was constructed against the inner side of the north west elevation, giving access into a linear single-storey office extension to the north-west elevation, which replaced an air raid shelter shown on earlier plans. Later alterations to the building include: the insertion of further partition walls to the garage to create spaces for different operations, the probable replacement of the covered entrance way roof, minor changes to the original fenestration of the office elevations on Portland Terrace, and the removal of original timber folding doors to the partition wall and the covered entrance way. The bus depot remains in use (2019) operated by Arriva.
United Automobile Services was founded in Lowestoft in 1912, and was a major provider of bus services in North Yorkshire and North-East England for more than 80 years. The prosperous bus company was acquired by the London and North Eastern Railway and a holding company (Tilling and British Automobile Traction Ltd) in 1929. The practice of Marshall & Tweedy was set up in Newcastle in 1899, before opening a London office in New Cavendish Street in the late 1920s. Most of their work was in a loose neo-Georgian style and included luxury flats, blocks of flats, parades of shops and flats as well as individual houses and theatres. The National Heritage List for England (NHLE) records at least six Grade II listed buildings to their name, including the Derby Hippodrome (1914; NHLE: 1267901), 30 Blackett Street, Newcastle (1902; NHLE: 1024962) and numbers 2-56 Colebrook Close, Putney, London (1934; NHLE: 1458504). A & J Main & Co Ltd was a Glasgow-based company operating as manufacturers of ornamental cast and wrought iron in the late C19. They incorporated the Arrol Bridge & Roof Co in about 1908, and in the early C20, they were manufacturing steel roof trusses.
Bus depot, 1930 for United Automobile Services, to designs of Marshall & Tweedy of Newcastle upon Tyne and London; roof structure by A & J Main & Co Ltd of Glasgow & London. The contractor was T Clements & Sons, of Newcastle. Greek Doric style. Mid- and later-C20 alterations.
MATERIALS: brick and reinforced concrete, with a main elevation faced in concrete, painted; steel roof structure and corrugated asbestos roofing material. PLAN: L-shaped occupying a corner site at the junction of Portland Terrace and Jesmond Road. It comprises an L-shaped bus garage, with a rectangular covered entrance way projection to the north-east end, with offices and services forming a narrow two-storey frontage to the south end of Portland Terrace and contained within a single-storey, flat-roofed triangular projection to the south-east end.
EXTERIOR: a double-height building with repeating pitched roofs of corrugated asbestos sheeting with glazed lights to each pitch; part of the roof covering to the southern section has been replaced. Window frames to the office and service areas onto Portland and Hutton Terraces are mostly replacement casements.
The main (Portland Terrace) elevation has a Greek Doric style colonnade of six symmetrical double-height vehicular entrance bays, each between substantial fluted columns carrying an entablature with a triglyph frieze. Original plans indicate that the words ‘United Automobile Services’, were cast into the entablature, which are thought to remain behind the modern bus company sign. The ramped and stepped parapet has pierced panels to either end. Each of the six vehicle entrance bays has a panelled, timber and glazed folding door of four hinged sections with paired lights, each of six small panes to the upper parts. To either end of the colonnade there is an additional set-back bay beneath the parapet. At the left end this is double-height with a timber and glazed folding door. At the right end this is two-storey with a large central window set within a slightly raised surround, flanked by a narrow window opening to each floor; one of the latter to the ground floor has been largely blocked and the other partially blocked: the central opening has a replacement multi-pane frame.
Attached to the right is the slightly projecting two-storey, triangular office and service wing. On Portland Terrace this has six bays with a low parapet band and five first floor windows: both floors have a large central window opening set within a slightly raised surround. To the first floor this is flanked to each side by a pair of original window openings. To the ground floor it is flanked to the right by a pair of original window openings (one converted to an entrance) and to the left by an original narrow end window opening and three inserted narrow openings. The right end bay has an original entrance fitted with a modern roller shutter with an original stair window in a raised surround above. On Hutton Terrace the canted section has two storeys plus basement and seven first floor window openings: it has paired single lights to the end bay (matched by paired basement openings) and five large window openings to each floor. Basement openings are all narrow with timber louvres.
The north-west (Jesmond Road) elevation is blind and rendered with repeated triangular gables, the lower parts obscured by an extension. The covered entrance way projection at the east end of the elevation retains its original concrete clad classical opening with parapet; original plans indicate the words 'United Automobile Services' upon the latter, but if they were executed they are now not visible. The original timber folding door has been removed and a half-height brick wall bars entry, and a wide inserted vehicle opening has been made through the west elevation.
The rear (car park) elevation has a short canted section with first floor double fire doors reached by a mid-C20 fire escape with double vehicular doors below. The remainder of the rear elevation is rendered and has three asymmetrical gabled units: the visible part has ten tall, regularly-spaced, small-paned ground floor metal-framed windows; the remainder is obscured by the attached linear garage range, which has an exposed brick rear wall.
INTERIOR: the original 1930 steel trussed beam roof structure has lateral wind bracing and is top lit by glazed panels. Some of the original linear inspection pits at the north-east and south-east ends also survive, and a number retain their original ornamental grilles. A mid-later-C20 corridor with a block work rear wall and a lean-to glazed roof is inserted against the inner face of the north-west elevation. The mid-C20 dividing wall at the south end of the garage remains in a modified form to that depicted on the original proposed plans: it has brick lower parts and asbestos sheets within a frame above, with an original central opening; an original folding door has been replaced by a roller shutter and there is an inserted door opening. The south wall of the garage separates the latter from the office and service accommodation contained behind, which also wraps around onto the south-west wall: the ground floor has a continuous series of windows and doors supported on a substantial steel beam. To the first floor there are six large regularly-spaced windows, all but one of which (at the right end) retains their original steel-framed small-paned windows.
The office and service accommodation comprise a series of polygonal spaces. The basement has a former triangular store room with a shuttered concrete ceiling, and a short corridor opening into the former heating chamber and coal store. The ground floor has a large triangular general store with windows that open onto the garage, and a short corridor opens into the former foreman's office, batteries and men's cloak rooms and WCs. A canted stair well houses a metal stick balustrade with a ramped wooden handrail. On the first floor a corridor opens to the left into the former rest room, ladies' cloakroom and WCs, and to the right it leads to the triangular-shaped former canteen. All spaces have late-C20 doors and inserted suspended ceilings, with shuttered concrete ceilings above where visible. The internal walls of the covered way are painted, and steel beams support a flat roof.
Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the internal C20 enclosed corridor attached to the inner face of the north-west elevation is not of special architectural or historic interest, however any works which have the potential to affect the character of the listed building as a building of special architectural or historic interest may still require Listed Building Consent and this is a matter for the Local Planning Authority to determine.'

Whilst horse racing continues in Gosforth Park, the tram service which once brought people in their thousands to race days has long since disappeared. The tramway and the Gosforth Park terminus were owned by the Tyneside Tramways and Tramroads Company until 1930. The tramway penetrated the park and the line is still distinguishable. Some bases of tram posts can be found in the undergrowth {1}. When the racecourse was set up at Gosforth Park in 1882, there was no direct transport facilities. The nearest station was Killingworth. In 1893 the tram was extended to Gosforth High Street, 2 miles away. The Gosforth Park Light Railway extended the tramlines to the gates of the Park by 1904 and later through the park itself. Extra sidings were installed at Killingworth to handle special race trains {2}.

By park, back of footpath, against stone wall, on north side of road. A prism shaped sandstone milestone, possibly late 18th century, for the Lobley Hill and Burnstones Turnpike. It indicates 22 miles to W(olsingham). 65cm high.

There have been numerous references to a possible Roman barrier across the River Wear at Hylton. {2} refers to "the site of an alleged Roman bridge over the Wear approximating to the position of the ferry at Low Ford. During dredging operations many relics such as clamped and other stones with the iron fixed in with lead, were brought up, at a part of the river at Hylton called the breakstones. The late Mr. W. Wealands Robson went no further than to consider the passage a causeway, but against that was the fact the stones were "finely cut and chiseled," some of them of "great architectural beauty"." {3} reports that around 1713 there were complaints about "ye stones of the old bridge being a nuisence to the river". The Sunderland Echo of May 25th 1881 refers to damage to a River Wear Commissioner's dredger deepening the river bed when it struck a stone block "about five feet square". It also describes a line of stone blocks of similar dimensions stretching across the river and Roman coins being found in this location {4}. Whellan's Directory of 1894 states that "In ancient times there was a bridge over the Wear at this place, built by Agricola, the great Roman general". It goes on to describe the stones discovered by the River Commissioners as "immense blocks of stone, carefully wrought and squared, clamped together with iron clamps, run in with lead, and laid upon a framework of oak timber. These stones had been known in the locality as "the Brig Stones" … A few of them might be seen a few years ago lying at the mouth of the Wear inside the dock gates…" {5}. In the 1880s, the Rev. R.E. Hoopell read a paper to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, reporting masses of masonry called the "Brigg Stones" which formed part of an arch of the Roman bridge. When Society members examined one of these stones however, they decided that the stone was from a causeway not a bridge {6}. Deeds respecting the manor of Offerton refer to the area of the "Damflat" [what is the date of this document?] {7}. At a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1883, a Mr Robinson stated that he had seen a stone causeway on the site when he visited it on April 16th. A Mr Nichol stated that he remembered as a boy crossing the causeway of large blocks of stone clamped together with lead. Mr Robinson and a Mr Hodges said there was no trace of anything Roman on the spot {8}. An entry in "The Life of Harry Watts" (book about the Sunderland sailor and diver) states that Mr Watts was employed by the River Commissioners to remove the "Brixtons, large stones forming the remains of a bridge which spanned the river at Hylton" {9}. Rev. Hooppell gave a "Further Account of Traces of a Roman Bridge at Hylton" in 1884. Some Society members were of the opinion that the structure may be medieval {10}. As mentioned above, some of the stones which formed part of this structure were apparently dumped at the river mouth. According to Northern Archaeology Group, some of them were used in the construction of the North Pier, and were visible when part of the pier was damaged. When the pier was repaired some of these stones were deposited on the beach while others were used as a boundary to support the concrete infill of the pier. Other examples are used to block a car park entrance to the north of the North Pier. The 'brigstones' exhibit what are termed Lewis holes (rectangular slot into which a rope and crane can be fitted, to enable the lifting, moving and securing of the stone) and dove-tail cuts. Similar stones with Lewis holes form part of the Roman bridge at Chollerford. There is an example of a reused Roman stone with 'dove-tail cuts' at the Saxon monastery site at Jarrow and many stones with dove-tail cuts or Lewis holes in the strongroom at Arbeia Roman Fort at South Shields. Similar stones were found during the deepening of the River Kelvin at Summerston in Scotland in 1941 {1}. There are other examples at Seaton Sluice harbour. There are a large number of Roman sites in the northern region, especially along Hadrian's Wall, which incorporate lewis holes. The lewis device can be attached to stone blocks which can be lowered and placed under water, making lewis holes common on Roman bridges such as those at Piercebridge, Stanwix, Willowford, Corbridge and Chesters {11}.

Medieval deer park. No site evident now. Licence to Impark - John Scott 1370. Dated C14th.

Medieval deer park. No site evident now. Small area of open land now used as golf course. Ownership in C15 - Bishop of Durham. Dated C15th.

Medieval deer park now the grounds of Ravensworth Castle. Licence to Impark - Henry Fithurgh 1390. Dated C14th.

A number of metal artefacts were reported by a Mr P Burns of Grange Road West in Jarrow in 1993. Mr Burns had found the objects in an area of rough pasture at Shiremoor Farm. The finds were made using a metal detector. Numerous pieces of 20th century bronze and lead alloy were found, along with two lead tokens with moulded anchors on the obverse. Of more interest was the copper alloy casting of a middle Bronze Age axe head. It appeared to be the product of a faulty waste wax casting, weighing 10oz. Further bronzesmiths' lead-bronze alloy waste pieces were found scattered 100 to 200m to the south west.

Two small stone Celtic heads from the Walbottle area, donated to the Museum of Antiquities by Ernie Sockett in 1991. Accession number 1991.14.