Shown on Richardson's plan of 1768.

A chapel is shown on Richardson's survey of 1768 and a plan of the Green Estate executed in 1769.

The first Primitive Methodist Church building in South Shields opened in 1823 in Cornwallis Street, seating 900 and built at a cost of £1,600; it was rebuilt in 1865. The church was built on glebe land and known as ‘The Glebe’, the name being transferred to the new church which replaced it in 1890. Only shown on the 1827 Wood map and the 1st edition Ordnance Survey,

On Woods map this is apparently surrounded by ballast hills - though the works is not shown on the 1st edition OS map. The impetus to produce alkali came largely from the needs of the local glass trade. In 1762, Isaac Cookson, glassmaker, set up an alum works on land between the present ferry landing and Mill Dam. The alum was to be used as a source of potash salts in his glass houses. The clay containing aluminium salts (alum shale) were brought from Whitby. Around 1780 a small factory was set up on a hill-top near Mill Dam to make sulphuric acid by the chamber process. The site became known as Vitriol Hill. There was a public protest in 1823.

Markets in South Shields took place in the street until the 18th century when the planned market square was built. Richardson's plan of South Shields and Westoe shows this development. In the centre of the market place was a cross (SMR 4597) and a Town Hall. In 1766 the Dean and Chapter of Durham agreed to release eight acres of Glebe land for a new market place. In the House of Commons it was stated that South Shields was allowed to hold two Annual Fairs, but the main street was so narrow that a new location of essential. In September 1768 John Wooler, civil engineer, was paid five guineas for drawing a plan of the new market. At the same time, a Mr Harding was paid four guineas for his plan. Construction began immediately. In October 1768 Thomas Duncan was paid £100 towards the cost of building the "Town House", a two storey building open at ground level on three sides, with three moulded arches on Tuscan columns. John Walker's drains were 2 feet wide and 3 feet high. The market place was paved at a cost of £509.13.0d. Iron hand railings were provided. The market opened in July 1770. No details are given as to the designer of the town hall - it could have been Wooler, Harding, George Nicholson (mason/architect to the Dean and Chapter) or Duncan. Records seem to indicate that Nicholson was only paid for measuring and valuing the work. Credit for design should probably be given to Harding or Wooler, with Duncan responsible only for the building work. It is not inconceivable however, that Duncan was only given an outline drawing of the building and that he provided the detailing. 1768. Built by the Dean and Chapter of Durham in the centre of the new Market Place
they had laid out circa 1767.
Ashlar with pyramidal slate roof. Two storeys. Open arcaded ground floor for use
as market hall. Three arches on south, east and west sides on Doric columns, with
square rusticated corner piers against which are set half column responds.
A central pillar on steps which may be part of a former market cross.
The upper floor of 3 bays to each elevation. A central "Venetian" window flanked on
either side by a single semi-circular headed window. On the east and west fronts
the single windows are blank. On the north front the centre light of the "Venetian"
window contains the entrance door with fanlight over.
The upper floor is reached by a symmetrical, double branch stone staircase under
which the open market hall can be approached through a grand semi-circular arched
opening.
The roof is crowned by a square timber turret and a domed octagonal cupola.
The building was restored in 1977.
The hall was originally built by the Dean and Chapter as a place for holding their
Manorial Courts and providing offices for their officials. It was sold by them in
1855 to the corporation together with the market tolls. The Market Place contained two underground air raid shelters during the Second World War. On October 2nd 1941 the Market Place took a direct hit destroying many surrounding buildings and killing 68 people.

Terrace

Pilot's Lookhouse Post.

This is shown on Fryer's 1772 map.

This is possibly shown as a ferry boat landing on Fryer's 1772 map, clearly on the 1st edition OS map.

Carr's Pottery 1813-1913 is shown on a photograph reproduced in Hollerton (1997, p 10) in Union Road {1}. The Low Lights Pottery was established in 1814, probably by Collingwood and Beall. It then passed to Nicholas Bird. In 1829 it passed to Cornfoot, Colville and Company (later Cornfoot, Patton and Company). When Cornfoot retired and John Carr became a partner, the name was changed to Carr and Patton, and then in 1850 Carr and Company. When the business became the sole property of John Carr in 1854, he and his sons carried it on as John Carr and Sons. When Carr took over the business at North Shields, John Patton took over the Phoenix Pottery in the Ouseburn, Newcastle (SMR 5282). Carr made brown and black wares and ordinary wares. In 1856 these were discontinued and replaced by ordinary white earthenwares printed, lustred and painted. They were exported to the Mediterranean, Egypt and the Far East. Carr also made terracotta vases and articles for the building trade. A manuscript plan of the pottery in 1854 gives descriptions of the functions of all of the buildings in the works. There were separate warehouses for brown and white wares, each with their own kiln. There was also a white slip house, saucer-maker's house and storage for crates and packing straw. The pottery was abandoned between 1890 and 1901 when the company concentrated on firebrick manufacture as the North Shields Glazed Brick Works & Flint Mills. They took over the adjacent lime works (HER 5488) and foundry (HER 2054). The last directory entry for the firm at 44 Low Lights was in 1907-8 {1}.