A small brewery and public house in Northumberland Place, Backworth Colliery, were offered for sale in 1838.

The fourth wooden dolly was carved by May Spence of North Shields at the bequest of her father Alderman John Foster Spence. This dolly took the form of a fishwife with a creel on her back. She was unveiled on Coronation Day 26th June 1902. The fourth dolly lasted until 1957 when she became so damaged she had to be replaced. Her missing right elbow was presented to a hotel in Melbourne, Australia. Two ladies from North Shields found the dolly in a breaker's yard in Whitby.

Mr Walker's Windmill on Wood's 1827 map.

Mr Barker allowed the Primitive Methodists to use his sail-loft as the Low Dock in 1827 as a meeting house.

A church at the junction of Frederick Street and Laygate was built in 1849, in stone in the Early English style, to the design of John Dobson. It cost £2,000 and seated 600; last used in the early 20th century, it was demolished in 1977.

Built between 1832-4 by Salvin and demolished in 1980. West tower with stair-turret; the planned spire not built. Five-bay arcades on circular piers. Chancel and double-gabled transepts by R.J. Johnson of Austin, Johnson & Hicks, 1878-9. Demolished 1977.

The medieval salt pans (SMR 946) were located at "West Pans" near to St Hilda's chapel and it is likely that this area continued to be the focus of the industry in the post medieval period, with the number of pans increasing. However, other areas of South Shields may also have been involved. There is a record in 1618 of damages against a salt manufacturer for the destruction of grass on the great pasture of Westoe (PSAN, VIII, p 182). Further evidence of the scale of the industry is provided by the fact that Icelandic and Greenland fishing fleets came to load up with salt at Shields. In 1539 there were 9 salt pans but by 1663 the accounts of the chapel wardens included an assessment of 121 salt pans. In 1635 Sir William Brereton describes South Shields as having "more salt works and more salt pans made than in any part of England". By 1693 there were 143 pans, seven near Mill Dam. In 1725 Lord Harley visited South Shields and described it as "the chief place for making salt. The houses there are poor little hovels and are in a perpetual thick nasty smoke. It has in all 200 salt pans, each employs three men… and each consumes 14 cauldrons of coal in 7 days" (Harley 1725 "Journeys in England"). The estimate of c.200 pans is confirmed by Thomas Kitchen's Map of County Durham, c.1750 which incorporates an embellishment showing a slat pan and the inscription "South Shields, the station of the sea coal fleets, is a very large village eminent for its salt works, here being upward of 200 pans for boiling the sea water into salt. Tis said that 100,000 cauldrons of coal are yearly consumed in these works". However, by 1820 the salt trade had almost disappeared Surtees recorded only 5 salt pans remaining at South Shields.

In 1756 John Burdon was allowed to build a wharf at Broad Landing, which can be approximately located from the information that two quays belonging to Fairlie, advertised in 1791, are described as being on either side of Burdon's Quay.

Evidence for the construction of quays and docks in the area to the north of the Mill Dam inlet begins in the C17. There is a court record in 1670 of a ballast quay separated from the water mill by a bridge and apparently on or near to the site of what became Cookson's Quay, just to the north of the Mill Dam inlet. In 1754 John Burdon was refused permission by Trinity House to build a ballast quay on the sands at the end of South Shields. Two years later Isaac Cookson, who was a freeman of Newcastle, secured a site for a quay, presumably Cookson's Quay as shown on Wood's map.

The Melsonsby Book of 1235 records an inn at Shields. It mentions that the brewers of the Shields have paid the Prior and Convent of Durham for bracinage, or the right to brew ale. In 1256 there were four breweries in the town. Richardson’s plan of 1768 shows a ‘Beerbrewers Well’ at this location on the south side of Mill Dam.