Dents Hole Quarry. Marked as Old on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1895.

St Peter's Dock. The site is occupied by St Peter's Works on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so the dock was probably out of use by 1895 {2}. There was an operational shipyard at St. Peter’s by the 1750s, owned and run by William Rowe. In 1804, 61 shipwrights (including 34 apprentices) worked at the yard (Clarke 1997, 29 vol. 1). In the same year, the largest graving dock on the Tyne was constructed at the yard, capable of holding vessels with a draught of 12 feet. During the Napoleonic Wars, 12 vessels were constructed at the yard for the Admiralty.
In 1810, the St. Peter’s yard was sold to the Smiths. It became the largest yard on the river over the first half of the century. In 1851, the Smiths installed two large covered building berths (Clarke 1997, 116 vol. 1), the first such structures on the Tyne. They were designed, and their fabrication at the yard supervised, by the Glasgow engineering firm Bell and Miller. In one of the berths was constructed the largest wooden vessel ever produced on the river, the warship Carlo Alberta. This was a three deck, 50 gun vessel for the Sardinian Government. It was 245 feet long and had a displacement of 2,500 tons.
By the 1850s, the Smiths began to develop their North Shields yard on the Limekiln Shore as their chief ship construction centre, and by the 1860s, the St. Peter’s Yard was less significant to the company. In 1871, the yard was sold to R & W Hawthorn (who had founded an engineering company at Forth Banks in Gateshead in 1817) and the site was developed as a marine engineering works, under the management of Francis Carr Marshall. Fitting out the yard cost Hawthorn’s £27,146. This included the cost of a massive pair of shearlegs set up on the fitting out quay, where engines were installed. Many very large triple-expansion engines were built at the yard, many of which were installed in vessels constructed at Charles Mitchell’s Low Walker Yard
In 1886, R&W Hawthorn, Leslie and Co. was formed as a limited liability company as a result of the retirement of Andrew Leslie from his Hebburn shipbuilding yard who had previously been a major client for engines from the St. Peter’s Yard (Leslie had ordered 33 out of a total of 78 engines to power his ships from Hawthorns between 1860 and 1870).
St. Peter’s Engine Works and Palmer’s Works shared the honours for construction and installation of the last triple expansion engines into Royal Navy vessels. Hawthorn’s vessel was the Beardmore constructed HMS Agamemnon. By 1907, Hawthorn’s St. Peter’s Works had radically converted its production capabilities to meet Royal Navy requirements for steam turbines (Clarke 1997, 37, vol 2). In that year, the yard built and installed the turbines for HMS Ghurka. Over the rest of the century, the works production included Doxford, Sulzer and Werkspoor diesel engines.
In 1977, the (now styled) Hawthorn, Leslie (Engineers) Ltd. became a member company of British Shipbuilders. Later, the yard merged with George Clark & NEM Ltd to form Clark Hawthorn Ltd. The yard continued to build engines up until the 1980s when it was reformed as Clark Kincaid, a crane manufactory.
Map Evidence
First Edition Twenty Five Inches to One Mile Ordnance Survey 1855, Sheet XCVII, 8
Shows Smiths yard subsequent to the construction of the two building berths in 1851. The map also shows the large graving dock to the west of the covered berths, presumably the dock constructed in 1804. Rail lines link the covered berths, the dock and buildings beyond. The yard appears to be interrupted some way to the west of the dock by a chemical works, beyond which is a range of building slips, presumably within the same yard. Rose House–the property and dwelling of the previous owners of the yard, the Row or Rowe family (it is annotated as Rowe’s House on later editions of the Ordnance Survey), lies immediately to the north-west of the yard.
Second Edition Twenty Five Inches to One Mile Ordnance Survey 1897, Sheets 13 and 19.
The site is described as ‘St Peter’s Works Engineering and Shipbuilding’. The graving dock and the covered berths have now gone, replaced by substantial structures which take up the middle portion of the yard. Cranes lie along the western half of the rationalised quayside Rowe’s House survives to the north-west of the yard. The rectilinear area on the western edge of the yard contains building slips, one angled obliquely to launch downriver.
Third Edition Twenty Five Inches to One Mile Ordnance Survey 1921, Sheet XCV, 13
The yard has expanded to the north-west and significant new buildings have been constructed in this area. Rowe’s House has gone as has any evidence for slipways in the old western area of the yard along the riverside.
Fourth Edition Six Inches to One Mile Ordnance Survey 1938, Sheet XCV, SW
Very similar appearance to that shown on the Third Edition Survey {3}.

Byker bottle works was erected c.1815 by William Row Junior in partnership with his father (William Row) who already had considerable experience of the trade during the 18th century as a customer and shipper of Hartley bottles. During the 1820s ownership may have continued under William Row Snr. or may have been leased to Richard Lambert who appears in directories of 1825 and 1827. In 1830 the glass works passed into the hand of Thomas Ridley whose brother John owned the North Tyne Glass Company also at St. Peters (HER 16827). The Ridley brothers owned both of the bottle works at St.Peters until 1843 when one (possibly this one, the older one) was advertised for sale. On the tithe plan (1845) St Peter's Glass Houses are owned by Robert Gothard's executors and occupied by Ridley Brothers. The works closed c.1861 after having been briefly taken over by a Glasgow bottle manufacturer, Alexander Mein of the Clyde Bottle Company. By the 1890s the works had been demolished and replaced by a Chemical Manure Works (HER 10401).

St Peter's Pottery was built in 1817 by Thomas Bell and Thomas Fell trading as Thomas Fell and Company. They made white, sponged, printed and enamelled wares. In 1869 Fell and Company became a limited liability company. They then produced mainly white and coloured domestic earthenware and a small amount of lustreware. The last reference to the firm was in 1891 {2}.

A shipbuilding yard to the west of Plummer’s Wharf, St Peter’s is shown on the First Edition Ordnance Survey. The yard includes a small rectangular dock towards its eastern side and a large building / graving dock running obliquely across it from the western edge. St Peter’s Saw Mill lies within the north-western part of the yard. The yard is gone by the time that the Second Edition Survey has been produced {2}.

The Mushroom Bottle Works.

In 2018 an evaluation trench was positioned at the site of the Mushroom Bottle Works and whiting works. Within the evaluation trench, brick and stone walls were identified in addition to a cobbled rough brick surface these remains probably related to the former bottle and whiting works.

A Brickfield and Clay Pit.

St Lawrence Chemical Works (Washing Soda).

A Quarry; the precise definition is not clear on the 1st edition OS mapping, the graphic representation is an attempt to define its maximum extent as shown. It is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so out of use by 1895.

An Engine House. This is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1895.