During the 1960s Ryder and Yates produced a series of buildings for healthcare and welfare. Their first welfare commission came from the Newcastle Area Health Authority, with two baby clinics in Newcastle in 1960. The Fenham clinic was located within a large housing estate. The building had medical facilities at ground level and two flats for midwives or policemen above. There was a large central waiting area with consulting rooms, examination and therapy areas and toilets positioned around it. There were minimum circulation areas and corridors. The building was flat roofed, built of brick, with a glazed façade and a band of glazing separating the two floors. Circular white columns carried the first floor. At the rear of the ground floor there was decked private balcony. The main entrance was marked by a parabolic (curved) concrete barrel-vaulted canopy. The clinic has been remodelled with the addition of a pitched roof and new windows.

During the 1960s Ryder and Yates produced a series of buildings for healthcare and welfare. Their first welfare commission came from the Newcastle Area Health Authority, with two baby clinics in Newcastle in 1960. The Fawdon clinic was located within a large housing estate. The building had medical facilities at ground level and two flats for midwives or policemen above. There was a large central waiting area with consulting rooms, examination and therapy areas and toilets positioned around it. There were minimum circulation areas and corridors. The building was flat roofed, built of brick, with a glazed façade and a band of glazing separating the two floors. Circular white columns carried the first floor. At the rear of the ground floor there was decked private balcony. The main entrance was marked by a semicircular concrete barrel-vaulted canopy. The clinic has been demolished.

During the 1960s Ryder and Yates produced a series of buildings for healthcare and welfare. Hopedene Maternity Home was their first project for the Salvation Army, built in 1969. It was an extension to a large Victorian house and replaced an earlier labour ward with a new wing for six mothers. In plan their building was simple and linear, but it was a complex structure which had to accommodate changes in ground level and was designed so an additional floor could be added above. The steep slope of the site was emphasised by the use of light brick on the ground floor and dark brick on the first floor, making the lower floor more dominant. The wards overlooked a large garden. The east elevation had minimal slit windows to provide privacy and quiet for the new mothers. The building was never extended as planned. The Salvation Army handed it over to the local authority social services department. It was demolished in the 1990s.

In 1957 Tyne Tees Television started broadcasting from a former Egyptian cotton warehouse (see HER 10582) on City Road. The communications tower with disc relay aerials 50m above the ground, was designed by Peter Yates as a column of light and was built in 1968. The structure which supported the weight of the tower was an all-welded Virendeel (rectangular trusses with rigid joints which removes the need for diagonal trusses) parallel box square cantilever 27m high. Its sides were supported on a splayed angle base. Access ladders, to which trunking for continuous fluorescent lighting was attached, ran along the diagonals of the structure. Virendeel trusses had already been used by Ryder and Yates at the Engineering Research Station at Killingworth in 1967. In 1969 Ryder and Yates designed thr control room and Studio 1, and in 1981 Studio 5 and car park. New production space was needed when Channel Four was created. Studio 5 was built on a steeply sloping site behind the Egypt Cottage Public House (HER 10581). It was accessed via a canopied entrance covered by a glazed barrel vault. There was a pair of Minoan horns (like those used at Norgas House in Killingworth) in front of the entrance doors to the studio. 'The Tube' music television programme was named after the entrance walkway. The entrance to Studio 5 was a glass cube with supporting white columns. Inside the foyer there was a reception desk like that at Norgas House. Tyne Tees Television Studios were demolished in 2011.

1967 by Ryder and Yates for Northumberland County Council. Two high-rise office blocks, the first part of the Citadel, the new town centre of Killingworth Township. Six floors were raised above the pedestrian deck, which served the shopping centre and was linked by a pedestrian bridge to the housing estate. The Amberley Building was constructed of steel and concrete with a flat glass façade. The windows did not need to open because there was air conditioning. The window glass and the aluminium enamelled spandrel panels were brown. The 15m high black columns, split by a central rainwater pipe, extended up to the second floor. The boiler house was buried under an earthern mound and was marked by the three white chimneys and two rectangular conning towers. The building was demolished in the late 1990s.

Built 1962-4. Designed by Ryder and Yates. This innovative building had two levels (workshops below, showroom above) because the site was steeply sloping. There was a two-storey façade to Scotswood Road. The frontage was carried on three columns. This provided a flexible use of floor space. There were flag panels in the main façade. A chimney flue at the front of the showroom was clad on all four sides by the Ford logo. The projecting entrance lobby was covered in the Ford logo printed on Formica panels. The blank south elevation displayed the company name in huge letters to railway passengers. The car showroom had an uninterupted glass wall. The whole interior back wall was covered in a mural in black, grey and white by Peter Yates using logos from the range of Ford cars (Cortina, Lotus, Zephyr etc). The upper main structure consisted of a steel space frame, a relatively new technology. A tapered box was clad on top, with a ceiling beneath, supported by stanchions in the office walls. The flat roof of the offices was carried by steel beams. Castella beams spanned the north bay supported by lattice girders. The profile of the gables echoed the tapering shape of the roof trusses. The imaginative design was largely the inspiration of Keszek Kubik, a Polish Engineer who joined Ryder and Yates in 1963. The building is still a Ford dealership under the original owners, but has been over-clad in aluminium panels. Peter Yate's murals have been destroyed.

By Ryder and Yates. Built in 1971. Provided instruction and training facilities for Gas Board employees. The building included lecture rooms, offices, workshops, a canteen and external training compound. The lecture rooms, offices and workshops were grouped in a single-storey rectilinear block which could be vertically extended with extra floors if necessary. The canteen and plant rooms were in a separate block linked by a glazed corridor. The elevated main entrance was flanked by blue mosaic-lined pools. This building is single-storey with an exposed steel portal frame with brick infill panels. The open sided compound for external training was covered with a galvanised steel deck. The site had included ventilation shafts and galleries from Killingworth Colliery (West Moor Pit). The main shaft was rafted over and other cavities were in-filled with concrete. In case of the need for remedial work needed in response to subsidence, the building had a pin-based steel portal frame. A hard blue brindle engineering brick was used on the exterior and interior communal areas. The external steel structures and external doors were grey. The glazing to the classrooms was dark grey and flush to the façade. On the roof of the plant room there were sculptural tanks and flues enclosed in panelling. The façade of the plant room was made up of louvred steel panels. The building won several awards - the Galvanizing Design Award in 1970, Structural Steel Design Awards for both Architects and Steelwork in 1971, and the Financial Times Commendation in 1971. Once the Northern Gas Company vacated the building, it was occupied by the offices of a computer company. The interior and windows have been altered. The building is proposed for demolition in 2012.

In 1964 Ryder and Yates refurbished the head office of the Northern Counties Permanent Building Society on Market Street. It included a new banking hall and offices. The Market Street façade had two large display windows made of Formica and glass on a steel frame, to promote the company's services. The stonework of the façade was painted black. When the company merged with the Rock Building Society, Ryder and Yates designed a solid elevation for the building with the name 'Northern Rock' in large glass-fibre reinforced plastic letters and a corner revolving door. A drawing of medieval Newcastle was printed onto a white Formica board. Ryder and Yates also refurbished the Society's offices in St. Mary's Place, and at Gateshead and Carlisle. The Grainger building is listed grade 2 (HER 9189).

Ryder and Yates designed the façade of this optician's premises in 1962 in clear plate glass. The company name was engraved in plastic-laminate-faced plywood panels. The original Victorian shopfront and reception area was replaced but the rest of the interior remained unchanged. The reception interior was decorated with white Formica-faced panels. Next to the main entrance there was a black Formica screen showing a plan of medieval Newcastle. Formica was manufactured at a factory at North Shields. The shop was awarded a Civic Trust Commendation on 1963. The façade lasted until the 1990s when it was replaced with an all-glass façade.

1974 by Ryder and Yates. 606 dwellings for Washington Development Corporation. Their flat roofs at North Kenton (HER 15093) had failed so at Albany dual pitched roofs were used. This was a high-density low-rise scheme largely of flats. There were long banana-shaped blocks of three and four storey flats and terraced houses grouped around mixer courts. North Kenton Estate had separate vehicle and pedestrian areas but residents complained about the distance between dwellings and garages, so at Albany the parking was placed on one side of the terraces with pedestrian access on the other. The pitched roofs of multi-coloured concrete tiles, extended down to first floor window level. The brickwork was dark brown and there were stained timber pergolas. The integral garages could be converted to additional rooms if required. A small boiler room to each court supplied the gas central heating. Albany has suffered from neglect.