1812 wreck of English craft which stranded on the south end of the Herd Sand on her departure from Shields; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Twizzell. Crew saved.

1803 wreck of English cargo vessel which was beached on the south end of the Herd Sand en route from St. Petersburg to London and Plymouth, after springing a leak at sea. Laden with deals, hemp, and iron, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Pearson

Vessel foundered and lost following collision with the
London registered ketch PRIDE, in wind conditions NE force
4.

Year Built: 1885
Boilers: 1
Owner: J. Prior, Sunderland
Master: Archer, J.
Crew: 4
Crew Lost: 0
Passengers: 0

Vessel stranded and lost in wind conditions SSW force 2.

Built: 1870
Master: W Baillie
Crew: 4
Owner: J H Soppit, Sunderland

Gordon Ryder and Peter Yates wanted to develop their ideas used at Thorntree Gill in Peterlee. They were appointed in 1962 by Newcastle City Council to design a high profile social housing scheme (over 600 dwellings) at North Kenton. Ru Williams, later Ted Nicklin was the design architect. The North Kenton Estate, built in 1964, reflected the government's Parker Morris Report ('Houses for Today and Tommorrow'), which set minimum standards for public housing. The design also reflected increased car ownership (each house had an allocated garage). Pedestrian and vehicular spaces were separate. The site had several problems - it was north facing, exposed to the wind and was steeply sloping. Central heating served the ground floor. Thermal insulation and tv aerials were hidden inside the dwellins so not to spoil the roofscape. A road encircled the northern and western boundaries of the estate with an exit onto Kenton Lane. The houses, shops and schools were served by spurs from the main ring road. There was pedestrian access to all buildings. A central core at the intersection of the three main pedestrian routes housed all the public buildings - shops with two duplex flats over each one, schools and public house (had public, cocktail and men-only bars). There were play space and recreational areas. Infant play areas had a sandpit sheltered by shrubs with low walls and integral seating. Junior play areas had permanent play equipment and sculpture, swings, slides and roundabouts enclosed by walls, seats and planting. On the upper level of the central public square there was a piazza with a pool, fountain and sculpure, groups of trees and small areas of flowers. At the lower level there was a decorative play garden with curved pre-cast concrete screens. At North Kenton there were eight house and flat types. The dwellings provided the new requirements - space for homework, hobbies, central heating (warm air or under floor) and insultation. Flat roofs were a key design aesthetic of Ryder and Yates's work but the un-insulated mineral roofing felt failed. Other construction problems included ultraviolet radiation, thermal stress and condensation. Nevertheless, North Kenton has survived remarkably well, apart from replacement doors and windows.

Gordon Ryder and Peter Yates wanted to develop their ideas used at Thorntree Gill in Peterlee. They were appointed in 1962 by Newcastle City Council to design a high profile social housing scheme at North Kenton. They tested the specially developed courtyard house at a small pilot scheme of 22 dwellings at St. Cuthbert's Green. Local residents had opposed the building of a 15 storey tower block here in 1960-61. The design separated pedestrian and vehicular spaces. The houses were arranged around a triangular 'village green'. There were four terraces around a central court. The western block included one-storey kitchen-diners and two-storey living rooms and bedrooms. The northern block contained three-storey terraced houses with integral garages and roof terraces. The southern block was formed of 4 two-storey houses with single-storey kitchens and rear patio. The east terrace was three-bedroomed single-storey courtyard houses, Z-shaped in plan, enclosing a small entrance court and patio. It was an enclosed private development with pedestrian access restricted to residents. A variety of materials, colours and finishes were used. The development resembled Ryder and Yates houses at Peterlee - flat roofs, square shapes, render cladding. It was also similar to Le Corbusier's housing of 1925 at Pessac near Bordeaux, with projecting units and serrated profiles. The development won a Civic Trust Commendation and a Good Design in Housing Medal in 1966. The houses have been heavily remodelled. The flat roofs have been replaced with pitched ones, and the windows have been replaced.

Ryder and Yates designed 14 private houses across the North. 12 were built. They all shared characteristic themes in plan, form and use of materials. But the houses were specific to each client and site. The houses were generally narrow and linear in plan. Secondary spaces were housed in linked pods. Entrances were marked by some sort of sculptural element. Spaces were divided by columns or staircases. All houses had a dominant fireplace. External columns allowed facades to be entirely glazed. Roofs were always flat and animated by roof lights, canopies, chimneys and water tanks. A mixture of old and new materials were used. The house at Tynemouth was designed for James Liddell, builder, who Gordon Ryder had met at Tynemouth Sailing Club. He had commissioned housing schemes from Ryder in Tynemouth, Whitley Bay, Bournemouth and Torquay. Liddell's house was built in 1958. It was featured in the Daily Express, which described it thus: 'You have to go far to find The House Where the Rainbow Ends. I have found it. It has colour. Space. Light. And warmth. And it glimmers - for a house like this couldn't just stand'…. 'the brightly painted front door, set like a jewel among squares of coloured glass, blazed a welcome. The Liddells, who love the sea, could afford to let their architect have a free hand'. Unlike the other Ryder and Yates houses, this was a tight urban site on the sea front. It was a three storey townhouse. The ground floor was reinforced concrete and included a lattice screen to the street, inset with glass blocks. The first and second floors were brick with ribbon windows. The ground floor accommodated the entrance hallway and a service access to the adjoining property. The hallway had an extraordinary modelled plaster ceiling, a highly polished black and white chequered floor and mirror-faced doors. There was a mural by Peter Yates on the quarter landing. The living room was on the first floor. This had an oversized arched fireplace faced in patterned tiles. The curved projecting base contained planting troughs. The gable wall behind the exposed flue was faced in mosaic. 14 marble brackets displayed the Liddell's collection of teapots. There was another Peter Yates mural in the kitchen, depicting food and another on the top landing of the Dome in Florence. The chimney was Vanbrugh-style. Unfortunately the house has been much altered. The upper floor windows have been replaced. The lattice ceiling in the hallway still survives as does the tiled fireplace. However the house is now a holiday rental and the present owner [2012] hopes to restore the house.

Ryder and Yates designed 14 private houses across the North. 12 were built. They all shared characteristic themes in plan, form and use of materials. But the houses were specific to each client and site. The houses were generally narrow and linear in plan. Secondary spaces were housed in linked pods. Entrances were marked by some sort of sculptural element. Spaces were divided by columns or staircases. All houses had a dominant fireplace. External columns allowed facades to be entirely glazed. Roofs were always flat and animated by roof lights, canopies, chimneys and water tanks. A mixture of old and new materials were used. The Saint House was more complex than the previous houses (Woolsington, Walker, Beadnell, Scotby, Brampton, Hayton and Hayton Head) and was built in 1956. It created family living accomodation and a separate doctor's surgery for Dr. Thomas Saint. Gordon Ryder designed a single-aspect house (because it was overlooked by houses and flats) on one side of the site, looking into a walled garden. The rectilinear house, surgery and garage blcoks were simple in form and flat-roofed. It had plain white walls of concrete using various forms - concrete bricks, patterned blocks and slabs cast in-situ. The entrances features white timber boarding and concrete canopies with waterspouts. The house was two storeys. It had a linear plan of kitchen, dining room, hall and a living room, with a glass garden wall and cubist fireplace. A partial lobby linked the entrance hall to the other rooms. There was a steel spiral staircase with rubber coverings on the steps. The staircase was enclosed in a concrete drum with a circular roof light over it. The surgery was lit by clerestory windows on the front and back and by roof lights. The surgery has been demolished but the house remains, renamed Ryder House.

Ryder and Yates designed 14 private houses across the North. 12 were built. They all shared characteristic themes in plan, form and use of materials. But the houses were specific to each client and site. The houses were generally narrow and linear in plan. Secondary spaces were housed in linked pods. Entrances were marked by some sort of sculptural element. Spaces were divided by columns or staircases. All houses had a dominant fireplace. External columns allowed facades to be entirely glazed. Roofs were always flat and animated by roof lights, canopies, chimneys and water tanks. A mixture of old and new materials were used. The Walker House (built in 1952 for Dr. W. Walker) was unique in that it was based on three intersecting squares set at 45 degrees. This created an open plan (rather than tradional rooms off a central corridor). The intersecting squares produced odd corners that were used to good effect. The long sitting room (16m) had a fully glazed wall giving access into the garden. The all-glass wall at the front of the main bedroom opened onto a balcony. The rear wall was painted magenta and had a square central window. Peter Yates described this as 'an eyeglass on the world'. The house had a freestanding fireplace in the centre of the sitting room with a trapezoidal brick flue. The central heating boiler with cylindrical white flue which extended up through the open stairwell to the roof, was in the hallway with the staircase wrapped around them. The house was built in traditional materials, brickwork and timber windows, with a felt-covered mono-pitched roof. Gordon Ryder had suggested a copper roof covering but this was turned down due to cost.

The first project by Gordon Ryder's office was a clubhouse for Tynemouth Sailing Club in 1952-3. Ryder was a member of the club and there he met three of his most important early clients, Derek Damerell, J. Kenneth Stanger and James Liddell.