This building was erected as a warehouse for Davison & Pickering in 1934. It is now used as a plastics workshop with offices on the first floor. It is built of brick with a corrugated sheet roof over the large rear room. The offices have a flat roof and parapet. Another workshop was added to the south in the 1970s. This is built of stretcher bond brick with corrugated sheet roof. There is a blocked door near the centre of the street frontage and a small flat-roofed store building on the rear wall. This plot was occupied by four terraced houses with outhouses in a narrow yard in 1862 but these were demolished after the First World War.

Group of buildings occupied by Harper Signs Ltd until April 2012. Brick with hipped slate roof. Incorporates the south wing of the peniteniary of 1831 (see HER 15014). In 1898 this was Blackett and Howden's Organ Works. From the 1920s this was Davison and Pickering's sweet factory. Davison & Pickering were wholesale provision merchants based in Stowell Street. Their 'Lucky Cross' toffees were made here. The range on Diana Street contains stores and delivery doors on the ground floor, and a canteen and sales office upstairs. The windows are mostly modern but the four windows between the roller shutter doors can be seen on a plan of 1898. Behind this are large workshops. Behind the workshops are the oldest parts of this block. Inside, the ground floor the concrete ceiling is supported by cast-iron columns. There is a small brick floored coal cellar. The chute is hidden by render. The middle floor was formerly a stable for about a dozen horses. Horses were taken in and out via a concrete ramp, which is still present under a timber staircase. Timber battens set into the concrete provided grip for the horses. The ramp would have been open to the sky, but now has a roof over it. The stalls were divided by cast-iron columns with makers labels 'Dinning & Cooke, Newcastle upon Tyne' (located at Percy Iron Works, 91-95 Percy Street in 1898). On each column there is a hook for harnesses and a larger flat hook or the horse collar. The concrete floor was cast with drainage channels, but has been levelled. The windows on the upper floor date to 1831. These are boarded up inside. The top floor is now a drawing office but was probably originally bedrooms for the penitentiary. Then a feed store for the horses with a loading door and hoist at the rear. The east end of this block was extended after 1898. The extension includes a large door which replaced an older smaller vehicle entrance. It is marked by a cast-iron corner guard on its south jamb. Above the door are three arched windows. On the top floor there is a loading door with dormer roof. The canteen and sales office were once dormitories of the technical college. On the south side of the horse ramp is a pair of large workshops on two floors (basement and ground floor), occupying the site of the peniteniary's south yard. The lower parts of the rear wall are sandstone, with brick above. There are three windows and two large loading doors. Above this there are four windows with deep sandstone lintels. Inside the ground floor is carried on steel beams and cast-iron columns. Large timber trusses carry an open roof with skylights. A light well opens at the end of the horse ramp. In the basement blocked windows of the penitentiary south wing can be seen. There are also blocked windows in the north wall adjacent to the horse ramp. The most southerly part of this block is a narrow range that once housed the laboratories of the technical college. It is now a paint shop and lobby. The rear wall is sandstone with roughcast above and a large sash window. The roof is pantiled. Inside blocked windows in the north wall once looked into the penitentiary courtyard.

Simple brick building with slate roof. In 1831 a Women's Penitentiary was built on Diana Street by Joseph Cowell, devout Baptist, who preached to 'fallen' women in Sandgate. This building was the main T-shaped part of the peniteniary. The penitentiary was a charitable foundation intended for the reformation of prostitutes or for 'receiving such unfortunate females as appear to have experienced a conviction of the sinfulness of their conduct and are willing to avail themselves of the advantages offered, of being placed in a position by which they can again be admitted into virtuous society'. The inmates were taught sewing, washing, reading, writing and religious education. It was paid for by donations and by laundry work carried out by the women. In 1852 the building was enlarged to accommodate more women. By 1855 the peniteniary housed 62 women. The Newcastle Town Plan of 1862 shows the penitentiary as a T-shaped building with large yards at either side of the downstroke of the T. The front of the building only had one small window on the ground floor next to the door In 1886 the peniteniary moved to Elswick Road and the Diana Street building was sold. Ward's trade directory for 1889-90 records the former penitentiary as a technical college. This was linked to the elementary school on Bath Lane and the School of Science and Art on the corner of Bath Lane and Corporation Street. By 1896 a long east-west laboratories range had been added against the south boundary wall. The south yard was covered with a skylight roof to create a School of Art. The ground floor was occupied by school rooms, a Sunday School and dwelling rooms. The first floor was dormitories and living rooms. In 1898 the former technical college was occupied by Blackett and Howden, organ builders. At the end of the 19th century the north wing of the peniteniary was rebuilt and became two terraced houses (Nos. 22A and 22B, HER 15013). The open yard to the rear became a large shed.The front elevation is now rendered and painted. Roller shutter doors fill the ground floor. Inside the first floor is offices. The ground floor has been gutted and linked to the rear shed. The shed has a steel truss roof and is part of the workshop in No. 22B (HER 15013). The lower part of the east rear wall is sandstone and has a gate at the south end. The wall has been raised with 1.2m of brickworth and then later the gable of the shed was added. A photograph of 1936 shows that the north part of the building as a house. This still stands as part of the TC Automotive Group building. Adjacent to it the south part of the building was a business premises with a vehicle gate. In 1920 the house and the large building to the rear were the workshops of Newcastle and Gateshead Gas Company. In 1934 it was the premises of John Bardgett, Undertaker. He was listed at this address in trade directories for 1934 and 38. Bardgett and his three sons, John Ernest, Arthur and Stanley, had offices at Elswick Row, Westgate Road, Scotswood Road and Hugh Gardens in Benwell. They were the first undertaker in Newcastle to use motor vehicles. The company is still in business on Westgate Road. By 1940 the building was occupied by Carnegie Dotchin & Co, decorators. In 1956 they were listed as bazaar fitters. The 1969 OS marks the building as a garage. The southern roller shutter is on the site of a vehicle entrance visible on the 1936 photograph.

In 1831 a Women's Penitentiary was built on Diana Street by Joseph Cowell, devout Baptist, who preached to 'fallen' women in Sandgate. This building was the north wing of the peniteniary (see HER 15014). At the end of the 19th century the north wing of the peniteniary was rebuilt and became two terraced houses (Nos. 22A, HER 15014, and 22B). Two storey sheds were built on the south and east sides of the yard to the rear by 1926 and was listed as a garage belonging to Davison and Pickering (who ran a sweet factory at Nos. 14-20A, HER 15015). It is a two-storey building of machine-pressed brick. They rebuilt the central range of the penitentiary to create stables and cart sheds. When first built the building was U-shaped in plan with a yard against the north boundary. It has a slate roof, hipped at the southern corners. The north gables has slab copings and kneelers. On Diana Street the first floor windows are irregularly arranged. There are four pairs and a single window. All are sashes with stone heads and projecting sills. On the ground floor the northern edge of a blocked up arched door can just be seen. All other ground floor openings are replaced by steel roller shutters. The rear elevation has two rows of nine arched windows. One has been altered to accommodate a fan, four are blocked up and one has been replaced by a steel door. The former yard is now covered with a steel-trussed roof. The south and east walls have been removed. Steel beams now carry the upper part of the building. The upper floor of the east range was a stable with 8 stalls. These are separated by cast-iron columns with rebates for timber partitions and hooks for collars and harnesses. The floor is concrete, cast around steel beams. There is a dog-leg staircase at the south end of the row of stalls. There is no evidence of the ramp by which the horses accessed the stable. The ground floor of the east range might also have been a stable as it has matching windows, but the interior has been gutted. The former yard has a blocked door into No. 24 (HER 15012), which was in use when both buildings were part of Lyle's Garage. Near to this door are two arched openings used by horses and vehicles. Hinges remain inside the outer arch. There is no evidence as to the use of the south range. Most of the south wall between Nos. 22B and 22A has been removed to create a large workshop. The west range on Diana Street contains offices in what used to be a first floor flat. There is an open space on the ground floor below, with a small office and lobby at the south end. A blocked arched door can be seen in the north end.

Brick building. Built between 1898 and 1919. Two storey front range, rendered with a slate roof. Contains a row of offices on upper floor reached by a staircase at the south end. Below this and at the rear is an open warehouse with sandstone walls. The rear east wall is coursed dressed stone, the north wall is sandstone rubble. Two infilled vertical slots in the north wall were for recessed downpipes. The rear wall has six small high rectangular windows, now bricked up. Above these, the gable is slate-hung, with a large window now covered with corrugated steel sheets. Inside the walls are dry-lined. A suspended ceiling hides the original boarded roof and steel trusses.

November 1827 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near Whitburn during a gale. Wrecked alongside the Ann and James (HER 15008 and 15010) En route from London to Shields in ballast, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Laing

November 1827 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near Whitburn during a gale. Wrecked alongside the Ann and Vertumnus (HER 15008 and HER 15011) En route from London to Shields in ballast, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Henderson

December 1784 wreck of English craft which stranded near Whitburn during a storm; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Wright
Crew Lost: 2

November 1827 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded near Whitburn during a gale. Wrecked alongside the James and Vertumnus (HER 15010 HER 15011). Bound from London to Shields in ballast, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Byers

1810 wreck of English cargo vessel which stranded and bilged near the Wheel, on the Herd Sand, on her departure from Shields. Laden with coal, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Chambers. Crew saved.