A steamship built as the Ambleside in 1920.
The Spokes database suggests she was built as Maindy Transport and appears in Lloyds Registers up to 1925/26 under that name. Her name was changed to Ambleside by the 1926/27 and continued to be listed as the Ambleside until 1934/35.
By the 1937/38 Lloyds register she is called Lyng.
In December 1942 the Lyng was in ballast on passage from Southampton for the Tyne when she foundered and was lost, following a collision 2.5 miles east of the River Tyne.

Steel, 245-ton, 36.75m long, 6.85m beam, 3.68m draught. New Comet was a steam fishing drifter, registered in Granton. She was built at the Goesland II in 1915 by A.Hall & Co., at Aberdeen. Originally owned by J. Johnson, she was requisitioned by the Admiralty in November 1939 and converted to an armed patrol vessel. Her single propeller was powered by a three-cylinder, triple-expansion steam engine. She had one deck, three watertight bulkheads and a superstructure consisting of a 22.3m quarter-deck and a 5.5m forecastle.
In May 1940 HMD New Comet was converted to a mine-sweeper and then converted into a fuel carrier. On 23 November 1940, she had been out on patrol and was heading for the River Tyne when she detonated a German-laid mine, which seriously damaged the vessel. She was brought into the Mouth of the River Tyne and beached, however on the night of the 27-28 February, it is said that she re-floated herself on a big tide and was blown out to see unseen, because of blackout then being badly holed, she sank.

It has not yet been confirmed that this wreck is that of the New Comet. However her size and position make it highly likely to be the case. She lies on a hard dirty seabed of sand in a general depth of 18m. She is totally collapsed and well broken up, with her boiler standing upright, close to the rather battered engine and surrounded by mounds of steel plates, ribs and scattered broken machinery.

Grid reference conversion made 08.12.2010 with http://gps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/etrs89geo_natgrid.asp with Lat/Long referenced as N 55 01 20 W 01 23 16 Owner: Royal Navy
Built: 1915
Builder: A Hall & Co. Ltd.
Where Built: Aberdeen
Propulsion: Screw driven, 3 cylinder triple expansion engine
HP: 91
Boilers: 1
Construction: 1 deck; 3 bulkheads; quarter deck 73ft; forecastle 18ft

Steel, 800-ton, length 67.05m long, 8.66m beam, 2.26m draught. Originally named HMS Rosslare, this vessel was an Aberdare-class mine-sweeper. She was purpose built for the Royal Navy by McMillan at Dumbarton in 1918 but had her name changed later that year to HMS Cupar. The vessel has twin bronze propellers powered by two three-cylinder, triple expansion steam engines that used two boilers. It had an armament of one 10.2m (4 in) deck gun and one AA gun that fired 5.44kg (12lb) shells.
HMS Cupar was carrying a crew of seventy-four when she detonated a German-laid mine, foundered and was lost as she approached the River Tyne on 5 May 1919, six months after the end of the First World War.

The wreck lies upside down, partially buried and well broken up, covering an area of approximately 68m x 23m and standing some 1.5m high. Her twin bronze propellers are still fitted to the shafts at the stern end. The wreck lies on a seabed of dirty sand in a general depth of 15m. Unfortunately the wreck-site is almost in line with the Tyne shipping lane, so extreme caution is required if one wishes to visit the site.

The Ian Spokes database lists the size of the ship as 231 x 28.5 x 7.5.

Steel, 1,264 ton, Norwegian-registered cargo vessel, 69.9m long, 4.69m beam, 4m draught. She was built as the Frith of Eide by the Campbeltown Ship Building Co. in 1919 and owned at the time of loss by Rederi A/B Ragnito. Her single propeller was powered by a three cylinder, triple expansion steam engine, employing two boilers. Her machinery was built by Ross & Duncan Ltd at Glasgow. She had one deck, a well-deck, a 14.6m bridge-deck and an 8.2m forecastle. She was equipped with a brass, pedestal-mounted telegraph and steering-helm. On 15 December 1939, she was on passage from Hull for Malmo with an unspecified cargo of coal and a crew of six, when she detonated a German-laid mine, six and a half miles east-south-east of the Tyne north pier. The explosion almost blew her bows off and she foundered immediately, taking all hands with her.

The wreck lies fairly close to that of the steamship H.C. Flood. Although neither wreck has been positively identified, both of the vessel’s dimensions match those of the wrecks, while their condition makes them almost certainly to be from the Second World War, as they are close to the reported sinking positions for the two ships in question. She is lying on her side, 6.5 miles ESE Tyne N. Pier, oriented in a south-east to north-west direction and standing 9m proud of the hard sand seabed at a general depth of 52m (Spokes/NMR records it as 50m). She is very substantial with her superstructure still fairly intact with quite a lot of damage amidships and to the bow. Bridge equipment and navigational instrumentation is intact and the ship’s bell is thought to be on-site. The NMR has two entries listed for this ship-NZ 46 NE 102 and NZ 57 SE 1.

A small wooden 146 ton British coastal steamer registered in Dundee, 27.58m long, 6.55m beam, 3.53m draught. She was built in 1881 by C. Gent at Plymouth and owned at the time of loss by J.M Allison. Her twin bronze propellers were powered by a diesel/oil engine, built by W. Beardmore & Co. Ltd. At Glasgow. On 3 February 1920, this little coastal steam was on passage from Grangemouth for Dieppe, under the command of Captain J.O. Taylor, when it is believed she foundered and was lost after developing a serous leak in heavy weather, five and a half miles eat of the River Tyne.

The wreck lies orientated in a north-east to south-west direction on a dirty sand seabed in a general depth of 50m. She has now totally collapsed and is well broken up, with the highest section of her structure around the boiler/engine standing only 2m. Her anchor and a pile of chain lie towards the bows, but most of her wooden hull and twin propellers now lie buried in the sand, with just the tip of one of the blades showing above it.
Built: 1881
Propulsion: 2 x screw, oil eng.
Builder: C Gent
Where Built: Plymouth
Owner: J M Allison
Master: J Taylor

Grid reference conversion made 23.11.2010 with http://gps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/etrs89geo_natgrid.asp with Lat/Long referenced as N 55 00 453 W 001 15 002

Steel, 1,125 ton Norwegian-registered steamship, 69.72m long, 10.71m beam, 4.87m draught. She was built as the Skjold in 1908 by Laxevaags Msk. Jrnskb in Bergan and owned at the time of loss by Bergen Lloyd Akttiereder. Her single propeller was powered by a three cylinder, triple expansion steam engine employing one boiler. She had one deck. On 21 September 1919 the vessel was on passage from Arundel for the Tyne with a cargo of rough wood pulp, under command of Captain A. Nielsen, when it is believed that she foundered and was lost, following a collision, one mile east-south-east of the Tyne entrance.

The wreck believed to be that of the steamship lies orientated in an east to west direction on a hard, rather dirty seabed of sand and stone in a general depth of 26-27m. She is very substantial, but totally collapsed and well broken up, covering an area of about 85 x 40m, with the engine and boiler both exposed at the highest point of around 5.5m. The bow section has a large anchor and two huge piles of rusting steel chains, while the rest of the wreck is one mass of twisted, broken steel plates, girders, framework, ribs and general machinery.

The Spokes database has the wreck located offshore at Tynemouth.

A distinctive form of low cost housing evolved in Sunderland during the industrial revolution. The Sunderland Cottage is now recognised as a rare, important and distinctive approach to solving the housing problem for the expanding urban population. The Sunderland Cottage is effectively 'a terraced bungalow'. They were first built for the skilled shipyard workers. The single-storey cottages provided privacy and social status. Each cottage has its own entrance and back yard. Many had gardens (Rosslyn Street is rare in having very long front gardens). They were built primarily between 1860 and 1910. Angela Long says they were built as early as 1840. The form developed from the County Durham pit row. Some cottage streets have larger houses at the end, which have been converted into shops. A Government Commission of 1845 described the earliest workers' housing in Sunderland as 'single-storey cottages, occupied by one or at most two families'. A typical Sunderland Cottage has a front door leading into a narrow passage or vestibule, known locally as the 'Sunderland doorcase'. One or two rooms are located at the front. At the rear are the kitchen and bedroom. A rear extension contains the washhouse and sometimes an additional bedroom. The frontages are narrow but the cottage runs a long way back. A typical cottage in St. Leonard Street had a living room 4.27m x 3.43m, a bedroom 3.66m x 2.06m and a kitchen 4.62m x 3.28m. The accomodation was of a similar size to a Tyneside flat, a two-up-two-down in Manchester or a back-to-back in Leeds. Coal sheds, ash pits and toilets were usually on the opposite side of the yard. The form of the Sunderland cottage changed little. In the first half of the 19th century the majority of cottages were broadly neo-classical in style, like other English terraced houses. By the 1860s Gothic motifs were introduced. Ridley Terrace in Hendon (HER 7170, listed grade 2) has Gothic arches around the doors. Paxton Terrace in Pallion and Scotland Street in Ryhope have bold polychrome brickwork. The most elaborately decorated houses are in Rosslyn Street, Millfield, where there are arches and foliate carving. Some cottages have round-headed arches. Bay windows, a status symbol, began to appear in the 1880s. The earliest Sunderland Cottages were built around Monkwearmouth Colliery and the shipyards. The Wearmouth Coal Company built cottages at South Hendon to designs by company architect H.E. Robinson. The 'Little Egypt' estate in Hendon, which included Cairo Street (1900), was served by a tram line running along Ryhope Road to Villette Road. Monkwearmouth Coal Company built Empress Street in 1880 to designs by J and T Tillman, architects for Sunderland Museum and Library. James Hartley and Co. built 80 cottages in Lily Street, May Street, Rose Street and Violet Street to designs by James Henderson. William and Thomas Ridley Milburn designed the 'ABC streets' in High Barnes (Abingdon, Barnard, Eastfield and Guisborough Streets) at the turn of the twentieth century as well as Kitchener Street, Nora Street, Hawarden Crescent, Queen's Crescent, Tanfield Street and Hampden Road. C.A. Clayton Green and Hugh Taylor Decimus Hedley designed the Church of St. Gabriel and the cottages in Grosvenor Street (1900-5) and Trinity Street (1903-7) in Art Nouveau style. But the majority of Sunderland Cottages were built by speculative builders. Mainsforth Terrace in Hendon was built by speculative builder J.C. Tone to designs by John Tillman. Substantial numbers of cottages were built into the 1920s and 30s when the government subsided local authority house building. The largest concentration of these later cottages are the 'Scottish streets' in Fulwell, designed by Joseph Potts and Son. Forfar Street was built in 1925, Inverness Street in 1923, Moray Street 1926-1933. The practice of altering cottages began as soon as they were built. Attics were converted into an extra bedroom. By the 1920s garages were built in the back yards. Many cottages have new brick frontages making them look re-built. Original Welsh slate tiles and sash windows have been replaced. Box dormers can take up the whole roof space. Many cottages have been covered with pebbledash or render. Martin Terrace and Dene Street in Pallion have decorative tiles set into the woodwork but in many cases these have been painted over. Two streets of Sunderland Cottages are listed - James Armitage Street and Ridley Terrace.

Pipe kiln waste found in a well during building works. The typological date for the pipe bowls is c.1830-60. Finds are located at Sunderland Museum. 1 W. 1110 2 Stem slag laminate 1&2 W.&W.O 750 1 Thin sheet, stem slag
1&2 W.&W.O laminate

This site was scheduled in 2011 with the following description:
'The settlement on Humbledon Hill includes the western half of a defended settlement; to the east, the settlement has been compromised by housing development, gardening activities and the construction of a Victorian reservoir. This area is not included in the scheduling, given the level of disturbance to which it has been subjected. Geophysical survey in 2003 and archaeological evaluation in 2006 and 2007 demonstrated that the defended settlement includes a roughly sub-circular enclosure measuring a maximum of 75m north east to south west by 62m north west to south east, within two ditches and a medial bank. The inner ditch is c.0.5m wide and 0.5m deep and is considered to be the remains of a palisade trench, which formerly contained a wooden fence. The outer ditch is situated about 9m outside the inner ditch and measures up to 3m wide and 1m deep. Between the two ditches there is a stone and earth bank standing to a maximum height of 0.8m interpreted as the remains of a rampart. There is an entrance through the west side of the enclosure. Two substantial, ditched features immediately outside the settlement on the south and south west sides have the same character as the outer ditch and are considered the remains of structures associated with it. Prehistoric pottery, recovered from the ditches, demonstrated that the inner ditch was dug during the later Bronze Age and the outer ditch was subsequently dug during the Iron Age. Animal bone, some of it burnt, and flint pieces were recovered from parts of the ditches. Also recovered was what was identified as the corner of a triangular loom weight of Iron Age date. Within the interior of the enclosure, there are a series of pits, each 2m in diameter and archaeological evaluation also uncovered what was thought to be the part of a Bronze Age round cairn.
Extent of Monument: The monument includes the remains of the settlement and associated ditched features with a margin of 2m around the north and east sides considered essential for their support and protection. Further remains identified by geophysical survey beyond the double-ditched enclosure are later in date and are not included in the scheduling.'

A tiny settlement of semi detached houses called Wellfield. Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition map of 1920. The first street to be built was Holly Avenue and part of what is now Monkseaton Road. The estate had been massively expnaded by the fourth edition of 1938 to include Waterloo Road, Wellington Avenue and Whitley Road etc. Today Wellfield and South Wellfield link Monkseaton and Earsdon.