The first effigy is located beneath a modern recess in the north wall of the chancel. It is of an unknown priest and is early C14 in date. It is made of sandstone in rough workmanship. The head is tonsured and rests on a square pillow. The hands are joined in prayer. The feet rest on a block carved with foliage. Vestments: amice, alb, stole, chasuble and maniple. The second effigy is beneath a recess with a segmental arch enriched with roll mouldings, in the south wall of the aisle. Again, it is C14 in date and is an unknown priest. The sandstone is in good condition but the work is crude. The head has been restored and rests on a single cushion. The hands are joined in prayer. The feet rest on two animals joined in one head. Vestments: amice, alb, stole, chasuble and maniple. Dated C14th.

Golf had been played at Ryton Willows since 1879 (HER 13570) but the site was shared with many other sporting activities. A new golf course was required which offered greater privacy and a greater golfing challenge. In 1903 land was acquired on top of the south bank of the river. The course was laid out with 18 holes by Richard Collins, Club Professional for Tyneside Golf Club. Arthur H. Garside wrote an article about the club and course in 'Golf Illustrated' July 8th, 1904. By this date the club had 140 members. By 1911 Tyneside Golf Club acquired more land. In 1902 the American Haskell golf ball had been introduced. This had a core made of wound rubber strips which increased the average distance the average golfer could drive a ball. It had a huge impact on golf course design. H.S. Colt was appointed to design the new course (Ryton Falls). Alnwick Foundry and Engineering Company drew up plans for a new clubhouse. The clubhouse opened in April 1911 and cost £720. It is domestic in style with an Arts and Crafts oriel window and timber weatherboarding (see HER 7651). The 13th hole was known as 'The Coffin' due to the rectangular shape of the green. Relatively few significant changes have taken place since Colt's original design apart from at hole 13 where a hill was bulldozed away in the 1950s. Earthworks of former tee boxes and greens still survive on the site of the Western Fall course. This now includes two SNCI sites.

The Ryton Willows Golf Course was the first golf course to be set up on Tyneside. Second oldest golf club in the north-east. In 1879 about twenty golf clubs existed in England. Unsuccessful attempts had been made to establish golf on Newcastle's Town Moor. In 1879 the same group rented a 60 acre plot of land at Ryton Willows from the stint holders for five shillings per year in order to create a nine hole course. The Tyneside Golf Club's inaugural meeting was on 13th November 1879. CJ Reid was elected President. There were 25 members each paying an annual fee of 10/6d. On 29th November 1879 the club agreed to adopt the rules of Alnmouth Golf Club. On 9th March 1880 a gardener called John Wake was appointed to prepare the putting greens on Ryton Willows with horse and roller. Mungo Park (Open Champion in 1874 and club pro at Alnmouth) was appointed to design the course layout. The total cost of creating the course was £27. Willie Park Jr was appointed as the club's first Professional. The main entrance to the course was located at the bottom of Station Bank. Sir Hedworth Williamson became club President in 1881. The Golfing Annual Vol. II of 1888-9 said 'Ryton has been pronounced by players of some eminence and experience in the golfing world as perhaps the best inland course in the country'. A small disused building near Ryton Station was used as a clubhouse from 1880-1. It was known as the Ryton Stick House and was probably nothing more than a store. In 1880 the club sought permission from the North Eastern Railway to erect a new clubhouse next to Ryton Station. The new clubhouse opened in 1881. The 'interesting little [opening] ceremony' was reported in the Newcastle Journal on 4th April 1881 and the building was described as 'handsome'. An even larger clubhouse was built in 1893 at the bottom of Station Bank (the site is now occupied by a bungalow) at a cost of £450. Ryton Willows was used for lots of other sporting activities including under arm bowling, pigeon and sparrow shooting, rabbit coursing, quoits, football, ice skating and curling and so the area was busy and congested, especially at weekends. Golf continued to be played on Ryton Willows by the Ryton Working Men's Club until 1911. Tyneside Golf Club moved to the Western Falls (HER 13571) in 1903.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map of circa 1896. The building is now the British Legion Club.

A group of fields are named 'Chester Stones' and 'East Chester Stones' on an undated map of Ryhope Township following enclosure. They were part of the Great West Field. The fields were in the ownership of Robert Watson and John Fell. A hand written annotation which accompanies the map reads: 'now Walter Ettrick - Chester Stones' and 'now Ralph Fell - Chester Stones'. The fields are also named 'Chester Stones' on the Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1858. Some of the fields have been built over and much of the rest is now Grangetown cemetery, but East Chester Stones is undeveloped. The term 'chesters' is generally taken to mean enclosures of prehistoric or Roman date.

A former C18 town house, with rear extensions, on a medieval burgage plot. It forms the north side of Bell's Court Lane, which gives access to Bell's Court to the rear. In 1811 Bell's Court was densely occupied by houses, rooms and tenements. One of the occupants was William Stokoe, architect and carpenter of local repute. The upper floors of the building are thought to have formed an ante-room to the adjacent Nos. 107-109 Pilgrim Street, which was the William 4th Public House in 1862. In the C19 a shop front was inserted into the ground floor of the house. In the 1930s the building was converted to offices. The building is built of ashlar sandstone and has a pitched roof and three storeys. The ground floor has a boarded up shop front. A brick barrel vault supports the entrance to the lane. Two large wooden chamfered and filleted support beams are located in the centre and east end of the passage. There are sash windows above. The windows are mostly 1930s metal replacements. The rear extensions have plain entrances and window openings, many containing unhorned sash windows. Inside the layout has been altered. The first floor of the building is divided into a front and rear room. The front room retains wooden shutters and a plaster cornice. The rear room has no original features. Original internal walls have been removed to create larger spaces. Wooden and glass partitions have been inserted. Original features are absent and the general character reflects the 1930s refurbishment. The iron-strapped roof trusses are a replacement.

In 1589, Robert Bowes of Barnes, former ambassador to Scotland and John Smith, a merchant from King's Lynn leased land on the south bank of the Wear and built ten iron salt pans. This piece of land between Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth being known as the Panns to this today (as in Panns Bank, Pann Lane). The coal for this venture was brought downriver from various sources, one of which being Offerton, where a pit was sunk for this purpose. Low ranking coal was used to fire the salt pans, and the higher grade coal was exported alongside the salt. In Offerton Dene there are large open spaces punctuated by large mounds, some of which appear to be recent deposits. It seems that there is some depth of sediment built up over the floor of the dene. Two large areas of refuse are shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey which may have been backfilled into the dene. The dene is shown in Thomas McCree Scott's 1918 painting Offerton Dene, near Sunderland (9.5" x 13.5" watercolour), this artwork is currently in private ownership.
Visible in the dene are tooling marks on the exposed bedrock and worked masonry. The first edition Ordnance Survey map shows the path of the stream which enters the dene. This stream does not simply flow downhill from its origin at a well spring behind Offerton village but follows field boundaries in straight lines and has possibly been diverted for agricultural purposes and possibly hushing (mining by artificial erosion). The stream is now culverted and can be seen entering the top of the dene from a pipe, the base of the dene is waterlogged near this pipe but the ground level has risen to deny it any egress and the final reach of the stream which connected the end of the dene to the nearby river has vanished.
Offerton is known for historic stone quarries, some of which are marked as 'old' on the first edition Ordnance Survey maps. The nearest of these is HER 3066 (NZ 3446 5601). This site may have been quarried since at some point before, during or after the sixteenth century. This would not preclude it being the site of the coal mine.
The site in question's sheer size and riverside location would suggest that it is the obvious site for the sixteenth century pit.

The Villiers Electric Theatre was in Villiers Street Hendon. It was the first purpose built cinema in Sunderland which was opened on the 2nd January 1912 at a cost of £4000 and held 1000 patrons. The first film was shown in 1912. The last film shown was on the 16th March 1958 The cinema closed after this performance.

The Victory Cinema was formerly the Smyrna Chapel at the junction of Borough Road and Smyrna Place. It opened in 1920 and was an alternative cinema to the Gaiety for the people of the East End. It was damaged by bombs on 15th April 1941 and never re-opened.

The Star Music Hall in Upper Sans Street Hendon was on 26th December 1882. The building had previously been the Assembly Rooms. The Music Hall was badly damaged by fire on the 16th August 1883. This fire caused the hall to close. The Salvation Army used it as a Barracks until they moved in 1906. It was then opened as the Pavilion Cinema on the 11th February 1907 under the patronage of Colonel Vaux. It was later renamed the Scala until it closed in 1924 and lay empty until 1930 when Charles Jolly opened it as a motor garage.