The new Royal Victoria Infirmary was built using donations from Mr John Hall and Lord Armstrong, on a ten acre site at Castle Leazes, provided by the Freemen and Newcastle Corporation. Work began in 1900 and the new hospital was opened by Edward VII on July 11th 1906. Patients, staff and equipment were moved from the Old Infirmary (HER 1371) on Forth Banks on 15th September 1906. Architects were William Lister Newcombe of Newcastle and H. Percy Adams of London. The central east-west corridor traversed the ground floor from the nurse's home at the western end of the site to the outpatients department at the east. The administrative block, Peacock Hall occupied the centre of the south-western frontage. On either side of the central corridor were secondary corridors to two floors of wards and operating theatres. Each ward had 24 beds, a room for clinical investigations, a linen room, a day room, a kitchen and a sister's room. They had polished teak parquet floors and cement walls, enamel-painted with a tiled dado rail. The hospital chapel was dedicated to St. Luke. With the outbreak of the First World War, the RVI became a unit of the First Northern General Hospital and two temporary surgical wards were added. The RVI provided training for VAD nurses who received a month of basic training before being used to supplement the qualified staff at home and at the front. Towards the end of the War, the Ministry of Pensions Hospital was added to the RVI, consisting of 3 brick pavilions and wooden huts. The brick buildings were later converted into wards for private patients and became known as Leazes Hospital. In 1933 two new wards were added to replace the temporary wartime wards. A new residential block was also built in the grounds. 2003-2008 much of the old hospital buildings were demolished to make way for a new adult hospital, children's hospital, 2 office buildings and education building. The old hospital buildings were recorded before demolition.

The Beilby family (seven children of a silversmith) were born in Durham. William Beilby became one of the world's finest glass engravers. William and his brother rented a flat in Gateshead in 1759 but failed to find work as engravers. In 1760 they moved into the former workshop of Jameson, in Amen Corner in Newcastle. William and his sister Mary engraved for local glass makers and banks, and Ralph Beilby (1743-1817) was the businessman. In 1761 William Beilby became the first person to engrave enamel onto glass. He used a small butterfly as his signature. George III commissioned William and Mary to engrave a series of crystal goblets. Thomas Bewick (1753-1828), wood engraver, became Ralph's apprentice in 1767 at the age of 14, and a full partner in the Beilby business in 1776. The engraving work ranged from shop cards to coffin plates. He was born in 1753 at Cherryburn near Mickley. He began a romance with Mary Beilby which caused a rift between himeslf and Ralph. The romance ended when Mary suffered a stroke in 1774. The Beilby's mother died in 1778 and William and Mary moved to London, leaving Ralph in Newcastle to run the business. In 1790 Ralph Beilby provided the text for 'A General History of Quadrupeds' (an encyclopedia of animals) and Thomas Bewick provided the drawings. In 1797 Beilby and Bewick ended their partnership at Amen Corner. In 1797 Bewick published 'History of British Birds' and 'Land Birds'. 'Water Birds' was published in 1804. He went on to publish 'Aesop's Fables' and began 'A History of British Fishes' but never finished it. He gave his name to the species Bewick's Swan and Bewick's Wren. His last illustration was his coffin being carried from Cherryburn to the boat which would carry it to Ovingham Church. Ralph died in 1819. William died in Hull in 1819. Thomas Bewick died in 1828. The Laing Art Gallery owns several Beilby pieces.

Scottish Presbyterian. Gothic church designed by John Dobson. Built in 1853. The congregation came from Groat Market Chapel. Demolished in late 1890s to make way for Clarendon House. The congregation moved to Elswick Road.

There was a windmill here in the 1830s, but it was damaged by fire and demolished in 1896. The mill overlooked the medieval town wall. A sketch of the mill in 1881 exists. The mill was built on top of a tall square building.

Shown on Ordnance Survey fourth edition of circa 1940.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1890.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1850.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1850.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition of 1850. Located at 6 Tyne Street. Abigail Robson was fined 10/- for selling a pint of whiskey not of natural substance or quality demanded on 4th September 1877. Closed 31st December 1913 after previously being referred to the Compensation Authority.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1890.