George Johnson brewed at the Sun Inn from the mid 1840s until 1857. Thomas Wilson operated there until 1860. The Sun Inn closed shortly afterwards.

Richard Major was licensee and brewer of the Crooked Billet in Kirton Terrace, Elswick in the early 1860s. Around 1874 Robert Johnson took over. The pub was put up for auction in 1896 and was advertised as covering 400 square yards with a large frontage onto Scotswood Road. At the rear was "a substantial building, formerly a brewery but now used as a cellar, coach-house, two-stalled stable and joiner's workshop". It sold for £15,800. At this time the Elswick Works opened at 6am - 50-100 men would be standing at the door of the pub to rush in to have a drink (already lined up on the counter). At the same time the nightshift men leave work and went to this and other pubs in the neighbourhood. James Deuchar rebuilt it. It finally closed in 1984 or was it 1994 as suggested by Bennison 1998 p22. The origin of the name is debated. The popular view (and misconception) is that the name derived from its proximity to the forges, where iron from the furnaces would be beated into billets. However, the first Crooked Billet pre-dates the establishment of the local iron and steelworks. Another argument put forward was that the name was probably rural in character and could refer to 'the pastoral staff, or a baton cornu; a shepherd's crook; the stem of a tree bound up in a faggot, made and sold for fire wood; or from heraldry, being a fesse dancette or a chevron wavy'. It has also been noted that the original Crooked Billet (beside Elswick Colliery Staithes) had a sign up with a picture of a soldier. It has also been suggested that this was a wayside inn where Cromwell billetted troops on his way back from Newcastle to the south of Hexham.

Laurence Mackey, brewer, moved here by 1853 from the Belford House pub in Nelson Street. He later brewed at the Black Swan also in Clayton Street.

Robert Liddell brewed here from the late 1840s until 1858. He was part of Liddell, Webster & Liddell, retail and wholesale wine and spirit merchants of Grey Street. William Harding took over the Flying Horse until 1861. The pub was popularly known as 'the kitchen'. By 1863 the brewer was Jacob Hunter, electrical and galvanic machine manufacturer. He was bankrupt by 1871 when Robert Emmerson took over.

Roger Heron took over this inn and brewery in the 1840s and brewed there until 1856. On Thursdays a pig market was held near the inn, which was described as "the resort of farmers, pig-jobbers and the like". The inn closed around 1880.

John Hamilton brewed here in the 1850s. The inn closed in 1891.

William Hall brewed at the Goat Inn in the early 1850s. The brewery could produce 10 half-barrels at each brewing. The brewery was attached to the inn on the ground floor, upstairs was the Royal Casino. The Goat Inn closed around 1853.

John Harper Graham, joiner, started in the brewing tade at a pub in Shieldfield. In 1874 he took over the Hedley Arms in Hedley Street/Oyster Shell Lane and extended its brewery in 1886. He took over a suite of public houses - 8 in Newcastle city centre and the Millstone in Gosforth and some hotels around Middlesbrough. In 1900 J.H. Graham Ltd was formed to raise the funds to buy the Turk's Head Hotel (HER 9084) in Grey Street and the Collingwood House in High Bridge. Graham lived in Coxlodge Hall (HER 1868). In 1908 the business went into receivership and the Hedley Arms closed. Bass and James Deuchar purchased the brewing company to make bottled beer for the armed forces during World War One. They ceased business here in 1920. In 1921 Northern Clubs Federation Brewery Ltd took over the Hedley Brewery. When they took over the Hanover Square Brewery (HER 5071) in 1927 they retained the Hedley Street Brewery for bottle stores and aerated water manufacturing.

John Gowans was brewing at the Hatters' Arms for a short time in the 1870s.

Charles Ford brewed here from 1847 to 1857. The brewery could produce 30 half-barrels each brewing. It included malt lofts, offices, a stable and a covered yard, a dwelling house and the Brewer's Arms beerhouse. Ford left to take over the General Wolfe in Canada Street but he died in 1858. Thomas Smith worked here from 1863 to 1865, then he handed over to James Pearse. In 1868 John Allan took over. In 1878 the brewing plant, a spring-cart and a horse were sold off. Thomas Davison continued brewing here for a few years. The brewery became a laundry then a hay merchant's. During the Second World War it was used for civil defence exercises. After the war It was demolished as part of a slum clearance.