Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Owned by John Buchanan's Hanover Street Brewery. Closed in 1919.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. There were two Dolphin pubs on The Close. The Old Dolphin closed in 1892. Thomas and Deborah Hornsby brewed at the [New] Dolphin in the 1850s. Around 1860 Thomas Cooksey Oates took over but he was bankrupt within two years. The [New] Dolphin Tavern closed in 1906.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Closed in 1919.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Rebuilt in 1886. Closed 1970.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Name references nearby Elswick Works (HER 4315). The pub's name evoked the early years of Armstrong's enterprise when he formed the Newcastle Cranage Co. on Scotswood Road in 1847. Nicknamed the 'Toll Bar' because it was on the boundary of Elswick and Benwell. More recently called Armstrong's Hydraulic Crane and the Armstrong Hotel. Once the property of Arthur's Hill Brewery, the pub was acquired by Arrol's and through mergers became a Ind Coope then Tetley's house. It enjoyed a new lease of life with the development of the Newcastle Business Park and plans were drawn up to build a hotel at the rear but following arson attacks the pub was demolished in 1996.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Name references nearby Elswick Works (HER 4315). A WB Reid house. Landlord for almost 20 years from 1938 was former boxer Seaman Tommy Watson. His wife was officially the licensee between 1938 and 1945. Watson left the Gun to take over the Blackie Boy in the Groat Market. Closed early 1970s. Pub remembered as a rendezvous for the sporting fraternity - customers included famous boxers and Jack Allen (NUFC).

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Mechanics Institutes were buildings where artisans could learn more about their craft and the science behind it. They could use the reading room and attend lectures. Such institutes were set up to take up the ideas of Jeremy Bentham, politician and reformer (1723-90). London's Mechanic Institute was founded in 1824 by George Birkbeck. By 1844 there were 200 institutes in Britain with 50,000 members. By the 1850s however the institutes were mostly attended by clerks and shopkeepers and the artisan interest declined. Nevertheless mechanics institutes can be regarded as the forerunner of modern professional engineering bodies {Dictionary of Industrial Archaeology}.