Cowhill Tollhouse at the junction of Claremont Road and Grandstand Road. Its actual location is unclear on the 2nd edition OS mapping.

The Redheugh Bridge is marked as a Toll Bridge on the 2nd edition OS mapping. This was a steel truss bridge, built in 1870 and demolished in 1901. It was designed by Thomas Bouch who also designed the ill-fated first Tay Bridge. 30 years after construction the Bridge Company decided to reconstruct it, and placed the work in the hands of their engineers Messrs J.W Sandeman & Moncrieff. The four original cylinders in each pier were replaced by four circular steel cylinders sunk under pneumatic pressure down to a satisfactory foundation. The cylinders had an external diameter of 8ft, and had an inner tube 3ft in diameter. At the bottom of the cylinder the inner tube sloped outwards to meet the outer tube, thus forming a working chamber for the men employed in sinking the cylinder. In one of these chambers two men had a wonderful escape. The cylinder had been sunk to its ultimate depth and the men were standing against the wall waiting for a skip of concrete, when by some means the rope attached to the iron skip broke, and the skip came crashing down the shaft, cutting in two a candle held by one of the men and flattening itself on the rock at their feet, the men fortunately being unhurt. The flattened bucket was left where it fell and concreted in. The steel trusses of the new bridge were built alongside the trusses of the original bridge, and afterwards moved into position. The use of the bridge by foot passengers was practically uninterrupted and vehicular traffic was interrupted for a few weeks only. Operated by a private company who collected tolls until 1937. Partly financed by the Newcastle and Gateshead Gas and Ware Companies which used it to connect their systems on both sides of the river.

Armstrong's Elswick and Scotswood Works formed the most important heavy engineering complex in the region in the late 19th century. William Armstrong started a small factory on the riverside at Elswick in 1847 making hydraulic machinery. In time the works expanded to encompass armaments and shipbuilding. The works extended more than a mile along the river bank by the opening of the 20th century. Armstrong's death in 1900 and the concentration on armaments led to the decline of the firm following the First World War. The company was taken over by Vickers in 1928. The Scotswood Works were closed in 1979 and were demolished to make way for a new armaments factory which opened in 1982. This replaced the earlier complex which is now the Newcastle Business Park {2}.

A Railway Station on the North Eastern Railway's Newcastle and Carlisle Branch. Built 1888-9. This building cost £3500 and was designed by J and W Simpson of North Shields. Previous requests for a station in Elswick in the early 1870s had been turned down. The station closed in 1967 due to dwindling passenger numbers.

South Benwell Fire Brick Works, also known as the E & M Yard. This opened after 1858. Davidson says the yard was working from 1828-1934. Elsewhere he says that it opened in the 1850s. This later date is probably correct. It was run by the Carr family, using clay from their Benwell Charlotte
Colliery, and was automated after 1894. It was split into two yards, with 27 Newcastle Kilns, from which firebricks were transported by river and rail to many of the other Tyneside industries. William Cochrane-Carr established the E & M Firebrick Works at Low Benwell a few years after 1850, (possibly after 1858). He had previously taken over the Emmerson and Milner brickyard at Blaydon Burn in 1850 and retained its E & M trademark. Fireclay was supplied from their Benwell Charlotte Colliery. Fireclay goods were still being produced by hand moulding in 1894. By 1912, there was a machine press. The works occupied a river frontage of 430 yards and was split into two areas – East Yard and Old Yard, and between the two was Low Benwell drift and staith. The East Yard had 11 Newcastle kilns; the Old Yard had about 16 Newcastle kilns. Goods were dispatched by ship and railway and supplied firebricks to a number of Tyneside works, as well as exports to Mediterranean and North Sea ports, America, India and China.
Dates: 1850s – 1930s?
Manufacturer 1869-1934 W Cochrane-Carr
(Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 83.)

A Quarry which is not shown on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was operating after 1858.

High Cross Brick Works. These works are not shown on the 1st edition OS mapping, so were opened after 1858.

Fenham North Pit is not shown on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was sunk after 1858. Owned by Bambridge and White in the 1880s.

Fenham Laundry is not shown on the 1st edition OS mapping, so was probably built after 1858.

Paradise Cement Works, marked as Disused on the 2nd edition OS mapping and is not shown on the 1st edition, so was working between 1858 and 1895. These works replaced the earlier Paradise Color Works.