By Ryder and Yates. Built in 1971. Provided instruction and training facilities for Gas Board employees. The building included lecture rooms, offices, workshops, a canteen and external training compound. The lecture rooms, offices and workshops were grouped in a single-storey rectilinear block which could be vertically extended with extra floors if necessary. The canteen and plant rooms were in a separate block linked by a glazed corridor. The elevated main entrance was flanked by blue mosaic-lined pools. This building is single-storey with an exposed steel portal frame with brick infill panels. The open sided compound for external training was covered with a galvanised steel deck. The site had included ventilation shafts and galleries from Killingworth Colliery (West Moor Pit). The main shaft was rafted over and other cavities were in-filled with concrete. In case of the need for remedial work needed in response to subsidence, the building had a pin-based steel portal frame. A hard blue brindle engineering brick was used on the exterior and interior communal areas. The external steel structures and external doors were grey. The glazing to the classrooms was dark grey and flush to the façade. On the roof of the plant room there were sculptural tanks and flues enclosed in panelling. The façade of the plant room was made up of louvred steel panels. The building won several awards - the Galvanizing Design Award in 1970, Structural Steel Design Awards for both Architects and Steelwork in 1971, and the Financial Times Commendation in 1971. Once the Northern Gas Company vacated the building, it was occupied by the offices of a computer company. The interior and windows have been altered. The building is proposed for demolition in 2012.

In 1964 Ryder and Yates refurbished the head office of the Northern Counties Permanent Building Society on Market Street. It included a new banking hall and offices. The Market Street façade had two large display windows made of Formica and glass on a steel frame, to promote the company's services. The stonework of the façade was painted black. When the company merged with the Rock Building Society, Ryder and Yates designed a solid elevation for the building with the name 'Northern Rock' in large glass-fibre reinforced plastic letters and a corner revolving door. A drawing of medieval Newcastle was printed onto a white Formica board. Ryder and Yates also refurbished the Society's offices in St. Mary's Place, and at Gateshead and Carlisle. The Grainger building is listed grade 2 (HER 9189).

Ryder and Yates designed the façade of this optician's premises in 1962 in clear plate glass. The company name was engraved in plastic-laminate-faced plywood panels. The original Victorian shopfront and reception area was replaced but the rest of the interior remained unchanged. The reception interior was decorated with white Formica-faced panels. Next to the main entrance there was a black Formica screen showing a plan of medieval Newcastle. Formica was manufactured at a factory at North Shields. The shop was awarded a Civic Trust Commendation on 1963. The façade lasted until the 1990s when it was replaced with an all-glass façade.

1974 by Ryder and Yates. 606 dwellings for Washington Development Corporation. Their flat roofs at North Kenton (HER 15093) had failed so at Albany dual pitched roofs were used. This was a high-density low-rise scheme largely of flats. There were long banana-shaped blocks of three and four storey flats and terraced houses grouped around mixer courts. North Kenton Estate had separate vehicle and pedestrian areas but residents complained about the distance between dwellings and garages, so at Albany the parking was placed on one side of the terraces with pedestrian access on the other. The pitched roofs of multi-coloured concrete tiles, extended down to first floor window level. The brickwork was dark brown and there were stained timber pergolas. The integral garages could be converted to additional rooms if required. A small boiler room to each court supplied the gas central heating. Albany has suffered from neglect.

English lighter, foundered at its moorings in wind conditions SW force 3, after being hit by first the South Shields-registered SS ST GOTHARD, and then the wherry ISABELLA AND MARY, (q.v.) which also sank, 1896.

Built: 1869
Master: T Orr
Owner: G Thompson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

English Wherry foundered in force 3 winds, 1896 after being hit by first the SS ST GOTHARD, of South Shields, and then the Newcastle-upon-Tyne lighter PRESIDENT (HER 15117), which also sank. Built: 1871
Master: W Thackray
Crew: 2
Owner: Newcastle Wherry Company Ltd.

1772 wreck of British collier which stranded on the Sparrowhawk and may later have been recovered; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Bruce

English Craft wrecked on Herd Sance 1771. Master: Jackson

English coble 1891, went ashore while leaving the harbour in force 4 gales. Master: W Taylor
Crew: 2
Crew Lost: 2
Owner: W Middlemiss, North Shields

1878 wreck of German barque which grounded, then stranded on the south side of the South Pier, on her arrival from London in ballast; a wooden sailing vessel. Built: 1868
Master: F Wilde
Crew: 7
Passengers: 1
Owner: Reichmineister & Valling, Rostock