Ryder and Yates designed 14 private houses across the North. 12 were built. They all shared characteristic themes in plan, form and use of materials. But the houses were specific to each client and site. The houses were generally narrow and linear in plan. Secondary spaces were housed in linked pods. Entrances were marked by some sort of sculptural element. Spaces were divided by columns or staircases. All houses had a dominant fireplace. External columns allowed facades to be entirely glazed. Roofs were always flat and animated by roof lights, canopies, chimneys and water tanks. A mixture of old and new materials were used. The house at Tynemouth was designed for James Liddell, builder, who Gordon Ryder had met at Tynemouth Sailing Club. He had commissioned housing schemes from Ryder in Tynemouth, Whitley Bay, Bournemouth and Torquay. Liddell's house was built in 1958. It was featured in the Daily Express, which described it thus: 'You have to go far to find The House Where the Rainbow Ends. I have found it. It has colour. Space. Light. And warmth. And it glimmers - for a house like this couldn't just stand'…. 'the brightly painted front door, set like a jewel among squares of coloured glass, blazed a welcome. The Liddells, who love the sea, could afford to let their architect have a free hand'. Unlike the other Ryder and Yates houses, this was a tight urban site on the sea front. It was a three storey townhouse. The ground floor was reinforced concrete and included a lattice screen to the street, inset with glass blocks. The first and second floors were brick with ribbon windows. The ground floor accommodated the entrance hallway and a service access to the adjoining property. The hallway had an extraordinary modelled plaster ceiling, a highly polished black and white chequered floor and mirror-faced doors. There was a mural by Peter Yates on the quarter landing. The living room was on the first floor. This had an oversized arched fireplace faced in patterned tiles. The curved projecting base contained planting troughs. The gable wall behind the exposed flue was faced in mosaic. 14 marble brackets displayed the Liddell's collection of teapots. There was another Peter Yates mural in the kitchen, depicting food and another on the top landing of the Dome in Florence. The chimney was Vanbrugh-style. Unfortunately the house has been much altered. The upper floor windows have been replaced. The lattice ceiling in the hallway still survives as does the tiled fireplace. However the house is now a holiday rental and the present owner [2012] hopes to restore the house.

Ryder and Yates designed 14 private houses across the North. 12 were built. They all shared characteristic themes in plan, form and use of materials. But the houses were specific to each client and site. The houses were generally narrow and linear in plan. Secondary spaces were housed in linked pods. Entrances were marked by some sort of sculptural element. Spaces were divided by columns or staircases. All houses had a dominant fireplace. External columns allowed facades to be entirely glazed. Roofs were always flat and animated by roof lights, canopies, chimneys and water tanks. A mixture of old and new materials were used. The Saint House was more complex than the previous houses (Woolsington, Walker, Beadnell, Scotby, Brampton, Hayton and Hayton Head) and was built in 1956. It created family living accomodation and a separate doctor's surgery for Dr. Thomas Saint. Gordon Ryder designed a single-aspect house (because it was overlooked by houses and flats) on one side of the site, looking into a walled garden. The rectilinear house, surgery and garage blcoks were simple in form and flat-roofed. It had plain white walls of concrete using various forms - concrete bricks, patterned blocks and slabs cast in-situ. The entrances features white timber boarding and concrete canopies with waterspouts. The house was two storeys. It had a linear plan of kitchen, dining room, hall and a living room, with a glass garden wall and cubist fireplace. A partial lobby linked the entrance hall to the other rooms. There was a steel spiral staircase with rubber coverings on the steps. The staircase was enclosed in a concrete drum with a circular roof light over it. The surgery was lit by clerestory windows on the front and back and by roof lights. The surgery has been demolished but the house remains, renamed Ryder House.

Ryder and Yates designed 14 private houses across the North. 12 were built. They all shared characteristic themes in plan, form and use of materials. But the houses were specific to each client and site. The houses were generally narrow and linear in plan. Secondary spaces were housed in linked pods. Entrances were marked by some sort of sculptural element. Spaces were divided by columns or staircases. All houses had a dominant fireplace. External columns allowed facades to be entirely glazed. Roofs were always flat and animated by roof lights, canopies, chimneys and water tanks. A mixture of old and new materials were used. The Walker House (built in 1952 for Dr. W. Walker) was unique in that it was based on three intersecting squares set at 45 degrees. This created an open plan (rather than tradional rooms off a central corridor). The intersecting squares produced odd corners that were used to good effect. The long sitting room (16m) had a fully glazed wall giving access into the garden. The all-glass wall at the front of the main bedroom opened onto a balcony. The rear wall was painted magenta and had a square central window. Peter Yates described this as 'an eyeglass on the world'. The house had a freestanding fireplace in the centre of the sitting room with a trapezoidal brick flue. The central heating boiler with cylindrical white flue which extended up through the open stairwell to the roof, was in the hallway with the staircase wrapped around them. The house was built in traditional materials, brickwork and timber windows, with a felt-covered mono-pitched roof. Gordon Ryder had suggested a copper roof covering but this was turned down due to cost.

The first project by Gordon Ryder's office was a clubhouse for Tynemouth Sailing Club in 1952-3. Ryder was a member of the club and there he met three of his most important early clients, Derek Damerell, J. Kenneth Stanger and James Liddell.

Tug stranded and lost on rocks.

Master: E Hutchinson
Owner: E Hutchinson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Built: 1851
Engine: Screw driven, 2 cylinder compound engine
Boilers: 1
Crew: 4

Brig ran ashore, 1865. Master: Hesham

Tug stranded and lost in wind conditions NNE force 5.

Built: 1859
Propulsion: Screw driven, 2 cylinder compound engine
Boilers: 1
Master: A S Dodds
Crew: 4
Owner: J Dodds, North Shields

Cargo vessel wrecked in wind and fog. Master: A Rackley
Owner: The Earl of Durham, Co. Durham
Built: 1871
Builder: Laing & Co. Ltd.
Where Built: Sunderland
Propulsion: Screw driven, 2 cylinder compound engine
Horse Power: 90
Boilers: 1
Crew: 18
Passengers: 6

This vessel was driven on a lee shore during one of the hardest gales, E force 10-11, squally with rain, ever known on this coast. She went ashore at 3pm, at high water, and became an immediate total wreck.Cargo unknown.
Lost: 1852
Built: 1833
Master: Cole
Crew: 6
Crew Lost: 6

1853, English brig, missed her stays at Souter Point and drove ashore.
Crew- 6