The Cobourg Stairs opened off the south end of Stockbridge (HER 6623) and ran up St. Michael's Mount on a roughly east-west alignment. Almost all of this area was demolished around 1880-3 to make way for this embankment which carries City Road, but the lower part of the stairs still existed in 1972, the entrance being marked by a gap in the street frontage. It is possible that the Cobourg Stairs were medieval in origin. The Friary on the Mount would have found a short cut to the Stockbridge advantageous. Charleton (1885, p. 241) says 'We still find the ancient stairs mentioned in the Millbank mss, quoted by Bourne, running up from Fishergate to the monastery gardens above'. The stairs referred to by Bourne may not be the Cobourg Stairs however. The earliest cartographic evidence which shows (but does not name) the stairs is Thompson's plan of 1746. The stairs have houses on their north side. The friary mount is occupied by gardens. The Cobourg Stairs gave access to the westernmost plots, Wall Knoll gave access to the easternmost ones. In 1736 Bourne (p. 108) describes 'those stairs beside Mr Green's house at Stockbridge which led up to the gardens there, and which, were it not a wall, would lead directly from this street to the remains of the monastery'. So the stairs could not be used as a through-route to Sallyport Tower. The Cobourg Stairs are not shown on Corbridge's map of 1723 or that in Bourne 1736. They might have been omitted as they only provided a small private access route. Thompson's plan shows a northerly bend at the east end of the Stairs. This bend has disappeared by Oliver's map of 1830, and the Stairs are now straight. The 126 inch OS map of 1861 shows a narrowing of the stairs on the south open side about two-thirds of the way up. The east end of the row of houses on the stairs were demolished. It therefore appears that the upper end of the Stairs was then straightened and lengthened eastwards. Hutton's map of 1770 shows a street which was later called factory Lane running parallel to the Stairs, with houses on the north side. Oliver's 1830 map shows the south sides of Factory Lane and Cobourg Stairs as built upon. The two routeways were linked by a short north-south street later known as Craig or Craik's Alley. The name Cobourg was first recorded in the 19th century. Wood's map of 1827 shows the Stairs as 'Coburgh Place'. Oliver 1830 calls it 'Cobourg Place, Stockbridge'. The street is listed in Hodgson's street directory of 1833/4. The adoption of a name for the Stairs implies that they were then regarded as an entity independent of Stockbridge and were connected with the early 19th century urban expansion on St. Michael's Mount.

In June 1970 the secretary of the RVI reported the discovery of a drain during the building of a new Children's Department on the corner of Queen Victoria Road and Richardson Road. The drain was square in section and the sides and cover slabs were well dressed stone. It appeared to run on a line from the lake in Castle Leazes to the School of Agriculture on the north side of St. Thomas Street. Clear water was still running through it. The drain was set in the clay subsoil. The layers of soil above it contained no datable material. It seems likely that this is part of the extensive drainage system recorded by Thomas Oliver on his map of the Town Moor and Castle Leazes in 1852.

A well, around 5 feet in diameter and lined with stone blocks, had been found in the rear yard of Ward's Buildings. The well was filled in and covered by the foundations of a lift shaft.

A lead object was found in topsoil in 1966. It weighed about 3.5 ounces. A hole had been pierced through it. It measured 3/16 inches x 5/16 inches and tapers towards the front. It was decorated with a lion. The British Museum Catalogue for 1907 page 269 shows a similar object which has been identified as a weight from the old provinces of Languedoc and Guienne in southern France. Such weights can be bronze or lead. They were either a pound, half or quarter pound in weight. They generally date to the 14th century, but began in the 13th. The device on the front indicated the authority (ecclesiastical or secular) which exercised jurisdiction in the town or district where the weight was issued. A French weight might have ended up here due to priors of Norman ancestry being located at Tynemouth Priory.

In the early 19th century the Sunderland Improvement Commission authorised the supply of gas lighting for some of the town's streets to replace oil. The gas works were established in 1824 by the Sunderland Gas Light Company, on the east side of Low Street at the bottom of Beggar's Bank. In 1831 the Subscription Gas Corporation took over the gas works.

This dates to 1860 by Thomas Hawksley for the Sunderland Corporation Gas Company. Cast and wrought iron. Cylindrical iron piers have panelled decoration at junction with rails and on pointed finials. Telescopic gas holder with guide towers. This type of structure was invented in 1824 and had reached a great level of sophistication by the 1890s. This structure dates to the 1860s. The gas holder is a complete example with only minor and insignificant alterations to the original structure. Nationally there are four listed gas holders including this example.

The air raid shelter lies south-east of Jack Crawford House at Hendon Gas Works. It is above ground and is L-shaped. It is made of pre-fabricated concrete panels and has a brick skin on the inner east wall.

Shown on an insurance plan of Newcastle dated 1887. Site now occupied by Watson House and Norham House (HER 12901). The chambers were numbered nos. 2 to 34 and the block included numbers 1 to 11 Pilgrim Street. The chambers included offices, studios, a tailor (chambers 20-24), furniture warehouse (7 Pilgrim St), cycle sundries warehouse (2 Erick St) and a restaurant (9 and 11 Pilgrim St).

Shown on an insurance plan of Newcastle dated 1887. Site now covered by the Odeon Cinema and Commercial Union House. The Club a wine cellar and heater and boiler in the basement, stone stairs to the upper floors. The kitchen was on the first floor.

Two perforated spoons have been found at Arbeia. Such spoons are a wide range of shapes and designs and they may had had different purposes. Some examples have a very large hole in the bowl, some have two holes. Some have circular bowls, some have oval. Some have highly decorated terminals (like the Arbeia examples). At least 74 examples are known from Britain. The majority have been found in Yorkshire, some 47 from the caves around Settle and Giggleswick. These spoons are not known on the Continent and in Britain they are only found in the north. The spoons have been found in first and fourth century contexts. Were they still in use in the 4th century or were the finds just residual? Due to the holes, the 'spoons' would only be useful for stirring. They were originally thought to be 'spoon-shaped brooches' with the two ends threaded through 'button holes' in the cloth and a cord tied through the hole in the bowl. Later, the simple 'spoons' with large central hole and no fancy terminal, were suggested as a hair decoration. Other suggestions are that the 'spoons' were used for pulling out woollen thread prior to spinning or were children's toys.