Mo Mowlem (1949-2005), MP for Redcar between 1987 and 2001 and Northern Ireland Secretary between 1997 and 1999, lived here from 1979 to 1983. She led talks that resulted in the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. "It takes courage to push things forward".

John Gilroy (1898-1985), artist, lived in this house as a boy. He is best known for his posters for Guinness Irish stout. He was the son of a marine draughtsman and painter. At the age of 15 he was a freelance cartoonist for Newcastle Evening Chronicle. At the age of 16 he won the Christie Scholarship to attend Armstrong College Art School in Durham University. Gilroy was born in Whitley Bay and attended Durham University until WW1. He served in the Royal Field Artillery. After the War he completed his studies at the College of Art in London. He was a teacher at Camberwell College of Arts. In 1925 he started working at S.H. Benson's advertising agency. Here he created the iconic posters of a zoo keeper and animals enjoying Guinness. He worked with Dorothy L. Sayers. He painted portraits of royalty, actors and politicians. He had a studio at 10 Holland Park, London. He was awarded an honorary MA by Newcastle University in 1975.

Oddfellows Arms. Location unknown. Closed 1908.

Hare Inn. Location unknown. Closed 1908.

Location unknown. Footballer's Arms bought by Sir Robert Deuchar in 1898. Rebuilt 1899. Closed 1939.

Location unknown. Boilermakers' Arms bought by Sir Robert Deuchar in 1897. Closed 1910.

Exact location unknown. Prince George beerhouse also known as the Prince George of Cambridge. Closed in 1884.

Exact location unknown. Small, one-roomed Campbell House. Closed in 1921.

Exact location unknown. Stanhope beerhouse in Croydon Road off Stanhope Street. Became a spirit merchants shop c.1910.

Exact location unknown. Known as the Barrack Tavern originally. Later became Darnell House (later Darnell Hotel) after rebuilding in 1892. The name reflected the influence on the area of a wealthy cleric W N Darnell, Rector of Stanhope, who owned a tract of land between Barrack Road and Westgate Road. The premises were bought by North Eastern Breweries in 1897 and in 1935 it became a fully-fledged public house. As a Vaux house, the Darnell re-emerged in 1995 as the Old Mill, became the New Darnell and was demolished in 1998.