Built in 1744 by William Parker. It's 'Long Room' opened in 1747 and became known as the 'Theatre in the Bigg Market'. It was a theatre for 40 years until the erection of the Theatre Royal. Turk's Head was a popular name for inns from the 16th century. The Bigg Market Turk's Head had a sign depicting a man with 'an expression of defeated ferocity'. The inn's great attraction was the cock-pit (HER 6919). The inn was demolished circa 1830 to make way for Grainger Street. A new Turk's Head was built in Grey Street (HER 7891).

On 23 March 1822 surgeons Doctor John Fife and Thomas Michael Greenhow opened a hospital for diseases of the eye in Brunswick Place. No fee was charged for treatment. 264 patients were seen in the first three months. Larger premises were found on Prudhoe Street in 1824 (HER 10738). This was the same Doctor Fife who, in 1829, lectured on anatomy using the body of a "most disgusting and abandoned female", who had been sentenced to death at the Assizes and taken by cart to the gallows on the Town Moor sitting on her own coffin. 20,000 people came to watch the execution, after which her body was exhibited for six hours in the Surgeon's Hall. John Fife was a Town Coroner in 1819 and in 1821 he was Steward to the Incorporated Company of Barber Surgeons and Wax and Tallow Chandlers of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was one of the first to organise formal medical lectures in Newcastle. He was Lord Mayor in 1839 and 1844 and was knighted in 1840 for his services as Chief Magistrate. The first report for the hospital said "the inestimable value of the organ of sight - certainly the most delicate, and perhaps the most important, which the Creator has bestowed upon man - both as a means of usefulness, and as a source of infinite enjoyment".

In 1760 the lying-in hospital for poor married women was opened behind St Johns Church. Moved to New Bridge Street in 1826? Moved in 1925 to building on Jubilee Road and renamed Princess Mary Maternity Hospital. Moved to Great North Road in 1939.

The was a "most beautiful equestrian statue" of James II erected in front of the exchange (Guildhall) in Sandhill. It was cast in copper and was the same size as the famous equestrian statue of Charles I at Charing Cross, London. The horse stood raised upon its hind feet. The king was cloathed in a coat of mail, booted and gauntleted. By his side hung a sword. In his right hand he held the truncheon, in his left the bridle. He wore a wig and a laurel wreath. The pedestal of the statue was white Italian marble, 14ft high, stood on a black polished marble base. On one side of the pedestal was a brass relief of the king's successes in battle, on the other the town's arms, the names of the mayor, recorder and sheriff. Surrounding the statue were iron palisades. The statue was the work of Mr. William Larson, approved by Sir Christopher Wren. It cost the town £800. In November 1688 the statue was demolished "by the mob" and the statue and horse turned into the river. Later it was cast into a set of bells (common-council books of 1695 record requests from All Saints parish and St. Andrew's parish). This information is from Bourne and Brand, but according to the Local Historians' Table Book of 1841, there are strong grounds however to suggest that the statue was never put up as no payment occurs in the books of the corporation of Newcastle for the marble pedestal or the iron palisades. Rather the mob may have turned it into the river shortly after the statue was delivered to the quayside ready for erection.

A ferry operated between the north and south banks of the Tyne. The house on the south bank is still called "Boat House". Opposite the house you can see the remains of the wooden jetty used by the ferry. The ferryman was called Archie Scott and he lived in a cottage on Ryton Island.

Stott's House Farm was described as the "Bee Houses" by Horsley in 1732. The farm was built on the line of Hadrian's Wall (HER 199). To the north of the farm, the Roman ditch apparently formed two ponds. Roman stones were used in its construction [3]. From the early 18th-century the farm was owned by the Corporation of Newcastle upon Tyne. The farm had seven main fields which were used for crops and livestock in 1745, many of these were divided by subsequent wagonways and railway lines. Between 1765 and 1798 Fair Pit of Walker Colliery was opened [3]. In 1797 the farm was advertised for let. A gingang was added between the mid-1780s and 1836. A steam mill was constructed on the land by 1828 for grinding corn. A watercolour by Henry Richardson 1848 in the Laing Art Gallery shows one of the ponds. The watercolour showed a stone building with red brick patching with a stone lean-to at the eastern side of the central building [3]. Stott's House Farm was demolished in 1933.

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition. Built in 1889. In use by the Wesleyans until 1965. Now Ambassador Hall (Church of God). Small gable-fronted building, small porch between lancet windows, pebbledashed.

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition. Demolished 1933. The farm buildings were said to have incorporated much Roman material. The last tenant (Mr W.H. Brown) found four Roman coins on his farm. The Brown family had occupied the farm for 70 years. When East Farm was demolished the family moved to Beamish Home Farm. The farm is said to be shown on a plan of 1675.
In Thompson’s map (1745) an east-west orientated linear building with a central tower is depicted. This building was later replaced by a stone building constructed to the south. The farm appeared in the background of a Henry Richardson watercolour of Stott’s House Farm [2]. A photograph taken in 1886 during the second Hadrian’s Wall Pilgrimage shows the farm’s duck-pond over the ditch [2]. In 1925 a photograph of the building shows a brick chimney with a tiled pantiles and slate. Stott’s Pow marked the east boundary of the farm with its neighbour, Stott’s House Farm and another branch marked the southern boundary and turn pike road marked the northern extent of the site [2]. The farm occupied 104 acres in 1839 and 127 acres. In 1843, Census and newspaper records suggest the land farmed ranged from 114-182 acres [2]. The farm was accessed from the north from a road called Miller’s lane (later known as Fossway). In 1849 Thomas Davison was the farmer, John Robson took over the lease in 1873, his wife Isabella (nee Robson) took over the farm in 1878 and subsequently married William Brown in 1880 [2]. The farm was taken over by their son William H. Brown who lived at the farm until it was demolished in 1933 when the farm was redeveloped for new housing [2].

The police station was built in 1908. On either side of the spacious entrance hall there was a waiting room and superintendent's office. Adjoining this was the charge room and four cells. At the end of the cell corridor there was an airing courtyard for the prisoners. Immediately opposite the entrance was the parade room and police surgeon's room. On the first floor there were messrooms, recreation room and dormitories divided into twelve cubicles. The building was built of red pressed brick with stone dressings, and roofed with Newfoundland green slate. The interior walls were decorated with a salt glazed brick, floors of Portland cement concrete. The entrance hall was tiled. There were stone carvings by Christian Neuper, Newcastle sculptor, on the front elevation of the building - a male figure representing justic and strength, a female figure representing truth and light, and a head symbolic of deceit and falsehood. The building cost £9000.

In 1899 a soldier's home was opened on Hunter's Road to provide for the social needs of the soldiers in Fenham Barracks (HER 4093). Dormitories were provided for soldiers on leave and a Sunday School for their children. The building later became a clothing factory. The building is now a book warehouse.