At the top of Melbourne Street (now junction of Ellison Street and West Street). Originally built by a congregation of Independents in 1836, the chapel was transferred to the Presbyterians. In 1895 it became Robert Kelly & Co. printing establishment. Demolished 1984. Described by Pevsner as 'almost square, with hipped roof. Brick with two-tiers of round-arched windows above the basement'

Belonged to the Methodist New Connexion. A movement founded in 1791 when Alexander Kilham led the first group to split from the Methodists. Opened in 1836. General Booth, founder of the Salvation Army was given his first permanent minister's post here. Later the printing works of Howe Brothers. Demolished in 1964 {1}. By Thomas Oliver. Plain brick box with central pediment and primitive porch projection: a gabled room supported over the entrance on cast-iron columns. Oval gallery {Pevsner}.

Built in 1853, it was later used by a firm of manufacturing chemists. The Rector, Rev. W Moore Ede supplied cheap "penny dinners" to the needy.

Established by Jacob Gowland in 1825. Known locally as "The Cottage Asylum". The grounds were enclosed by a high wall with a large iron gate. Inmates were housed in cottages. The men and women were taken out daily for exercise or to work in the fields. They frequently begged for cakes and tobacco.

Known locally as Kent's Asylum. The "mad" brother of John Martin, British painter, was confined here for three years in 1817, after he threatened to shoot the Bishop of Oxford, Edward Legge, who was holding a confirmation for the Bishop of Durham in Stockton Parish Church. Martin escaped from the roof of the asylum in 1820, but was quickly recaptured, only to escape a second time, when he was given his liberty. In February 1829, he set fire to York Minster. He was arrested and tried at York Castle and was declared not guilty on the grounds of insanity. He was sent to St. Luke's Hospital, where he died in 1838.

Also known as Garbutt's Asylum (it was under the management of Cornelius Garbutt). In 1841 it housed 84 people. In 1851 it housed 157. In 1875 inmates from Bensham Lunatic Asylum were moved here.

The Bensham Lunatic Asylum was enclosed within extensive grounds. In 1932 one of the buildings near to Bensham railway station was in use as a motor garage, another building became St. Cuthbert's Church Institute (in Sidney Grove). Both had iron-framed windows. The asylum was known as Glentons, after one of the proprietors. The asylum was founded around 1830 and was in use until around 1875 when the inmates were moved to Garbutt's Asylum at Dunston.

In 1932 they were described as "modest and retiring, typical of the quiet and rest of old age". On the front of the building was the inscription "Anno Domini MDCCXXV. These almshouses were built and endowed by Maria Susanna Ravensworth in memory of her two departed children. It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes, CXIX Psalm, lxxi verse". The almshouses were home to eight poor women.

Tradition says that King Charles I stayed at the "Bush Inn" in Oakwellgate when passing through the town. In 1836 part of the inn was used as Gateshead's first town hall. The whole property later became tenements.

The "Queen's Head" stood almost opposite the site of the Goat's Inn (HER 7861), at the middle of the steepest part of Bottle Bank, on the right-hand side going downwards. It was in its day the most important hostelry in Gateshead. The large hall of the Queen's Head was used as a court-house, Roman Catholic mission, a harmonie hall and billiard room. Rebuilt in 1854. Still standing in 1932. Described as a high brick building "in a dissipated state". There was a large figure of a lion on the roof. Its tail turned towards Gateshead, its "fierce look" towards Newcastle. It was, in 1932, a lodging house. Demolished in 2000 to make way for Hilton Hotel.