Ropery Bank. No ropery is shown on the 1st edition OS mapping, The name Ropery Banks indicates the site of the former St Anne's Ropery of Joseph Crawhill, which is shown as a ropewalk on Corbridge's 1725 map of Newcastle. It was referred to as "Sandgate Ropery" in a lease of 1 July 1725. The ropery was leased to John Pembroke in July 1731. It included a tarrhouse, storehouse and washhouse. By 1764 one or more cottages had been erected at the east end of the ropeworks. In 1765 William Cramlington leased the site for 21 years. The lease in 1811 of a house on the West Ballast Hills, on which the ropery was built, to a "wire worker" may indicate that the works had moved into the production of wire ropes. The lease of the ropery was acquired by Joseph Crawhall in July 1825. Crawhall, born in 1793, came to Newcastle in 1809 as apprentice rope maker to Alderman Smith of St Peters. By the 1820s he had become part of the local elite. In the 1820s the Crawhall family moved from West House in Walker to St Ann's House next to the rope works. The house and garden are shown on a painting of 1827 by J W Carmichael. Crawhall built a rope shaped tower at his ropeworks … "a curious chimney, in form like a gigantic rope's end turned into stone… It was well known by sailors all over the world". The chimney was dismantled stone by stone in 1961 because it was in dangerous condition. Crawhall was elected Sheriff in 1846 and Mayor in 1849. He died in 1853. The ropeworks remained in the family until the late C19. 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map of 1898 shows St Ann's Wire Rope and Brattice Cloth Works and the Tyne Wire Works on the site. The house later became Ouseburn Police Station and then an engineering works. Crawhall's son, also called Joseph became a famous engraver and artist. The Crawhall family lived in St. Ann's House on the New Road next to the ropery. The entrance from the ropery to the house was a whale's jawbone. In 1835 JW Carmichael painted a watercolour from the garden of the house towards Newcastle. The house later became Ouseburn Police Station, then an engineering works. It was demolished in 1992.

Middle Pit and spoil heap are shown on the 1st edition OS. It is marked as Disused on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1895. This is presumably Heaton Colliery C Pit which was opened in 1805. Twelve properties existed around the Middle Pit but the 1841 census only recorded 5 properties as used by colliers.

A Sand Pit. This is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1895.

Heaton Banks Colliery opened in 1736 and closed 1745. Heaton Main Colliery opened 1792. It was at the cutting edge of technical development and dominated the economy of the area. There were many associated pits to do with both collieries. C (HER 4151), D & E Pit (HER 4031) were opened in the early 19th century. In March 1802 a detailed examination of the colliery revealed that the largest proportion (90.5%) of Heaton's producation was for the lucrative seacole trade. The average was 30,000 chaldrons. The principal viewer in 1807 was John Buddle. At least two tragic accidents are recorded in 1812-5. On 3rd May 1815 old abandoned workings at Heaton Banks flooded and broke through into Heaton Pit. Whilst 30 men escaped, 75 men and boys were trapped in a blocked off tunnel. Three boys were aged seven or under. It took nine months to drain the mine and by the time they were reached in January 1816 they had starved to death or succumbed to the "foul air". They had, for a time lived off one of the two horses who had been trapped with them. The remains of 59 men and boys were laid to rest at St. Peter's Churchyard, Wallsend. At a later date the nearby spinney (former High Pit or E Pit) was planted in commemoration of the disaster, a tree for each life lost (see HER 4031). In 1868 Louis Simonin drew an etching called 'The Heaton flooding of 1815'. The Heaton Colliery workshorce in 1842 was 315 underground and 176 surface. 1841 census shows only 45 miners were reisdent in Heaton. Closed 1852 marking the end of Heaton as a major centre of mining.

A Clay Pit. This is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was out of use by 1895.

A Level, the location of which is unclear on the 1st edition OS mapping, but probably lay within a 100m radius of this grid reference. It is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so out of use by 1895.

Filtering Beds. These are not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so were out of use by 1895.

Ouseburn Cement Works. This was probably out of use by 1895, as it is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping.

James & Co's white lead manufactory for paints and varnishes, was operating as early as 1801. The factory used primitive production methods. A headline in the London Daily Chronicle in December 1892 reported on Tyneside's white lead trade and the plight of their workers: "White Cemeteries - How Women Are Poisoned". The writer described the Old Dutch Stacking or "blue bed" process by which thin sheets of lead were placed upon small earthware pots containing acetic acid, stacked up to twelve layers high. In another article "The Human Dredger", the writer reported that "women stand on rough staging one above the other, and hand the dishes of wet lead up and up till the top shelves are full. Then the lower ones are packed, and when the stoves are "set", gas or fire is applied, and the batch is left to dry for a fortnight. The sight of these pale women, with the red hankerchiefs bound tightly over their hair, enveloped in the sack-like overall, going on quietly and incessantly with this drill, passing up the wet poison like a live dredging machine into the dark recesses of the stove, is a sort of nightmare to carry away with you". The acid fermented in the jars and turned the sheet lead into a carbonate lead paste. The "white bed" process involved drying the paste in large ovens to form powdered carbonate of lead. The fine white lead was then mixed with oil to form paint. Some of the powdered lead would have been sold to other oil and paint works, shipped out on wherries to the Tyne or by horse and cart. In 1900 the Factory Act enforced the provision of dust extractors, abolished the old drying stoves and stopped the practice of workers entering the stoves to empty the stacks. Female labour was banned from the white lead trade. In 1900 the statistics of lead poisoning had showed that the three chief offenders were Tyneside firms. Of 66 workers at James & Co., 32 had had cases of poisoning. The old works of James & Co. fell into disuse by 1914. The site is now covered by landfill {3}.

A Brickfield. This is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was probably out of use by 1895. Manufacturer in 1860 was J Amos.
(Source: Davison, P J, 1986. Brickworks of the North East, 63.)