A Shaft and Gingang. These were probably out of use by 1895 as they are not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping.

This was an underground railway built for Porter and Latimer (by William Gilhespie, local engineer) from Spital Tongues Colliery to the Tyne near Glasshouse Bridge. The lease for mining was granted commencing on 25 March 1835, but they were faced with the serious problem of getting the coal from the colliery to the Tyne to be loaded on to colliers. Other collieries had wagonways running to the river, but Spital Tongues was unfortunate in the fact that the city lay between it and the Tyne. In the end a tunnel was excavated from the colliery under the centre of Newcastle to the Tyne close to the Ouseburn. They could have chosen a shorter route, but they wanted to avoid having to pay keelmen's fees for taking the coal in keels to the river mouth, hence the tunnel was built to the Ouseburn. It was built in 1839-42 in stone and brick with a masonry invert arch, with a total length of 1½ miles (2.4km) and at a maximum depth of 85ft (26m) dug through solid clay. There was an extravagant opening ceremony for the Tunnel on 7th April 1842. Cannon fired as a train of eight wagons, carrying coal in four wagons and local dignitaries and band of musicians in the other four, emerged out of the tunnel. There is little contemporary evidence on the building of the Victoria Tunnel, but the construction appears to have gone smoothly, taking two and a half years from 27 June 1839 to 8 January 1842. The artificially arched tunnel had to be constructed for the entire length of the tunnel, which was almost two miles, descending 222ft in its passage from the colliery to the river. And its outfall was near Glasshouse Bridge where it emerged on to two staithes built into the river. The loaded coal wagons went down the incline of the tunnel under their own weight and were drawn back to the colliery by a wire rope attached to a stationary engine. Due to financial difficulties, the tunnel had a short working life and eventually in January 1860 it was closed. In the 1870s the tunnel under the cattle sanatorium was blocked. It remained so for nearly 80 years until 1939, when the City Engineer for Newcastle was considering plans for air-raid shelters. The Victoria Tunnel was converted into an air-raid shelter, with the addition of lighting, wooden bunks and benches, anti-blast baffles and 7 additional entrances at a cost of £37,000 and gave seating capacity of 9000 people. The council's plan of air raid precautions, showing the tunnel and Ouseburn Culvert survives in TWAS. A City Engineer's plan of 1939 shows the design of the air raid shelter fit-out. Council minutes show that the government paid 70% of the fit-out costs. The tunnel was never hit although Heaton was bombed. At then end of the war, most of the fittings were removed and all but one of the entrances were bricked up. The one remaining entrance was left in Ouse Street. An 800m stretch of the tunnel from Ellison Place to Queen Victoria Road was converted into a sewer to replace the Pandon Sewer {4}. Entrances and access points - an access point was created at the Hancock Museum during WW2. Another tunnel entrance was constructed at Barras Bridge. An entrance near City Pool, once used by people from Shieldfield and Ouseburn to get home from town or from the Olympia Cinema on Northumberland Road, has now been covered by John Dobson Street. During a 1941 air raid, 100 bombs were dropped on Jesmond, Byker, St. Peter's, Walker and Shieldfield. 50 people were killed. The raid happened so quickly that few people were able to make it to the Victoria Tunnel. The Ouse Street entrance was built through the retaining wall of 14 Ouse Street. It has survived because it was built on private land.

Spital Tongues Colliery. Opened in 1836. In the 1850s the owners were Edward Richardson & Co. The Victoria Tunnel (HER 4091), an underground railway, was built for Porter and Latimer from Spital Tongues Colliery to the Tyne near Glasshouse Bridge. The lease for mining was granted commencing on 25 March 1835, but they were faced with the serious problem of getting the coal from the colliery to the Tyne to be loaded on to colliers. Other collieries had wagonways running to the river, but Spital Tongues was unfortunate in the fact that the city lay between it and the Tyne. In the end a tunnel was excavated from the colliery under the centre of Newcastle to the Tyne close to the Ouseburn. They could have chosen a shorter route, but they wanted to avoid having to pay keelmen's fees for taking the coal in keels to the river mouth, hence the tunnel was built to the Ouseburn. It was built in 1839-42. The colliery had a short working life due to financial difficulties, closing in 1858.

Spital Tongues Ropery. The site was taken over by Robson's Factory (HER 4318) in the 1880s. The workers lived in nearby Ropery Terrace (HER 16607).

A Level (Coal). This is not shown on the 2nd edition OS mapping, so was probably out of use by 1895.

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

Four Reservoirs on the Town Moor. These formed part of the 18th and 19th century water supply system for Newcastle. By the 1870s they had become disused and later formed part of the boating lake in Exhibition Park.

Paradise Colour Works. Labelled as Colour Manufacturer on Plan of Andrew Bowes Estate, 1811. On the 2nd edition OS mapping this site had been taken over by a Cement Works.

Benwell Fishery is shown on Bowman’s survey of 1839, the Tithe Map of 1843 and the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of 1864. It is possible that this site is the continuation of the medieval fishery first documented in 1472 (HER 12289). Ferrier notes that the site was owned by William Ord but leased to Ralph Hopper c. 1827 to c. 1843. Ward's Directory of 1850 notes the chief tenant as Christian Reid and its annual rent in 1851 was listed as £50. An advert in the Newcastle Courant offering the sale of the lease of "Fishery House" indicate that some of the Hopper family remained as tenants as late as 1856.
In 1870, the site was identified as Benwell Salmon Fishery in another advert in the Newcastle Courant, located “on the north bank of the River Tyne for a distance of nearly four miles from Scotswood Burn in the west to Skinner Burn to the east”. By this period, the main tenant was Anthony Teasdale but the 1871 Census identifies Thomas and Elizabeth Archer, as well as their five children, inhabiting the property. By 1882, the tenancy changed again with George Beveridge listed as primary tenant.
The site was sold to Armstrong Whitworth & Co to allow expansion of their Elswick Works and the fishery was demolished as depicted on the 2nd Edition of the Ordnance Survey, which was revised in 1894.

Benwell Colliery, West Pit (Coal). This is just shown as an Old Shaft on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey. Benwell Colliery opened in 1766. There were three other pits - Beaumont Pit (HER 4107 - opened in 1809), Charlotte Pit (HER 4081 - opened in April 1766) and Edward Pit (probably HER 4068 - opened in 1809). The Colliery was owned by W. Cochrane Carr Ltd and from the 1930s, the Elswick Coal Company Ltd. Steam engine and pit shown on Plan of Andrew Bowes Estate, 1811.