Ryder and Yates designed the façade of this optician's premises in 1962 in clear plate glass. The company name was engraved in plastic-laminate-faced plywood panels. The original Victorian shopfront and reception area was replaced but the rest of the interior remained unchanged. The reception interior was decorated with white Formica-faced panels. Next to the main entrance there was a black Formica screen showing a plan of medieval Newcastle. Formica was manufactured at a factory at North Shields. The shop was awarded a Civic Trust Commendation on 1963. The façade lasted until the 1990s when it was replaced with an all-glass façade.

1974 by Ryder and Yates. 606 dwellings for Washington Development Corporation. Their flat roofs at North Kenton (HER 15093) had failed so at Albany dual pitched roofs were used. This was a high-density low-rise scheme largely of flats. There were long banana-shaped blocks of three and four storey flats and terraced houses grouped around mixer courts. North Kenton Estate had separate vehicle and pedestrian areas but residents complained about the distance between dwellings and garages, so at Albany the parking was placed on one side of the terraces with pedestrian access on the other. The pitched roofs of multi-coloured concrete tiles, extended down to first floor window level. The brickwork was dark brown and there were stained timber pergolas. The integral garages could be converted to additional rooms if required. A small boiler room to each court supplied the gas central heating. Albany has suffered from neglect.

English lighter, foundered at its moorings in wind conditions SW force 3, after being hit by first the South Shields-registered SS ST GOTHARD, and then the wherry ISABELLA AND MARY, (q.v.) which also sank, 1896.

Built: 1869
Master: T Orr
Owner: G Thompson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

English Wherry foundered in force 3 winds, 1896 after being hit by first the SS ST GOTHARD, of South Shields, and then the Newcastle-upon-Tyne lighter PRESIDENT (HER 15117), which also sank. Built: 1871
Master: W Thackray
Crew: 2
Owner: Newcastle Wherry Company Ltd.

1772 wreck of British collier which stranded on the Sparrowhawk and may later have been recovered; a wooden sailing vessel. Master: Bruce

English Craft wrecked on Herd Sance 1771. Master: Jackson

English coble 1891, went ashore while leaving the harbour in force 4 gales. Master: W Taylor
Crew: 2
Crew Lost: 2
Owner: W Middlemiss, North Shields

1878 wreck of German barque which grounded, then stranded on the south side of the South Pier, on her arrival from London in ballast; a wooden sailing vessel. Built: 1868
Master: F Wilde
Crew: 7
Passengers: 1
Owner: Reichmineister & Valling, Rostock

Channel Island Brigantine lost in force 10 gales, February 1881. Built: 1864
Where Built: Guernsey
Master: George Game
Crew: 9 saved
Owner: R M Lelean & Co., Guernsey

Vessel stranded in force 10 gales, 1880. Built: 1836
Where Built: Great Yarmouth
Master: T Anderson
Crew: 6
Owner: T Anderson, Great Yarmouth