Parish Notes
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

Properties used by War Department in the Great War
War Office Lands and Buildings Reconstruction Committee List of Lands and Buildings in the occupation of the War Department 1st June 1918. Northern Command.

Properties marked with an asterisk were either owned by or leaded by the War Department prior to the commencement of the war. All other properties have been taken over since 4th August 1914.

Accommodation of troops:
4 Abbotsford Terrace;
*7 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*9 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*11 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*13 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*15 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*17 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*21 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*25 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*27 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*29 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*31 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*33 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*35 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
*37 Ancrum Street (Married Quarters);
Assembly Rooms; Westgate Road;
207 Beaconsfield Street;
Beaumont Street Wesleyan Hall;
Beech Grove Congregational Church Hall;
Boys’ Refuge, Pandon House;
Breamish Street, Workshops for Blind;
Breamish Street, St.Anne’s Hall;
Camden Street, Salem Church Hall;
9 Clifton Road;
*95 Croydon Road;
Darn Crook Co-operative Hall;
Depot Huts;
Dinsdale Place, St. Jude’s Hall;
43 Elswick Road;
45 Elswick Road;
Elswick Road Wesleyan Church Hall;
Fletcher’s buildings, Elswick Road;
Gosforth Park, Brunton Quarry;
Grantham U.M. Church Hall;
Handyside Buildings;
John Knox P.C. Hall;
Leazes (Hutments);
Leaze, Gate Villa (Married Quarters);
Leighton Memorial Hall;
Martin Terrace Hall;
“Oakwood”, Westgate Road;
Ouseburn Wesleyan Mission, City Road;
1 Portland Terrace;
12 Portland Terrace;
P.M. Church, Kingsley Terrace;
Ridley Place,
Central Primitive Methodist Church Hall;
St. Aidan’s Church Hall;
St. George’s Church Hall;
56 St. George’s Terrace (R.A.F.);
108 St. George’s Terrace;
St. James Congregational Church Hall;
St. Paul’s Church, Campbell Street;
St. Stephen’s Congregational Church Hall;
St. Stephen’s Parochial Hall;
*21 Shuttleworth Street (Married Quarters);
Social Hall, Clarence Street;
“Springbank”, Condrecum (sic) Road;
U.M. Church Hall, St. George’s Terrace;
23 Victoria Square (Officers’ Quarters and Mess);
Warton Terrace Hall;
Westgate Baptist Church Hall;
Westgate Mission, Westgate Road;
14 Windsor Terrace;
15 Windsor Terrace;
*64 Wingrove Avenue (Married Quarters);
*99 Wingrove Avenue (Married Quarters);
*106 Wingrove Avenue (Married Quarters);
*253 Wingrove Avenue (Married Quarters);

Accommodation of Women Workers: 18 Eskdale Terrace (W.A.A.C.)

Accommodation of Horses:
Grantham Road (Stabling);

Aerodrome:
Town Moor (Aerodrome)

Hospitals:
Durham University, Section (1st Northern General);
Framlington House;
17 Framlington Place;
Grand Assembly Rooms;
*Military Hospital;
Presbyterian Church Hall, College Road;
Workhouse Infirmary (Northumberland War Hospital);

Mechanical transport:
Black’s Livery Stables and Garage, Ivy Road;
Dundas Garage, Jesmond Road;
St. Mary’s Place, Daimler Garage (One motor);
St. Mary’s Place, Daimler Garage (Two 3-ton motor lorries);

Offices:
*13 Bellgrove Terrace (R.E.); *14 Bellgrove Terrace (R.E.);
Emerson Chambers (Military Control Headquarters);
Emerson Chambers, Lawson’s Office;
28 Eslington Terrace;
Fernwood Road “Monaise”;
Handyside Buildings;
9 Portland Place;
7 Portland Terrace;
18 Portland Terrace;
5 Rosebery Crsecent;
1 St. Mary’s Place;
28 St. Mary’s Place;
33 Sandhill;
South Broomfield, Jesmond Road;
10 Sydenham Terrace (M.O.);
Trinity Buildings, New Bridge Street;
U.M. Church Sunday School;
9 Victoria Square;
6 Windsor Crescent

Stores:
Dodd’s Garage;
39 Elswick Road; Goods Station; Killingworth Place (Warehouse);
King & Gillespie’s Old Stables, Waterloor Street;
14 Lovaine Place; (New Bridge Street (Basement);
New Bridge Street (Goods Station);
Sandyford Road, White’s Garages;
South Bent Street (premises);
South Street (D.A.D.O.S.);
7 Saville Place (Bakery, A.S.C.);
Strachan Street, Co-operative Society Bakery (Bakery, A.S.C.);

Various :
39 Elswick Road (Army Canteen Committee);
*Latrines, Land for;
*Married Quarters, Land for;
Presbyterian Church Hall, Elswick Road;

Notes on airfield

For an account of the airfield at Newcastle (Gosforth), NZ 243668, read Action Stations: 7: Military Airfields of Scotland, the North-East and Northern Ireland. David J. Smith; 1983; Patrick Stephens; ISBN 0 85059 563 0