The Community History

Explore the rich history and heritage of your community through our collection of articles, photographs, and local stories.

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A stone pedestal sundial with a carved urn finial standing on a lawn in front of white rendered houses

8 September 2026

The Sundial Memorial at Jameson Manor

Standing near the entrance to Jameson Manor and easy to overlook, is a memorial which deserves more attention.

Architect's visualisation of a large red brick and rendered house with dormer windows, a brick tower behind it

8 September 2026

The Cottage Homes Superintendent's House

The Superintendent’s House was the administrative centre of the Cottage Homes.

Black and white photograph of a decorative gabled school house with a bell turret, behind an ornamental balustrade

8 September 2026

The Cottage Homes' Lost School House

Unfortunately, not all the old buildings dating back from the old Cottage Homes days have survived.

Sepia postcard of a wide street lined with gabled cottages, captioned Cottage Homes, Ponteland

8 September 2026

From Cottage Homes to Jameson Manor

Jameson Manor is a new housing development just outside of Ponteland heading north, which sympathetically incorporates some Grade II listed buildings…

Aerial view of a house with a slate roof among mature trees, with long red-roofed farm buildings alongside

8 September 2026

Smallburn Farm, on Armstrong's 1769 Map

Smallburn Farm is a complex of buildings just north to what is now the entrance to Jameson Manor to the north of Ponteland.

A row of 1960s detached brick houses with garages, set behind clipped hedges along a suburban street

8 September 2026

Dunsgreen: A 1960s Wimpey Estate

One of the major building companies which was transforming Ponteland in the post-war era of the 1950’s and 1960’s was George Wimpey, that later became…

A gated entrance off a country road with an information sign and warning notices, whitewashed buildings beyond the hedge

8 September 2026

The Rifle Range and the Road to the Somme

The Ministry of Defence’s Rifle Range on the outskirts of Ponteland is a site of significant historical importance.

A stone farmhouse with a bay window and gabled porch, standing behind a striped lawn with a garden table and bench

8 September 2026

Eland Green Farm and Newcastle's Larder

Eland Green Farmhouse, to the north of Ponteland is a good example of how important it was, before the development of the railways, for cities such as…

A pair of large stone Edwardian houses with a bay window and slate roof, behind a stone wall with iron gates

8 September 2026

42 and 44 North Road: An Edwardian Pair

The junction of North Road and Berwick Hill Road on the northern edge of Ponteland is dominated by a large pair of semi-detached Edwardian houses which…

A large red brick house with white sash windows and two front doors, behind a block-paved drive

8 September 2026

Louisville: The Children's Block

There was separate accommodation block for children built at Ponteland’s Workhouse on North Road.

Watercolour painting of a long low institutional building with tall chimneys, seen across open fields with grazing sheep

8 September 2026

The Workhouse and Guardians Court

Today, all that remains of the Ponteland Workhouse is a couple of old walls and the name “Guardians Court”.

A stone Victorian villa with tall chimneys and a bay window, set behind a gravel drive and mature shrubs

8 September 2026

Eland Lodge: Ponteland's First Mansion

Today there are many modern mansions in Ponteland but this house built around 1840 on North Road is generally thought to have been the first built here.