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 building with a shopfront and bay windows, now a bar with signage reading The Pont Tap, steps up to the entrance

8 September 2026

From Stobert's Stores to The Pont Tap

No. 10 West Road now houses a micro-brewery, The Pont Tap, but for much of the 20th century, before the introduction of supermarkets, this was one of the…

Black and white photograph of a two-storey stone shop and house with a sign reading Stobert and Son, Grocers and Provision Dealers, a man standing in the doorway

8 September 2026

12 West Road: The Stobert Family Home

One of the oldest buildings in the west end of the village, No.12 West Road in Ponteland dates at least until 1826 and could be older.

A terrace of red brick cottages with chimney stacks and small front gardens behind a wooden fence, seen from the road

8 September 2026

Station Cottages, Built for the Railway

This block of houses now overlook a large car park to the west of Ponteland’s village centre.

Black and white photograph of a stone cottage terrace behind a white picket fence, with a man, woman and child standing at the gate

8 September 2026

West End Cottages and the Windmill Inn

A photograph from 1904 shows a short row of substantial houses on the northern side of West Road running from Ladywell Cottage across what is now the…

A stone cottage with a slate roof and gabled porch behind a wooden picket fence, with a large tree overhanging the garden

8 September 2026

Ladywell Cottage: From Home to Café

Tucked away between St Matthews Catholic Church and the entrance to the Meadowfield Estate to the west of Ponteland is this charming cottage.

Steps and a ramp leading up from the pavement to a modern brick church with a noticeboard for St Matthew's

8 September 2026

Lady Well: One of Ponteland's Three Wells

This was the site of one of Ponteland’s three public wells which supplied the village with drinking water before the arrival of mains water in 1911.

A modern brick Roman Catholic church with a tall square tower and a canopied entrance, steps rising from the roadside

8 September 2026

St Matthew's, a Modern Church

There is a striking modern church on West Road in Ponteland. This is St Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church and the parts of the building visible from the…

Aerial photograph of an auction mart with long roofed sheds and pens, cars parked alongside and a lorry in the yard

8 September 2026

The Auction Mart the Railway Moved

The opening of the railway in 1904 changed many things for Ponteland. One of these was the location of its cattle market.

A low industrial unit behind a wooden fence, with a Meadowfield estate map board and a telecommunications mast alongside

8 September 2026

Meadowfield: The Industrial Estate

Somewhat surprisingly, the western side of modern Ponteland is dominated by a large industrial estate.

A 1960s detached house with timber cladding, an integral garage and a hedge along the front boundary

8 September 2026

Ladywell Way: A 1961 Wimpey Estate

Ladywell Way is a small estate on the western edge of the modern Ponteland. There were a lot of changes to Ponteland as the 1950’s was drawing to a close.

Black and white photograph of seven brickworks labourers posed in front of a kiln arch, with a barrow of freshly moulded bricks

8 September 2026

The Ponteland Brick and Tileworks

This was the site of the Ponteland Tileworks. There is not much documentary evidence regarding this works but we can see how it evolved by examining early…

A stone farmhouse with white sash windows and two chimneys, standing behind a wide striped lawn

8 September 2026

West Houses Farm, West of Ponteland

West Houses Farm is down a narrow lane on the western edge of Ponteland, just to the north of Darras Hall.