The Community History

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Black and white photograph of single-storey shops beside a road, with a steel railway bridge crossing overhead

8 September 2026

The Two Lost Shops on Main Street

There used to be two shops where the bus stop and the gates to Ponteland Park now stand on the Main Street in Ponteland.

Black and white photograph of a village street lined with stone buildings, a shop with a TEA sign, telegraph poles and people standing in the road

8 September 2026

The Albion: The Other Temperance Hotel

In the early part of the 20th century, there were two Temperance Hotels in Ponteland and this was the site of one of them.

Sepia photograph of a river with buildings and rooftops rising behind a stone retaining wall, trees reflected in still water

8 September 2026

Ponteland Brewery and Brewery Lane

Today, the presence of a brewery which operated behind the Seven Stars pub and the river, is only commemorated in the name Brewery Lane which runs…

A single-storey stone-clad bank branch with an HSBC sign and a pantiled roof, bollards along the pavement in front

8 September 2026

From Village Bank to Gym

Now used as a gym, this building was a bank from 1962 until its closure in 2016.

A brick building with a pantiled roof and a shopfront signed Cafe by Design, a street lamp in front

8 September 2026

From 1967 Bank to Cafe by Design

Cafe by Design is housed in a building dating from 1967 which was built as a bank.

Sepia photograph of a village street with stone buildings and a tall chimney, a horse and cart in the road, captioned Ponteland

8 September 2026

Lloyds Bank, Once Ponteland's Toll House

This was the site of Ponteland’s old Toll House controlling access to the turnpike road running south to Newcastle and north to Scotland.

Grainy black and white aerial photograph of a large house with gabled roofs set among dense trees and gardens

8 September 2026

Orchards: A Lost House and a Long Dispute

This is the site of one of Ponteland’s “lost” buildings, a site that in recent years has been embroiled in controversy.

A small square stone building with a pyramidal roof standing at the end of a balustraded road bridge over a river

8 September 2026

The Toll House by the Bridge

There is a small stone building at the end of the bridge in Ponteland which is now used as a shop.

A row of commercial glasshouses behind an empty tarmac yard, with trees and rough grass to the side

8 September 2026

Lane Nurseries, One of Fourteen

During the early to mid-1900's there were about fourteen separate market garden/plant nurseries in Ponteland.

Black and white photograph of a country lane running between hedges, with a level crossing gate and telegraph poles ahead

8 September 2026

The Signalman's House on Callerton Lane

This house and footpath on Callerton Lane are a rare reminder of Ponteland’s railway link with the past.

Aerial view of a large suburban estate of houses and bungalows on winding roads, with farmland beyond

8 September 2026

Meadow Court, Built on Two Isolated Plots

When the Darras Hall Estate was divided up into building plots which were auctioned off in 1911 there were two plots which were left relatively isolated…

Black and white aerial photograph of open farmland divided into large fields, with a ribbon of houses along a road

8 September 2026

Fagans Nursery and the Estate Rules

The Darras Hall Estate was founded by the Northern Allotments Society in 1907.