NEHL - A coal shaft is shown on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1858. By this time it was disused, so was likely either a ventilation shaft for the High Pit, St Lawrence, St Anthony's, Walker Colliery or the Lawson Main workings near Byker Hill.

The shaft was capped and covered by the 1890s. This was when the shoots of Walker as we know it started, as Welbeck Road first started to be developed.