NEHL - A tennis ground was opened behind the villas of Clifton Road around 1889, when the West End Lawn Tennis Club first started appearing in local media. The ground was fairly sizeable, much bigger than a typical tennis ground of the time, and appears to have provision for changing facilities, urinals and spectator seats.

The West End Tennis Club are first listed in the April, and chaired by a WJ Dawson of a 69 Westmorland Road. Matches against local teams are reported on from June, firstly against Monkseaton accomodating a "large number of spectators". It nots the courts were in good condition, and the ladies of the home team provided tea for the visitors.

West End Tennis Club survived past the redevelopment of this tennis ground, which had disappeared by the 1910s for residential projects. There is no trace of the grounds.