In the beginning of the 1800's Jarrow was just a rural village consisting of the old church of St. Paul's, three farms and a few cottages. The oldest of these farms was the "Grange" which was built by Robert Ellison in 1665 during the last part of the 1800's the fine old building was used as the Clergy House for Christ Church. It was demolished in 1909 to make way for the Cooperative bakery in Birch Street.the inscribed lintel stone that was over the doorway of the old house can still be seen above the side door of

Christ Church Parish Hall. The farms land originally covered 200 acres. the next farming order of date was "Curlew Farm" that appears to have been built at the end of the 18th century. It stood opposite the works of the Mercantile dry dock and it was demolished about the time the first dock was built in 1889, The other farm that is referred to "Jarrow Red House" or "Greys farm" as it was more commonly known in the 1920's

The population in 1801 of the township in 1801 which included Hedworth and Monkton was 1566, the minor part of the inhabitants residing in Jarrow. They gained their living largely as agriculturists

The Civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the Parish (Which was a large one in those days) were under the jurisdiction of a body known as " The Twelve Gentlemen of the Vestry" who made the assessments for the poor rate and collected money for the relief of the needy inhabitants. They also levied the "Church Cess" for the upkeep of the fabric of St. Paul's Church and furthermore appointed the post of two highway surveyors, whose job it was to see that the local roads where kept in a decent state of repair, for which purpose the Vestry levied a highway rate this organisation of local government with its very limited powers did good work for generations and became defunct in 1852.

Jarrow those days had some pretensions to beauty, unspoiled by smoke , and the varied consequences of industrial organisations. Corn Grew in good crops in the region where Ormonde street is now situated and blast furnaces replaced meadowland where "Grange farm " was situated.

On the 26th September 1803 a change took place in the industrial matter sin the village, the first coal was raised from the "Alfred Pit" and was shipped aboard the "Fox" from Jarrow Staithes amidst great rejoicing , there was two staithes abutted to the river near where the Tyne Brass and copper tube works where located.

The pit was sunk under the finances of Simon Temple, about whom very little is known. He was enviably a man of considerable commercial enterprise. He realised that there was a profitable market for the commodity. As soon as coal had been found at the pit he commenced the creation of the towns first shipyard , this was later to be the nucleus for Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron company Limited. Temple's shipyard was commissioned by the government of the day to build six first-class wooden frigates. This construction was watched with great interest as such an event had not been witnessed on Tyneside before and people came from far and near to inspect their progress.

By this time Temple had become a very weathy man, so much so that he was able to take over Hylton Castle and live in luxury and spend money with a lavish hand. He built Jarrow Hall, Despite his foolish extravagance he done a lot for the well being of his workmen, building houses for them and the gentle cause of charity.

The frigates where successfully completed but unfortunately it was a ruinous affair for the enterprising builder. In 1814 the Jarrow Estate, the shipyard and the pit went into the hands of Thomas and Robert Brown who where London Merchants from whom the land and all what stood on it was passed to the Drewitts and then passed on to Capt. Chaytor who also owned the Mecantile Dry Docks.