[3] However the tournament did not have a premenant home until 1924 when the Northumberland Lawn Tennis Ground Co Ltd was formed in order to secure permanent home for the Northumberland Open Tennis Tournament, and secondly, to provide a new permanent venue for Brandling Lawn Tennis Club, then the leading tennis club in the north east.
It remained a featured tournament in the annual tennis tours for a considerable time.
[3] Notable winners of the men's singles included Joseph Bruce Ismay (1884), Patrick Bowes-Lyon (1886–1888),[5] Harold Mahony (1891) and William Renshaw (1893), Pat Spence (1922) Cam Malfroy (1938), Ignacy Tłoczyński (1952) and John Lloyd (1977).
Previous women's singles champions included Charlotte Cooper (1895), Dorothea Douglass Chambers (1908), Anita Lizana (1935–1937) and Gem Hoahing (1948), Angela Mortimer (1951) and Judy Tegart (1968).
The final men's singles champion was Britain's Buster Mottram and the final women's singles champion was Catherine Berry.