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Thank you all!
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The article on Benwell brought back some memories as that was where I bought my first flat, just out of uni...great design, Tyneside flats, everyone gets a front door and access at the back by a small yard. Incredibly efficient with space.
Bloody tough area though.
The article on Benwell brought back some memories as that was where I bought my first flat, just out of uni...great design, Tyneside flats, everyone gets a front door and access at the back by a small yard. Incredibly efficient with space.
Bloody tough area though.
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I was born in the front room of a Tyneside flat in Benwell. We would have killed to live in the posh houses of nearby Hampstead Road (then we were Pathfindered - an early version).
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Iwas trying to think where Hampstead Road was...
I remember seeing kids in the back alleys in Benwell with poly bags tied over their shoes- I'm presuming they had shoes on mind, and that would have been @ 1992.
I'm guessing that wasn't you?
I remember seeing kids in the back alleys in Benwell with poly bags tied over their shoes- I'm presuming they had shoes on mind, and that would have been @ 1992.
I'm guessing that wasn't you?
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The front room? There's posh!Nemesis said:I was born in the front room of a Tyneside flat
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We were considered posh by those with two rooms in which large families were created, born and raised I admit.
But - we had back lanes not alleyways.
My primary school kept shoes in a cupboard for those without - I know, I was the shoe monitor.
But - we had back lanes not alleyways.
My primary school kept shoes in a cupboard for those without - I know, I was the shoe monitor.
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Sorry, I suppose you're right, they are lanes because you can get a vehicle down them.
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They are lanes as that's what traditionally they are known as all over the north!
Back lanes are where many a northern football hero honed his skills, and where everyone played, where on bonfire night the bonnie was lit regardless of paint on back lane doors, and where washing was hung up to dry on lines.
Back lanes are where many a northern football hero honed his skills, and where everyone played, where on bonfire night the bonnie was lit regardless of paint on back lane doors, and where washing was hung up to dry on lines.
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Ah well you see, I grew up in a succession of London terraces, ...'The North' all seems very exotic to me.....when I knew Fenham and Benwell, sadly it was the back lane doors that were lit, and the local cats that were hung up to dry.
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As an inhabitant of Fenham, I take great umbrage at that comment.
For the effete southerner, read Jack Common "Kidda's Luck" and "The Ampersand" for life in a Tyneside flat.
In Jarrow/Hebburn area they were called "houses" so you had an upstairs house or a downstairs house.
You can tell Tyneside flats because unlike "normal" terraces with 2 front windows and 2 front doors repeated down the street, you had 2 front doors and 1 window - or to the delight of paper boys and postmen, 2 front windows with 4 front doors repeated down the street.
As a foreigner to this type of housing, (they aren't found far from the Tyne so I'd never seen them before), I used to be really confused by the row of houses with two front doors at the end of the street - it was only when I went in one that I realised that the end door went to an upstairs flat.
The geometry of them was/is ingeneous - to get each flat it's own back yard (inc netty and coalhouse) and gate to the back lane was a real work of art, especially on corners.
Many were demolished because they were thought to be too dark and unventilated at the back, especially the downstairs flat.
The book North-East History from the Air by Norman McCord has, IIRC, some good pics of Tyneside flats.
Please note thay are NOT back to backs, terraced houses are not , they have front and back doors, a yard and a lane or in some cases eg Liverpool a very narrow alleyway between the back yard walls.
Back to backs were literally back to back eg they had a party wall running under the roof ridge and each had a front door eg one to the north, one to the south.
End of rant against a couple of southern friends who insist that all terraced houses are "back to backs".
For the effete southerner, read Jack Common "Kidda's Luck" and "The Ampersand" for life in a Tyneside flat.
In Jarrow/Hebburn area they were called "houses" so you had an upstairs house or a downstairs house.
You can tell Tyneside flats because unlike "normal" terraces with 2 front windows and 2 front doors repeated down the street, you had 2 front doors and 1 window - or to the delight of paper boys and postmen, 2 front windows with 4 front doors repeated down the street.
As a foreigner to this type of housing, (they aren't found far from the Tyne so I'd never seen them before), I used to be really confused by the row of houses with two front doors at the end of the street - it was only when I went in one that I realised that the end door went to an upstairs flat.
The geometry of them was/is ingeneous - to get each flat it's own back yard (inc netty and coalhouse) and gate to the back lane was a real work of art, especially on corners.
Many were demolished because they were thought to be too dark and unventilated at the back, especially the downstairs flat.
The book North-East History from the Air by Norman McCord has, IIRC, some good pics of Tyneside flats.
Please note thay are NOT back to backs, terraced houses are not , they have front and back doors, a yard and a lane or in some cases eg Liverpool a very narrow alleyway between the back yard walls.
Back to backs were literally back to back eg they had a party wall running under the roof ridge and each had a front door eg one to the north, one to the south.
End of rant against a couple of southern friends who insist that all terraced houses are "back to backs".
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Own netty?
Bloody luxury!
Usually shared by both flats - and really posh flats also had a wash house in the yard.
We had!
Bloody luxury!
Usually shared by both flats - and really posh flats also had a wash house in the yard.
We had!
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The ones with the shared netty etc were the ones "Pathfindered" (Pathfound???)
Of course away from the Tyne, we were posh because we had a proper house.
Colliery houses were usually full houses, but shipbuilders and Armstrong built flats instead..........
Of course away from the Tyne, we were posh because we had a proper house.
Colliery houses were usually full houses, but shipbuilders and Armstrong built flats instead..........
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Actually in those days they were just slum cleared, the days of fancy titles came later.
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Has it occurred to anyone that this thread is sounding exactly like a certain Monty Python sketch?
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Mr Palin is giving a talk soon - see other thread...
http://periodpropertyshop.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7259
A worthy cause.
http://periodpropertyshop.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7259
A worthy cause.
Some depressing figures about this thread:
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Now, I appreciate that the 457 views include people dipping in regularly (457 divided by 36 = approx 12 viewings per person)
But whichever way you look at it, it's a pretty poor response.
Views - 457
Replies - 36
Signed - 13.
Now, I appreciate that the 457 views include people dipping in regularly (457 divided by 36 = approx 12 viewings per person)
But whichever way you look at it, it's a pretty poor response.