Bungalows
As I said, I lived in a bungalow as a kid...normally when you think of bungalows you think of homes for old people, but on Kenton Bar this was not the case...These were 3 bedroomed and surely designed for families...I think therefore a flaw in the housing designed for the estate was that it was not designed for old people to live there...as the estate evolved you found that the aged population ended up in the flats, cube or block, but these had no lifts for old people... But to get back to the bungalows, what was good about the design was that the bedrooms(except for the last one down the long corridor)were 'semi detached'(joining onto the corridor only...-the last one might join to another bungalow like ours did, but some didnt as they were not 'joined' and on the other side of the wall was a thoroughfare)The living rooms were totally detached:only the corridor joined to the next door bungalow, whilst the front room/kitchen backed on to an adjacent bungalow garden-or...