Here is a photo I found during more extensive research in a library... I remember the football team played for the 'Bagnall Cup' and played 'derbys' v St Cuthbert’s and also v Mountfield, North Fawdon, Wyndham, Montague and Snow Street (we and everyone else always thrashed Snow Street at least 12-0-their home pitch was at an angle of 45 degrees...) Note the' flag pennants' which were inspired by the Leeds United strip from the 1973-74 season on the socks of some of the kids in the front row...these had the numbers of the players on. the 10 first team players are all wearing the blue top with yellow hoop:the' subs' are wearing... whatever! It looks like they must have won the Bagnall cup that year! Anyone recognise themselves or any of the players?... (The tecka is Mr Brownlaw, a true gentleman...) PS:Photo not taken at Kenton bar school-note the basketball net-maybe taken at Kenton school?...) Kenton Bar Pyramid Appreciation Society
Re the 4th pictur eof the 8th wonder- the credits four the four photos of Kenton in the R&Y book are for Henk Snoek who it turns out was a legendary architectural photographer. He died in 1980 and his collection is at Riba.
ReplyDeleteThe Snoek archive in the RIBA British Architectural Library Photographs Collection consists of 40,000 black and white negatives and colour transparencies representing the photographer's prolific career. This publication provides a comprehensive and fascinating overview of one of the most complete and significant archives of architectural photography in the 20th Century.
I can't find any Kenton photos online, but RIBApix has quite a bit of Ryder & Yates imagery (sample here).
The only hit I could find in the RIBA catalogue was this:
"Title: Council housing: the social implications of layout and design in an urban fringe estate : research carried out on the North Kenton estate, Newcastle upon Tyne, Corporation of Newcastle.
Citation: 1970 Jan., p. 80-92.
Journal title: Town Planning Review
Author: Blowers, A. T.
ARTICLES CALL NUMBER
COPY MATERIAL LOCATION
1)TOWN PLANNING REVIEW
1 ARTICLE API no circ"
The article itself isn't online- you have to pay them to photocopy it, or go to RIBA in London as a day visitor. (They used to charge but it is free now).
It wouldn't surprise me if the Pyramid was in the Henk Snoek collection, somewhere.
Outstanding research Shades-I noticed his name on one of the board prints at the RIBA exhibition and photographed it(his name) for further investigation...but the photo was horribly blurred and illegible and I couldn't remember it so I had thought I would have to go back-but not now! I do believe the master may be in London in the near future, so I will urge him to visit RIBA at Portland Place to try to access Henk Snoek's collection and your flagged up article :)
ReplyDeleteRe the 4th pictur eof the 8th wonder- the credits four the four photos of Kenton in the R&Y book are for Henk Snoek who it turns out was a legendary architectural photographer. He died in 1980 and his collection is at Riba.
ReplyDeleteThe Snoek archive in the RIBA British Architectural Library Photographs Collection consists of 40,000 black and white negatives and colour transparencies representing the photographer's prolific career. This publication provides a comprehensive and fascinating overview of one of the most complete and significant archives of architectural photography in the 20th Century.
I can't find any Kenton photos online, but RIBApix has quite a bit of Ryder & Yates imagery (sample here).
The only hit I could find in the RIBA catalogue was this:
"Title: Council housing: the social implications of layout and design in an urban fringe estate : research carried out on the North Kenton estate, Newcastle upon Tyne, Corporation of Newcastle.
Citation: 1970 Jan., p. 80-92.
Journal title: Town Planning Review
Author: Blowers, A. T.
ARTICLES CALL NUMBER
COPY MATERIAL LOCATION
1)TOWN PLANNING REVIEW
1 ARTICLE API no circ"
The article itself isn't online- you have to pay them to photocopy it, or go to RIBA in London as a day visitor. (They used to charge but it is free now).
It wouldn't surprise me if the Pyramid was in the Henk Snoek collection, somewhere.