T1A 1960's
A wonderful photo...
Lets play 'Where's Wally'...
Can you spot:
A woman walking east?
A kid walking east?
A woman walking south?...
Kenton Bar Pyramid - The Icon of Kenton Bar Estate
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Yes, this is one of Henk's in the book.
ReplyDeleteI didn't spot that there were three people in the shot until you mentioned it last post. I was aware of the lady with the headscarf but didn't spot the ankle biter or the mini-skirted woman walking down the path framed by the tree.
Also of note:-
-The inner roof lip on the garage crescent
-The tops of the flats on the lower Piazza
-Confirmation of the John Yates colour scheme on the ground floor woodwork as per the colour photo of St Cuthberts Green.
actually there are 4 people!...
ReplyDeletecan you spot:
a woman in a mini skirt standing at an open kitchen door looking south...?
Yes. No dogs in sight though, they must have been for the riff raff.
ReplyDeleteMy friend Brian (the snail) lived in a T1/A (other end) and they had a Guinea Pig but they tended not to roam in packs.
The gardens look well established in this shot and the grass on the mound somewhat overgrown. I would imagine that Henk took all the photos at the same time so I'd hazard a guess at 1969. It wouldn't surprise me if the top row were given turf but I seem to remember (possibly wrongly) that Eland Close splits back gardens were just a path and mud.
ReplyDeleteI asked my pensioner mother about what she remembered concerning our Eland Close garden.
ReplyDeleteWhen we moved in, there was a path, a lot of mud and a heap of topsoil near the back fence. There was also a token sapling in each garden and the plots were separated by small trees/shrubs which she described as copper beech but may have been common beech. I can certainly remember it changing from green to golden brown in autumn but of course they weren't terribly well established then so looked a bit straggly.
She also told me a couple of things that I have no recollection of at all- us laying seeds for a lawn with help from our horticultural neighbour and then all the seeds getting washed away by a thunderstorm straight after we finished! (We then arranged for turf).
The other thing was us having a greenhouse which we didn't take to Leech Estate as it was brick base and the garden at the top was smaller & north facing.
One other snippet- She says that the rent for the 3 bed terrace with built in garage on the Leech Estate was actually cheaper than for the Split Level in Eland.
Henk's book has turned up today.
ReplyDeleteUnsurprisingly, Kenton doesn't feature in it. The nearest he gets to Tyneside is York.
Mind you, the book has 75 photos, his collection is 40,000 so there is still a good chance the pyramid is amongst them.
Shades, the master has told me to issue a sheriff's star to you...you are now officially a deputy of the blog and the master asks you to hunt down these 40,000 photos, ID them...and arrest the wanted one's for the blog!...
ReplyDeleteIs this sheriff's star virtual or should I watch the post?
ReplyDelete;-)