This is a nice one of a Ryder and Yates split level a la Hazeldene Avenue

By El Patron -

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Hi – I got this from Jolyon Yates a week or two ago – enigmatically the email was entitled “Spot the flying saucer”. The picture is of the split level type housing at the top of Hazeldene Avenue and a very fine picture it is too. However, I think this is at St. Cuthbert’s Green and not Kenton Bar.

spot the flying saucer

Can YOU spot the flying saucer?

Kenton Bar Pyramid Appreciation Society

Comments

  1. ShadesWednesday, April 7, 2010 at 11:25:00 AM GMT

    Yes, it looks like St. Cuthberts.

    No, I can't see a flying saucer.

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  2. ghost of mensforthWednesday, April 7, 2010 at 3:32:00 PM GMT

    Flying saucer:11 o'clock to the left of the tree?...or is is sitting on top of the lampost?...
    whatever, a wonderful photo thank you master and Jolyon...incidently note the 'play' steps are made of wood:all 'play' apparatus on kenton bar was concrete and metal, never wood...if it had of been, ruffians from down the bottom would have sawn it off for bonfire wood hmmmm...

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  3. ghost of mensforthWednesday, April 7, 2010 at 6:32:00 PM GMT

    Note also the beautiful summer sky we used to have back in those dim dark distant days...at that time we had autumn, winter, spring, summer...now we have autumn,winter and................................ cloudmer...global warming?...PAH!!

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  4. ghost of mensforthThursday, April 8, 2010 at 5:21:00 PM GMT

    Wonder what the white fence and black gate visible were about?...these split levels obviously have their own garden just like the T1a's on Kenton Bar, but whats this extra bit about I wonder?...

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  5. ShadesThursday, April 8, 2010 at 8:40:00 PM GMT

    It is the back of a T2 at right angles. The play structure is still there after a fashion.

    Google satellite view

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  6. ghost of mensforthThursday, April 15, 2010 at 12:04:00 PM GMT

    facebook comment:
    the above photo is NOT Hazeldene Ave Kenton Bar

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  7. ghost of mensforthThursday, April 15, 2010 at 12:05:00 PM GMT

    facebook comment:
    Definately not, but there was a similar play area behind some of the 4 bed houses towards the top of Kenton Bar Estate

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  8. jdMonday, July 18, 2011 at 4:23:00 PM GMT

    that is defo not kenton bar but where the fuck is it

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  9. AnonymousMonday, July 18, 2011 at 7:18:00 PM GMT

    JD:
    welcome to this blog...if you trouble to take the time to see all posts on the blog you will find the answer to your question...

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  10. ShadesMonday, July 18, 2011 at 9:18:00 PM GMT

    As an aside, Lowbiggin had some play structures made of wood, I can distinctly remember a kind of fort formed by a spiral arrangement of telegraph pole size wood (diameter, not height!)

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