Broomley Walk
Yvonne said:
(comment on post 'kenton bar pyramid-the icon of kenton bar estate July 2009)
-Another point of (probably little) interest is that when we initially moved into the Bungalows it was then called Broomlee Walk which was subsequently changed to Studdon Walk as there was already a Broomlee Walk in Red House Farm also NE3...
Now this comment was NOT of little interest and was a major piece of jigsaw...
Well done Yvonne!...you get the 'Kenton Bar knight award'!...arise Sir Yvonne!
So I went and took this photo of the original Broomley Walk sign...I presume they had to change the name from Broomley to Studdon on Kenton Bar due to post getting misdirected...
fascinating!.....
In the late 1980s i had a look at the electoral registers in the central library. There is a not in one of them mentioning when Broomlee was changed to Studdon. If I can remember correctly, the change was made sometime in the very early 1970s.
ReplyDeletethanks for the post and welcome to the blog!
ReplyDeleteCheers! As for both streets being in NE3, did they have postcodes? Wikipedia suggests that Newcastle didn't have postcodes before 1967 and perhaps not until 1969. Whether there were postcodes or not, not everyone will have used them.
ReplyDeletePostcodes must have arrived fairly early on on the estate, because the three-story square flats had letterboxes where the postcode was cast in the metal flap. Something I've not seen anywhere else on residential buildings. The T1's letterboxes had the house number on the flap. These 40-year old items of door furniture, if not extinct, are probably rarer than the pvc pipe bollards by now, because of people fitting newer more secure doors; the original ones had glass panels big enough for someone to climb through. Perhaps one or two might survive if someone's fitted an "outside" front door on their T1 and kept the original door inside.
great post-your info re the letterboxes on the 3 story flats had the postcode cast on the metal flap is fascinating... something I didn't know!-golden piece of jigsaw award! Also the fact that there may be T1's with their house number on the flaps still in existance behind added on doors over the porch is something to think about...a photo would be fantastic...Shades-can you remember any details re the original T1 doors?...
ReplyDeleteThe T1 front doors were the same as the other front doors really. Wooden frame, large frosted glass panel above, smaller frosted one below. Rectangular letterbox, anodised aluminium lift up flap, number engraved into it, painted or etched black within the number. Door handle tubular with a black plastic sleeve. Brushed aluminium ring ferrule over the handle mount screws. I think they had Yale locks as standard.
ReplyDeleteAmazingly, someone has their outer door open on streetview and you can catch a partial view of it here, looks like it has secondary double glazing.
great info...a wonderful portrait, thank thou...
ReplyDeleteThe T1 front doors were the same as the other front doors really. Wooden frame, large frosted glass panel above, smaller frosted one below. Rectangular letterbox, anodised aluminium lift up flap, number engraved into it, painted or etched black within the number. Door handle tubular with a black plastic sleeve. Brushed aluminium ring ferrule over the handle mount screws. I think they had Yale locks as standard.
ReplyDeleteAmazingly, someone has their outer door open on streetview and you can catch a partial view of it here, looks like it has secondary double glazing.