St Cuthberts Green Arch


There is a wonderful black & white photo taken in an almost identical position to the one I took here in Rutter's Ryder & Yates book of the arch at St Cuthberts Green in Fenham, the 'pilot scheme' estate they built before our beloved Kenton Bar Estate...In the black & white photo there are some notable diffences from the photo of the arch now:
a) the T1 houses in the background in the black & white photo(Yes,those houses behind the round bush are T1's!) were identical to those of Hazeldene Ave on Kenton Bar..by the time of this photo they have added horrible sloping roofs and got rid of the lovely secret stairs to the upper bedroom...(Note also I dont think there could be a downstairs bit to these T1s, so no internal garage and downstairs toilet...Shades might be able to explain the technical bit of this!)
b)There is now a red gate in the arch(In the Rutter book photo there was no gate-incidently the gate is padlocked shut...)
c) The sign'Residents parking only' was not on the Rutter book photo...
d) The unusual plaque visible on the left wall diagonally right of the sign was not in place on the black & white photo...(I will up a photo of it soon...)
The 'arch' aspect to their architecture is also evident in the photo of the 'ceremonial link' bridge photo linking the two blocks of the Salvation Army Men's Palace on City Road in the Ryder & Yates book(the angle of the arch seems identical to this one at the entrance to St Cuthbert's Green...)

Comments

  1. The St. Cuthberts T1s do have garages, round the other side.

    You can see it on streetview here

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  2. thanks for this contribution Shades...I stand corrected...

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