Kenton Bar Estate - A Blast from the Past

The blog received this email from an anonymous tortured soul...I thought the tale was frightful and dreadful, but the master ordered me to up the post on the blog, as he is unavailable... Once upon a time long long ago(20 years at least) there was a drunken idiot lurching/staggering home from the Peacock in the dead of night, a flip dark winter bastard though dry... On his way past a bungalow on Kenton Bar Estate he saw through glazed drunken eyes a beautiful ornate stone owl perched on a stone branch in the little square garden out the front, the pride and joy of the humble residents there-in...'wouldn't it be funny', his befuddled drunken brain suggested 'if you took that beautiful stone owl and took it to ( Name removed by blog administrators ) house, crept down his back garden path and put it on his kitchen window ledge so that in the morning when he or his mother came down in the morning they would get a terrible fright seeing an owl staring at them?' So th...

Friends, whilst we while away the time reading this informative blog and having a laugh let me remind you of why the blog exists. Kenton Bar Estate was the creative work of a famous pair of architects Peter Ryder and Gordon Yates. See these links for further details about this partnership:- Peter Yates Gordon Ryder Kenton Bar is a housing estate that is part of Kenton Ward in Newcastle upon Tyne , England . It is situated next to North Kenton, Cragston Park and Cowgate. It was constructed shortly after 1966 and comprises both housing and flats with their distinctive flat roof design. The estate had one famous landmark called the Kenton Bar Pyramid or "pyrry." It was a concrete pyramid with a water feature based in the local shopping centre. Few ever saw the feature working as it was poorly designed and eventually the local authority gave up. It was possible to climb the pyramid by rubbing tar onto the soles of trainers and other shoes. This was a favourite pursuit i...

Dear Readers, I received an update from a valued contributor who shall remain known as ‘D’. D sent me the two following photographs of the sorry state of the Kenton Bar Public House. I don’t know how the demolition is progressing so any further update would be great to see from D or K (another valuable contributor) Note : A reward of a bag of biscuits to the one who puts a tractor tyre around the sign and sets it on fire like a necklace – I will NEVER call it the “Crxxxxxx Lxxxe” – sacrilege. This is a picture of the car park – if I think really really hard I can imagine my Dad’s car parked there in the car park and my Dad inside in his usual spot having a few Special Brews before driving cautiously home….. If I was a millionaire – which by the way I am firmly not – I would buy the Kenton Bar and turn it into my house.