Kenton Bar Estate - A Blast from the Past

I was contacted recently by David Bilbrough, a very talented artist. See the photo below. Well….. David is about to put on an exhibition on Kenton Bar Estate which will showcase his work alongside the original work done by Ryder & Yates when designing and building the estate. David is calling for people who currently live on the estate to help him with a small but important project. David would like to: - Conduct some interviews with people who live on the estate - residents young and old, short term or long term. he wants to hear thoughts and so on about who the estate has changed over the years He would like to get some copies of any personal archive images that people may have of life on the estate He would like it if people currently living on the estate would be willing to photograph areas within the estate that have a special meaning to them. He will provide camera AND film too   If anyone has any other information they would like to contribute to his exhibition then yo...

Picture and text courtesy of Jolyon and Sally Ann Yates and lifted from http://www.peteryates.co.uk/ Peter Yates   19 July 1920 – 16 November 1982, was a British born artist and architect. He was a founder partner (alongside Gordon Ryder) of the architectural company Ryder and Yates, based in the North East of England. Early life and education Peter Yates was born in Leytonstone, East London in 1920. In 1925, at the age of five, he won a painting competition in Chicks' Own. He attended Wanstead School from September 1934 to July 1936 and painted a mural at the school called  'Events at Sea'. In 1937 he worked as a model and furniture maker. Model bungalows he built were shown at the April 1937 Ideal Home Exhibition. From January 1938 until April 1941, Peter attended the Regent Street Polytechnic, studying architecture under Sir Hubert Bennett and Peter Moro. World War Two Peter Yates served as a volunteer fireman on the St Paul's Watch during the London Blitz...