Kenton Bar Estate - A Blast from the Past

There was another band whom I chanced upon to see from Kenton Bar Estate at the 'Dog and Parrot'...I do not remember their name, but a shiver went down mein spine when I heard them...they were as good as The Friendly Bombs!...now mind this was when I was no longer a young man, but an octogenarian old man aged about 30ish...what I can tell you after some research is that: a) The lead singer was a kid who was 3 years younger than me called 'Specky Eddy' who lived up at the top of the estate on Ryal Walk apparently...also Hendas(anarchist tendency lesser mortal award august 2010) was there watching them with a load of other ruffians and bounders... can anyone add more details re this brilliant band?...

At the behest of the master I found Shades original post in the comments in the post 'Types of houses'(sept 19 2009)..was this it Shades, or were you somehow able to identify more designations for each type of housing?...if so I will spend as long as it takes to find the comment! Shades said: 'Before we moved in we were sent a flyer telling us about the Estate and the different types of houses in it. The split levels were called a T1. The six types I remember are: T1- Split levels T?- The terraced ones with a single storey kitchen joining a two storey block running North/South T?- The electric only houses with underfloor heating running East/West T?- The cube three floor flata T?- The flat roof bungalows T?- The eight blocks of flats around the Pyry area. I don't really recall the other blocks of flats south of the Pyry near the Primary school- what was at Ground floor level? The two variants to the design were the Children's Home double bungalow at the eastern e...

The blog received yet another email from the' another anonymous tortured soul '...I whole heartedly agree with him... God WAS punishing him for his churlish stupidity re the stone owl and the trap... 'Long long ago I received the gift of a pair of roller skates on my birthday. At that time they were all the rage, before skateboards came along. Anyway, the day I got them I went out along Studdon Walk, an ungamely albatross on wheels. I tried to master to skate-I immediately failed with dire consequences-the wheels hit a pavement slab that was not set properly or perhaps had been dislodged by ruffians from down the bottom jumping up and down on it for the sheer hell of it. I found myself hurtling toward the map at Studdon, overbalancing and it was inevitable that a collision was to happen. Fear, trepidation, my life swam around me-it took a look and drowned me in its own existance-the stone owl-the trap-the sword of Damocles striking down at the behest of God to punis...

Can kindly Shades remind us again of the different house types and designation numbers?

At one point in the early 80's there were a few bands from Kenton Bar/Kenton doing gigs at places like the Coxlodge Social Club...everyone used to go and see them(aged 16-20)the best of these bands was without a shadow of a doubting thomas 'The Friendly Bombs'...they were so named after a poem by John Betjeman entitled 'Slough'..the first line runs 'Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!' they originally consisted of Fred Clark(lead guitar), Alan Clark(bass guitar) and Dave Nicholl(drums)...now this band was actually from Kenton/Hillsy, but I defy anyone to say they were not the best band at that time...unfortunately they did not get the accolades they deserved and never made it...why?...because at that time Newcastle was seen as a backwater where music was concerned... Lindisfarne: ' sitting in a sleazy snack bar sucking sickly sausage rolls...' Busker:... ' I'm comin' home Newcastle I might as well have been in jail I'd waak the st...

Once upon a time there was a kid who cried once( god knows why), but I never forgot that he did...I was maybe 9 and he was maybe 8...I do believe it was a duff that this kid had been challenged to do but could not...I know not his name...anyway, at the time as he burst into tears I commented laconically "He's crying"... After that, everytime I saw that kid for the rest of his life I always used to say to whoever I was with 'he's crying' (but so he could hear) ...at first he smiled...but then the novelty wore off..by the time he was 13 and I had said this to him a million times he know longer smiled...his mouth was a thin horizontal line, his brow furrowed...then one day I saw him on Kenton School field, in an army cadet uniform, marching down towards Kenton Bar Estate...he had now joined the Army Cadets and was marching down from their 'hut' up at the top of Kenton School field after training...he was now maybe 16...I started shouting(to my mate who wa...

we are doing swimmingly...I do believe we have all the plans for all the houses except the cube flats, long flats and 4 bed roomed houses... Incidentally I just remembered a long forgotten feature of the long flats(eg the ones that stuck out onto Kenton School field from Hartburn-near the lovely step pyramid)...as a matter of fact I loved these flats-the design was fantastic-anyway, the thing I remember that I had forgotten was that in the front room there was like a concertina door that you could pull out across to make the massive long front room into 2 separate rooms, a lounge and a front room...anyone else remember that?