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Catherine Street in 1963 ..adjoined St Cuthbert's Street(St Cuthberts Village area of Teams)However bad this was it was no comparison to the bad that was St Cuthberts VillageGateshead Council's Local History Library of photographs is extensive but unfortunately it is largely unsearchable on the internet. Here's an explanation as to the lack of searchabilityTo buy copies of these images use this linkhttp://www.localhistorygateshead.com/local-studies-collection/resources1/photograph-collectionThe lack of house-building during the First World War had caused a serious shortage of housing across Great Britain. In 1919 the Addison Acts required local authorities to assess housing needs and to built new houses for rent. In the 1920s new estates were built at Carr Hill, Bensham, Lobley Hill, Old Fold, Wrekenton and Deckham Hall. All houses were to have a scullery, larder, coal store, bath and indoor w.c. The new estates had wide streets lined with trees and were very different from the cramped terraces people were used to.The Council also had to address the poor housing conditions in the town centre. The worst areas were close to the river where overcrowding and risk of disease was at its worst. (Taylor, S. Lovie, D. 2004) Under the Housing Act of 1930, the Council was given much greater legal power to deal with slum housing. The Act meant that whole areas of housing could be demolished and between 1932 and 1935 many of the streets in and around the town centre were acquired by compulsory purchase order and demolished. (Manders, 1973)House-building came to a stop during the Second World War and overcrowding in Gatesehead once again became a big problem. After the war the Council set to work building new estates at Highfield and Blue Quarries and later at Beacon Lough and Cedars Green.However, by the mid 1950s there was a serious shortage of traditional building materials and during the 1950s and 1960s concrete was used to build modern ‘high rise’ housing. The new building schemes were combined with a vigorous programme of slum clearance and by 1970s rows of terraces in Bensham, the Teams area and Central Gateshead had been demolished."St Cuthberts Village will remain forever as the most monstrous failure of the Architect's/Town Planners/ Housing Allocation professions"Jon Bratton, a Gateshead ladIn almost every iconic picture of Newcastle, historically, it is Gatesheadthat occupies the foreground. Just saying...Currently, because of the Sage, Millennium Bridge and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, it is, often, theother way round BOTN Back of the net !A very large numberof the photographs in the Council collection were taken as part of mass slum clearanceby the Council after legislation in 1930 empowered them to compulsory purchase sub standard housing. This website will carry some of the hundreds of such photos, for the benefit of genealogists and will direct them to the Gateshead Council websiteGood examples like the following,drammed up for effect, will be includedFor SaleSought after property in up and coming Pipewellgate A Tenement you've always dreamed of. Fabulous river view. Dead handy for The Toon £1,000,000 ono Needs some work, big styleyThe subsoil on the sloping side of the hill is damp and most foul, the brickwork of the buildings is ruinous, the timber rotten; and an appearance of general decay pervades the whole district … Single rooms are let off as tenements which are crowded with men, women and children; the walls are discoloured with age, damp and rot; the windows are broken, old rags, straw and boards occupying the place of glass, so that means of light and ventilation alike are absentHave a chuckle at a bairn's prank drawing on the bath tub on the wallit's wor heritage!...in pictures and wordsLive Traffic Stats

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