Newcastle – Tyne & Wear – reading and walks
October 17th, 2017
If you are able to start with this book, read every page and use the buildings you like as stops on your tour. Some of the better known buildings have been demolished such as the Dunston Rocket and the Gateshead car park. The Elswick Swimming pool is out of use through lack of funding.
I haven’t been paid to say this it’s just that having found it in Byker library I wish I had read it before coming to Newcastle because I missed some good buildings and I don’t want you to repeat my mistake.
Otherwise continue below where I have provided all the information I could find from the libraries for interesting walks.
Newcastle – NLS maps
October 9th, 2017
I started here Side by side Wingrove and Elswick and changed to the transparency slider when I realised it was more useful.
Newcastle – map tiling and planning a visit
October 6th, 2017
The original intention – click image for full picture
To date I have walked Elswick, Jesmond, Heaton and Byker from the above and in addition Hebburn, Tynemouth, and North Shields from the larger image (click above).
It remains my intention to walk all the areas in blue excluding the city centre. The idea is to get a view of the city as a whole and not just Grainger Town and the bridges.
On passing the Apollo pavilion – Peterlee
October 6th, 2017
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It was a beautiful warm and sunny afternoon in Peterlee and as I was taking photographs of the pavilion against the sun a teenaged girl walked past me on the footpath, underneath the pavilion, and up a staircase I had barely registered on the far side.
Newcastle placeholder
October 1st, 2017
BRE Watford Innovation Park visit – a summary
July 18th, 2017
Click photo above for plan of site from Google Earth
This is a quick fly by of what Tom Cordell and myself saw yesterday and what we thought of the houses.
Joe Halewood on the end of social rent
July 17th, 2017
@SpeyeJoe has been writing about social housing for a long time and in vivid terms with figures to back up his assertions. Today is no exception and if you haven’t heard of him now is the time to start.
Affordable housing? Oh no its not! End of social housing too! We need to talk ..
In his latest article he writes about the end of social rents across the country as housing associations abandon rents based on income for an “affordable” model which isn’t.
I’ve added his blog link to my “blog roll” in the right hand column as Joe Halewood.
Council housing 1976 – 2017 – C4 News
July 6th, 2017
In a section about the CIH Conference last week C4 news included a few statistics …
Stats
June 24th, 2017
Yesterday (23rd June) the page on scissor maisonettes overtook Crap Flats for the first time ever. I can only account for this by the interest in Grenfell Tower (which are not scissor maisonettes, it’s a point block) which has pushed several posts up the table in the last week.