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The Byker Wall is a long, unbroken block of 620 maisonettes in the Byker district of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. They were designed by Ralph Erskine and constructed in the 1970s. The wall is just part of the estate, which in total covers 200 acres (80 hectares).
The Byker Wall development. Name Location Type Completed [note 1] ... Hancock Museum of Natural History Newcastle upon Tyne: Museum: 1878: 17 December 1971
Byker is a district in the east of the city and metropolitan borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. Home to the Byker Wall estate, made famous by TV series Byker Grove, Byker's population was recorded at 12,206 in the 2011 census. [1] Byker is bordered by Heaton to the north and by Shieldfield to the north
The construction of the Byker Wall in Newcastle upon Tyne was intended to provide modern social housing for the residents of Byker, an area of run-down back-to-back housing. Although the new development won many awards, fewer than 20% of the original 1,700 Byker residents were eventually housed there by 1976.
Photo: Bengt Oberger A portion of Newcastle's Byker Wall. Erskine was born in London in 1914, and spent his childhood in Mill Hill in Barnet. [2] His parents were socialists, adherents of the Fabian Society, which promoted the idea of the evolution of Britain into a socialist state.
English: Aerial view over Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne, showing the newly constructed Byker Wall, June 1978 (TWAM ref. DT.TUR/4/CN11182B). Tyne & Wear Archives presents a series of colour aerial photographs of Newcastle upon Tyne. These images were captured by the Newcastle-based photographic firm Turners Ltd during the mid to late 1970s.
The Byker Community Trust manage 1,800 properties in Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne - including the Byker Wall. [ 5 ] Leazes Homes - an arms-length organisation of Newcastle City Council joined Karbon Homes in 2024 as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Tom Collins House, Byker Wall Estate, Newcastle Upon Tyne. The very earliest council estates were in London, as they were permitted to finance houses ten years before non-metropolitan areas and these were 'block estates' that is estates of tenement blocks, or in modern terminology estates of low or medium rise flats. The first was the Boundary ...