Chandless Area

Chandless area has been cleared twice in living memory. For 115 results search Chandless at Gateshead Local Studies

Chandless Clearance Area, 1961
Photographer:  Davison, N.
Date:  C1961
Reference Number:  GL003523
House-building came to a stop during the Second World War and overcrowding in Gatesehead once 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 concrete was used to build modern ‘high rise’ housing. The new building schemes were combined with a vigorous programme of slum clearance. In the 1950s Chandless Street and nearby terraces were cleared to make way for new tower blocks.

Chandless was cleared in the late 50's early 60's to build blocks of flats which lasted only half a century or so. They have now been demolished. If the conventional streets had been gutted inside and modernised they'd still be in good shape now. Yes good shape, house shaped, the way a bairn draws a house... not little boxes in the sky.
Over 40 years ago this was penned by Jon Bratton

Rows and rows of terraced houses
No one here ever grouses
They don't mind their sooty flues
They don't mind the outside loos
"Slums, decayed with neglect"
So says the architect

They're just slums, he'll pull them down
They don’t want their two-up, two-down
Flats in blocks of four
Blocks with one front door
With walls of plastic glass
And lawns of concrete grass

The whole song here

49-51 Burdon Street 1956

Reference No: GL001579

Photographs

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 concrete was used to build modern ‘high rise’ housing. The new building schemes were combined with a vigorous programme of slum clearance. In the 1950s Chandless Street and nearby terraces like Burdon Street were cleared to make way for the new tower blocks. Burdon Street was demolished in May 1958.

14-16 Derby Street, Off Eldon Street, Chandless, Gateshead
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  April 1956
Reference Number:  GL002868




16-20 Burn Street, Chandless 1956
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  April 1956
Reference Number:  LS000278

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  25 Chater Street, Chandless 1956
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  April 1956
Reference Number:  LS000281


26-30 Chandless Street/33 Peareth Street, Gateshead
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  Date Unknown
Reference Number:  GL002707


48-50 Chandless Street, Corner of Abbot Street, Gateshead
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  April 1956
Reference Number:  GL001567


 48-50 Chandless Street/23 Abbot Street, Gateshead
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  April 1956
Reference Number:  GL001571




69-71 Chandless Street/Rear 30 Monk Street, Gateshead
Photographer:  Unknown
Date:  April 1956
Reference Number:  GL001564

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