As a companion to the adjacent Poet’s Estate – let’s take a look at Malory, Milton, Masefield and Wordsworth.
This is a similar mix of boxy terraces and traffic free walkways.
Possibly of a later date.
Milton Square Gateshead
Telephone Exchange Gateshead
Having formerly posted a post about the Hadrian TSC in Newcastle, it seemed only right to record it’s not too distant cousin across the Tyne.
Here we are at the confluence of main roads.
I wandered around circuitously, circumnavigating this fine building.
The attendant BT workers are as ever kind and helpful, many thanks.
Poet’s Estate – Gateshead
I’d seen these homes from the train.
So I walked from Newcastle to take a look.
They turn their backs on Sunderland Road and the Tyne.
A tight cluster of terraced apartments, set in a grassy rolling terrain, linked by paths and short underpasses.
A modern mediaeval, mildly fortified village, rendered in pale brick and white render.
Keats, Kipling, Blake, Byron and Shelley enclosed.
Take a look around #40
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