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Description: | This is the street where Geordie Ridley was born. Along with Charles Street, Grahamsley Street was built surrounding a stone quarry which then formed a square with other houses. Throughout the 1860’s this and other squares off the High Street were filled with cross-streets. The name is derived from a Mr Grahamsley who had a farm on the site. This photograph was taken during a survey of Gateshead housing taken in the 1930s. Under the Housing Act of 1930, the Council was given much greater legal power to deal with slum housing. The worst areas were in central Gateshead. The Housing Act meant that whole areas of housing could be demolished and between 1932 and 1935 and many the streets in central Gateshead were acquired by compulsory purchase order and demolished. (Manders, 1973) | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.asaplive.com/Lco/Lco.cfm?ccs=629&cs=2674&Preview=1 | Publisher: | Gateshead Council | Rights holder: | Gateshead Council | Subjects: | Terraced housing Slum housing/tenements Streets | Temporal: | name=1930s; start=1930; end=1939; | Source: | iSee Gateshead | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://isee.gateshead.gov.uk/detail.php?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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