The black and white photography, the period cars, the functional concrete housing blocks - our main image is unmistakably from the 1970s.
This was St Cuthbert's Village, in Gateshead, as viewed across busy Askew Road. The council estate, in common with others across our region, was one built in the 60s that quickly succumbed to a host of problems and endured a short lifespan before the residents were moved out and the bulldozers moved in.
In our 2022 comparison photograph, taken five decades on, behind the trees the troubled estate is long-gone - although, interestingly the bus stop in the foreground appears to somehow have survived.
