The story of 1960s and '70s Britain - and Tyneside - is littered with examples of social housing schemes that simply didn't work.
This was one of the them - Killingworth Towers in North Tyneside. Our photograph from the ChronicleLive archive shows the featureless structure under demolition 35 years ago in 1987, a mere two decades or so after it had been built.
This type of functional, concrete, urban landscape would become a common sight in the inner cities and towns of post-war Britain. Often cheaply built, and with people forced to live on top of each other amid darkened warrens of stairwells and alleyways, the tenement estates would generally not be a success, often coming hand-in-hand with a host of social problems.
