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[Monsta®]

when they ganna pull them doon tha stinking!

[Pete]

monsta, on Aug 26 2007, 06:17 PM, said:

when they ganna pull them doon tha stinking!

They have been there a long time Monsta, they used to call them Arial houses I think.

[Blank]

They have already pulled some of them down.

[Pete]

Blank, on Aug 26 2007, 06:56 PM, said:

They have already pulled some of them down.

What have they replaced them with?

[Blank]

Pete, on Aug 26 2007, 07:13 PM, said:

What have they replaced them with?

Of the ones I know of (Havent been passed there for a while) they pulled a street down and now it's just grass where the houses were.

There were a lot of houses boarded up too... dont know if it's just the fact that no one wants to live there, but there were rumors of the council trying to buy people out of their homes so that they can pull more down.

Dont know if thats true...

[Pete]

Blank, on Aug 26 2007, 07:16 PM, said:

Of the ones I know of (Havent been passed there for a while) they pulled a street down and now it's just grass where the houses were.

There were a lot of houses boarded up too... dont know if it's just the fact that no one wants to live there, but there were rumors of the council trying to buy people out of their homes so that they can pull more down.

Dont know if thats true...

They were strange houses, a friend of mine used to live in one opposite Fontburn Road. The fire place was like a square box that was not fixed to the wall, it had a pipe for a chimney and it acted as an oven and hob.

They looked like they had droped blocks of concrete on an angle to build the walls.

[threegee]

Pete, on Aug 27 2007, 09:47 PM, said:

They looked like they had droped blocks of concrete on an angle to build the walls.

That's because they had! System building it was called. The same sort of system that brought us Ronan Point.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/s...000/2514277.stm

Except that I think you'll find that those in Bedlington were built to a lot higher standards, and hence survived much longer. Some much later private ones at Killingworth weren't!

You'll find that very few who lived in them (in the early days at least) had a wrong word to say about them - and that has to be the acid test. Virtually all have been replaced now, including all the prefabs (Millfield South etc.). So... I don't think you've much of a point on this one Monsta!

[Blank]

threegee, on Aug 27 2007, 09:48 PM, said:

That's because they had! System building it was called. The same sort of system that brought us Ronan Point.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/s...000/2514277.stm

Except that I think you'll find that those in Bedlington were built to a lot higher standards, and hence survived much longer. Some much later private ones at Killingworth weren't!

You'll find that very few who lived in them (in the early days at least) had a wrong word to say about them - and that has to be the acid test. Virtually all have been replaced now, including all the prefabs (Millfield South etc.). So... I don't think you've much of a point on this one Monsta!

No, most of them are still there at the Oval, theres only one street that I know of that has been pulled down and the rest are either borded up or rough looking.

[Monsta®]

threegee, on Aug 27 2007, 09:48 PM, said:

That's because they had! System building it was called. The same sort of system that brought us Ronan Point.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/s...000/2514277.stm

Except that I think you'll find that those in Bedlington were built to a lot higher standards, and hence survived much longer. Some much later private ones at Killingworth weren't!

You'll find that very few who lived in them (in the early days at least) had a wrong word to say about them - and that has to be the acid test. Virtually all have been replaced now, including all the prefabs (Millfield South etc.). So... I don't think you've much of a point on this one Monsta!

are you blind or do you never venture past beech grove? there's a whole estate at the oval as i noted in the opening post! so its a very valid post!

[Pete]

monsta, on Aug 28 2007, 05:40 PM, said:

are you blind or do you never venture past beech grove? there's a whole estate at the oval as i noted in the opening post! so its a very valid post!

Your right Monsta there is huge amount of them houses in the Oval area, when they built them they mixed them with brick houses.

I lived in that area when I was very young even before they built the shops.

[Monsta®]

Pete, on Aug 28 2007, 08:05 PM, said:

Your right Monsta there is huge amount of them houses in the Oval area, when they built them they mixed them with brick houses.

I lived in that area when I was very young even before they built the shops.

so did me granddad at the top on fontburn! long time ago!

[Sw@lnalla]

monsta, on Aug 28 2007, 05:40 PM, said:

are you blind or do you never venture past beech grove? there's a whole estate at the oval as i noted in the opening post! so its a very valid post!

Airey houses ...... not prefabs .....

[Monsta®]

Kiang, on Sep 3 2007, 12:11 AM, said:

Airey houses ...... not prefabs .....

airey houses what thats just a common term for them! in the eyes of the estate agent/mortage lender/ bbc homes under the hammer they are called prefabricated houses! this was to aid the mass house shortages after the war! so get your facts right!!!

[Cympil]

Kiang, on Sep 3 2007, 12:11 AM, said:

Airey houses ...... not prefabs .....

My house is airy,it blows a gale through the back door

[Hamburger Pimp]

Airy back door?



Get it waxed!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!BUMFUN!!!!!!

[Cympil]

Hamburger Pimp, on Sep 8 2007, 03:09 PM, said:

Airy back door?
Get it waxed!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!BUMFUN!!!!!!

[Pete]

monsta, on Aug 29 2007, 05:26 PM, said:

so did me granddad at the top on fontburn! long time ago!

I lived in Fontburn Road Monsta, lived there from when I was 4 years old until I was 18

[Pete]

Cympil, on Sep 7 2007, 11:06 PM, said:

My house is airy,it blows a gale through the back door

[Sw@lnalla]

monsta, on Sep 3 2007, 04:20 PM, said:

airey houses what thats just a common term for them! in the eyes of the estate agent/mortage lender/ bbc homes under the hammer they are called prefabricated houses! this was to aid the mass house shortages after the war! so get your facts right!!!

I have, they are 'system built' houses not prefabricated.

[Monsta®]

Kiang, on Sep 10 2007, 01:21 PM, said:

I have, they are 'system built' houses not prefabricated.

hahaha goon! prefab means system built or factory produced!  i.e the concrete slabs were created in a factory then assembled on site!