History of Housing in Pictures

We've put together a few photo's from our archives which show how Blyth Valley looked over the years.

We hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane.

Twentieth Avenue

We do not have a date for this photo which shows 20th Avenue.

Twelfth Avenue

This photo of 12th Avenue was taken around 1972. The Spartans public house is shown in the centre of the photograph. 

Sixth Avenue

This photo taken around 1972 shows Sixth Avenue

Broadway Circle/Renwick Road

This photo was taken around 1926 shortly after the Miners Welfare (Civic Centre) was built.

Newsham Road / Avenues

This photo was taken around 1926 and shows the railway bridge crossing Newsham Road and Princess Louise Road School where Victoria Mews now stands. In the foreground can be seen First / Third Avenue. The Parkinson Frame Properties in the area were demolished in the mid 1980's

Avenues

This photo was taken around 1926. In the Foreground you can see 12th Avenue. In the centre of the picture you can see th playing fields at Broadway with Broadway Circle roundabout over to the left of centre.

Blyth Quayside

This photo taken in 1926 shows Blyth Quayside with the staithes clearly visible.

Bowes Court / Bowes Street

This photo was taken shortly after the completion of this development in 1982. A very colourful development at the time...

Twentysixth Avenue

This photo shows properties in 26th Avenue around 1976.

Solingen Estate

This photo was taken in 1975

The Avenues

This photo was taken somewhere in the Avenues in 1973. Is this your house?

The Avenues

This picture is taken around 1974 and looks up 6th Avenue toward the former Ridley High School.

The Avenues

This picture was taken during the modernisation in 1974

The Avenues

This picture was taken in 1974 and looks up First Avenue. Note how few cars there were then. A Vauxhall Viva and a Forda Anglia are in the shot.

Mayfield Grange, Cramlington

This shot is of houses on Village Road taken in the early 1970's

Council Offices - Seaforth Street

The former Blyth U.D.C council offices at Seaforth Street in Blyth. These have since been demolished to make way for a car park in the town centre

Bob Elliot House,  Wright Street, Blyth

A photo taken shortly after the building was completed in 1990.

Abbotsford House

This photo was taken shortly after the block was converted from bedsits into 1 bed flats in 1983.

Allensgreen Cramlington

A photo taken in 1968 during the construction of the estate.

Allensgreen, Cramlington

A photo taken in the 1970's

Bates Colliery 1972

Hodgsons Road Estate 1972

Cowpen Square Mid - 1930's

The council houses in Millfield Gardens and Crawford Street to the left of centre had recently been completed. 

North Farm

It is thought that this photo was taken in the late 1940's

North Farm

It is thought this picture was taken in the 1940's and is where Temple Avenue and Walton Avenue meet.

North Farm

This is the new co-op store at North Farm, now City Electrical Factors.