The Gateshead housing estate that stood for just 25 years before it was bulldozed
St Cuthbert s Village replaced Victorian-built Gateshead streets that straddled Askew Road, and by the 1960s were deemed as slums and earmarked for demolition
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice Where slums stood - a small paradise , ran one headline in the local press in April 1969.