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CONTRACT TWO (By John Yarham)
The second contract was under plan 2345. This was completed between 17/6/25 and 13/7/25. This contract was for sites 77-90 east side Briarwood, and sites 115-120 west side of Briarwood. 20 in all. Although built in 1925, this contract had also been drawn in 1924. It included an alleyway to the allotments at the rear of sites 80-96 between sites 88 and 89. Sites 93-96 were never built, or not as originally planned.
The third contract was under plan 2478 dated July 1925 and not built. This was for the remaining section of Hollywood Avenue and had sites 191-196 on the north side between Beechwood and Fernwood. This particular section of sites disappeared and was replaced in a later plan the following month. By now the site types instead of being A to C, were now numbered.
By the meeting of the 4th November 1925, they were told that 92 houses had been constructed, and occupied between the 28th March (May?), and the 27th June. Those subsidized were being so at 10/- per house. One of the conditions of sale to the LNER was that the accommodation crossing over the old Blyth and Tyne line would be replaced by a footbridge. The Committee was now requesting that it should be lit. The LNER in its turn requested that a footpath be constructed along the road from the bridge to the estate.
This bridge was replaced by a concrete version when the Metro was built. The site of the bridges had been where a temporary wooden platform had been built when the Blyth and Tyne Railway was constructed c1865 for one of its Directors, who lived at Low Gosforth Hall.
The eastern boundary of the site bought for housing did not include the old coach road that ran from Low Gosforth House to the Salters Bridge. For some reason the houses on Woodlea Gardens were only constructed with a path in front. The hedge most likely dates from c1803 when the carriage road was built following the purchase of a piece of land from the Earl of Carlisle by the Brandlings in 1803. It was following this that Dents Mire Bridge was built.
The builder of the sewer from the estate was J. Laing. The type 27 houses at sites 139-140 were to have bay windows. Mrs L Greenhead had applied to have a wooden shop built on the west side of Hollywood Avenue. This was approved on the 3rd March 1926. On the 3rd June 1926 applications were put in by the LNER for the following:
6 for type 20 on sites 175/176, 179/180, 185/186.
4 for type 26 on sites 177/178, 183/184.
These to be on road CH on the estate. This was to be Beechwood Avenue.
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