I was born and raised in housing such as these in the 1950's in South Shields. We had a downstairs flat with 2 bedrooms and the lady upstairs had 3. There was no bathroom and there was a washhouse outside in the backyard with a huge coal fired copper boiler used to heat water to do laundry. The toilet was outside which froze every winter but we were fortunate we had our own backyard whereas many others shared their backyards. The backyard also had a coal house which was loaded through a hatch in the back lane. We moved into a new council house in Marsden in 1962. Many had bathroom extensions built onto them in the late 60's early 70's many of which were plagued by damp and mould. Overcrowding was common but coped with. The flat where I was born 8 Mozart Street is still there, the flat I grew up in, 184 South Palmerston Street adjacent to Barnes Road School has long gone. Moving to Quarry Lane in Marsden was absolute luxury. That house is also still there. In real terms it wasn't so long ago. When I lived in Jesmond in the 80's I was horrified at the prices these types of flats were attracting.
Brilliant. I lived in a Tyneside flat in Jesmond 1978-80 while my dad, who’d had a midlife crisis, retrained as a teacher, doing his PGCE at Newcastle University and probationary year at Gosforth High. It was a lovely flat and I could walk into the city centre (the Metro being under construction at the time). It was pretty much as you describe - we were on the first floor, and right on the corner of the street which formed part of a bus route, with them swinging round perilously close to the bay window at the front. One thing was we did have our own yard - it was divided off from the ground floor flat’s and accessed by some rather steep, rough steps from a back door which came off a passageway from the kitchen past the bathroom. The yard was bigger than the neighbouring flats’ thanks to being on the corner plot. I am so enjoying your channel.
I think they are called Tyneside up and down flats because of the leasehold agreement, where upstairs owners own the lease for downstairs and the downstairs owns the lease for upstairs.
You have mised the point entirely. The lease agreement as mentioned by phillip5735 is unique. They can also have seperate back yards which were often otherwise shared, but the lease & it's responsibilities make them unique througout Britain.
Also, Tyneside flats are not unique to having 2 front doors. These are actually called Maisonettes which are found all over the UK with seperate front doors.
Maisonettes are flats with their own dedicated front and rear entrances from the street. Some are 2 storeys. Flats are those with communal access doors and 1 private entrance. Some are 2 storeys and usually have a communal pigeon hole mail box.
I live on a street where the majority are Tyneside flats but a few (including mine) are regular terraced houses. You can tell the houses from the flats as the bay windows are only on the ground floor (ie the living room).
I was born and raised in housing such as these in the 1950's in South Shields. We had a downstairs flat with 2 bedrooms and the lady upstairs had 3. There was no bathroom and there was a washhouse outside in the backyard with a huge coal fired copper boiler used to heat water to do laundry. The toilet was outside which froze every winter but we were fortunate we had our own backyard whereas many others shared their backyards. The backyard also had a coal house which was loaded through a hatch in the back lane. We moved into a new council house in Marsden in 1962. Many had bathroom extensions built onto them in the late 60's early 70's many of which were plagued by damp and mould. Overcrowding was common but coped with. The flat where I was born 8 Mozart Street is still there, the flat I grew up in, 184 South Palmerston Street adjacent to Barnes Road School has long gone. Moving to Quarry Lane in Marsden was absolute luxury. That house is also still there. In real terms it wasn't so long ago. When I lived in Jesmond in the 80's I was horrified at the prices these types of flats were attracting.
Brilliant. I lived in a Tyneside flat in Jesmond 1978-80 while my dad, who’d had a midlife crisis, retrained as a teacher, doing his PGCE at Newcastle University and probationary year at Gosforth High. It was a lovely flat and I could walk into the city centre (the Metro being under construction at the time). It was pretty much as you describe - we were on the first floor, and right on the corner of the street which formed part of a bus route, with them swinging round perilously close to the bay window at the front. One thing was we did have our own yard - it was divided off from the ground floor flat’s and accessed by some rather steep, rough steps from a back door which came off a passageway from the kitchen past the bathroom. The yard was bigger than the neighbouring flats’ thanks to being on the corner plot. I am so enjoying your channel.
I think they are called Tyneside up and down flats because of the leasehold agreement, where upstairs owners own the lease for downstairs and the downstairs owns the lease for upstairs.
You are absolutely correct, Sir. These videos are pitiful.
The majority of the original flats didn't have a bathroom extension beyond the kitchen and only had outside toilets in the yard at the rear.
You have mised the point entirely. The lease agreement as mentioned by phillip5735 is unique. They can also have seperate back yards which were often otherwise shared, but the lease & it's responsibilities make them unique througout Britain.
i live in one!
There are NO Tyneside Flats in Sunderland.
Also, Tyneside flats are not unique to having 2 front doors. These are actually called Maisonettes which are found all over the UK with seperate front doors.
Maisonettes are two-storey flats.
Maisonettes are flats with their own dedicated front and rear entrances from the street. Some are 2 storeys.
Flats are those with communal access doors and 1 private entrance. Some are 2 storeys and usually have a communal pigeon hole mail box.
I live on a street where the majority are Tyneside flats but a few (including mine) are regular terraced houses. You can tell the houses from the flats as the bay windows are only on the ground floor (ie the living room).