Blyth, c.1828 |
Blyth Region, c.1860 |
Ashington & Newbiggin down to Cramilington & Seaton Sluice, c.1897 |
Higher Resolution Cambois, Cowpen, Newsham & Blyth, c.1897 |
Blyth, c.1920 |
Blyth, c.1922 |
Cambois, c.1922 |
Centre of Blyth, c.1937 |
Newsham and New Delaval, c.1937 |
Blyth, Map revised 1940, published 1949 |
Blyth and surrounding areas, Map revised 1964, published 1967 |
Newsham, Blyth, Map revised 1964, published 1967 |
Later maps of Blyth. For me, Blyth then, c.1960, was at its best. I am so proud of what Blyth was. Blyth was full of council houses immaculately maintained, with tidy, well-kept, hedged font gardens and reasonable-sized back gardens. This was British socialism. Those council houses starting in the 1920s were built to higher standards than starter homes are today. Then the Tories forced local authorities to sell them off to the well-off working class, who had an eye to a quick £££. I am not criticising those council house tenants who bought. Given such an opportunity they would be fools not to take it. Now, 2017, it is Nationalism, UKIP Natsies, every man for himself and stuff anyone poorer or different to me. |
School Photos from Blyth |