Blyth - French?/Dutch? house facing Ridley Park?

[Phodgetts]

Gotcha! The car is a Singer Gazelle of a body type known as IIIA which applied to the Hillman Minx too. The Gazelle was produced 1959 - 63 in that guise. The point being that the picture had to be taken no earlier than 1959.

P

[c-side]

The two cars were very similar - we had a Singer at one time.  In fact I took my first tentative steps towards driving in our old Singer!

Looking at the way the guy on the corner is dressed I'd say late 50s to mid 60s.  No-one wore trousers that narrow later in the 60s 

Christine

[Gen List Lass]

Great to see yet another old photo of the "Scandewegian house".

I did a bit of architectural digging on the internet and the design was a bit dated when the house was built. Bits of art nouveau styling. Popular 1890-1910 so built at the tail end of that era. Probably still very modern in Blyth at that time:-)


Gen in NBL England

[Phodgetts]

There was a shop with the name LUND selling seamen's outfits and clothing. I wonder if he or one of his family had anything to do with that?

The location of the shop was on Bridge Street directly opposite the end of Freehold Street. The site has been swallowed up by the bus depot.

P

[Gen List Lass]

Could be, I think the LUND's were something to do with ships chandlers or similar on the census.

Gen in NBL England

[RAISED IN BLYTH]

In the 1950's & '60's the house was owned by the Benson family.
He worked (I believe) for Blyth Harbour Commission.
The house next door in Park View was owned at that time by Capt Ralph Thompson, ex RN (where he commanded HMS Cowslip) and later a Blyth river pilot, his wife's name Gwen.

[blythian]

Since the house quest is almost over, i want to start another one...Tweed House on Middleton Street. Lived next to it for years, got wrong off the woman over the road for playing in the gardens when it was derelict...then when the new owners moved in, drawing it and giving them the picture haha

It has a date stone, but i can't remember it...i remember someone saying it was a care home for a while, but who lived there before that? It's another weird Architectural style, i think it's Dutch also.

Image from Google Maps Streetview

[RAISED IN BLYTH]

Not absolutely certain but I have a strong inkling that Tweed House was in the 1950's/60's  the home of the Carter family-The then Town Clerk (Today's equivalent I cannot hope to presume).

Whether at the time the house was the property of Borough of Blyth Council I know not. 

[TriciaK]

I must have have walked past Tweed house a hundred times between 1990 and 1997 when I was going shopping for my Mum in Blyth.
I'm not sure, but I think it was some kind of council office at that time.
To go back to the big house near the park - the roof is very like the empire style houses in France, There are several in the area where we're living now (SW France.) Also called the Mansard roof.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansard_roof