Here's a Gatehead scene that's been totally transformed in the 100 years or so since the photograph was taken.
This was Church Walk overlooking, out of view on the left, the River Tyne.
Stroll down here today and you'll see the stunning 21st century Sage Gateshead music centre dominating the landscape.
Back in the 1920s, you would have found find a dingy street of ramshackle abodes. The houses were built into the steep bankside in the shadow of St Mary's Church also just out of view, on the right, which is today a heritage centre, popular with folk interested in the history of Gateshead.
The rear windows of the houses would have provided unimpaired views of a noisy, bustling River Tyne, busy with ships and heavy industry. Indeed we can just see Abbot’s engineering works on the spot where The Sage stands today.
Many of Gateshead's grim tenements were of Victorian and even Georgian origin, where sanitation was at a premium and overcrowding was rife.
In the mid 1920s, some streets were demolished to make way for the new New Tyne Bridge (to give it its full title).
Then, in 1930, a Housing Act was passed which led to the clearance of more slums in Britain that at any time previously, and the building of 700,000 new homes.
A committee was formed by Gateshead Council to oversee the inspection, and demolition of its slum housing, much of which was situated to the west and east of the Swing Bridge on Gateshead Quayside.
The likes of Pipewellgate and Oakwellgate were notorious and considered some of the worst housing in the country.
The work would continue until the 1950s, and residents were moved to new estates in places like Beacon Lough, Springwell, Harlow Green and Old Fold.
The £70 million Sage Gateshead - a venue for live musical performance and education - which opened in 2004, stands near the site of long-gone houses of Church Walk.
- Images from the book Gateshead: Then and Now In Colour, by Rob Kirkup, published by The History Press.
