Airey homes saved for posterity

Last updated on August 26, 2015, by tac & filed under Gateshead Council, Keelman Homes, Kibblesworth, The Gateshead Housing Company

A unique project to save some of Kibblesworth’s post-war Airey homes for posterity has begun with the help of The Gateshead Housing Company. A block of four houses is being painstakingly deconstructed, loaded on to pallets and transported to Beamish Museum in Durham. Here they will be carefully stored until work begins on a new 1950s area, when they will be rebuilt as part of a typical north eastern postwar urban development. The… Read the full article →