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    The Byker Wall is a long, unbroken block of 620 maisonettes in the Byker district of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. They were designed by Ralph Erskine...
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    Home to the Byker Wall estate, made famous by TV series Byker Grove, Byker's population was recorded at 12,206 in the 2011 census. Byker is bordered by...
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  • Byker Grove is a British teen drama and coming of age television series which aired between 1989 and 2006 as part of CBBC on BBC One. Set and filmed in...
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    and Wear, England. Over a third of these are constituent parts of the Byker Wall housing estate, which is given its own sub-heading below. The date given...
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    The construction of the Byker Wall in Newcastle upon Tyne was intended to provide modern social housing for the residents of Byker, an area of run-down back-to-back...
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    the Brutalist style and has similarities to Park Hill, Sheffield and Byker Wall, Tyneside. The block has 176 properties in total, consisting of 3 low...
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    London, from 2000 to 2005. Erskine was best known in Great Britain for his Byker Wall housing scheme in Newcastle upon Tyne and The London Ark, a commercial...
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    1989 and 1992. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Karl-Marx-Hof. Byker Wall, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Park Hill, Sheffield, UK Falowiec, Gdansk, Poland...
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    ISBN 9788395057472. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Falowiec. Byker Wall, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Corviale [it], Rome, Italy Prora, Rügen, Germany...
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  • Thornhill Weston Northam Millbrook Blackbird Leys estate Goodwyns, Dorking Byker (population approx 9,500) Pennywell (population 10,709) Bristol Pre-war...
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    Significant Newcastle housing developments include Ralph Erskine's the Byker Wall designed in the 1960s, and now Grade II* listed. It is on UNESCO's list...
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    case of the Ark, Erskine and Vernon Gracie (who worked with Erskine on Byker Wall in Newcastle) collaborated with London architects Rock Townsend and latterly...
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  • Anthony Kennedy (20th century), a juvenile delinquent who was a resident of Byker Wall in Newcastle upon Tyne, England Ratboys, an American indie band Ratby...
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  • aliases. Mary Byker (Ian Garfield Hoxley) – vocals Tony Byker/Phlegm Lubricant/Tony Shuttleburger/Sven Eleven- (Tony Horsfall) – guitar Robber Byker (Ian Reynolds)...
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    undergoing major redevelopment. In Tyneside, large council estates include Byker and Walker in Newcastle, Felling in Gateshead and Meadow Well in North Tyneside...
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    apartment blocks in Sheffield Cables Wynd House, Edinburgh, Scotland Byker Wall, Newcastle upon Tyne, England Prora, Rügen, Germany Falowiec, Gdansk,...
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  • (born 1906) March 16 – Ralph Erskine, British architect, designer of the Byker Wall (born 1914) March 22 – Kenzo Tange, leading Japanese architect, winner...
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  • 1914 – Ralph Erskine, English-Swedish architect, designed The Ark and Byker Wall (d. 2005) 1914 – Weldon Kees, American author, poet, painter, and pianist...
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  • American flag, Beatrix Campbell colorfully describing the history of The Byker Wall, entries of fake "paper towns" in maps as copyright traps, knox boxes...
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    replacement of slum terraces with new innovative estates such as the Byker "wall". The three key divisive issues which were to split the Labour party...
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  • Bulldozer Houses Fit for People 1988 Building Sights Schlumberger Building Byker Wall Alexander Fleming House 1989 Janet Street-Porter 1991 Lloyd's Building...
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  • Russian trumpeter and music teacher. Ralph Erskine, 91, British architect (Byker Wall). Jean-Pierre Genet, 64, French road bicycle racer. Anthony George, 84...
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  • International Film Festival. Jimmy Spud is a young loner living in the Byker Wall. Ever since his father threw him high in the air from South Shields pier...
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  • Breeze lives with his wife Iris and children Eric, Carol and Billy in the Byker Wall area of Newcastle upon Tyne. Ralph has lost his confidence after being...
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    Byker was a railway station on the Riverside Branch, which ran between Byker and Willington Quay. The station served Byker in Newcastle upon Tyne. The...
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    with a tower, the crest of the Thornton family. The whole was included in a wall with a semi-octagonal tower at each end and embrasures along the top. On...
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    "Were Ozzy & Therapy? really in the studio together for "Iron Man"? on Wall of Mouths". Teethgrinder.com. Retrieved 27 June 2016. "Therapy?'s Andy Cairns...
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  • such as The Bill, Casualty and Where the Heart Is. Rowell grew up on the Byker Estate in Newcastle. She attended Heaton Manor School. Her parents split...
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    television commercials. After graduating, he directed episodes of Quayside, Byker Grove, EastEnders, and Cold Feet on British television. In the 2000s, Hooper...
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    trip to buy shoes. A production manager for the Newcastle-based teen drama Byker Grove approached Hunnam and he was later cast in his first role as Jason...
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