Building the Middleway Blocks
Building of the four Middleway Blocks commenced in the early nineteen sixties. At the time this picture was taken significant land clearance has obviously taken place in what was to become the open parkland ...
Construction in Lee Bank
View of new properties under construction by Crest Nicholson. This view is taken looking towards the four blocks on Lee Bank Middleway, from the balcony of the old Community Centre on Gaywood Croft.
Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank
Redevelopment was well advanced when this photograph was taken in Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank, presumably in the 1960s. Tower blocks and great sweeps of grass have replaced the streets of Victorian ...
Gwen Hatton and family
Left to right are: Gwen Hatton, Doris (sister), Stan Hancox (brother-in-law), Emily Morton (mother), and Gladys (sister).
The background shows a nice view of the old shops which were eventually demolished, ...
Lee Bank pool
View of Lee Bank pool in January 1973. In the distance left to right are the James Brindley School, Hogarth House, Faraday House, Chiswick House, Audleigh House and Chatsworth Tower. This photograph was ...
Lee Bank Redevelopment Plan
The original architect's view of the Lee Bank redevelopment. The tower blocks are as follows: Hogarth, Faraday, Chiswick and Audleigh House are the four blocks running up the left hand side on Lee Bank ...
Looking towards Hogarth House
Gwen Hatton and her sister Florence Lee posing for the camera outside Faraday House. In the background is Hogarth House. Hogarth House is probably named after the eighteenth century painter and lithographer ...
Middleway to Bath Row
This view captures the changing face of the Lee Bank area. In the foreground we have two of the Middleway blocks built as part of the urban renewal of the nineteen fifties and sixties. The road running ...
Moving in to Faraday House - 1962
Gwen Hatton and her family moved from 142 Edward Street (near Spring Hill Library) to Faraday House in 1962. Faraday was one of the four blocks erected on the Lee Bank estate at the top end of the Middleway ...
New Era on Lee Bank Middleway
Faraday and Hogarth House on Lee Bank Middleway during the urban renewal. To the right Chiswick House can be seen still under construction. Also some of the old housing on Lee Bank Road (as it was) is ...
New home
There were big differences between living in Edward Street and Faraday House. Both Gwen Hatton and her mother Emily Morton (seen here together) had grown up in the world of back to back housing with outside ...
Old and New
Faraday House and to the right Hogarth House. In the middle distance is Wilkes Greengrocers and the road leading off up the hill is Pigott Street. Just to the right and behind Hogarth House would be Chatsworth ...
Outside Faraday House
Gwen Hatton posing with her brother-in-law Stan Hancox on the road outside Faraday House. Behind them to the left is Lee Bank Post Office and behind them to the far right is the shuttered frontage of ...
Outside the Middleway blocks
This view was taken by resident May Williams who lived in the blocks. The blocks are still there today, upgraded and renovated, at the top end of Lee Bank Middleway as you approach Five Ways.
The gardens at the Middleway Blocks
This photograph was taken by resident May Williams. The four blocks, Hogarth, Faraday, Audleigh and Chiswick are still there today. Much of the surrounding development from the fifties and sixties has ...
The Middleway Blocks
This is another one from May Williams. May took several pictures around the blocks. At the time they may have seemed rather uninteresting but they now act as a record of the commonplace and serve as a ...
The Middleway Blocks
This photograph, by Lewis Green, catches children from the former Lea Mason Secondary School having a break in the play area which used to be located by the four Middleway blocks. The blocks were erected ...