Buildings in strong sunshine, with a background of dark cloud: always one of my favourite types of lighting conditions for photography! This is Clay
Buildings in strong sunshine, with a background of dark cloud: always one of my favourite types of lighting conditions for photography! This is Clayton Street, in Newcastle upon Tyne's Grainger Town district, the historic heart of the city centre, incorporating classical streets built by Richard Grainger, a builder and developer, between 1824 and 1841. It is one of the finest townscapes in Europe. These buildings are predominantly four storeys, with vertical dormers, domes, turrets and spikes. The area decayed quite badly between the 1960s and 1980s, with both the residential population and the number of commerical tenants collapsing thanks to suburbanisation. Around a quarter of the original scheme's buildings were demolished from this period. A programme of property development and environmental enhancement was started in 1993 with Newcastle City Council and the English Heritage to tackle most of the worst buildings at risk and stop the decline of the area. Between 1997 and 2003, city leaders, national government, and the heritage sector worked together to secure £174 million of investment into the area, £146 million from the private sector. This, at least for another generation, secured the future of Grainger Town. The street is named for John Clayton, antiquarian and town clerk of Newcastle upon Tyne during the nineteenth century. He worked with the builder Richard Grainger and architect John Dobson to redevelop the centre of the city in a neoclassical style and also did much to preserve the Roman-era Hadrian's Wall. This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
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Photo credit: © Gerry Lynch / Alamy / Afripics
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