Byker in the Snow - Inside the Byker Wall Estate

Just some pictures of the estate on which I live, taken one year ago today.  Representatives of the Conservative Party were meant to visit the estate on that day but they chickened out and claimed Brexit as an excuse.  It's a shame.  We wanted to show them the very real effects of Tory policies and choices for poverty.  The Byker Wall estate is not rich.  My neighbourhood is one of the most deprived in the country and is only as far down the list as it is (67th out of many thousands) because it's quite pretty and the housing stock isn't absolutely terrible.  Being so deprived it has most of the social problems you might expect to find through poverty.

I like living here though.  Byker's rough reputation tells only a part of a story that contains many good things too.  And who wouldn't appreciate living somewhere this pretty?: