Hostels and Guildhouses

Those early new-build estate films amaze me as they look so pristine.

I recall there were the remains of hostel buildings on the east side of Clifford Bridge Road, probably about where the Tesco supermarket is now. I started at Caludon Comprehensive in 1959 and remember the adjacent Westmoreland Road estate being built. The retained communal buildings of the Guildhouse as Wyken Community Centre held roller-skate shows and as a young teenager I attended photography evening classes with adults there, circa 1960.