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Killingworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Killingworth Township is a "New Town" which was started in 1963, and was built originally for 20,000 people, it was a former mining community and was formed on 760 acres of derelict colliery land, it was undertaken by Northumberland County Council and was not a New Town sponsored by the Government. |
 | | Killingworth originally consisted of Local Authority Houses, Angus Close, built to house key workers for the British Gas Research Center, but owned by the local authority, were the first houses to be built and were named first, followed by the Garth's which all had a number attached e.g. |
 | | Killingworth flats or Killingworth Towers were built in the 1970's and were local authority tenanted flats, they were constructed of dark grey concrete blocks, and were named Bamburgh Tower, Keilder Tower Etc, they were very large storey blocks of flats with integrated walkways and alleys. |
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