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This is vile, and typical of a back lane in the west end of newcastle at the moment, luckily not mine yet though this is the next one along. The most visible effect of austerity. I chatted to an old Geordie guy who said he's never seen it so bad in all the decades he's lived here., not even in the 80s when it was apparently really rough (so much so that the BBC came here to film this documentary on why the working classes die young back in 1988: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/working/5019.shtml)