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MPX5128659: The Noble Street flats Housing Estate in Scotswood, Newcastle, which was built in the late in 1950s and demolished in the late 1970s after being blighted by social problems, vandalism, a high crime rate and was nicknamed Alcatraz by the local residents. Young mother Mrs Pamela Ramsey with her three young children crosses the concrete wasteland between the flats 7 December 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images