Ochre Yards · Worsdell Drive
Bittern House
Fifty-eight flats including studios and duplexes; the last of the locomotive-named blocks to launch, in September 2015.
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| Postal address | Bittern House, Worsdell Drive, NE8 2FB |
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| Homes | 58 C · confirmed source |
| Completed | Launched September 2015 C · confirmed source |
| Tenure | Leasehold C · confirmed |
| Management company | Not yet recorded — one of Ochre Yards One to Eleven, or a newer company. U · unverified |
| Catchment primary school | Caedmon Community Primary School C · confirmed Check your own address with Gateshead Council's school admissions team: catchments are reviewed every year. |
| Parking | Block-paved courtyard with an undercroft car park through an opening in the ground floor; emergency-access area signed no parking L · likely |
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Where it is
NZ 2486 6314 OS grid · 54.96232, -1.61320
The name
Named for No. 60019 Bittern, a Gresley A4 streamliner built at Doncaster in December 1937 and named, like the rest of the class, after a bird. New to Heaton, it was transferred to Gateshead shed, 52A, on 28 March 1943 and stayed twenty years, until October 1963, before ending its working life at Aberdeen Ferryhill. Withdrawn September 1966 and bought for preservation; it is one of six surviving A4s and was running on the main line again from 2007.