Nukehasslefan
Winger
Carter drive was a rough place to those who didn't live in it but the people who did (many of them) would tell you enough stories about how they would help each other out.I could rattle off all the rough places in Hartlepool though if you want? I worked in every rough area in the North east & beyond putting them steel shutters on the empty houses in the 90s and honest Hartlepool was one of the worst (especially for it's relatively small size). It's the only place where I've seen kids systematically demolish houses brick by brick (Sandsend Cr).
Some of those people were the salt of the earth and I know this from experience of spending time in some houses and knowing them.
To people living in better housing and a less deprived street, it was a no go area. But...like everything, it's about who you know and how you adapt to life which can change your mindset on something you maybe thought was a den of iniquity or even, at the other end of the scale, snob hill.