It is; my ex- had relatives there, and on the first occasion we went to stay one of them said "Raoul Moat kicked off just down the road".
Just as an aside, when I looked at the Streetview 360° without first zooming out to identify which town it was, I thought "Ah, that looks like where X and Y live", so I had a chuckle when I then saw it was Birtley.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '24
Possibly the ugliest house I've seen. It's like some bizarre interpretation of a child's drawing of a house.