English council estate

Charles Grinling Walk, 1953-5, for Woolwich Borough Council. Photograph by Derek Kendall, 2008. (c)English Heritage

Council Estate - Exterior

Probably the original mild steel frames from circa 1950. Draughty, and prone to rot. The only house on the estate that I found that has them today. And that door! English Heritage need to be told. All the houses looked like this, prior to private ownership and UPVC. It gave them a very drab, uniform, and slab-fronted appearance. At the rear of the downstairs through-lounge was a set of French Windows, full-length, full-width, versions of these, and with even less insulating properties. My…

barbican_fan on Instagram: "Aylesbury Estate: Hans Peter “Felix” Trenton; constructed 1963-1977. Massive, divisive and now being destroyed, Aylesbury, as much as any other remaining estate epitomises the issues relating to social housing in contemporary London. The council wants it to go the way of the equally massive/notorious Heygate estate (now almost all chic residences for city workers in the newly fashionable Elephant and Castle). The residents want to stay (or many of them), not least…

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The Council Estate by Crawford Road and Coldharbour Lane in Camberwell South East London England

Most people probably think of Lancaster as very much a county town but in the nineteenth century it emerged as a major industrial centre and one with typical problems of slum housing and the new im…