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Wolverhampton’s Interwar Council Estates: ‘tenanted by respectable residents’
Wolverhampton was another council controlled by the Conservative Party between the wars and yet, with over 8000 council homes built in the period, it…
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Dawson’s Heights, East Dulwich: ‘an example of the almost-lost art of romantic townscape’
Kate Macintosh designed Dawson’s Heights back in the Sixties when she was just 28 years old.
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The Manor Estate, Sheffield: ‘the worst estate in Britain’?
In 1995, after a local school had been destroyed in an arson attack, the MP Roy Hattersley (a former chair of Sheffield’s Housing Committee in the…
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Sheffield’s Interwar Council Estates: ‘the pampered pets of the Corporation’
Sheffield built around 28,000 council homes between the wars.
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The Weoley Castle Estate, Birmingham: ‘Everything that science and ingenuity can provide’
In 1933, Neville Chamberlain opened Birmingham’s 40,000th post-war council dwelling at 30, Hopstone Road on the Weoley Castle Estate.
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Birmingham’s Interwar Council House Building: an ‘achievement without parallel’
Between the wars, Conservative-controlled Birmingham built over 51,000 new council homes – more than any other local authority in the country outside…
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Balfron Tower, Poplar: ‘they all said the flats were lovely’
In last week’s post, we left Balfron Tower just as its first residents were moving in, among them the Tower’s architect, Ernő Goldfinger, and his wife…
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Balfron Tower, Poplar: imparting ‘a delicate sense of terror’
Balfron Tower is now [in October 2014] one of the stately homes of England – a National Trust attraction no less.
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