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|  | | Mr Stewart Monk. Source English Heritage.NMR |
Balfron Tower, St Leonards Road, Bow, Greater London
| This tower block was designed in 1963 by Erno Goldfinger for the London County Council. It was built by the Greater London Council in 1965-7. It was built from reinforced concrete with timber cladding to the balconies and an asphalt flat roof. It contained 136 one and two bedroomed flats and ten maisonettes arranged on 26 floors. The homes are linked to a detached service tower by corridors at every third floor. The tower contained lifts, rubbish chutes, laundry rooms and had a boiler and chimneys on the top. This tower block is similar to Trellick Tower in Kensington and Chelsea. They were the best designed tower blocks of many built in this period. However, by the 1970s, the whole idea of housing families in tall tower blocks was being questioned. Read official list description.
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|  | | Mr David Addison. Source English Heritage.NMR |
Longmoor Point, Alton East, Wandsworth, Greater London
| Longmoor Point is one of 10 blocks of flats known as 'the Points'. They are part of the Alton East housing development built in 1951- 52 and designed by the London County Council Architect's Department Housing Division. They were the first public housing in Britain to have mechanically ventilated lavatories and bathrooms and the first high housing to be centrally heated. The rest of the development is a mixture of terraces of houses and maisonettes. They were set informally on a hillside among plants from the gardens of the Victorian houses previously on the site. Shops and a school were included in the development which was planned as a neighbourhood for 9,500 people. Read official list description.
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Park Hill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
| Park Hill housing development was designed and built 1957-60 by Sheffield Corporation City and formally opened in 1961. The whole development consisted of 995 flats on 17 acres at density of 192 people per acre and a unit cost of £2,800 each. The scheme included 31 shops, 4 pubs, a laundry boiler house, Garchey refuse station and garages.
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Demolition in Greater London
| This image sums up changes that were made to buildings in the '50s and '60s. Many old, sometimes historic buildings were demolished to be replaced with new developments.
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The Lawn, Harlow, Essex
| Many new homes were needed in the 1950s to replace those lost during World War Two. One solution to providing a large number of homes was to build high-rise developments. The Lawn was built in 1951 and was the first residential tower block in Britain.
In 1952 it recieved a Ministry of Health Housing medal.
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Repton House, Lillington Gardens, Westminster, Greater London
| This block of 20 flats and bedsits is part of the Lillington Gardens Estate. The estate was designed in 1961 by John Darbourne. Phase 1 was built in 1964-8, by Darbourne and Geoffrey Darke, for Westminster City Council. Lillington was the first low rise, high density public housing scheme to be built. It proved that low rise flats with an interesting design could accommodate the same number of people per acre (density) as tower blocks. It influenced the style of council housing from the mid 1960s until the early 1980s. The scheme won many awards including a Ministry of Housing and Local Government award for good design in 1970. The scheme provided homes for around 2,000 people with a high proportion provided for older people. There were also pubs, shops, doctors, a community hall and a library. Before the estate was built this part of Pimlico was mainly older terraced housing. Read official list description.
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Orchard Croft, Harlow, Essex
| After the second World War London had a such a severe housing shortage that it was decided to encourage people to move out. New towns such as Harlow were planned and built. These terraced houses were built in 1952 - 53 and provided with car ports.
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Wyndham Court, Southampton
| This city centre development was built in 1969. It consisted of 184 flats, three cafes or restaurants and thirteen shops. The flats were for rent but were quite expensive.
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New Street Station Signal Box, Birmingham, West Midlands
| This building houses the signalling equipment for the station. Most of the stations in the West Midlands were rebuilt in the 1960s. New Street station was buried beneath the Bullring Shopping Centre. All the buildings in this complex were built of concrete in a very forbidding style.
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Halls of Residence, Cottingham, Hull
| Traditional city centre universities such as Hull expanded in the '60s and needed to provide more accommodation. These brick buildings were erected in a village on the edge of Hull and designed to allow light into all the rooms.
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Roman Catholic Cathedral, Liverpool
| This building was very different from existing cathedrals and provoked strong reactions when it opened in 1967. It has several nicknames including 'Paddy's Wigwam' and the 'Mersey Funnel'
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Cathedral of St Michael Coventry
| The medieval church of St Michael in the centre of Coventry was destroyed by bombing in World War Two. This new cathedral was built close to the site preserving the ruins of the old church. The new cathedral took ten years to build to a very modern design.
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