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Tower Blocks UK: Hammersmith and Fulham London Lillie Road (South Area, 1st Stage), Clem Attlee Court (2nd Part and extension), St Thomas' Way and Estcourt Road, Estcourt Road and Coomer Road redevelopment, l18-04.jpg
Multi-storey block details: LR: one 7-storey block containing 39 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 78 dwellings; CAC (2nd Part): three 11-storey blocks containing 259 dwellings; CAC (extension): one 18-storey block containing 68 dwellings; STW/ER: one 18-storey block containing 65 dwellings; ER/CR: one 8-storey block containing 104 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): LR: Stafford Cripps House; Hugh Gaitskell House; CAC (2nd Part): Tom Williams House; Jim Griffiths House; Hugh Dalton House; CAC (extension): Herbert Morrison House; STW/ER: Edith Summerskill House; ER/CR: Michael Stewart House; Image detail: Map of Clem Attlee Court Original Commissioning Authority: Fulham Metropolitan Borough Council; ER/CR: Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council; Image taken: 1988;Context: Tower Block UK is a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, bringing together public engagement and an openly-licensed image archive in an attempt to emphasise the social and architectural importance of tower blocks, and to frame multi-storey social housing as a coherent and accessible nationwide heritage. The Tower Block UK image archive is a searchable database of around 4,000 images of every multi-storey social housing development built in the UK. The photographs were largely taken in the 1980s by Miles Glendinning and are made available here for public use. As many of the blocks documented and photographed have since been demolished, the archive functions in part as a repository of information on an important aspect of UK heritage that is now vanishing. The archive itself catalogues multi-storey blocks as part of the developments within which they were initially commissioned and built. It gives details of notable dates, such as when local authorities approved the developments and when construction began or finished. Alongside this, the archive provides information on the local authorities, architects, and other agents involved in the processes of commissioning, designing, and constructing mass social housing. While ...
Tower Blocks UK: Hammersmith and Fulham London Lillie Road (South Area, 1st Stage), Clem Attlee Court (2nd Part and extension), St Thomas' Way and Estcourt Road, Estcourt Road and Coomer Road redevelopment, l18-04.jpg
Multi-storey block details: LR: one 7-storey block containing 39 dwellings; one 6-storey block containing 78 dwellings; CAC (2nd Part): three 11-storey blocks containing 259 dwellings; CAC (extension): one 18-storey block containing 68 dwellings; STW/ER: one 18-storey block containing 65 dwellings; ER/CR: one 8-storey block containing 104 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): LR: Stafford Cripps House; Hugh Gaitskell House; CAC (2nd Part): Tom Williams House; Jim Griffiths House; Hugh Dalton House; CAC (extension): Herbert Morrison House; STW/ER: Edith Summerskill House; ER/CR: Michael Stewart House; Image detail: Map of Clem Attlee Court Original Commissioning Authority: Fulham Metropolitan Borough Council; ER/CR: Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council; Image taken: 1988;Context: Tower Block UK is a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, bringing together public engagement and an openly-licensed image archive in an attempt to emphasise the social and architectural importance of tower blocks, and to frame multi-storey social housing as a coherent and accessible nationwide heritage. The Tower Block UK image archive is a searchable database of around 4,000 images of every multi-storey social housing development built in the UK. The photographs were largely taken in the 1980s by Miles Glendinning and are made available here for public use. As many of the blocks documented and photographed have since been demolished, the archive functions in part as a repository of information on an important aspect of UK heritage that is now vanishing. The archive itself catalogues multi-storey blocks as part of the developments within which they were initially commissioned and built. It gives details of notable dates, such as when local authorities approved the developments and when construction began or finished. Alongside this, the archive provides information on the local authorities, architects, and other agents involved in the processes of commissioning, designing, and constructing mass social housing. While ...
Tower Blocks UK: Hammersmith and Fulham London Lillie Road (South Area, 1st Stage), Clem Attlee Court (2nd Part and extension), St Thomas' Way and Estcourt Road, Estcourt Road and Coomer Road redevelopment, l18-04.jpg
Glendinning, Miles (author) / Heritage Lottery Fund / Glendinning, Miles
2023-05-17
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Electronic Resource
English
Architecture Building and Planning::Housing , walk-up flats , modernism , Zeilenbau , sectional planning , postmodernism , public housing , modern architecture , mass housing , prefabrication , multi-storey block , neighbourhood unit , low-rise housing , tenement block , residential district , tower block , housing scheme , enterprise housing , socialism , landscape architecture , Art Deco , industrialised building , slab block , housing estate
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Tower Blocks UK: Hammersmith and Fulham London Clem Attlee Court Extension, l18-01.jpg
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Tower Blocks UK: Hammersmith and Fulham London Clem Attlee Court 2nd Part, l18-05.jpg
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Tower Blocks UK: Hammersmith and Fulham London Lillie Road (South) Area, 1st Stage, l18-03.jpg
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