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1960s British Social Housing

Below is a selection of British social housing from the 1960s.

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Housing, Queen Elizabeth Square, Hutchesontown C, Gorbals, Glasgow

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Sir Basil Spence Glover & Ferguson
NOTES: Hutchesontown C was the name given to a so-called Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) of an area of the city of Glasgow, designed by Basil Spence in 1960-1965. The design of the central 20-storey block was inspired by Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation, Marseille. It was demolished in 1993.

Balfron Tower, Rowlett Street, Poplar, London

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Goldfinger, Erno (1902-1987)

Housing, Queen Elizabeth Square, Hutchesontown C, Gorbals, Glasgow

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Sir Basil Spence Glover & Ferguson
NOTES: Hutchesontown C was the name given to a so-called Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) of an area of the city of Glasgow, designed by Basil Spence in 1960-1965. The design of the central 20-storey block was inspired by Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation, Marseille. It was demolished in 1993.

Park Hill Estate, Sheffield

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Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department
NOTES: Built between 1957 and 1961, this mixed high-density and controversial housing development was planned and designed by Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department led by J. L. Womersley.

Park Hill Estate, Sheffield

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Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department
NOTES: Built between 1957 and 1961, this mixed high-density and controversial housing development was planned and designed by Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department led by J. L. Womersley.

Pepys Estate, Deptford, London

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Greater London Council. Department of Architecture & Civic Design
NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 8: Housing' in Architectural Review, vol. 148, 1970 Sep.

Pepys Estate, Deptford, London: the upper level walkways, shopping centre and one of the playgrounds

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Greater London Council. Department of Architecture & Civic Design
NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 8: Housing' in Architectural Review, vol. 148, 1970 Sep.

Pepys Estate, Deptford, London: low-rise and high-rise housing

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Greater London Council. Department of Architecture & Civic Design
NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 8: Housing' in Architectural Review, vol. 148, 1970 Sep.

Park Hill Estate, Sheffield: close-up of a bridge connection

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Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department
NOTES: Built between 1957 and 1961, this mixed high-density and controversial housing development was planned and designed by Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department led by J. L. Womersley.

Pepys Estate, Deptford, London: the 24-storey tower block seen from the Royal Victoria Yard

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Greater London Council. Department of Architecture & Civic Design

Pepys Estate, Deptford, London: the 24-storey tower block seen from a neighbouring Georgian street

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Greater London Council. Department of Architecture & Civic Design

Park Hill Estate, Sheffield: The Pavement shopping centre

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Sheffield. Architects Department
NOTES: Built between 1957 and 1961, this mixed high-density and controversial housing development was planned and designed by Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department led by J. L. Womersley.

Design for the Brunswick Close Estate, Finsbury, London: aerial view of three housing tower blocks

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Emberton, Franck & Tardrew
NOTES: The Brunswick Close project was approved in 1956 and consisted of three 12-storey towers (Brunswick, Emberton and Wycliff Courts).

Design for the King Square Estate, Finsbury, London: perspective view of a housing tower block (Block 2 - Turnpike House)

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Emberton, Franck & Tardrew
NOTES: The King Square project was approved in 1961 and consisted of one 20-storey tower (Turnpike House) and one 17-storey tower (Rahere House).

Design for the King Square Estate, Finsbury, London: aerial view of housing blocks (including Turnpike House and Rahere House) arranged around the existing church of St Clement, King Square

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Emberton, Franck & Tardrew
NOTES: The church of St Clement, King Square, was built in 1826 by Thomas Hardwick and was previously as St Barnabas. The King Square project was approved in 1961 and consisted of one 20-storey tower (Turnpike House) and one 17-storey tower (Rahere House).

Brunswick Close Estate, Finsbury, London: the high-rsie housing blocks

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Emberton, Franck & Tardrew
NOTES: The Brunswick Close project was approved in 1956 and consisted of three 12-storey towers (Brunswick, Emberton and Wycliff Courts).

Carradale House (behind on the left) and Balfron Tower (rising in the background), Poplar, London

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Goldfinger, Erno (1902-1987)
NOTES: Carradale House comprises two low-rise blocks on the Finsbury Estate and was completed in 1970 while the Balfron Tower was completed in 1965.

Balfron Tower, Rowlett Street, Poplar, London

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Goldfinger, Erno (1902-1987)

Balfron Tower, Rowlett Street, Poplar, London

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Goldfinger, Erno (1902-1987)

J. L. Womersley at Park Hill, Sheffield

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Womersley, John Lewis (1910-1990)
NOTES: J. L. Womersley was City Architect for Sheffield from 1953 and led the team that planned and designed the mixed high-density housing developments, Park Hill (1957-1961) and the Gleadless Valley estate (1955-1962).

Park Hill Estate under construction, Sheffield

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NOTES: Built between 1957 and 1961, this mixed high-density and controversial housing development was planned and designed by Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department led by J. L. Womersley.

Red Road flats, Balornock, Glasgow

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Sam Bunton & Associates

Children having a discussion on the Pepys Estate, Deptford, London

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Greater London Council. Department of Architecture & Civic Design
NOTES: This is one of the images taken for 'Manplan 8: Housing' in Architectural Review, vol. 148, 1970 Sep.

Balfron Tower, Rowlett Street, Poplar, London

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Goldfinger, Erno (1902-1987)

Park Hill Estate, Sheffield

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Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department
NOTES: Built between 1957 and 1961, this mixed high-density and controversial housing development was planned and designed by Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department led by J. L. Womersley.

Park Hill Estate, Sheffield: close-up of an access deck

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Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department
NOTES: Built between 1957 and 1961, this mixed high-density and controversial housing development was planned and designed by Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department led by J. L. Womersley.

Park Hill Estate, Sheffield: a typical bridge connection between blocks

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Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department
NOTES: Built between 1957 and 1961, this mixed high-density and controversial housing development was planned and designed by Sheffield Corporation City Architect's Department led by J. L. Womersley.

Presentation drawing of block A (Trellick Tower) for the Cheltenham Estate, Edenham Street, North Kensington, London: section (phase I)

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Goldfinger, Erno (1902-1987)
NOTES: Edenham Street Housing (officially called the Cheltenham Estate by the Greater London Council) comprises Trellick Tower or block A (31 storeys), block B (7 storeys), a nursery school (abbreviated to NSE on the drawings), block C (flats), block D (terrace housing), block E (6 storeys) and an old people's home (abbreviated to OPH). The estate was built in two phases which began with blocks A and B in 1968. The second phase began in 1972.

Balfron Tower, Rowlett Street, Poplar, London: model

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Goldfinger, Erno (1902-1987)
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