English council estate

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…

Council flats on Jamaica Road, South London - Dec 2016.

Two empty council houses in disrepair at the Crossways estate, Birkenhead Merseyside.

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Council flats on Seyssel Street, IOD E14, London - Aug 20.

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Council house exterior

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Modest ex council house for sale in Abbots Road, Edgware. Asking price for a property here is £295,000.

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