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Tower Blocks UK: Westminster City Pimlico (Section I, Blocks 1, Block 5, Blocks 2 and 6 and Block 7) and Churchill Gardens (Section II, Contract 1, Block 20; Section II, Extension, Block 17; Section II, Extension, Block 21; Section II, Contract 1, Further Extension, Block 18; Section II, Contract 2; Section III, Blocks 33, 34 and 38; Section III, Block 35), l52-18.jpg |
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Multi-storey block details: P 1: one 9-storey block containing 104 dwellings; P 5: one 9-storey block containing 97 dwellings; P 2, 6: two 9-storey blocks containing 169 dwellings; P 7: one 7-storey block containing 39 dwellings; CG II-1E-17: one 10-storey block containing 80 dwellings; CG II-1-20: one 10-storey block containing 60 dwellings; CG II-1E-17: one 11-storey block containing 42 dwellings; CG II-1E-18: one 10-storey block containing 80 dwellings; CG II-2: one 11-storey block containing 42 dwellings; two 10-storey blocks containing 146 dwellings; one 7-storey block containing 56 dwellings; CG III, 33-34 and 38: two 10-storey blocks containing 116 dwellings; one 7-storey block containing 48 dwellings; CG III, 35: one 11-storey block containing 42 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): P 1: Chaucer House; 5: Shelley House; P 2, 6: Keats House; Coleridge House; CG II-1-20: Sullivan House; CG II-1E-17: Gilbert House; CG II-1E-21: Sheraton House; CG II-1-18: Chippendale House; CG II-2: Wilkins House; Ripley House; Nash House; Lutyens House; CG III, 33-34 and 38: Littleton House; Branwell House; Blackstone House; CG III, 35: Anson House; Image detail: General view of Churchill Gardens Estate Original Commissioning Authority: Westminster City 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 the most historically 'accurate' identification labels in the database are the original overall development or project names, the archive also contains details of the individual blocks built. |
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Depicted place | Westminster City, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1988 date QS:P571,+1988-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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institution QS:P195,Q5338172 |
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institution QS:P195,Q5338249 |
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Notes | The Tower Block UK project was funded by the Heritage Lottery fund. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
References | Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius "Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland" (1994) Yale University | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source | https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/7126 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions | Tower Block UK https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/3301 |
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