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Tower Blocks UK: Portsmouth City Redevelopment Area No. 5, Hyde Park Road and Plymouth Street, s11-10.jpg   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Miles Glendinning  (1956–)  wikidata:Q84041438
 
Description British architectural historian, photographer and architect
Date of birth 1956 Edit this at Wikidata
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Tower Blocks UK: Portsmouth City Redevelopment Area No. 5, Hyde Park Road and Plymouth Street, s11-10.jpg
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Multi-storey block details: HPR: one 11-storey block containing 113 dwellings; PS: one 24-storey block containing 136 dwellings; Multi-storey block name(s): HPS: Wilmcote House; Ladywood House; Image detail: View of Wilmcote House with Ladywood House behind Original Commissioning Authority: Portsmouth County Borough Council; Image taken: 1987;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.
Depicted place Portsmouth City, United Kingdom
Date 1987
date QS:P571,+1987-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q5338172
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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/6036
Other versions Tower Block UK https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/3301

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