Sujet

Aylesbury Estate, Walworth, Southwark, London, 01/07/1969. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Aylesbury Estate, Walworth, Southwark, London, 01/07/1969. A panoramic view from the north-west showing the Aylesbury Estate during construction. Laing's Southern Region started building the Aylesbury Estate in 1967. At the time it was the largest industrialised housing scheme ever undertaken by a London Borough, providing homes for more than 7000 people, comprising of low and high-rise linear blocks from four to fourteen-storeys high containing flats and maisonettes, built using the 12M Jespersen system. The photograph may have been taken from the top of the Studland tower block at the junction of Portland Street with Trafalgar Street in Walworth.

Date

1969

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM22A00_133

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

98,5Mo (4,2Mo) / 55,8cm x 44,2cm / 6591 x 5223 (300dpi)

Mots clés

urban building buildings London England house houses architecture country construction site housing British crane cranes English building site location century housing estate Britain apartment block terraced house terraced houses B&W row house block of flats Sixties Construction Industry black & white black and white row houses B W Southwark rowhouse rowhouses 1960s 20th century TGN Walworth street Council house photograph brutalist Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc John Laing & Co John Laing and Company John Laing & Company John Laing and Co Aylesbury Estate council housing Jespersen Jesperson