Sujet

Aylesbury Estate, Walworth, Southwark, London, 01/05/1971. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Aylesbury Estate, Walworth, Southwark, London, 01/05/1971. A young girl seated on a bench in front of a recently completed block of flats on the Aylesbury Estate, built using the 12M Jespersen system. In 1963, John Laing and Son Ltd bought the rights to the Danish industrialised building system for flats known as Jespersen (sometimes referred to as Jesperson). The company built factories in Scotland, Hampshire and Lancashire producing Jespersen prefabricated parts and precast concrete panels, allowing the building of housing to be rationalised, saving time and money. 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.

Date

1971

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM22A00_167

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

96,7Mo (4,8Mo) / 43,6cm x 55,5cm / 5152 x 6560 (300dpi)

Mots clés

urban building London England female people child children girl architecture sitting country housing British English bench benches seating location century housing estate Britain apartment block B&W seventies block of flats Sixties 1970s Construction Industry black & white black and white B W Southwark 1960s 20th century TGN Walworth 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