Viewpoints – Placecloud (English)

Viewpoints – Placecloud (English)

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Viewpoints – Placecloud (English) episodes

  • The Ossulston Estate
    London, United Kingdom. An unusual, Modernist-style, council estate built by the London County Council in the late 1920s and owing a little to the grand municipal blocks being built by Red Vienna in the same era.
    4 min
  • The Wilson Grove Estate
    London, United Kingdom. A small cottage estate built by Bermondsey Metropolitan Borough Council in 1928 - a monument to the ideals and reforming ambitions of Alfred and Ada Salter, Christian socialists and Labour pioneers.
    5 min
  • The Old Oak Estate
    Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. A cottage estate built by the London County Council from 1911 - 'the culminating achievement of the Council's venture into garden suburb planning before the First World War'.
    5 min
  • The Dover House Estate, Putney
    Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. A 'Homes for Heroes' estate begun by the London County Council in 1919 and reckoned - with its Arts and Crafts touches and greenery and open space to be one of the Council's finest.
    5 min
  • Keeling House, Bethnal Green
    London, United Kingdom. A Denys Lasdun Grade II-listed masterpiece, council housing designed in innovative cluster block form for Bethnal Green Metropolitan Borough Council and completed in 1959.
    7 min
  • John Groom’s Flower Girls’ Mission
    London, United Kingdom. Discover the alley which housed the clubroom of the John Groom Watercress and Flower Girls' Christian Mission from 1866, where flower women could go for an early morning breakfast-and-bible-lesson after buying their flowers at the market.
    4 min
  • The Royal Westminster Aquarium
    London, United Kingdom. Come on a visit to the amusement halls of the Royal Westminster Aquarium where you'll be in good company with educated dogs, ladies on bicycles, frozen flowers, and - possibly - some fish...
    4 min
  • Peaches and bulbs at Ham Farm
    Ealing Broadway, United Kingdom. Discover the fields and glasshouses of the Walker farm at Ham in Richmond, a farm which exported its quality flower bulbs to Holland in the 1890s...
    3 min
  • The Daffodil Train
    London, United Kingdom. Follow the Great Western Railway from Penzance to Paddington with its 'perishable' trains which carried fish and flowers to market from the 1860s, transforming the landscape and fortunes of the temperate Scilly Isles.
    4 min

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