London, United Kingdom. Walk back in time with prehistoric monsters, and discover how these Victorian sculptures were designed – a history which includes a cruel professional rivalry and a decadent dinner in a dinosaur's stomach. [CW: suicide]
London, United Kingdom. A showpiece council estate of the London County Council opened in 1960, famous its 18-storey point blocks and a Henry Moore sculpture.
London, United Kingdom. A Westminster City Council housing estate of the 1950s; winner of a Civic Trust Award in 2000 as the outstanding building scheme of the previous forty years.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
London, United Kingdom. One of a number of distinguished housing estates created by Camden Council in the 1960s and 70s and commonly regarded as some of the finest council housing in the land, now Grade II-listed.
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.
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