Viewpoints – Placecloud

Viewpoints – Placecloud

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  • The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
    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]
    9 min
  • The Brandon Estate
    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.
    5 min
  • 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

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