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Virtual Radical Housing Tour for Open House

Hope you enjoyed the virtual tour. Here’s a list of the sites we visited on the tour with some hopefully useful info. Please see the map on the website https://www.londonsights.org.uk/ and https://www.morehousing.co.uk/ ENJOY…

No Site Year Address Borough Built VICTORIAN PHILANTHROPISTS Prince Albert’s Model Cottage 1851 Prince Consort Lodge, Built for the Great Exhibition 1851 and moved here. Prince Albert = President of Society for Kennington Park, Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes. Prototype for social housing schemes. Kennington Park Place, 4 self-contained flats with inside WCs. Now HQ for Trees for Cities charity. SE11 4AS Lambeth’s former workhouse – now the Cinema Museum 1880s The Cinema Museum Lambeth Charlie Chaplin sent here 1896 with mother and brother. Masters Lodge. 2 Dugard Way, Prince's, See website for opening times http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/ London SE11 4TH Parnell House 1850 Streatham Street Camden Earliest example of social housing in London. Same architect (Henry Roberts) as Model Cottage in Fitzrovia, London stop 1. Now owned by Peabody (HA). Grade 2 listed. WC1A 1JB statue Royal Exchange Avenue, George Peabody - an American financier & philanthropist. Founded HA with a Cornhill, charitable donation of £500k. London EC3V 3NL First flats built by Peabody HA 1863 Commercial Street Tower Now in private ownership London E1 Hamlets

Peabody’s Blackfriars Road estate 1871 Blackfriars Road More typical ‘Peabody’ design. Architect Henry Derbishire. Originally had shared facilities – ie London SE1 WCs & sinks on each floor. Bathrooms in basement. Now modernised and self-contained.

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Guinness Buildings 1902 Columbia Road E1 Tower Hamlets Guinness Trust founded in 1890 by Edward Guinness, a great grandson of the founder of the Guinness Brewery, to help homeless people in London and Dublin with a donation of £200k.

Rothschilds Arch 1886 Wentworth Street Tower Hamlets Four percent Industrial Dwellings Society. Founded by Sir Nathanial Rothschild. E1 Charlotte Rothschild Model dwellings demolished in 1970s.

Evelina Mansions 1902 New Church Rd, Southwark Camberwell, Also developed by Industrial Dwellings Society. London SE5 7JN

Leopold Buildings 1872 Columbia Road E1 Tower Hamlets Improved Industrial Dwellings Society. Founded by Sir Sydney Waterlow, former Lord Mayor of London. Land leased from Angela Burdett-Coutts, ‘richest heiress in the country’ and noted philanthropist ‘Queen of the Poor.’

Red Cross Way and Gardens 1887 50 Redcross Way, Southwark Founded by Octavia Hill, social reformer & co founder of National Trust. London SE1 1HA Now owned by Octavia housing association.

Boundary Estate 1900 Arnold Circus, Tower Hamlets First large-scale council estate in world. Built by LCC on site of the ‘Old Nichol’ . London E2 7JS

Millbank Estate 1900 SW1 Also built by LCC – very similar design to .

BETWEEN WW1 & WW2 – THE INTER WAR YEARS

Dover House Estate 1920 to Built by LCC – one of several Garden Estates built in mainly suburban areas. 1927 Putney ‘Homes fit for Heroes’ London SW

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Wilson Grove 1928 Wilson Grove Southwark Small garden estate built by Borough Council. Ada Salter – Mayor and her husband London SE16 4PJ Dr Alfred Salter – local MP strong advocates. Statues on riverfront nearby.

Former Suffragettes’ home 1828 Campden Hill Square Kensington & Chelsea Bequeathed to Housing for Women housing association by Georgina Brackenbury – she and her London W8 7LB sister and mother very prominent Suffragettes & WSPU members. ‘Mouse Castle’

Holly Lodge Mansions 1920s Oakeshott Avenue Camden Highgate, London N6 6DX Built by the Lady Workers Homes company with shared bathrooms & facilities. Purchased by St Pancras Borough council in 1960s – now a mix of self-contained homes for social rent, market rent and home ownership.

FROM THE END OF WW2 TO THE END OF THE CENTURY

Excalibur TMO 1945 Baudwin Road, Largest remaining estate of prefabs in UK. Grade 2 listed. Site currently being redeveloped with London SE6 1RN homes for rent and market sale, shared ownership by L&Q housing association. Grenfell Tower 1972? , Kensington & Chelsea Council tower block. Tragic fire in 2017 killed 72 people. London W11 4HE

Trellick Tower 1972 Kensington & Chelsea Council tower block. Architect Erno Goldfinger. , London W10 5PA

Spa Green Estate 1950 St John Street Architect Berthold Lubetkin. Grade 2 listed. Facilities offered very advanced for time. London EC1V 4PP

Walter Segal Self-Build houses Walters Way Lewisham There are several similar self-build schemes using Segal’s ideas – see following websites for more London SE23 3LH info below. The first one has an interesting Youtube clip on Walters Way. https://www.selfbuild-central.co.uk/construction/main-structure/post-and-beam/ http://www.segalselfbuild.co.uk/home.html

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Coin Street Southbank 1980s & Coin Street & Upper Lambeth Housing co-operatives with social rents developed after successful community campaigns. 1990s Ground SE1 9NH Developed by Coin St Community Builders.

Edward Henry Housing Coop 1928 Cornwall Road Lambeth One of several other housing co-operatives in Waterloo/North Southwark. Originally built for 1981/2 South Bank, London married policemen (key workers!) it became run down in 1970s and was renovated as a housing renovated SE1 8YF co-operative after community campaigning.

THE LAST 20 YEARS – THE 21ST CENTURY SO FAR

BedZED 2002 Sandmartin Way, Sutton London’s first eco village. Developed by Peabody HA – 100 homes. Mixture of social rent, shared Mitcham Junction, ownership and market sale. Residents have lower fuel etc costs. Wallington SM6 7DF

PLACE 2016 261 Lewisham High Street Lewisham 24 flats for homeless families built by Lewisham Council on a temporary site. SE13 Manufactured off site in a factory. Units can be moved and re-used.

St Clements Community Land Trust 2020 Mile End Tower London’s first Community Land Trust (CLT). Model = Buyer buys flat – CLT owns land London E3 Hamlets so, c 1/3 of market price eg I bed CLT flat £130k. Site includes other homes - Mixture of social rent, shared ownership and market sale. For more info contact https://www.londonclt.org/ and https://www.communityledhousing.london/projects/

Maureen Corcoran MITG Tel: 07710 842880 email: [email protected] Churchill Fellow Website: https://www.londonsights.org.uk/ for info on guided tours & talks and https://www.morehousing.co.uk/ for info on my housing work.

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