In 1963, John Laing and Son Ltd bought the rights to the Danish industrialised building system 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. This military housing estate of flats was built by Laing's construction company for Royal Navy families and was part of a larger contract to build 2250 married quarters for the Armed Services. The flats shown were part of phase II of a development which was linked by a footbridge to phase I, built in the mid-1960s. Phase II, built in the late-1960s, consisted of three, four, five and nine-storey blocks grouped around three squares, with a NAAFI and other facilities at the centre of the development. The flats on this site were subsequently demolished in 2015.
This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20.
This is part of the Volume: JLP01/01/156 Jespersen Factories and Housing and Sectra Multi-Storey Flats; within the Series: JLP01/01 John Laing Photographic Collection Project Albums; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection
© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection
Late 20th Century Housing Estate, Late 20th Century Flats, Late 20th Century Married Quarters
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