Laing's Southern Region started building the Aylesbury Estate in 1967. At the time it was the largest industrialised housing scheme ever undertaken by a London Borough, providing homes for more than 7000 people, comprising of low and high-rise linear blocks from four to fourteen-storeys high containing flats and maisonettes, built using the 12M Jespersen system. The 'Centre Building' with its attached chimney, shown in the foreground, included boiler rooms, a boy's club and community centre. The photograph has been taken from the roof of high-rise flats on Thurlow Street.
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 Series: JLP01/08 John Laing Photographic Collection Black and White Negatives; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection
© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection
Late 20th Century Flats, Late 20th Century Community Centre, Late 20th Century Housing Estate, Roofscape, Urban Landscape
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