The view looking north east across Nuttall Street towards Horner Houses on the Whitmore Estate, showing reconstruction work underway

Date:
10 Dec 1948
Location:
Whitmore Estate, Horner Houses, Nuttall Street, Hoxton, Shoreditch, Hackney, Greater London Authority, N1
Reference:
P/H00306/002
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The estate dates from the inter war years, with 12 'houses' or blocks of flats built between 1924 and 1937. In 1941 a German bomb badly damaged Horner Houses and Stringer Houses on the north side of Nuttall Street.

Content

This is part of the Volume: PSA01/04/H00306 Progress on the Whitmore Estate, Hoxton, Shoreditch; within the Sub Series: PSA01/04/H Housing; within the Series: PSA01/04 Negatives; within the Collection: PSA01 Property Services Agency

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

20th Century Council Flats, 20th Century Council Housing Estate, Bomb Damage, Construction