Volume: Industrial and Model Housing

Description

The series contains 137 colour slides showing model and industrial housing, covering all the English regions. There are also a handful of Scottish scenes. The images include views of industrial housing including domestic weavers’ houses, coal miners cottages, and railway workers cottages. A number of the photographs show model developments constructed by companies to house their employees. The set also provides a record of model housing built by benefactors to provide good quality homes to for the working classes. Included within this group is Parnell House in Bloomsbury, built by the ‘Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes’, and the earliest surviving example of flats to provide accommodation for the "deserving poor".

Content

This is part of the Sub Series: EFC01/01/05 Domestic Building Types; within the Series: EFC01/01 Series of 35mm slides; within the Collection: EFC01 Edifice Collection

This Volume contains the following materials:

Photograph (35mm Slide): 137

Rights

© Historic England Archive