Two black and white negatives taken for the Ministry of Works and showing post-war construction work on London County Council's Whitmore Estate in Shoreditch, East London. 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. The photographs are likely to show the rebuilding of these flats.
The Ministry of Works was the Government department tasked with alleviating the acute housing shortages of the immediate postwar years, mostly through the construction of traditional and prefabricated, modular housing but also through the renovation or rebuilding of existing housing stock.
A number of photographs within the PSA01/04/H series record the progression of this project over several months.
This is part of the Sub Series: PSA01/04/H Housing; within the Series: PSA01/04 Negatives; within the Collection: PSA01 Property Services Agency
Source: Historic England Archive
Mid 20th Century Council House, Mid 20th Century Flats, Construction
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