Twenty one black and white negatives produced for the Department of the Environment Photographic Library showing the Myrtle Gardens Estate and Myrtle House in Toxteth, Liverpool. The images include elevated views across the derelict and abandoned estate as well as detailed exterior views of the flats just before regeneration work began. Myrtle Gardens and Myrtle House were built by the local authority in the 1930s. By the 1980s the buildings were dilapidated and earmarked for demolition. In 1982 demolition work had already begun on Myrtle Gardens when a private company negotiated a rescue bid and set about regenerating the buildings on the site. Now known as Minster Court, the estate is made up of 300 privately owned homes. Myrtle House tenament flats were demolished and the site is now home to student accommodation, also known as Myrtle House.
This is one of a series of sites photographed under the title 'Difficult to Let Estates'. The Department of the Environment (along with its predecessor bodies the Ministry of Works and The Ministry of Public Building and Works) was the department responsible for government building projects and managing post war housing requirements.
Not all of the negatives have been catalogued in detail. Some of the negatives have been crossed through in pen.
This is part of the Sub Series: PSA01/04/H Housing; within the Series: PSA01/04 Negatives; within the Collection: PSA01 Property Services Agency
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Early 20th Century Council Housing Estate, Early 20th Century Council Flats, Derelict Or Ruin
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