Aylesbury Estate, Walworth, Southwark, London
Aylesbury Estate, Walworth, Southwark, London - Looking north-west over the Aylesbury Estate, showing the Centre Building with its 170ft chimney and Taplow House, a 14-storey block of flats on the right_x000D_
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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
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14-storey 7000 Aylesbury Blocks Boiler Borough Builder Comprising Containing Flats High-rise Industrialised Jespersen Laing Laings Linear Maisonettes North-west Providing Right X000d Roofscape Scheme Southwark Taplow Thurlow Undertaken Walworth X000d
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