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Aug 5, 2016 · Aerial views of Reading from October 1976, showing the Metal Box and Reading Bridge in the background7 of 23. You can see The Hexagon and old Civic Centre in the foreground and The Minister of...
- Hugh Fort
Aug 7, 2016 · Take a trip back to Reading in the 1970s. Our pictures show old pubs, shops and people enjoying the sun. News. By. Hugh Fort Reporter. Reading in the 1970s. View gallery. Last week, we took a...
- Hugh Fort
Nov 21, 2017 · A summary of how housing in England has changed since the 1960s #ukhousing. DCLG looks back at 50 years of the English Housing survey #ukhousing. How tenure, development, household size and stock condition have changed over the decades #ukhousing.
Aug 17, 2021 · In this three-part blog, we’ll explore how feminist housing activists have taken matters into their own hands where the state has failed to provide for them them, from squatting houses to taking to the streets.
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This was a time of massive social change as people flocked to the cities, which experienced overcrowding and consequence expansion in many cases due to cholera epidemics. By the end of the century the basic needs for housing of workers and their families had been recognised and embodied in new Model Home designs. Right: Typical Victorian terraced h...
Social housing took off. Local authorities, funded by the government, built over 1 million homes for rent. Private housebuilding also grew rapidly as mortgages became affordable. Working families moved to the new suburbs. Sprawl increased. Tight-knit urban communities were lost in the process. Suburban development: Braunstone Park Leicester aerial ...
Nearly half a million homes were destroyed by the war. To build at scale following this, prefabrication was developed. The first housing standards set the pattern for close conformity between the quality of public and private homes. The 1949 Housing Act enabled local authorities to provide housing for everyone. Somerford estate, Hackney: Prefabrica...
To rehouse people in substandard homes local authorities built tower blocks. High-rise living was intended to be utopian, but unfortunately the dream turned sour with many of these blocks becoming social and financial failures. Tower blocks replacing Victorian slums in Manchester. Vertical slums replaced horizontal slums. Many were demolished but 2...
In the 1980s Margaret Thatcher gave people living in council houses the right to buy their homes. This both increased social mobility and resulted in a lasting shortage of housing which continues acutely to this day because councils were not allowed to reinvest the money they took from the sales in new housing. Right: Housing Association homes: Mal...
Increased environmental awareness particularly of climate change meant that housing had a key part of play in carbon reduction. Performance targets were set for low and zero carbon homes. There has been much innovation by manufacturers, architects, designers and builders. Right: Low energy homes at Derwenthorpeby Richards Partington Architects. On ...
1970s British Social Housing. Below is a selection of British social housing from the 1970s. Ret urn to the British social housing 1920-1980s landing page. View as Grid List. Sort by.
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Nov 14, 2017 · This report summarises the background, methodology and findings of the first national house condition survey, conducted in England and Wales in 1967. The report was originally published in 1968.
