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Aug 17, 2021 · Women-only squats proliferated across Islington, Camden, Southwark, Westminster and Kensington in the mid-1970s, many of which were formed as a community response to the lack of state provision for women’s centres and refuges for women and children escaping domestic violence.
1970's style Housing Estate, Crowells Hide, Bristol, England with a white Ford Cortina and Triumph Herald parked.
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...
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- Squatting in Inner London
- Women-Only Squatting: ‘On The Verge of A Revolution’
- Broadway Market: ‘… All These Lovely Houses’
- Women House Themselves
- ‘Controlled Squatting’, Housing Co-Operatives and short-life Grants
- Conclusion
To walk through Islington, Camden and Hackney in the early 1970s was to walk along street after street of soot-blackened, late Georgian and Victorian terraces and villas, boarded up and left semi-derelict. In 1971 Greater London contained 23,100 empty dwellings awaiting demolition; twenty-nine percent of this housing stock was built before 1875 and...
A complex set of conditions caused the stalling of postwar planning and housing policy which, in turn, resulted in the empty, derelict streets of inner London in the 1970s: these have been investigated in detail by others.4 However, one of the reasons was the success of what Andrew Saint has described as the London County Council’s (LCC) ‘policy of...
Although there were many thousands of squatters in Inner London by the mid 1970s, little information on the gendered composition of these squatted households is available. Matt Cook has described the radical male gay squats set up in 1970s Brixton, and in his edited volume, Queer Cities, women-only squatting in Denmark and Finland is mentioned, but...
Throughout the 1960s the GLC had been using compulsory purchase orders to acquire properties around London Fields and Broadway Market (Hackney) in preparation for redevelopment. The area designated for development was bounded to the west by Queensbridge Road, to the north by Shrubland Road, to the east by Broadway Market while the Regent’s Canal ma...
Many of the nineteenth-century terraced houses in the area had been kept in good repair by their former occupants: one interviewee said they found their squat ‘just as it had been lived in by the previous tenants’. Furniture and other artifacts were often left behind: in one house an ARP helmet, overcoat and gas mask were found hanging on a hook in...
This period of large-scale, organized squatting in London started to decline when the Conservatives gained control of the GLC in 1977. With Horace Cutler as Leader and George Tremlett in charge of housing, a right-wing agenda was introduced with the aim of ending the GLC’s role as a provider of council housing for rent. This was achieved by selling...
Squatting provided the physical and spatial infrastructure for the feminist activism in 1970s London seen in women’s centres, refuges, nurseries, bookshops, art-centres and workshops. It offered cheap housing for young single women and mothers who were not provided for in standard council accommodation designed around the nuclear family. Communitie...
Aug 19, 2021 · Franki Raffles’s images offer an important visual record of women’s care and activism where other archives don’t or can’t do so; these photos are radical in their tenderness, their refusal of stereotypes of working-class women’s lives.
Aug 5, 2016 · Bookworm Drew Butler-Browne did wear a hat while outside for her two-hour reading session - but it only protected half of her face
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Jun 3, 2021 · The nostalgic images show the capital’s landmarks in the 1970s, a decade of feminism, Arsenal’s FA cup win and the launch of the concord. The era is known for being a time of cultural and political change – especially due to high inflation levels, IRA bomb threats and widespread trade union strikes. These fascinating collection of ...
