Fred Start wrote:Oct 16th is anniversary of landmine hitting this huge Victorian tenement complex
Quote:The Queen's Buildings tenements, an early example of model philanthropic housing built on the site of the old King's Bench prison, was by the mid-60's, one of the borough's most mouldering slums. In 1978, after close on fifteen years of struggle, tenants from the buildings had finally been re-housed in 2-storey houses and cottage-style dwellings on the pleasant and well-designed Scovell Estate, off Borough Road
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