Before and After
“I wonder why such dignified architecture had to be replaced by a soulless estate? I often think the brutal architecture and environment is to blame for the circumstances leading to the recent inclusion of Dorset Road as a Police Dispersal Zone.”
28/11/2009 at 4:42 pm Permalink
Indeed… it is possible that these blots on the landscape were allowed because there was quite a bit of bomb damage round here, and then the introduction of the ‘slum’ clearance programme - 50′s? After the war, places around Caldwell St. were left empty and boarded up with corrugated iron sheets..
29/11/2009 at 10:52 pm Permalink
From their design, I had always thought those Dorset Road blocks were pre-war.
But there is an entry in the London Gazette that suggest reconstruction was not until the early 1950s:
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/39711/pages/6421/page.pdf