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Soon to be demolished, early 1960's council housing estate (Demolished 2021).

 

Hackney Council, playing games with people's lives !.

 

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Overgrowth in a council estate garden.

 

Gourd, Marrow, Courgette, Aubergine ?.

 

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Morris Walk council housing estate.

 

A visit from dumb vandals just before demolition began.

 

LR3809 © Joe O'Malley 2020

  

Tyre dealer in business since 1968.

 

I used to pass this place twice a day on my way to work and back in the 1980's, it has had various colour schemes and different signage in the year's since.

 

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Ahmed's Baker's Delight.

 

Out of business lock up shops with flats above, on a council housing estate that is due to be demolished.

 

Apostrophe confusion.

 

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Art deco splendour with baby Jesus & Mary !.

 

A very unexpected balcony feature.

 

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Soon to be demolished, 1960's council housing estate.

 

A small minority create hell for the majority on council estates and that includes local councillors.

 

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Abandoned housing estate.

 

Twinned with Chernobyl .... ... .. .

 

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Abandoned flat on a council estate due for imminent demolition.

 

No more exercise in the cage !, I wonder if they ever considered a large hamster style wheel ?.

 

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Estate in a state !!!.

 

People pay their rent and the duty of care and maintenance is more often than not ignored by the landlords, be it either council or housing association owned.

 

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Abandoned housing estate, awaiting demolition.

 

Prefabricated 1960's structure.

 

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Mrs Jones at number 37 has lost her pygmy shrew, while the search for Zorg intensifies !.

 

A block away, and I kid you not, a friendly black cat was walking the top of a fence beside me.

 

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Post War Housing Estate.

 

Laundry drying under the September heatwave sun.

 

Docked "Boris Bikes".

 

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Council Housing Estate.

 

Demolition now taking place (as on Monday 27th January 2020), built 1966 - 1970.

 

LR3802 © Joe O'Malley 2020

Deprivation and a glaring lack of maintenance.

 

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Council Estate.

 

Limited space and facilities.

 

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Soon to be demolished early 1960's council housing estate.

 

A victim of years of neglect by Hackney Council.

 

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Soon to be demolished, early 1960's housing estate.

 

Secured from potential squatters and awaiting demolition.

 

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The rambling green landscape of a council housing estate.

 

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Soon to be demolished, early 1960's council housing estate.

 

At least three flats were still occupied at the time this photograph was made, one is evident by the children's bikes being kept on the first floor balcony, behind the street lamp.

 

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Mr.Cenz.

 

Giving life to an otherwise dead estate ..

 

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Victorian factory building being laid to waste.

 

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Early-mid Victorian housing on the left and postwar (WW2) high density multi-level flats on the right.

 

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Roadworks barriers.

 

Why these are stacked outside someone's windows is a mystery to me.

 

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Abandoned housing estate.

 

Awaiting demolition.

 

Explore 28 3 19.

 

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Invader.

 

It even has it's own dedicated nightlight.

 

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For hundreds of yards everything standing has been visited by the demolition crew, sensibly, the cafe is last on the list.

 

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Council housing estate, services building with mural.

 

As well as giving an idea of what the local landscape looked like it gives information about the arrival of the first railway in the area and various inventions, some of which were world firsts.

 

On the whole it was the arrival of railways and clean water sanitation that gave rise to an immense population boom in this country.

 

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Victorian housing from, Myrtle Road, Walthamstow, London, E17.

 

Recent resident cycle storage.

 

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High rise living.

 

Hell holes for the masses.

 

Boris The Spider . . .

 

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Council Housing Estate.

 

Demolition now taking place (as of Monday 27th January 2020) built 1966 - 1970.

 

LR3804 © Joe O'Malley 2020

1960's prefabricated concrete housing estate, location of the Stanley Kubrick film, A Clockwork Orange (1971).

 

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Deanio.

 

The Business School of Londo-

 

East London squat.

 

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Council Housing Estate.

 

It looks almost unnaturally clean and tidy !.

 

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Thamesmead Housing Estate.

 

Removal of mature trees and the Droogs were innocent on this occasion.

 

Location of Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange.

 

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The Carpenters Arms, once purchased by the notorious psychotic bullies, the Kray twins as a present for their mother Violet.

 

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Post-War block of flats, just look at those chimneys, they mark the end of chimneys being built into British houses and homes.

 

This is my second shot of this building as I wanted to catch the trees bare of leaves, see LR3550 earlier in this stream.

 

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Christmas lights in my home town.

 

Handheld, 1/40th Sec F2 6400iso

 

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Blown render and pebbledashing.

 

Victorian shop parade meets late 1950's-early 1960's block of flats.

 

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The Earl of Devon (1869 - Circa 1983), no longer a pub but a private residence. Better than meeting the wrecking ball.

 

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Brutalist council estate splendour.

 

Flats, stairwell, water tower, brutal brutalism in east London.

 

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Rundown council housing estate.

 

Maintenance issues yet again . . .

 

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Lack of maintenance on a council housing estate.

 

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Former GPO sorting office, brick faced, steel reinforced concrete structure of the Art Deco period.

 

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Surviving Victoriana, despite the rapid spread of high density gentrification.

 

Priceless sign above the barber shop.

 

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Even a reusable Christmas tree gets dumped !

 

LR3752 © Joe O'Malley 2020

Soon to be demolished, early 1960's council housing estate.

 

It is evident that the local council have neglected to carry out acceptable maintenance for a number of years on this estate.

 

The flat above this one is, at the date of posting, still occupied by a family awaiting re-housing.

 

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