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A view of newly erected medium rise flats with children playing in the communal garden space. To meet the severe post war housing shortage in the borough caused by war damage, these relatively low density developments filled an immediate need and were successful forerunners of the later high density, high rise local authority housing estates. The Thorlands Estate, lying on the west side of Denmark Road stretching to Carew Street, has blocks bearing Danish names like Elsinore, Mercia, Norse, Dane and Viking; and is divided into two sections by New Zealand House, a tall single block of flats. The entire estate was renovated and given an expensive face-lift between 2000 and 2002.

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Image type:	Photograph
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Ref:	05038
Identifier:	SUB/LAM/00149
Date:	c.1950

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