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To meet the severe post war housing shortage in the borough caused by war damage, the council embarked on a scheme of relatively low density developments filling an immediate need, which were successful forerunners of the later high density, high rise local authority housing estates. Thorlands Estate, seen here in the process of construction, lies on the west side of Denmark Road stretching to Carew Street, with blocks bearing Danish names like Elsinore, Mercia, Norse, Dane and Viking. It is divided into two sections by New Zealand House, a tall single block of flats seen in the background. 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:	05039
Identifier:	SUB/LAM/00149
Date:	c.1948

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