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The first residential tower block, "The Lawn", was constructed in Harlow, Essex, in 1951; it is now a Grade II listed building. In many cases, tower blocks were seen as a "quick-fix" to cure problems caused by the existence of crumbling and unsanitary 19th-century dwellings or to replace buildings destroyed by German aerial bombing. It was ...
Upperthorpe tower blocks viewed from the Ponderosa. Damage to Wentworth tower after its 1995 fire. The Upperthorpe complex, also known as the Martin Street complex, is one of two sets of tower blocks constructed as part of the Netherthorpe Redevelopment Area, the other being the Netherthorpe complex at Brook Hill around 0.3 mi (0.48 km) to the ...
Webb advised the legal team for the families in the Lakanal House fire of July 2009, when a fire raged through Lakanal House, a 14-storey block built in 1958 in Camberwell, south-east London. Six people were killed, among them two children and a baby, when a fire caused by a faulty television in a ninth-floor home gutted the building.
Ronan Point was a 22-storey tower block in Canning Town in Newham, East London, that partially collapsed on 16 May 1968, only two months after it opened.A gas explosion blew out some load-bearing walls, causing the collapse of one entire corner of the building; four people died and 17 were injured.
A picture of Barton House, Barton Hill facing South. Barton House was constructed by 1958 at a cost of £315,744 (now more than £6.1 million). [2] [3] [4] Strengthening works and concrete repairs were carried out around 1970, but there were no records of any structural surveys between then and at least 2018.
The Lawn is a mid-twentieth-century low-rise building located on the outskirts of Old Harlow, to the east of the town of Harlow, Essex, England.. The building is noted as being the first residential tower block in the UK, [1] [2] as well as being the location of its first pedestrian precinct. [3]
The decision to ask residents to leave these two tower blocks comes after Ronan Point in Newham, east London, partially collapsed after a gas explosion in 1968, in which four people died.
The main block was split into three sections, A, B and C – with two service shafts containing lifts and staircases serving the tower. The dwellings were designed so that each flat had a dual front and rear aspect – with the bedrooms and living room on opposite sides, and the flats were accessed from a corridor on odd numbered floors, with a ...