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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 ...
Tower blocks were first built in the United Kingdom after the Second World War, and were seen as a cheap way to replace 19th-century urban slums and war-damaged buildings. They were originally seen as desirable, but quickly fell out of favour as tower blocks attracted rising crime and social disorder, particularly after the collapse of Ronan ...
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.
View of South Kilburn tower blocks. South Kilburn is a large housing estate in Kilburn, in the London Borough of Brent. [1] [2] Typical of brutalist 1960s designs of public housing in the United Kingdom, it is characterised by high-density housing in low-rise flats and 11 concrete tower blocks. It was approved in 1959 and extended in 1963.
The towers were prominent in the Glasgow city skyline, as seen here from Duke Street railway station.. Faced with crippling housing shortages in the immediate post-war period, the city undertook the building of multi-storey housing in tower blocks in the 1960s and early 1970s on a grand scale, which led to Glasgow becoming the first truly high-rise city in Britain.
Callow Mount post-refurbishment. Callow Mount, also known as Gleadless Valley (Rollestone), is a complex of six residential tower blocks that was completed in 1964, as part of the wider Gleadless Valley Redevelopment Area which also includes the Gleadless Valley and Herdings Twin Towers developments as well as a wide expanse of low-rise council housing.
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.
Tallest building in the United Kingdom outside London. As of 2025, it is the 12th-tallest by height and has the fourth highest floor count in the United Kingdom. [19] [20] 2 Beetham Tower: 169 (554) 47 2006 Hotel / Residential Castlefield, Manchester Second-tallest building in the United Kingdom outside London. Roof height reaches 158 m (518 ft).