Cranbrook Estate

Cranbrook Estate

The Cranbrook Estate is a housing estate in Bethnal Green, East London designed by Francis Skinner, Douglas Bailey and an elder mentor, Berthold Lubetkin[1]

The site, which is east of Bonner Street and north of Roman Road, was called Cranbrook after the central street. "Terraced houses, workshops, and one large factory were replaced by a figure of eight called Mace Street, which echoed the diagonals of the street pattern to the north."[2] The tower blocks were opened in 1963 and are named after towns and boroughs that Bethnal Green (but now Tower Hamlets) was, at the time, twinned with - Alzette, Mödling, Offenbach, Puteaux, St Gilles, Tilburg and Velletri.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 'Where will we live? James Meek writes about the housing crisis', London Review of Books: Vol. 36 No. 1 · 9 January 2014, pp. 7-16. Retrieved on 2013-01-06.
  2. ↑ 'Bethnal Green: Building and Social Conditions after 1945 Social and Cultural Activities', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green (1998), pp. 135-147. Retrieved on 2010-03-19.
  3. ↑ 'Bethnal Green in Focus' Retrieved on 2014-12-17.

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Coordinates: 51°31′50″N 0°02′44″W / 51.5305°N 0.0455°W


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