Quarry Hill Flats, Leeds: ‘They didn’t get it wrong – well not for me anyway!’
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Don’t go looking for the Quarry Hill flats now. They went from showpiece to shame in their brief forty year lifespan, from shown off to shut down. By the time they were demolished in 1978, the flats had become a byword for the failure – some would say the inhumanity – of municipalism’s more grandiose attempts to rehouse working people.
Quarry Hill Flats, Leeds: ‘They didn’t get it wrong – well not for me anyway!’
Quarry Hill Flats, Leeds: ‘They didn’t get it…
Quarry Hill Flats, Leeds: ‘They didn’t get it wrong – well not for me anyway!’
Don’t go looking for the Quarry Hill flats now. They went from showpiece to shame in their brief forty year lifespan, from shown off to shut down. By the time they were demolished in 1978, the flats had become a byword for the failure – some would say the inhumanity – of municipalism’s more grandiose attempts to rehouse working people.