The Lansbury Estate, Poplar, Part 1: meeting ‘the needs of the people’
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The 1951 Festival of Britain – born in an age of hope and austerity – was envisaged as a ‘corporate reaffirmation of faith in the nation’s future’(1). In social democratic Britain, a key element of this future was housing for the people and the Lansbury Estate in Poplar was to be its exemplar.
The Lansbury Estate, Poplar, Part 1: meeting ‘the needs of the people’
The Lansbury Estate, Poplar, Part 1: meeting…
The Lansbury Estate, Poplar, Part 1: meeting ‘the needs of the people’
The 1951 Festival of Britain – born in an age of hope and austerity – was envisaged as a ‘corporate reaffirmation of faith in the nation’s future’(1). In social democratic Britain, a key element of this future was housing for the people and the Lansbury Estate in Poplar was to be its exemplar.