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Clay Cross Council: ‘doing our job – and that’s to help the working class, the cream of the nation’
Last week’s post looked at the history of Clay Cross – its longer-term politics as well as the commitment to working-class interests and record of…
Jan 15
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Clay Cross Council: ‘an expression of the will of the people’
Clay Cross takes its place – alongside Poplar – as a hallowed place in the Labour pantheon: a site of struggle and resistance, a town where a Labour-led…
Jan 8
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The Mile Cross Estate, Norwich: ‘providing adequate living accommodation for all’
Norwich, contrary to the county town image that some may have of it (though that too was true), was a densely-settled, industrial city which came under…
Jan 1
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The Raffles Estate, Carlisle: ‘I was a lucky girl’
I was born on the 25th May 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edge of Raffles, a council estate.
Dec 18, 2025
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Carlisle’s Interwar Council Housing: ‘careful housekeeping … good and progressive government’
Carlisle claimed to have built more council housing for its size than any town in England in the interwar period.
Dec 11, 2025
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The Regent’s Park Estate, St Pancras: ‘catering for the main bulk and backbone of our people’
Imagine knocking down some old Nash Regency terraces to build council houses.
Dec 4, 2025
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The Hufeisensiedlung, Berlin: ‘light and air, dignity and order’
Looking at Liverpool last week, we saw the influence of Berlin’s 1920s public housing schemes and, in particular, Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner’s…
Nov 27, 2025
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Liverpool’s Interwar Multi-Storey Housing: Building an ‘A1 community in a properly planned township of flats’
The alleged English antipathy to multi-storey living (the Scots are different) is well attested but Liverpool – in this and much else – is an exception.
Nov 20, 2025
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