A workshop and mini-walks to explore social housing in Somers Town, between Euston and St Pancras in Camden. We’re building the case for a conservation area and you can help — explore and record the social housing heritage through 3 mini-walks, sketches and photography, and a follow on discussion.
• How is health and wellbeing built into the estates?
• What makes this more than housing?
• How was the St Pancras Housing motto ‘Housing is not enough’ realised?
• How were working class communities catered for?
• What was the ‘art in everyday life?’
We’ll focus on three developments:
• Grade 2 Ossulston Estate, designed by G. Topham Forrest, chief architect of the London County Council, and built between 1927 and 1931
• St Pancras Housing’s Sidney Street Estate, designed by Ian Hamilton in the 1930s
• Oakshott Court designed by Peter Tábori for Camden’s Architects Department in the 1970s.
Help us to champion the value of social housing while discovering the history of a remarkable area.
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