Views Outside Hackney Town Hall with Warwick Grove Flats
16mm film Colour;Black & White Silent 1951 8:29
Summary: Amateur film of housing estates across the Borough of Hackney.
Title number: 223
LSA ID: LSA/291
Description: The lawn and flowerbeds in front of Hackney Town Hall filmed from the town hall roof. Shots of low rise tower blocks (five storeys) in the estate around Warwick Grove including shots of the Wigan Community Hall on the Wigan Estate, Warwick Grove. Three storey low rise block of flats on Somerton Estate with balconies with inset plant containers.Views of two storey 'flatted houses', maisonette housing on the Somerton Estate. Two storey houses and old people's bungalows on Shackleton Road., Somerton Estate. Three young girls with a cat sat on flowerbed in front of houses on Shackleton Road. Two women walking up Lansdowne Drive in front of the Wilton Estate with its distinctive balconies. General views of the Wilton Estate. Baby in a pram on one of the balconies. Views of the Kyverdale Estate (now called the Keates Estate) on corner of Kyverdale Road and Northwold Road. Springtime views, a woman pushing pram accompanied by small child, a man sweeping up, two young women taking a racing bicycle out from a bike shed, washing on a line. Summertime views with abundantly planted flower beds and views of the Kyverdale estate gardens with flower beds and proud tenants standing outside as some be-suited dignitaries pass through. An old man in a flat cap hoeing a garden bed in front of terraced bungalows (smoking a cigarette). A wider shot of the bungalows and surrounding buildings on Oldhill Street, Stoke Newington. [A black & white sequence follows) A construction site in a fenced off area with terraced houses beyond. An earthmover/excavator in action. A sign on the fence indicates that the architects are Arup & Arup. A close up of the earthmover in action, marked as a Ruston-Bucyrus excavator with front shovel.
Further information: While the colour section appears to be from the 1950s, the black and white footage at the end is probably from earlier. The sign on the fence is for the architect's practice of Arup & Arup which dissolved in 1946 in favour of a new company Arup and Partners.
Keywords: Housing; Housing Policy; Urban Planning
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Hackney; Clapton | United Kingdom; England; London; Hackney; Homerton | United Kingdom; England; London; Hackney; Stoke Newington
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