Derelict housing complex in Columbia Square
Derelict housing complex in Columbia Square
Record No
53658
Title
Derelict housing complex in Columbia Square
Description
A view of Columbia Square, Bethnal Green. A five-storey social housing complex in Gothic-style, set around a central courtyard with clocktower. Housing 180 rooms, with a top storey with reading rooms and washing facilities. Designed by Henry Astley Darbishire, later architect to the Peabody Trust, and financed by 1st Baroness Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, it was built between 1859 and 1862. In this view, the building is derelict, shortly to be demolished in the 1960s. The stump of the original central clocktower is in view with two children nearby.
Date of execution
1959
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_044_59_1979
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