Red Road Flats

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The photograph on this page of Red Road Flats by Thomas Nugent as part of the Geograph project.

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Red Road Flats

Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 28 Mar 2010

Looking a bit like an American city centre from a distance, well, maybe not! Scene of a recent tragic triple suicide jump from the 15th floor of one of these blocks which were the highest inhabited buildings in Western Europe when they opened to great fanfare in the 1960s.

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Image Location

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Latitude
55.873676
Longitude
-4.225105