Kingsway, Coney Hall
Introduction
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Kingsway, Coney Hall
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 17 Jun 2012
Although it now seems the quintessence of suburbia, in the 1930s this street was at the centre of a rent- and mortgage-strike led by the local woman (and Communist Party member) Elsy Borders, as a protest against shoddy building standards in the then newly-erected estate and the way that building societies had been in cahoots with speculative builders to get buyers into these substandard houses. http://www.grahamstevenson.me.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1189:-borders-elsy-and-jim&catid=2:b&Itemid=98 Clearly the fact they are still here indicates that a lot of remedial work has happened since.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.36726
Longitude
0.0047