Typical 'twitchell' of Nottingham City Council houses
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Typical 'twitchell' of Nottingham City Council houses
Image: © SK53 Taken: 4 Jan 2011
Nottingham Borough Council built a huge number of council houses between the 1920s and the early 1950s. The bulk of them were built to a limited number of designs which can be found all over the city. The eight houses here represent one of the commoner designs: a terrace of four houses with a central arch giving access to the back gardens of the central houses. Houses grouped along a pedestrian footway (usually known locally as a twitchell) are also a characteristic feature of the design of the estates where most of this housing was built. Also visible are the original picket fences: usually supplemented, as here, with privet hedges.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.996361
Longitude
-1.143697