Mass-produced housing: Blocks of flats, Fred Lee Grove
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Mass-produced housing: Blocks of flats, Fred Lee Grove
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 29 Aug 2023
These three-storey blocks on the Stonebridge estate on the southern edge of Coventry were built in 1950-51 by Wimpey to the designs of the City Architect's Department under Donald Gibson. See Image] for more information. In the words of Jeremy & Caroline Gould, "The monotony... was disappointing and the experiment proved that, since the houses were architecturally modest, it would require imaginative layout, varied density and a richer landscape to make distinctive places." See their e-book, 'Coventry, the making of a modern city 1939-73', p84, at the Historic England site https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/coventry-making-of-modern-city-1939-73/ . How many volume housebuilders today would even attempt to make 'distinctive places'?
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