View from Blackstock Road, Sheffield
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View from Blackstock Road, Sheffield
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 24 Jun 2018
Gleadless Valley, which "vies with Park Hill as Sheffield's greatest contribution to the post-war development of public housing in Britain. A mixed scheme for 17,000 people, its density of sixty-eight persons per acre ... compares with Park Hill's 192. Planned as a whole, it was begun in 1955 under J.L. Womersley, the City Architect, and completed in 1962." A variety of terraces, maisonettes, point blocks and other housing types, all set in a very undulating landscape. On the right is Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.349628
Longitude
-1.446998