About This Lesson
The 1950s and 60s saw wide scale demolition of old properties which were replaced, in many cases, by large scale housing estates and tall multi-storey blocks of flats. The councils, and the architects they hired to design these schemes, had a vision of the future but how did it turn out in practice? What were their real motives? Ask students to use the Images by Theme 1950s/60s Buildings and search the image database to select images of flats and council housing. They can select and record information, using the recording sheet to organize their findings.
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